‘So the first point to make after the Sabres’ dismal weekend in Prague is not to go all Doomsday on a season that just started. There’s a lot to worry about for sure, but many of those same concerns would be the same had the Sabres gone 1-1 on the trip, which they would have done had they simply won the third period on Saturday. Still, if that split had taken place, there wouldn’t be all this here-we-go-again hysteria about a team already in a hole before 30 other teams in the league have dropped a puck for real.’