When the Sabres lost, I thought perhaps there might be two hidden blessings in there:
1. It will force Pegula to make moves this off-season because he won't be able to delude himself into thinking the current roster is good enough to win a Cup and
2. It saves us the misery of being embarrassed by the Caps (me in particular as I live in the DC area and have to deal with the epic bandwagon jumping).
However, the Caps are down 2-0 after dropping two games at home to Tampa bay, and people are already falling off the bandwagon. Few think the Caps can come back to win.
Now, I realize that TB probably has more talent than we do, and that just because they won doesn't mean we would have. But in our last regular season game against the Caps, they had to go into OT to beat us at home, and that was with Enroth playing.
If we had been able to hold on to that two-goal lead in Game 6, we might have actually stood a chance against the Caps.....