Galling

What else can you say about the Sabres loss to Montreal? It's amazing to see it once in a season, a team blow a big lead late in the third period. To see it twice, four days apart, is incredible. This year's Sabres team obviously is seriously lacking in confidence, and seems to panic at the first sign of adversity when they have the lead. It would be easy to chalk it up to youth or inexperience, but the fact is, the Sabres aren't that young. And very often, the players making the killer mistakes at crunch time are the most experienced ones on the roster. Now they're four points out of a playoff spot with four games left to play, and still fighting with three other teams (Philadelphia, Boston and Washington) for the final playoff spots. To say it's an uphill fight would be understatement.