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It would be quite a game if Bettman had allowed the Sabres to acquire McDavid in his draft year. Instead, he wants to Lumbergh us.

Glad I didn't stay up for this one.

How does he expect these players to develop a chemistry with the constant changes? I assume Benson was supposed to be on the top line, so when he wasn’t available, they wanted to keep the 2nd and 3rd lines intact and pulled Krebs from the 4th line? Then it wasn’t long before they scrapped that and started mixing and matching again. It was only the first game, but I saw nothing to get excited about, except for maybe the interest in getting physical. I got bored with the game and started surfing on my iPad. The new special teams coach didn’t make an impact.

Whelp, so much for Norris being a big part of this offense.

Hmm, I think he might have been both. But I'll give it to Jerry until evidence it's someone else. Mrtka is tall and skates well, that's a Forton wet dream.

Sabres doing us a favor and not giving anyone any false hope by winning a few games at the start of the season.

Including pre-season, have the Sabres won a single game while Zach Benson has been out of the lineup?

What a great night. The Phillies get knocked out on an all-time game ending playoff blunder, and the Eagles lose to the underdog Giants. 🎉

This isn’t a very competitive roster even if fully healthy. It’s constructed for the sole purpose of just squeezing into the playoffs. Our biggest contract worry is a second liner. We have a sub .900 starting goalie We are banking on two guys (Benson and Quinn) who haven’t produced a lot. Our 1C is made of glass his whole young career. We have two literal giant softies on defense.

We will be buried by thanksgiving…. Yet again.

That’s a “last place in the division” roster. How could we have this many top picks and not have a quality center spine? The incompetence is astounding.

2/3 of our first line didn’t drink enough milk this week. So are we looking at?: Zucker McLeod Thompson Quinn Kulich Tuch TBD Krebs Doan Malenstyn TBD Danforth

The good news - Detroit looks like crap. The bad news - Montreal and to a lesser extent Ottawa both look like they are the same if not better than last year. Tampa has a Rempe. Where are all these 6'9" guys coming from?

Injuries will be this year's excuse.

Any softer and he'd be spreadable GD IT!!!! I effing HATE adams!!!!

Yet the Bandits lacrosse team keeps on winning the traditional Native American game there. 🤔

It goes back to, "why was Ottawa willing to deal a 2C with the playoffs looming"? Simple, they needed someone they could rely on in the playoffs. Can they rely on Cozens? TBD, though he was definitely on the ice for some bad goals against in their series last year. Maybe he can learn (maybe they'll move him to the wing). But at least he was there in the playoffs and durable. Heck, Norris was already injured when they traded him.

The good news is we got him thru 2030 at 8 million a year. Maybe 1 of those 5 seasons he can stay on the ice.

Norris picked the wrong sport to pursue. He’s not tough enough for the rigors of NHL hockey, imo. Adams knew his history. Took a chance on him. Lost.

No, as @pastajoe said it harkens back tot he classic days when they were good. I have said before I'd update it to the Dave Edmunds Love Sculpture electric guitar version (which rocks) but even this version is nice to hear. The team however, does not in any way resemble the classic era teams. This team shows more energy and emotion in their opening line up call than they do on the ice. Exactly, and Rob Ray with his usual post game loser talk "lots of good things in this one" . Man that's a tired and stupid refrain when they lose.

This team needed Norris to be the very best version of himself, and he is quite good when he actually plays, to make a legit run at the playoffs. If he's out long term (spoiler: he will be, if not now...soon), this team is going nowhere. Again. Because our oxygen thief of a gm looked at last year's team and said "oh yeah, let's run it back!" Cleveland Clowns, but it's an exclusive club.

Couldn’t watch it live. Just finished watching the delayed recording. Thought we came out with opening night first game jits against a Ranger team that was past that in their second game. Came out in the 2nd and dominated the period but couldn’t score against a hot goalie. Not many rebound opportunities. Too many shots off the net with no chance of scoring. Reminded me of last season. Liked Krebs fighting for position at the net. Liked Zucker getting physical at the net. Hope to see more of that. PP movement was good. Telegraph their shots from the bottom of the circles. Made it too easy for Shestrrkin. Gave the fans one good period in the 2nd and a glimpse of what to expect this season. Fast dominant hockey.

When your power play gets booed in GAME ONE, you might have been sucking for too long.