The Buffalo Sabres are off to one of the best starts in history, posting an 11-0-1 record through their first twelve games of the year. Add to that a goal differential of +26 and you have the most dominant team in the NHL. Maybe their new look is cause for the dominance. Whatever it is, it will be interesting to see if they can keep it up.

The Sabres aren’t the only team making noise in the NHL though. The Anaheim Ducks are right there, with a 9-0-4 record of their own. While both of these teams were picked by many to be the top teams I don’t think anyone expected both of them to be undefeated in regulation one month into the season.

It’s good to see legends up on the top of some statistical categories, but it raises questions when these legends are as old as Jaromir Jager and Brendan Shanahan. Props to them for leading the league in points and goals respectively. It makes you wonder though, how the old guys are still keeping up with the young guns. Are they really just that much better? Sidney Crosby and Evgeni Malkin would like to say otherwise. Malkin and Crosby could turn out to be one of the best one two combinations in league history. They have to keep this up through an entire season though, which Crosby has shown he can do, but Malkin (as a rookie) has yet to prove. These two could be the main reason that Pittsburgh actually has a chance this year, and they bring great excitement to the game that could actually help the NHL get some fans back.

Meanwhile, in Los Angeles, Mathieu Garon is asking how a goalie who leads the NHL in save percentage and posts the lowest goals against average has a 3-2-1 record. Maybe he should get his Kings teammates to answer that question for him. A team with the best goalie in the league shouldn’t be stuck in 11th place in the Western Conference, especially in the current NHL where goal scoring has become commonplace.

Someone needs to wake up Ottawa. This is a team that should be dominating, yet somehow finds themselves sitting in 13th in the Eastern Conference. They aren’t being plauged by injuries, this team just isn’t playing well. They have all the talent to challenge the Sabres for hte number one spot in the East, but so far this season it sure doesn’t look that way. I’m sure that they’ll figure something out to turn this season around, but it better be sooner rather than later.