On Saturday afternoons, there’s a good chance you’ll catch me at the best restaurant in my hometown. Believe it or not, it’s the first place I remember eating out way back in the mid-1990s, and it hasn’t changed an iota in the last three decades.
Everything, from the wooden booths to the ‘Cheers’-style bar, to the neon purple sign outside the place and inside an interior ghost town of something we used to call a mall, is stuck in time. Evidently, since the 1980s, but having been born in 1991, my memory only goes back so far.
Anyway, during the NHL season, it’s also a place where I’ll either watch or listen to Sabres hockey on my phone. I’m about four hours south of Buffalo, so watching a game on the big screen ain’t happening, especially in Penguins territory.
But, I’m sorry to say that my weekly ‘cheat meal’ - something those of us in the fitness world like to call food that we don’t normally eat - of chicken parm, penne pasta, and coleslaw (best coleslaw in the viewing area, might I add) would’ve been ultra-enjoyable if the Sabres didn’t mess up what was a picture-perfect game…again.
Sabres are blowing leads left and right, and it’s getting old really fast
Correct me if I’m wrong, but I can name at least three instances in the last month and a half in which the Sabres have blown multiple-goal leads after one frame this season. I know there are more, but not even the most die-hard fans remember all 43 games so far this season.
Instead, I’ll say three recent contests, two of which came against the Colorado Avalanche and then Saturday’s blowout loss to the Kraken. Could you imagine what the Blue and Gold’s record would look like if they learned a thing or two about holding leads?
And is it just me, or have the Sabres been notorious regardless of who the current bench boss is? Anyway, they have a problem that clearly involves opponents figuring them out and then playing bad hockey for about 40 minutes.
When I returned home, I, in a very dejected way, prepared my usual dessert following that chicken parm dinner: homemade oatmeal raisin cookies comprising one banana, a quarter cup of oats and raisins, a tablespoon of honey, and three tablespoons of natural peanut butter. While they tasted amazing, as usual, I’d’ve probably enjoyed them a little more had the Sabres, for once, figured out how to hold a multi-goal lead.
Anyway, it’s back to the drawing board and onto the Carolina Hurricanes. A team that I have little faith that the Sabres will get the best of, regardless of what kind of hockey they’ll play in the first period. So, forgive me when I’ll project another heartbreaking loss if they jump out to another two-goal lead.