It was a solid overall performance against the league’s best home team,
but Vanek knows he has to be better in crucial situations.
“It was a good team effort. But myself, I’ve just got to be smarter.
Smarter and better. I had bad coverage on one of the goals, then a
stupid penalty at the end.”
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Lindy Ruff agreed that Vanek’s penalty was another one of the bad
decisions that continue to plague this hockey team in recent weeks.
“That killed us. It’s been lack of discipline in different areas that have hurt us. That penalty was just a selfish penalty.”
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Buffalo could have easily had two or three more goals in what was their best period of the five-game road trip. Patrick Kaleta and Nathan Gerbe had great chances early, but were unable to cash in their glorious scoring opportunities.
Same old story, every game ..........