Sabres fall in another close one 5-3 to the Caps

Well the hole is getting deeper and deeper. The Sabres traveled to the Capital of our country on a nationally televised game on NBC and what could of got worse really didn't get much better either. The Capitals capitalized quickly as Ovechkin scored only 19 seconds in to the game. Well here we go again most Sabres fans thought but the Sabres battled back with a nice goal from Cody Hodgson who notched in his 12th goal of the year. The remainder of the first period was a bit defensive and carried over to the 2nd until midway through the second, Washington's Jason Chimera and Marcus Johannsson scored less than a minute apart. Ugh......too many turnovers and Miller playing lazily out of position caused the Sabres to go down 3-1. The Sabres again battled back as a guy who has impressed me a lot in his short stint Brian Flynn put in his 3rd as a Sabre, His physical play in the offensive zone has really helped out the Sabres third line get some scoring production which really didn't have much before when Flynn was down in Rochester. The Sabres couldn't make the comeback as the Caps scored again and again the defense costly mistakes ends up killing them in the end. Cody Hodgson then again impressed with a nice goal from a Ennis and Pominville pass to get his 13th of the year. Like Flynn, Hodgson has been one of the few bright spots of the Sabres pretty bad season so far to say the least but his face offs last year were just plain awful. The Sabres are now 0-3-2 in their last 5 road games which the ability to not finish on the road in OT has been one of the reasons why they currently stand at 7 points behind the 8th place Hurricanes. Ryan Miller in the post game interview was clearly not happy saying "We knew we had to be ready coming off back to back have to be smart but got caught running around a bit in the second period again". He was agitated behind belief it seemed after every question then calling out Kaleta's comments on not playing in Sunday nights game. Saying he just needs to grow up. The Sabres next take on the Montreal Canadiens Tuesday night at 7:30 ET and need to have a desperate type of play in order to turn this last final playoff push around.