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This post confuses me. We already know that A. Dahlin will start on the right side of the top pairing and B. That Byram will be his linemate. They literally don't need a new rhd on every line or I guess you dislike Kesselring and Timmins. They are new and better defensively than the players they replaced. The D lacks experience, I'll agree there.

Does Kesselring alone make this a better overall D? I find it hard to believe. So Who is playing with Dahlin? Samuelsson? The d is still complete lacking. They needed a new RHD who has a strong defensive game on every line. Now we’ll almost be banking on Levi to be the savior in goal once again.

Novikov looked solid, Komarov was very much in command, although he was the weak link on the PP. Very impressed with Mrtka: assertive at both ends.

Wasn't paying close attention but Östlund had a couple of great scoring chances that he was unable to bury.

Östlund frequently has the puck, or is always around it. He was the team’s best two-way forward. Wahlberg was a bit in and out, but there were some puck protections, takeaways and board work that looked very good.

The Sabres may have no reason for hope, but Soup is above reproach.

Yes, you said fans want to hope after providing 10 reasons they shouldn't have any. Clearly you were taking the tenor of @dudacek's original post to heart.

Rosen made one terrific goalmouth play that should have been buried but just didn’t have the puck much, or much impact on the game. Helenius was better, and more involved, but again not much in the way of playmaking.

From the lesser lights: Bedkowski and Brunet were each directly responsible for goals against and were the weak links back there. Laberge is a terrific skater, kinda like a bigger Bryson. Kopf, Savage and Fiddler-Schultz lack skill. Kucharcik looked big and smart

They’ve finally addressed strength conditioning. They now seem to understand you need 200’ players. i expect Tage’s 200’ game to improve considerably and lead by example. Goalie’s will improve with a better team D. Not claiming playoffs but turning a corner to look like a balanced team. That’s my hopium.

First time, I’d ever watched Leinonen play a full game. He sure looks the part. Marty picked apart a few details, but to my less-educated eye he looked athletic controlled and massive. The goals werent his fault and he made some big saves. It was a good first impression.

But easier, much easier to build a team.

We can only hope.

Well they are in the exact same spot we are except it’s harder to make the playoffs in the nfl. They will also turn it around eventually

Well one would hope so - he’s a top 10 pick. He’s supposed to be good at the very least if we aren’t going to trade the pick - that’s the expected trade off for sacrificing time

The Jets haven’t.

They won’t be bad forever Even the Lions turned it around

I'd give him another year in junior and then ahl or find an ncaa team. Then 2 years there. Mrtka as others have noted is going for his class with a June bday. He honestly might be better than Owen Power in the end. Sabres need to prioritize forward for a couple of drafts. Their forward prospect list is not great and it keeps getting weaker.

I agree. He has a sky is the limit type potential to him. But if he doesn’t pop he still looks like he will end up a Myers like dman which is an asset to the backend. JUST DON’T RUSH HIM!!

This is 100x better than listening to Collingsworth: It's the wgr radio call of the last 25 minutes (last 5min of game time) from Bills Ravens. It covers Palmers catch inside the 10 to the end of the game. So just before made it 32 to 40.

Many of the Sabres players really like soup.

I'm hearing it may or may not rain. It probably will.

They didn’t stand out like they should have.

Unless it was UPL version 23.24 he was not going to help. I agree that the hope was a bounce back season and it is possible for him to play some good hockey this year and help the team. Maybe this all accelerates the move away from him. A real battle between 4 goalies could have someone emerge as a decent option, which wasn’t the case last year until Reimer played well when it didn’t matter.