steveoat87

I live in Long Island and get the watch the Rangers, Devils and Islanders. When I look at the Rangers bench, they look like a championship team, with a certain amount of swagger. While maturity is certainly a factor, as well as past success, by comparison, when you look at the Sabres bench during a game, they do look very young, and a little bit like a dear in headlights. Hoping that another year of experience will change this, but I also feel they need a more fiery leadership and someone to get in peoples faces -- a little like Josh Allen and Jalen Brunson of the Knicks. The coach seems too much like a gentleman, and needs to show a little more fire.

It all started in the first period. The Sabres looked slow as molasses. For every skate taken, there was a Flyer on top of them. To me it looked over in the first period -- no adjustments, nothing to counter what the Flyers were doing. When I think of teams on the verge, I look no further than the '95 Yankees. They seemed to make progress throughout the end of the year and you had little doubt they were on the verge of something. I haven't seen this yet from this Sabres team. Certainly, good goal-tending would take them further (I know I can't hope for Mariano Rivera, but at least some improvement here).

I had the same thought the other day. I thought at least 5 games.