from Mike Harrington of the Buffalo News,

I don't get it.

It's basically what the reaction can be about almost everything surrounding the Sabres these days.

* I don't get how a team desperate for a win can get 10 shots on goal in the last two periods of a game against a team that was giving up nearly 32 per game. That's how you end up with a 3-1 loss to a Montreal team that hit KeyBank Center in the same dire hole with 51 points and 10 out of a playoff spot.

* I don't get how Jack Eichel is having the season of his life -- perhaps becoming a 50-goal, 100-point man -- and the Sabres are going to let it waste away into nothing.

* I don't get how Evan Rodrigues, he of no goals against any NHL team this year other than pathetic Detroit, can possibly be on Eichel's line.

continued