Sabres throw away lead,loss in shootout

This was a tough loss for the Sabres on Saturday night in HSBC Arena.
Sabres will be reviewing this one over and over of this devastating 4-3 shootout loss to the Thrashers. The good side of this is it will not happen in the near future, again! Think about it just two little mistakes that’s it. It was a very will played game by the Sabres! You hear people saying they fell apart, (NO they didn’t.)
The Sabres blew a two-goal lead in the final 6:33 of regulation,with Todd White's tally with 3.5 seconds left pulling the Thrashers into a 3-3 tie. It came after Jason Pominville fanned on what would have been a game-clinching clear from the Sabres zone with the Atlanta net empty.
Neither team scored in overtime and seven of eight shooters missed in the shootout. Derek Roy, Tim Connolly, Drew Stafford and Thomas Vanek all drew blanks for Buffalo. Patrick Lalime made three saves before Atlanta's Brett Sterling, just called up from the minors earlier in the day, beat him with a deke.
But instead of making up ground on everyone, the Sabres remain 10th with 76 points. That's 2 behind the Rangers and Panthers, 3 behind the Hurricanes and 4 in arrears of the Habs and Penguins.
On the tying goal, Pominville had the puck in the corner to Lalime's right but White appeared to hit Pominville's stick and force him to partially fan on the clearing attempt. The puck instead slid meekly to Tobias Enstrom, who easily intercepted it and fed Ron Hainsey in the middle.
Hainsey's shot leaked through Lalime and White tapped it home just ahead of Henrik Tallinder.
Things started to fall apart with the Sabres leading, 3-1, and heading for a power play with 6:54 left. Just 20 seconds later, the puck was in their net as Jaroslav Spacek's shot was blocked to create a two-on-one break and Marty Reasoner potted Chris Stuart's rebound to give the visitors hope.