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Brian Koziol should get a bonus for staying upbeat yet honest in his postgame comments about the Sabres, Pegula, Adams, Ruff, the Coaching staff et al. He apologizes for sounding monotonous. Even he asks “What will it take to get change?”

Just want to add I think it's clear Thompson is better at center for the way he likes to play so my centers are Thompson, Norris, McLeod, Kozak (because I like Kozak better than Krebs and not playing Kozak in Winnipeg was a weird decision to me)

Ya gotta hand it to ka, he sure can put a team together. From the goalies out through the forwards. It's a wonder some other team hasn't poached him. Sigh...

I guess I'm remembering that part incorrectly. I do remember times it was really good (like you point out), but overall I guess not. Still, the offense from about the midpoint of 2021/22 and the 2022/23 were quite fun to watch. Of course the D was atrocious and when Granato tried to emphasize that more in 2023/23 the offense dried up. I still think Granato's teams looked better coached overall, not that they were particularly good, just that it too often looks like Lindy's teams don't even practice.

Because he needs to be paired with a stay at home guy, a defender first, and all we have is puck movers. Samuelsson is the closest but the only one.

Personally I'd rather go back to no challenges, no replays. Just hate the refs when they screw up like we always have and keep playing mistakes and all. All this new video stuff just slows down the game and doesn't really make anybody happy. The old flawed way was better.

Hoped he was going to be paired with Dahlin this year and actually look like a 4th OA pick. But Samuelsson has been so good with Dahlin, you can't break that up. And Byram just doesn't seem to click with anyone (else).

And yet a couple apologists quickly came to Terry’s support and denied this (you all know who you are) happened. Tell me, do these people still think this couldn’t possibly be true?

Yes, it's always this. Giveaways, turnovers, lost puck battles along with bad net front coverage. Those things lose you games even when you play half decently. My comment on the game is really just same, same. It's always the same. I don't like some of Ruff's line match ups and decisions on who plays and with who but that's nuance not even worth bothering with given the above core problem. Greenway tried to be physical at least. There was that.

Should have trade him this summer.

Sometimes it takes a while, but except for when he plays with Dahlin, Byram seems to have that effect on all his partners.

Both?

And maybe scallops will fly out of me underpants

I don't agree. The goalies are average at best. BUT the turnovers are egregious

You sure about that? 23-24 PP% 16.6% 29th ranked - horrendously bad 22-23 PP% 23.4% 9th ranked - good 21-22 PP% 21.2% 16th ranked - average And that "good" year was the year that they had the best PP in the league by far for about 6 weeks, when people hadn't figured out Dahlin -> Thompson -> Blast -> (hopefully a) Goal was the ONLY trick they had in that bag. They were well over 30% in that stretch (IIRC it was over 35% then, but would have to look at more granualar data to verify that). Take that stretch out and they're as mediocre/bad as the other years.

Just take a look at the Arizona Coyotes. Once the laughingstock of the NHL. Something jolted them and suddenly they look like a competent team. We all know what that jolt was.

Pretty sure that would be goalie interference

Just the fact so many goals we allow come off of turnovers should tell you everything. Better goalie? How about fewer mistakes?

3 points out of last overall we can do it!

Have to agree with this. This is as much UPL’s fault as it was Ellis’s fault last game. Funny how we view ourself in goalie purgatory. Not a single one of them can just be an “average” goalie. That says more about the team in front of them than the goalies themselves.

Never has the future outlook of this team looked so bleak. The owner needs to sell. The new owner needs to fire everyone including the intern who fetches the morning coffee for the staff. They will have to rip them entire thing down and rebuild. This team as constructed now is a millions miles from being an 8th seed type of team.

Your 2025/26 Buffalo Sabres!

0 SOG Norris Malenstyn McLeod Östlund 1 SOG Quinn Doan Samuelson

Worked out in the Sabres favor, but yeah, the review process for offside plays is seriously flawed. Thing is, if they adjusted the review procedure to ONLY overturn OBVIOUS errors by doing something like only giving 30-60 seconds for the review and the play can only be slowed to 50% speed at MOST, we'd probably see leaguewide goal scoring go up (even more than just the now non-called back goals) because linesmen will be more willing to err on the side of letting a close play go rather than calling it back because a guy MIGHT have been in early.