At first glance, it seems two Buffalo Sabres teams have taken the ice in the team's first 41 games this season.
There's the version that has gone 4-21-3 in two long stretches, and there's the team that went 10-3-0 and gave the fans hope that maybe this team was good enough to make the playoffs.
As it stands now, the Sabres are 14-24-3, good for 31 points and 28th in the NHL. Any realistic Sabres fan would not have expected much more out of this team to start the season, and aside from the late-November through early-December run, things could be much, much worse.
To say the Sabres have been embarrassingly bad for most of the first half of the season is an understatement. Just looking at the more commonplace statistics, the Sabres are last in the NHL in shots for per game and last in shots against per game. They also have the least amount of goals for, averaging a meager 1.76 goals per game, while allowing the most goals per game at 3.39 per contest.
Those stats alone say everything that needs to be said about the Sabres' season.
But it gets worse.
The Sabres have a Corsi differential of ...
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Buffalo Sabres: What Can We Expect in the 2nd Half of the Season?
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