from Mike Harrington of The Buffalo News,

When Adams woke up Tuesday, the Sabres’ general manager was running a team that was seventh in the Atlantic Division and 14th in the Eastern Conference. The fans didn’t expect that to happen. Neither did the GM.

The Columbus Blue Jackets scored seven goals in a span of 21:52 on their way to a 9-4 win that caused the sparse crowd in downtown Buffalo to mercilessly boo the home team throughout the game.

“I can tell you, first and foremost, I am not happy with where we are in the standings, for sure,” Adams told The Buffalo News in a morning conversation in KeyBank Center. “But I have complete belief and faith in this group of players, in this group of coaches, that we are going to to be a really good team, here. It’s just, of course, that we want it now. But it doesn’t always work exactly like that.”

ure doesn't. Gotta wonder how Adams' faith meter is registering now. The entire organizational foundation is teetering after Tuesday night's 9-4 humiliation at the hands of the Columbus Blue Jackets.

As in the 28th-place Columbus Blue Jackets.

This was a nightmare nobody could have imagined here all summer and into the fall. And not even through the weirdness of this season, which was highlighted by a 5-2 spanking of Stanley Cup champion Vegas a scant four nights previous in the Nevada desert.

Captain Kyle Okposo and Tage Thompson understandably took umbrage with my notion that the Flying Goatheads quit on this game in the second period. Coach Don Granato said simply of his boys, "They had a tough night."

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