4 things that stood out in Sabres crushing Game 7 OT loss to Canadiens

At this point in the history of professional sports in Buffalo, you have to ask yourself when is this forever curse going to end, and how much heartbreak is simply too much? Seriously, there is no fan base that has dealt with more gut-wrenching, soul-crushing, utterly sickening postseason losses than the two teams who mean so much to western New York, the Buffalo Bills and the Buffalo Sabres . Don’t even attempt to make an argument for another city because there is not one that has had to swallow the level of disappointment and despair that has been heaped upon Buffalo, and Monday night another chapter was written in this long and horrifying novel.

Alex Newhook’s somewhat harmless-looking shot from the left faceoff circle found its way past Buffalo goalie Ukka-Pekka Luukkonen 11:22 into overtime and just like that, the Sabres are done thanks to this 3-2 loss to Montreal in Game 7 of the second-round series. “One shot decides the whole season. It [expletive] sucks,” Rasmus Dahlin told reporters.

It really did suck because for most of the last 2 ½ periods the Sabres were the better team, the more dangerous team, and certainly the team that deserved to be smiling in the handshake line at night’s end. But it’s Buffalo, and of course it wasn’t meant to be. “I don’t think anyone in this room felt like we were done yet.

Just disappointed,” Tage Thompson said. The Sabres were trying to become just the fourth team in NHL history to earn consecutive multi-goal comeback victories when facing elimination in both games. Instead, they lost at KeyBank Center for the fifth time in seven games, and they remain stuck on one Game 7 victory in their 56-year history, the Derek Plante game against Ottawa in 1997.