And it was a costly minute. Two goals in the opening 59 seconds, and the game was pretty much over. If any positives could be taken from this game, it is that we fought back and played the Pens pretty evenly from the second minute of the game on. Even with all the extra power play time enjoyed by Owner Mario and his minions, they could only manage one power play goal, and that was during a five minute major assessed to Erik Rasmussen. But enough about this game.
Bad games happen all the time.
It's the good teams that shake these performances off and storm back the next time they have the chance. And that chance is Friday night, when the Atlanta Thrashers come to town to attempt to avenge Monday's lackluster performance. Letters, oh we get letters. I will now step into the extra-large room where we stack all our mail and select a few to give you people a gist of who is reading and writing in. She ended up next to other Sabres fans, though that doesn't surprise those of us in the last row.