Little, Not Enough

Isles fell to the Buffalo Sabres tonight 6-3 and remain winless on the season.

John Tavares scored his 3rd goal of the season, couple that with Matt Moulsons' goal and assist and that's pretty much where the positives end.

Yes it is early, but in this league if can get late awful quick. Dwayne Roloson was horrible tonight and the defense in front wasn't much better. You have to really question what the Islander vets have left. Brendan Witt looks very slow out there, Andy Sutton just does not use his big frame enough. Outside of All Star Mark Streit, this defense looks very thin in terms of quality.

Then we have the forwards. Bottom line, the only line that generates any pressure consisitently is Tavares/Moulson/Okposo. JT and KO are clearly the two true building blocks for this team and Moulson has been a nice suprise. Beyond that you have a very small and marginally talented lineup. Doug Weight is playing the wing, where he is not effective. Tim Jackman and Joel Rechlicz are great team guys i'm sure and they try, but they are NOT NHL players. Rechlicz took another stupid penalty and does not belong in this league. Josh Bailey needs some AHL seasoning in my opinion, he shot the puck tonight which is good, but he has no explosion in any aspects of his game. Sean Bergenheim has to score, he's 25 and he hasn't shown it.

Sure looks like it's going to be another tough year and little players and little progress from this team isn't enough.

Game Stats:
1 Goal/even/7 SOG/19:36 TOI/Faceoffs: 4-8

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Miller leads Sabres to 6-3 win

No, not that John Tavares

Ask Adam: Island unto himself