Under normal circumstances, slumping Sabres might be ripe for the picking Tuesday. But who are we kidding? These are far from normal times.
You sit Nils Hoglander or Vasily Podkolzin and it doesn’t really cause a commotion.
However, when you scratch a top-six staple, a KHL free agent you chased for months, it gets everybody’s attention. Andrei Kuzmenko had a mistake-prone 9:27 of ice time Saturday in a 3-2 loss at Toronto — he’s averaging 15:19 — and was taken off the power play. “If we don’t have guys who buy in, that’s when Bruce has to make decisions about whether they play the next game, or the next shift,” added Rutherford.
Those long post-game gazes, and repeated refrains about blown leads and dumb penalties adding up to loss after loss, has to be getting to the usually affable bench boss.Article content
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