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I can not predict how the Oilers will respond. They've been inconsistent.

Bob was making saves but giving up tons of rebounds, Oilers had no traffic. Tkachuk goal was a perfect example of the impact of traffic .

FLA looking dominant. If they hold on, who gets the MVP? Marchand Bennett

Where's all my Reinhart is soft and can't skate ppl at? Come on, it's okay, this is a safe space.

1 season, maybe 2. Maybe 2. That’s how much more losing Tage will take before he asks to be traded.

Miller/Lucic is my choice for the most overwrought and irrelevant Sabrespace meme. There is one player in the entire NHL from that team. It has about as much impact on the current players and their psyche as Darcy Regier's tie. Yet here it is, still chewing on people's neurons. By all means, punt Samuelsson into the sun and curse Adams for having Power and Kulich on the ice at the same time. But please, let this one go.

I haven't been thrilled with Edmonton for quite a bit of this series. But if you swap goalies I think at worst it's 3-2 Edmonton into tonight, if not closed out 4-1. Edit: word, goalies

Yup, soft, barely any talent, no goalie, washed up coach, and terrible management. I don’t know why i am surprised anymore.

That and the palm trees presser made me aggressively angry at this org. I've lost all trust in Terry Pegula ability to do anything other than age. I wish no ill will, but.... I do hope he ages comfortably yet expeditiously and stays home...for forever.

That's a goal any goalie would want back.

Right? Announcer is saying Ekholm, and he certainly botched it, but that was a tough goal from SR. And as I type this,Jeff Skinner has a strong shift in his own end. Crazy.

I still remember where I was when I watched that game. Me and my friend were in silent disbelief. They were labeled soft from that point forward and never shook it.

Rhino what a sick goal!

SAMMY!!

Great shift from Skinner. Wow. A couple of key moments keeping the puck in.

This is an interesting topic. I have a mixed response. Having grown up in Buffalo, when it comes to the Bills and Sabres, it's all about the product on the field/ice. I don't care at all about the rest of the entertainment experience (provided I can do the simple things like get a beer or take a leak during the game without missing 30% of the game waiting in line). I always arrive prior to kickoff/puck drop and stay until the game is over, regardless of the score. Even in a blowout, it's interesting to me to see how the backup QB performs or if the rookie winger scores a goal. That said, I have lived outside of Buffalo for quite some time now and have lived in big cities with most/all of the major pro sports teams. I have no interest in season tickets, but frequently come across tickets to games. For those games, I'm just as interested in the food, entertainment, music, betting, cheerleaders, and hanging out with the people I'm at the game with, etc. (or more) than the game itself. I have no problem arriving late or leaving early. For example, I went to an Arizona Cardinals-New Orleans Saints game. I really didn't care who won the game, but made a small internet wager on the game, just for fun. Whether I won my bet was more interesting to me than the game itself. Having a comfortable seat was important to me. If I'm at a Bills game, I hardly use the seat. I've been to NFL, NHL, NBA, and MLB games around the country and enjoy the event as a whole, but usually don't really care who wins. Every been to a mid-season NBA game? They're snoozers until the last 5 minutes. Or a MLB game before the pennant races start heating up? I find it hard to focus too much prior to the 8th or 9th inning. Over the years, I've turned down many free NFL tickets (mostly Cardinals and Bears) so I could watch the Bills on TV. I'm just not invested in those teams, yet don't want to miss a minute of Bills action. The tailgate/pregame (and/or postgame) is often more interesting to me than the game itself.

For the purposes of this conversation, if there was an example in the sport of hockey to look around to your teammates and go "WTF GUY'S", the moment where you have to watch your own replay of being laid out because you don't even remember it, and all your teammates are just fingering themselves in circles is probably as good as an example as any. But at scale, we've had player issues, but more often than not players have been put into positions to fail or be middling compared rather than positions to succeed. Which was the base of my point of earlier. Like we can't even get reasonable production from a bottom 6 player like Rodriguez, whose playing in his second Stanley Cup Final, because we require him to be a top 6 forward. A position he's "meh" at.

Lets not pretend like the Bruins under the Jacobs and the Sabres under Pegula are even remotely comparable.

If we stay at 9 I'm wishing for Carter Bear but ultimately hope it's traded for a proven player.

When you have the talent to succeed but continuously make excuses and have no accountability eventually you end up having to look in the mirror. You can blame everyone else, but at the end of the day, they are the ones on the ice not getting it done. In life you can either make excuses or get results, never both. All the players on this team have done is make excuses.

But if the last game in FLA is any indicator of how tonight's game will go; drinking a shot when the SC is shown or mentioned during the broadcast will leave one significantly more sober than they'd be if they drink one every time Travis and Taylor Swift are shown/mentioned. Is there NO media at all that those 2 don't polute?

Ah, further back. Agree with Sam. I always thought they worked to keep Jack, but were unsuccessful, and ROR was more about the Sabres wanting to dump him than the other way around. But that entire COViD team was largely them happily sending those players out the door: McCabe, Montour, Hall, Risto, Staal… I guess they tried on Ullmark. Curious what will come out of the Peterka situation once the dust settles as to the whys and the spin. But all that really matters to me is the result.

The game I knew Mattias Samuelsson had no place on my team.

Adams doesn’t want to know because he might have to tell Terry that he’s the problem and Adams is all about self-preservation. It’s easier to just say they don’t want to be here because what can you do? They’ve made up their mind they want to leave.

Because they don’t have a history of refusing to spend when the team isn’t making it.