For, idk 5 years we talked about how the Sabres culture and core were not strong enough. Miller gets flattened we get a meh response. Team loses by a ton and we here some lame locker room interview about how we will be better next time. Hell we traded the entire team away and as guys left the ones still here still seemed like "meh I'm getting paid and so what if we are mediocre."
Let's talk about now. The veterans on this team don't find losing acceptable. The rookies we have brought in are all good guys. Everyone is expected to work hard. The season started rough and instead of hearing some lame excuse we heard things like we aren't playing good enough, we need to do x,y,z and then they went out and started doing it. There is accountability in that locker room and leaders up the ying yang. Bottom line, the losing culture that pervaded this team for years... I think the new core just said "f##k that" and decided to be better.
There is a determined resilience to this team that has been missing since 2007. Fun part is, we ain't seen nothin yet.