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Another GM, a real GM would. But one beholden to “their” contracts will not. Just think what it would be like to have Rasmus Andersson on this squad at $4.5 instead of Power. A more mature player at half the salary. Your implication is our hate for Samuelson is past tense. Mine is still there, it’s just on airplane mode. Let’s see how long the flight is before I reconnect.

That outcome was predictable. One team was skating hard and winning puck battles while the other seemed content with playing for OT. As soon as this team starts building any kind of momentum they just piss it all away. These are the kinds of losses that you look back at as the reason why we can't get to the playoffs.

There he goes

Just for reference this is the Sabres record thru 10 games 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

4-5-1 9 points

if you want to be optimistic, they have a .716 winning percentage over the last 7 games need to come out mad in the next game and take both points

I'd like to revise my earlier response. Given what I've seen over the last 2 games, no this team isn't real yet. Good team find away to win with leads in the 3rd period.

Great line, good for him

How do you think Power will do in the playoffs?

Playoffs we’re talking playoffs?

Because they don’t exist. A guy who doesn’t want to be in a city doesn’t sign an 8 year contract to stay in that city. Common sense 101

I was just about to respond with the following before you clarified

Ok the last part was a lie

Does playoff psyhicality mean avoiding contact even though you're bigger than 98% of the forwards you go up against?

This…. This sissy, is the only child with the nice toys, so ya let him play because he has the nets….. no hunger! …. How can this not be obvious! The kids from the factory side o town slap him shitless … We have had too many playing like sweat is frightening for years …. Get Power and anybody else who is afraid of germs the hell outta here! … I will pay the balance of his contract. ….

14 years definitely makes me more surly. If this was year 2 or 3 of a rebuild these kinds of losses are much more palatable. Hell, as recently as two seasons ago, I was still holding out hope we were finally clawing our way back to being a good team. I was extremely optimistic after 2022/23. Honestly, I think the lazy Lindy hire last year set me totally adrift. I love Lindy for what he did here his first go round, but NOTHING he had achieved since leaving Buffalo indicated he was the guy to guide this team out of the muck. It was just another half-measure by a GM whose entire tenure has been marred by not doing enough.

Haha just a classic childish, no nuance comment.

Power just needs to go, another gentle giant who gets beat to a lot of pucks.

Back to back games leading under 6 mins in the game and we lost both....when is the party?

They just pissed away points in back to back games where doing so was simply inexcusable. Blowing those games late was bad enough, going full Yakety Sax in the OT made it even worse.

How many of you would trust Owen Power to handle the physicality of playoff hockey? Because if you don't, he needs to be traded.

That was an exciting game. Power makes infuriatingly soft plays on the regular but also makes quite a few nice plays. Dahlin looks distracted, understandably enough, but in any case is nowhere near his best. Quinn and Östlund were really bad to start the game but hung in there and had a number of nice shifts as the game went on. I think though they are both too soft to play with each other. I'd like to see Östlund with Doan and Tuch and McLeod with Quinn and Zucker. Kulich is out of his depth on the top line. Lyon was sturdy for the most part but the 2nd goal, from the blue line, was lousy, and the 3rd one wasn't great either albeit deflected. Still: they are 2 under .500, with 2 consecutive losses, and they need to get some wins.

Yeah, I wasn’t talking about the humorous posts. I’m talking about the burn it all down posts after grinding out a point against a solid team after a slow start. Especially when we all know that those same people were excited and starting to get more into the season 10 minutes earlier when the game was going our way.

Guilty.