Enroth stuck his arm out. I personally think Jhonas was trying to draw the penalty, and that the Sabres reacted appropriately. Cole was trying to get them to respond with a brawl that would have given the Habs a power play.

In my opinion, an event like that needs to trigger one of two things; you choose to either go all out brawl and defend your goaltender, or step up and play good enough hockey to win a game and punish a team on the score board.

If the Sabres had won that game in Boston, the lack of physical response to the Lucic hit wouldn't have been as big of deal. Lindy Ruff would have said the same thing he said about Philly in 2006. "They wanted to act like idiots, and we just wanted to play hockey."

Problem was, the Sabres didn't put in the effort they needed to beat Boston after that hit occurred, and after the game was lost from them, they didn't do anything physically in the third.

Fight or win. Or both. But don't do nothing.

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Ok, I see your point and we won last night...winning is good. I really wasn't that upset when they didn't go after Cole. I would rather have had them end it on that power play but the still won. Hard fought, extremely. Should it have been, not at all. If they played with passion and fire from the beginning it would have been a totally different game. That's why I was a little pissed off.

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They need to find that balance as to what type of game they want to play night in and night out. I agree though, once everyone found that fire in them, they really came together.

What I seen from the opening faceoff though was a team that was confused as to what identity they should have. Seemed like some were questioning where they should be, how they should be playing but then you had guys Goose taking things to a bit of a different level. I guess some were on one side of the scale and some on the other.

End of the day, we got the win. As ugly as it was, build on it and get ready for Jersey tomorrow night.

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