Panther postmortems
Some leftovers from the Sabres' 6-2 loss Wednesday to Florida:
Numbers games: The Sabres had been 9-0-1 when scoring first. ... They won just 17 of 49 faceoffs, easily their worst showing of the season. ... They were charged with 25 giveaways. ... They had just one hit in the first period. You get the picture. ... In addition to notching his first goal as a Panther to cap the scoring, former Sabre Dominic Moore did the job defensively for Florida as he won seven of 11 faceoffs and had a team-high four blocked shots.
Injury update: Mike Grier (groin) didn't take the morning skate but Lindy Ruff said that was no setback. "He's actually doing pretty good," Ruff said. "We just decided to give him a day off because he's been skating fairly hard. He's kind of at that stage where it isn't getting any better but it hasn't gotten any worse."
Best effort of the night came from the Sabres' front office: A large rigging apparatus hanging from the ceiling near the zamboni end of the arena was for Thursday's Radio City Christmas Spectacular featuring the Rockettes. The Sabres responded to complaints from fans who said it was blocking their views of the HD board and game clock by offering a complimentary $66 ticket to tonight's show or concession items during the game.
---Mike Harrington
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