The season is less than a week old, but Buffalo Sabres fans are already frustrated.
Those frustrations hit a new high during Monday's 3-1 home loss to the Colorado Avalanche, with fans showing their displeasure in multiple ways.
According to the Crossing Swords podcast on X, some fans wore paper bags over their heads, while one fan tossed a jersey on the ice after the game was over.
Chants of "Fire Adams" could also be heard in the third period as patience with the work of long-time GM Kevyn Adams grows thin.
The Sabres are now 0-3-0 to start the season and have been outscored 10-2 in losses to the Bruins, Rangers and Avalanche.
The schedule doesn't get any easier with five of their next six games against teams that were in the playoffs last year.
"I'm a big believer that negativity breeds negativity, and that's kind of how we've snowballed things in the past. So we can't let three games be the end of the world," star forward Tage Thompson said, according to Mike Harrington of the Buffalo News. "Can't keep looking back. the last three games, the last four seasons, last 14 seasons."
Thompson is also asking the fans to give the team a little time to turn things around.
"We have a long season to go," Thompson said to The Athletic's Matthew Fairburn. "You guys are acting like the world is ending right now. We just have to find a way to claw ourselves out of this. We’re obviously in a hole we don’t want to be in and we have to find our way out of it.”
The Sabres last made the playoffs in 2011, the longest active drought in the league.
