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Like, oof.

I'm inclined to agree, I'm just not sure we're getting much for him. He must have a reputation as frequently injured at this point.

Benson was a Number 9. He voluntarily became Number 6.

OK, the Sabres had one win over what looked like a minor league goalie. Lets see how they fair in the next few games. We have not seen Kesselring with actual bullets flying. Doan has 12 career goals in 62 games over two seasons when he got here. Peterka averaged 22 goals per season in 3 seasons. Lets keep things in perspective. Peterka did not like playing for Lindy so he got out. Reports are that many young players don't like playing for Lindy. Reports are that players have no confidence in Adams ability to improve the team. There is nothing Peterka ever said or did to suggest he was bad for the team culture. He seems to care about his career and he made a business decision. I don't blame Eichel and Reinhart for wanting out, why should I blame Peterka? That said I am hopeful that Doan can be a good player. I saw his Dad playing out west quite a bit, and if the kid has that kind of heart and hustle he will help this team. He has yet to show a goal scoring touch but that could emerge. Right now he is trying to establish himself as a middle 6 winger and I view him as a diamond in the rough. I like that we received two promising pieces for Peterka, but we don't have to put down Peterka to like Doan.

I’d want to see a couple games from Ellis to see what we have there but UPL has an uphill battle to get the net back the one thing that is good is Lindy clearly showed last year that he doesn’t have faith in UPL, and he will ride the hot hand

I would trade UPL. Not because I have faith in Lyon being great forever or Ellis but I just think both are better than UPL. Maybe UPL will prove me wrong? Hope so.

Loved seeing them "out of position" that is how good power plays score goals. By moving and keeping the D having to pay attention to the players and the puck.

FLA is Saturday early. But get the sentiment. That'll be a great test. Yes, they're missing Barkov and Tkachuk but they have a lot of other talent on that roster. Do to them what Detroit did last night and maybe people start getting hope back.

Zach Benson is on pace for 316 assists this season. I say he does it.

This was a fun game to be at. Definitely a rollercoaster until it went to 7-4. Easily the best time I’ve had at a home Sabres game since the butt goal probably. There was still a ton a bad in the game, but Doan, Benson, and Lyon easily stole the show. Hopefully Kesselring has a serious impact on the D because it’s not good right now.

These are all salient points, but you know what? I'll take the goals any way they come. In seasons past I feel like whenever the Sabres came up against a goalie that was struggling, or a team with a stinky penalty kill, we made those goaltenders/faltering units looking elite. Hoping this lets the boys relax a bit and get some mojo flowing. Let's see what they can do against Florida tomorrow.

Kinda messed up Benson had to give up his number so Norris could wear it 4 times a year.

Ellis right now is a victim of the schedule, much like the backups were in October of last year. No back to back nights and the starter is playing well and is still fresh as the season has just begun. Had they not been 0-3, Eliis MIGHT've gotten the start last night. But the team was desperate, Lyon is looking ilke the Lyon that came in when Bobrovsky was unavailable, and he's not being asked to play on btb nights, and with it being the very beginning of the season, he's well rested. Would run Lyon for the most part through October unless the horseshoe falls out of his pants before then. Am in no rush to activate UPL, at best he gives us the goaltending Lyon is providing, and activating him forces a roster move to either 3 headed monster or Ellis back to the Blues organization. Will take November as it comes. Expecting even when UPL is back for Lyon to get 2 of every 3 or 3 of every 5 starts. It would be foolish to go away from him while he's hot. But won't expect him to stay hot into December. Would love to see it; but don't believe he's ever stayed hot for more than 2 months. Try to get Ellis a game before activating UPL, but don't believe they have a btb for at least another week and a half, so that may not be doable. It would be good to be able to keep him long enough to force St. Louis to keep him on their roster should they make a claim on him.

Way early... but early returns are he doesnt suck... can he withstand the #1 rigors at this level of play... time will tell... but so far, signing of the year for the Sabres.

Trust me, you’re not.

I'm falling behind @LGR4GM on my Dylan Cozens bashing? I guess I'm going to have to up my game a little bit. I'll throw another one out there...+/- is not a perfect stat, but it does indicate you are on the ice for more goals allowed than scored so it means something... During Dylan Cozens Time in Buffalo there have been double-digit positive forwards, like Alex Tuch and others. But Cozens was a negative player every single year in Buffalo. He was a negative player in his time in Ottawa last year. He was a negative player for them in the playoffs. He's a negative player this year by quite a bit. Basically he has never been anything but a negative player in any full season, partial season, season with a new team, playoff round... Ever... All the while he has teammates that were.

I get we got Ellis late and he still has to get accolated to the team but I'd hope he gets in sooner than later. As Lyon has been solid but not spectacular thus far which makes him a fine backup but if we're counting him on 50-60 games to me that's a mistake.

OR the Sabres got stupidly lucky on the PP against a team that's now given up 8 PP goals on 17 chances. Only the BJs have sucked worse giving up 7 of 14. 18 teams have given up 2 or fewer PP goals. The Otters have given up 8. Only 2 others have given up more than 4. Sometimes it's good to play a bad team. The Sabres 3 PP goals: Goal 1, Quinn misses the net by about 3 feet and the rebound off the glass hits the goalie in the back and goes in. Quite likely EXACTLY how Appert drew it up. Goal 2, Dahlin ends up below the goal line, Thompson literally against the RW boards, and Benson at the point. Benson saves the puck from getting out of the zone, sends puck low to Dahlin who sets up Zucker almost where he normally sets up but on the opposite side of the net. 2 for 2. Goal 3, point shot hits a defenseman's stick then bounces against Zucker's chest and has enough momentum to get into the net. 3 for 3. The 1st goal isn't going to happen again this year in all realistic likelihood. The 2nd goal SHOULD happen again, but what are the odds that Appert will intentionally have them out of position? Not very likely. And the 3rd goal should also happen again, and with Zucker being the guy at the netfront will happen again, but how long will it take for puckluck to give us a bounce like that again. Would absolulte love to see them start scoring 1-2 PP goals / game regularly. It would go a long way towards making this season successful. But have absolutely 0 belief in Appert.

Doan and Benson, combined for seven assists

Should Benson and Norris trade jersey numbers? Benson seems more like a 9.

There is no indication, other than fabricated internet rumors, that Adams had to worry about job security for one second.

As a person who played sports all throughout my childhood (never at a professional level) I'm very competetive and have been on the winning culture and losing culture and I can tell you the losing culture sucks. I can never root for purposely losing just to possibly get a player but there's nothing wrong with believing my team isn't good enough to be a playoff team therefore they might just be bad enough to land a once in a generation type of player all by themselves and not ever have to root for it. 😀

Its still early. Real early.

He 100% should be our starting goalie until he proves otherwise. This reminds me of the partial year when Bobrovsky was hurt and he was standing on his head to make it to the playoffs and he was a big part of that granted it's a much smaller sample size so far but looking like maybe the same situation? One could at least hope so but for right now he's earned it.

The crowd was into the game and had energy. Just goes to show that KBC could be a rocking place if you put a quality product on the ice.