Maybe with the overtime games they'll learn to be clutch and play under pressure.

Here's a good one. Thomas Vanek is leading the league in SO% and SO goals.

In 28 games so far, Buffalo has 6 regulation wins.

Wow, that's really bad but it just shows that the Sabres aren't a playoff team. Unless Miller finds last years excellence again they will have a hard time to catch up and earn a playoff spot.

You are spot on with the underlined statement.
If it weren't for Millers great season last year, they wouldn't have gone to the playoffs.
As a matter of fact (and here comes that deadhorse again), the Buffalo Sabres have not been a playoff caliber team since the Drury/Briere fiasco.

That screams volumes about Darcy Regier. I mean, WTF?, 4 seasons to correct that blunder and nothing has been done in the way of forward progress on that end.
Nope, I have been convinced since the start of last season that this team in is full rebuild mode.

Oh I know, there's just been a recent rash of B and D talk. I don't want to sound too critical of the current team either.

This team isn't the 05-07 team, but I'm actually getting real tired of the romantic lamenting for those teams (no offense slesh). Briere and Drury had open ice all that time, what are they doing now? The way the game was being played then, Roy and Connolly would look ridonkulous too (and each of them did at times), but they reached their health and prime after the game tightened up again. It's not a fair comparison to either player, and it's giving too much credit to B and D.

Switch those players between then and now and I doubt there's much difference in production. Only Drury's leadership would still stand out, but where is that now in NY? Briere's best season in Philly was 72 pts and freakin -22 rating. Roy's best was 81 pts and a +13 the same season. Connolly of course hasn't played enough to compare, and apparently injuries will be his lasting legacy.

Anyway, those teams didn't win a Cup and this team won't either, but the bigger issue is not B and D, it's that the game reverted to a tighter and more physical game. Darcy accidentally looked like a genius for having a fast and skilled team after the lock-out, and that same team suffered once the game slowed down again. Outside of the center position, there has been a lack of supporting cast and a marginal d-corps to help a top 1-3 goalie. Not enough has been done to improve that because we have an owner that is well within his right to conduct business according to profit margin in a market that can't collect enough revenue to spend more and stay in the black. Nothing we can do about it but hope for Pegula and hope he's the owner we want him to be.

What this stat doesn't tell is if the Sabres can't hold a lead, or if they keep coming back from behind in the 3rd.