GoSabres29 wrote:
The end pissed me off.
"Definitely," Lucic said when asked if the response would have been different if Thomas had been hit like that. "We wouldn't accept anything like that. We would have taken care of business, but we're a different team than they are."
"And as the scoreboard showed on Saturday night, not to mention the new Stanley Cup banner flying up in the rafters alongside it, the Bruins are a much better team than the Sabres."
Really, they're a much better team? Who says that. Last year (the year they won the cup) we had the edge on them. Stafford got two hat tricks against them. I don't remember the record but the Sabres were better. And this year, The Bruins are just now climbing out of the basement. That win finally got them over .500 and they beat us once this year.
They got off to a rocky start. They are playing really good now. Like defending Stanley Cup Champs should. Ya we may have had the edge on them in the regular season but we would have gotten slapped around like we did Saturday if we would have played them in the playoffs.
We have a nice record but if you look closely at the schedule and standings most of our wins have come against lesser opponents. We've beat ducks (27th), columbus (30th), Ottawa x2 (worst GAA in league), winnipeg barely (28th), Calgary (25th), Montreal (24th). That's 7 of 10 wins coming agaisnt bottom 8 of the league. And when we play a good team we shit the bed. Miller usually allows 2 quick ones and then all the energy is drained out of the players and we got no way back.
Darcy's gotta put a shopping list together for at least 1-2 defensive d-men and a forward who can score and be a bruiser when the time comes to do so (Avery would have been an alright pick-up) otherwise this could be a long season.