This is the required vibe for the rest of the regular season:
Tonight’s game may not have gone well (6-2 loss, Lyon yanked after 3 goals on 5 shots), but you know what? It doesn’t matter. The Buffalo Sabres will be back in the Stanley Cup playoffs for the first time in 14 years. The pic at the top of the post is from a practice/scrimmage the first year of the drought. We had no idea what was coming. “Suffering“, the high expectations of Eichel, and his ultimate failure here, Lindy’s first firing, and so much more. This is what my kids looked like back then:
Now my son’s an adult with a pickup truck, the middle one’s graduating high school, and the youngest is crushing dance competitions. I’d do the same comparison for me but no one wants to see this hairline.
It’s okay to be grumpy with the performance on the day they clinched but things don’t always go the way they do in the movies. Take a deep breath and enjoy the thought of playoff hockey. The 05/06 team had a late season stretch of 6 straight losses before ending the season on a high note. Buffalo hadn’t lost back to back games in regulation since December. The ending hasn’t been written yet; let it happen. And if it doesn’t go our way, know that it doesn’t have to go back to the way it was. They can be good again next year!
(maybe Lindy could bench Logan Stanley though. just a thought)