Badly injured on Defense

Once again the Sabres are experiencing a shortage of healthy players on Defense. Tallinder, Sekera, and Numminen are all injured as well as Weber who is still in the AHL. Rivet is currently doing ok, but has been in and out of the line up quite a bit this season.

Marc-Andre Gragnani is being called up to fill in for the depleted blue line, but I'm not even sure if there is anyone after him on the depth chart. Hopefully some people get healthy soon.

Mistakes may keep Sabres out of the playoffs

The Buffalo Sabres lost to the New York Rangers 4-3 in a game that was filled with mistakes. Turnovers and bad goaltending plagued the Sabres all game long in a game that was very important in the standings.

Miller played poorly all game long, giving up really bad rebounds, and then being way out of position on two of the goals against the team. However he really wasn't getting much help from the defense either. Still if you let Avery score on you, you're playing pretty bad.

The Sabres brought up Marc-Andre Gragani for his first ever NHL game. He was out for the opening faceoff, but only ended up seeing 6:28 in ice time during the game. He played alright but took two penalties.

The Sabres killed off all three of their shorthanded situations, but were unable to score when they were up a man, although the Sabres powerplay actually looked pretty good this game.

The Sabres though are going to have to play much better than this, and they are going to have to beat the teams like the Rangers who are competing for the same spot in the playoffs. Once you get in anything can happen, but you need to win a few to get in first.

Official Three Stars

Sean Avery

Derek Roy

Michal Rozsival

My Three Stars

Ales Kotalik (two goals, plus one in the loss)

Sean Avery (one goal, one assist)

Brandon Dubinsky (one goal, one assist)