Postgame: 2-5-10.

The Sabres lost to one of the worst teams in the league last night. Regardless of stats and how well we are doing in the standings, we have indeed hit rock bottom. If I were you Sabres fans, I would be extremely scared of what this team has at this moment. I'm pretty sure that the west coast road trip killed the Sabres in one way or another and this part of the season is always the rocky part. Will Darcy do something on Trade Deadline Day? I don't know. He says something will change 'internally' on this team and at the rate they are currently playing, I hope it shakes things up. It's not going to get any easier after the Olympics, I hope they know this.

Last night was just bad all over the place. While I think that the boys did play very well for the game, the defense looked to be out of place on a few goals and the game winning goal...it shows that Ryan is tired. Yes Miller fans, Ryan is TIRED. It doesn't help that Lindy does not know how to play back up goaltenders. Patty plays one game where he lets in four goals and then he has not played since until tonight. It's not going to get any easier after the Olympics. If an excuse for this team if they don't make the playoffs is 'Miller was tired' then it's complete bullshit. A ton of people are like 'trade Lalime, get a better backup'. Guess what people? Have you NOT seen how this team plays in front of a backup goaltender? They suck, simple as that. They do this sometimes to Ryan as well, but even moreso in front of the backup goaltender. This is not about getting a backup, this about knocking some sense into this team and they need to do it fast.

Tamara has gone to Columbus with friends of ours to watch the boys play the Blue Jackets tonight so expect a recap (maybe) of her trip. Should be an interesting one.

The Epic Adventures of Tamara and Shelby: Did I mention how much I hate shootouts?

I would have inserted a picture of Thomas scoring in the shootout, but alas, Yahoo! fails me in that department of awesome HQ pictures. Whatever.

Tamara and I somehow arrived forty minutes before warmups started at the arena last night. I am pretty sure that's a record for the both of us. We both bought our posters that had Tim Connolly on them, and headed up to my brother's seats to go hang up our sign. Unfortunately we had no idea how light the yellow was on the sign until we hung it up, but it looked pretty good from the 300s and the 100s as we watched warmups.

As soon as the game started (or right before it) we ended up on the Jumbotron. I had to poke Tamara a few times to go 'there we are!' It was pretty cool but as far as we saw, we weren't on the Jumbotron for the rest of the night.

When the game got to the shootout, we just hugged each other pretty much the entire time. It was comforting to do that, haha, especially when it went to sudden death shootout. When Thomas went out to shoot, I at first wasn't going to watch but I'm glad I did. I softly whispered a prayer to myself; hoping he would indeed score - and he did! I actually think I legit cried after he scored. It's been a long time since I've cried at a hockey game. It was no better after the Sabres lost the game, and Patty wasn't able to win his 200th game. We know that he will get that 200th win though!

The Sabres now embark on their annual west coast road trip on Thursday. They'll be at Atlanta and New York before heading out west. Last night was the first time they lost to a Western Conference opponent (which is really good) so let's hope they can rack up a few wins out west!

The Epic Adventures of Tamara and Shelby: It's always a good game if Crosby doesn't score.

This might be the last game we attend together for awhile, but we went to this game for Patty. He played excellent last night and gets a big, gold star from me for playing so well. Good job Patty! The most important save he made last night was against Sidney Crosby in the shootout...and he made the save! I had to cover Tamara's eyes yesterday so she wouldn't see what happened, but he saved it. :) I'm okay with Kris Letang getting the game winner because I like him. Overall, it was an extremely good game and at least the Sabres got a point out of it.

You know those people you can't stand when you go to hockey games, the ones that are ALWAYS commenting on what's going on during the game? Specifically, the penalty kill and the power play? Yeah, we had one of those people sitting behind us last night. She kept shouting on the Sabres to get the puck out of the zone during the penalty kill, and kept yelling them to shoot from the Sabres' blueline on the power play. I know sometimes I get aggravated during games, but she didn't shut up at all about those things. Tamara and I generally talk about stuff during the game (that doesn't pertain to the game itself) and I think if someone told me to shut up I would do it. I just feel like commentary during a game is extremely unnecessary. At least, the commentary other than RJ.

Also, some Pens fan wearing a HOSSA jersey made a remark on Tamara's Patty jersey. Please dude. You're wearing the jersey of a guy who didn't want your team's offer of however much money, and instead opted for less pay with the Detroit Red Wings. That's pretty said in itself and a horrible investment. I'm surprised you didn't get mauled by other Pens fans.

Here's hoping that Thomas feels better soon. I missed the Aussie out there last night. I hope his injury isn't too bad...but if it is, he needs to take as much time as he needs.