Let's do the time warp again

 Oooooooy what exactly was THAT? Defensive breakdowns galore! Not just breakdowns but catastrophic failures. This team is not looking good for the long haul that is an NHL season. They def have potential, and even showed a lot of it tonight, but then fell apart (again) defensively and it was just a massacre. 

I don't want to talk about it anymore. Time to move on to Chicago tomorrow. They seem to play better on the road, and Lyon should come back sometime this trip (tomorrow would be a great night to start him, Chicago is terrible and so is the rest of our goaltending, so why not?) 

In the meantime, and to lighten up the mood a little, Imma give you a Hockey SAB I have been sitting on for a bit. This one is unavoidable but super real, and I felt better tonight knowing that I am not alone in this- when Darren Pang referred to Josh Doan as Shane Doan. I mean, Panger is a boss and he's been in the game longer than I have, but every time I see ole Joshy D on the ice I am TRANSPORTED back to my early days of hockey watching in the mid 90s when Shane Doan was a force, playing for the Winnipeg Jets/Phoenix Coyotes. 

Exhibit A: 
Shane Doan, circa 2009 (the man does not age)

Exhibit B:
his son, Josh Doan, present day

Off the ice, it's a little easier to tell- but I swear on the ice it is a legit 20+ year straight up time warp and- not gonna lie- it messes with my mind a little bit. I already struggle with the fact that the Sabres have 2 players on their team whose fathers played in the NHL of my youth (and there are a few other fellas out there as well- how am I this old? I was in middle school when I started watching hockey!) so this is not a new problem for me but the striking resemblance is what really gets me here. I feel like I'm 15 again and watching hockey so I can go to school the next day and harass my buddy Garrett when his teams (the Jets/Coyotes- that's right, Shane Doan's team!) and the Blues lose to my guys the Red Wings and Canucks. *which happened occasionally* Those were the good ole days and we've embarked on a new world of hockey where my allegiances are to the Blue and Gold but I still fondly recall those early years. 

Though the early years of my hockey fandom were filled with MANY MANY lopsided losses and ugly games, I don't want to go back to that so Sabres- GET YOUR ACT TOGETHER! Hockey is supposed to be fun to watch and while there were some glimpses of fun tonight, the overall feeling was ROUGH. Just rough.