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They need to avoid THREE straight losses. They did it once and have nearly overcome that. They can't repeatedly do it. The game tomorrow in Beantown is huge. Need to win that in regulation. No UPL please.

Is it okay to say the Sabres “won” that trade? … not sure of the rules anymore.

FTFY. And, yes, both Dallas and Calgary will say they won that trade.

pretty similar spot - they need to avoid 13 straight losses and they'll be right in the mix. Put a few streaks together of good hockey and they can make it.

This is the first time I’m hearing about this

This is about as good a descriptor as I have seen for why I don’t have confidence in Tage Thompson as a featured player. He just doesn’t strike me as a guy that is as good as the other guys that are around him, points-wise.

He does it all the time, and not just for shots. For as skilled as Tage is, I think he’s a terrible hockey player. He’s a shinny(shinnie?) all-star.

Not a word.

Speed, speed, and more speed. You can’t teach it. Worthy turns short passes into big gains. We also runs reverses effectively. He is outproducing Coleman. A team that needs help at WR, and more team speed in general, passed on the fastest guy in the draft. Worse, they traded the pick to their nemesis.

Minor nitpicking, but you can't patent math. I'm going to assume we're talking about some kind of novel mathematical method as a tool. Source: software engineer with patents that I would argue are fundamentally "math" but the Patent Office would argue otherwise.

The Titanic started to turn the corner. The Sabres needed to be steaming safely to harbor right from opening night. Not ready for the season, not ready for games... unbelievable. But lots of time left. We shall see. Happy Segmentarian Day.

Dodgers may be the better team on paper, but they sure as hell don't look like it. Jays have been the better team on the field through 4 games.

They’ve put 1 of the last 7 games into the loss column. If they can continue to keep games out of there, they’ll be in good shape. Call it the islanders approach.

Positives: - Legit victories that weren't just flukey bounces and legitimate 50+ minute efforts - Doan and Benson have helped drag some borderline players into the net front battle crew - Goaltending, minus UPL, has been solid - After an atrocious 0-3 to start the year we've bounced back with 4-1-2 including a shutout of the defending champs (yes I know they are banged up) - Timmons has been a hugely positive impact on the defensive play who brings what we had all hoped Clifton might bring (Clifton would get too hit happy and try to jump into offensive plays too much for a defensive stalwart) - Muel has reverted to the guy we all loved when he came up from Rochester Negatives: - Thompson has had a rough start to the year, thankfully he seems to be getting shots so its not 911 emergency levels - 4-4-2 is Average as a record, technically 5-3-2 is the bare minimum for a playoff pace when broken down to 10 game segments with 2 bonus games - OT looks impotent - UPL came back early, then arguably lost us the Toronto game - Team still has a tendency to go into lulls where 3/4th the team plays on power saving mode - Injuries have yet again stabbed this team in the side; losing Norris in 1 game plus Dansforth and Kozak who have given solid depth hurt this team as a whole ???: - Power has played better as a whole with Timmons as his partner but still fails far to often when physical prowess/size is needed - Dahlin's started ok; he looks somewhat distracted and or distant (honestly for understandable reasons) but is still a Top 4 D man with this handicap - AHL call-ups have been a mixed bag, happy Dunne scored though

DeLuca .500?

There deffo were glimpses of the above-describrled going on Quinn is starting to put it together IMO BUT, there were also glimpses of the "same old, same old" Maybe they're starting to turn the corner???

Shaq already named him Koshack.

It sure felt that way

You mean Columbus crawled back, and on the road too. Sabres blew 2-1 and 3-2 leads. The Sabres gave up goals with 16 seconds left in the 2nd, and 6 minutes left in the game. They failed to muster any scoring chances against the worst PK the league.

I chose a festive "thinking" gif. I genuinely appreciate this perspective and insight. I think it's spot on. The trick (not the treat), of course, is that big-bodied WR's who can separate go at the tippy top of the draft. And the Bills ain't sniffing that tier anytime soon. As for the approach being debatable, it makes me think a couple of things: (1) The weather in KC can get pretty rough as well (although perhaps not as reliably bad as it gets here); (2) I wish Terry would've put a roof on the new stadium.

I think from my perspective define real... what we are seeing thru the first 10 games in terms of results is on the lowside of average for our first 10 game segments over the past 10 years... so to me the result is real... we are trending in terms of results to the lowside of our average pts over the past 10 years... meaning we are out of the running when the snow sticks "for real"... 2 consecutive blown leads and OT losses seems a lot like the real Sabres... I am not doom and glooming... but simply saying that I don't see a whole lot result wise that would lead me to believe that we have broken thru... I do like some grit from some of our players... Lyon and Doan are a bit of a revelation.... but as I mentioned in another post... some of our players look like they want out... and are done with going the entirety of their careers with no playoffs opportunity.... Season is early, time will tell... injured players will return... but in my opinion, I think we are seeing the real Sabres... the ones we have seen for the past 14 years + or - a little bit...

I would say this... I am neither expressing optimism nor doom... too early yet for that... I do feel a lot of optimism from folks but I am not seeing where or how... very Sabre like last 2... giving up a lead and losing in OT is a sure way to April tee times... this needs to change... I am concern there are some players already checking out... wanting out of here... this was my main concern as we ran back our FO and coach... and played "the beat goes on " in the locker room... Here is a look at our last 10 years of the 1st 10 game segment. 16/17: 4-4-2 17/18: 3-5-2 18/19: 6-4-0 19/20: 8-1-1 20/21: 4-4-2 21/22: 5-4-1 22/23: 7-3-0 23/24: 5-5-0 24/25: 4-5-1 25/26: 4-4-2 Looks like it falls into the lowside of average to me... Now I am not saying when we get injured players back and the team comes together etc... that it cant happen... but from my vantage point I am not seeing anything out of this group to suggest to me that we have broken free of our past and are ready to make a leap to the playoffs... on the contrary... it looks to me like Tage and Co can be comfortable making those April Tee Times.. Speaking of time... it will tell... but as of now color me nonplussed. Agreed, giving up 3rd period leads and losing in OT gets your golf game going.

I just cannot get behind this line of thinking for a team that hasn't made the playoffs in 15 years. We were the better team from the 2nd period on and then fell apart with 6 minutes left in the game, you cannot leave points like that on the table and expect to make the playoffs but lets see how we fair down in these next few games. Also Lyon let in what i thought were 2 softies so let's hope the Sabres clean up some of their old habits. On a positive note I really like how Kesselring looked in his first game back and he's just getting his feet wet, looking forward to seeign him start hitting people down the road and using that size.

4-1-2 in 7 games is good. Repeat that over the next 7 and they will have 20 points in 17 games; that is a pace for 96.5 points. But, on the loser point thing, I think the past criticism is that they too often did not find a way to squeeze a point out of a game where it looked like they would get none. The last two games are more of the opposite: failing to get a 2nd point by giving up the lead in the last 6 minutes of the third.