One lesson for Buffalo is the difference in playoff hockey. Florida is putting on a clinic in their dump and chase style and cutting down in turnovers and errors. It is everything we were atrocious at last year. We have a long way to go.
That is so messed up Eichel and Reinhart might both be in the finals at the same time. One of them is winning the cup 2 years removed from our mess. Unbelievable. I can’t bare to watch Eichel carrying the cup. It just seems to add to the humiliation and frustration.
The success of Reinhart, Eichel, and Montour definitely highlights just how dysfunctional the Sabres have been run. We are literally the outlier of how bad it can get proven by the record for playoff futility. Hopefully a new day is dawning.
Eichel looks like he is an elite playoff performer. It’s a shame we could not make it work. Shows just how bad of a dysfunctional organization we have been versus a team like Vegas. No other way around that.
It really shows you what you need to win in the playoffs. The regular season and the playoffs are much different. You have to have an element of toughness and nastiness.