I'll admit the tank was taking advantage of the rules. Something many teams, not just the Sabres have done. However, it was within the rules, as opposed to the Patriots*, who did things outside of the rules to take advantage. I don't think anybody is even saying the Patriots* are not a good team. And nobody is even saying that they would have otherwise lost that specific game, or that it gave them a huge advantage, at least in the game they were caught in.
But to say that cheating is not as dishonorable as using the rules to do something that plenty of other teams have done in sports, Colts, Penguins, 76ers, is trolling in it's worst form.