Buffalo's performance on the ice has been laborious.
Or at least, not enough to pull out of this funk. Dahlin thinks Buffalo is short on swagger. An increasingly impatient Granato - who chalked up the skid early on to a necessary learning experience - has since cited a lack of urgency and identity within the group. Problems: Everyone from coach Don Granato to top defenseman Rasmus Dahlin has posited theories about the Sabres' rapid decline. Back-to-back losses at Carolina and Tampa Bay started a skid from which Buffalo has yet to recover - an eight-game losing streak (through which the Sabres have been outscored 38-19) with seemingly no end in sight. They've been the NHL's worst team ever since. 2, boasting the NHL's fifth-best record and sitting second in the Atlantic Division. We're breaking down some of those in-betweeners, from the problems they've faced to potential solutions that could help turn the page on a happier post-Thanksgiving chapter to this season.Īfter all, there's still a long way to go.įlames | Canucks Buffalo Sabres: Growing painsīuffalo's season began with promise.
Most teams fall somewhere in the middle, and a few have been walloped especially hard by adversity. A few on the other side may have already been counted out. Certain front-runners (Boston, Vegas, New Jersey, among them) have to feel secure in their early positioning. It's thought that a team can't secure its playoff spot in just a few weeks, but it can fall too far out of the race to catch up. And we've barely hit the quarter mark of the season. Identities crack before being fully formed. October's optimism can quickly bleed into a nervy November. Some teams have felt that more than others. The course of an 82-game NHL regular season never runs completely smooth.
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