from David Pollak of Working The Corners,

The tone in the room depended on who was doing the talking. Nobody wanted to label the Sabres one of the NHL’s weak franchises, though that’s undoubtedly true. Points don’t lie.

“The fact that they’re 1-7 when they came in? If you look at their lineup they’re a pretty good lineup. A lot of skill and a lot of speed,” Marc-Edouard Vlasic said. “If you look at their record, obviously it’s embarrassing that we lost but they play well. Just by looking at their record, 1-7, we shouldn’t have lost this game. But, they’re a hard-working team and they play a good system, and we were too late on waking up in the third.”

Likewise, Logan Couture wanted to focus more on the Sharks than the opposition when asked if it stings more because that fourth consecutive defeat involved Buffalo.

“I think it stings that we lost four in a row. I could care less what the Buffalo Sabres are doing right now,” he said. “The San Jose Sharks have lost four straight games, two at home, and haven’t played well.”

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