Buffalo have now lost four of their last six

Boxscore

Score: Buffalo Sabres 1-4 Winnipeg Jets
Shots: BUF 35-23 WPG

Buffalo Sabres Goals: Zucker 9th PPG (Norris, Dahlin)
Winnipeg Jets Goals: Connor 15th (Vilardi, Samberg), Pearson 4th (Koepke), Koepke 1st (Barron, DeMelo), Vilardi 12th (Connor, Scheifele)

Three Thoughts

Some Kind of Deja Vu

5-on-5, the Sabres outshot the Jets, outchanced them, more high danger chances, better expected goals, all that jazz, but scored a sum total of zero even strength goals. Most nights that will get you something, but not tonight.
Interesting to see who was deserving of Lindy Ruff’s generosity with ice time tonight with, Bowen Byram playing the most of all defensemen, and only 2:25 of Rasmus Dahlin and Owen Power being paired together despite some dominant offensive time.
Among the forwards it was Peyton Krebs, Ryan McLeod, and Jack Quinn playing the most, while all the big names were quite atrocious to be honest, and that includes Josh Norris who recorded his fifth point in his three-game scoring streak since he returned to action.

Tale of Two Goalies

I do not want to keep piling on Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen, but I kinda wanna say he does it to himself. Aside from the penalty shot save he made on Adam Lowry, what else did he do right giving up three goals on 22 shots? Actually got lucky Mark Scheifele’s goal got chalked off by video review too. More than the worse than expected performance (xGA 2.053, vs GA 3), it’s so often the timing of the goals he gives up, with Buffalo going behind for the 9th time in the 12 road games they’ve played so far. Is it any surprise that we only have two road wins, and none in regulation?
Meanwhile, Eric Comrie got his vengeance for the Sabres win in Buffalo making 34 saves, and giving up just the one goal on an expected goals against of 4.585. The Sabres could have won this one 4-2 and no one would have blinked, instead Comrie outdueled UPL and here we are.

The Power Zucker Play

Three games, three power play goals for Zucker. Zucker is keeping the power play afloat right now from dropping to abysmal levels, sitting at 20th right now. The forward seems to relish his role playing in the blue ice, getting in the goalie’s face and invoking the ire of opposing defensemen.
After the penalty kill debacle in Philly, the PK unit bounced back in what was a mostly disciplined game.