I think we make too much out of which cable channel broadcast the game. Who cares if it was on TNT, MSG, NBC, ESPN, OLN, or Cartoon Network. It doesn't change where the team is, what it has to do, or their likelihood of doing it. Nobody is going to look back on this season if we miss and say "If only the carolina game had been a local broadcast, we would have made it!"
Sabres are 6-2-2 in their last 10 games. If they continue at that rate they hit 100 points and are very very likely to make the cut. The Bruins were just on a 3 game losing streak before last night. Winnipeg laid and absolute egg against us and they are still going to make the playoffs. Good teams still have bad games. Not worried unless it becomes a trend.