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Tua levels of player mismanagement. These are human beings. FFS.

If the Sabres were serious about this 3 goalie rotation they'd give each goalie 1 period a game.

Was it a mistake to trade Jonas Johansson? Why couldn't Devin Cooley make his transformation to NHL backup 2 years ago? Can Georgiev come back? What's Cal Petersen up to these days?

Philip Rivers 44yr Grandfather coming out of retirement to play QB for the Colts.

He's young. He'll be fine.

Lyon or Ellis ?

Interesting chart from Micah McCurdy today. UPL and Ellis solidly bottom left. As in, facing fewer expected goals but giving up more goals on high danger chances anyway. Lyon in the middle. More expected goals faced but allowing fewer goals on high danger chances. Anyway, there's not much going on in the Sabres goalie pool that is any good. So I don't know why they're bothering to keep three at this point.

What happened here?

Nashville is hosting Colorado tonight. Maybe ROR wins them the game in OT? Anyway, if Nashville were somehow able to defeat Colorado tonight and the Sabres lose tonight... Then the loser of Thursday's game in Vancouver would be for last place in the NHL.

Could you imagine being a business and needing to adjust your plans.

Last year when Cozens was traded it seemed like there was mourning over his departure. Do it again, not for the heck of it, but reinforce the message. I'd never trade Dahlin (unless of course, he "didn't want to be here") but move Thompson out. Pegula ain't selling the team, nor is Adams getting fired. Even Ruff isn't going anywhere because the GM can't fire people without authorization and the job is so unattractive professionally speaking.

That’s definitely very NHL

DeBoer would be a choice I would jump up and down for simply because it was not coming from this incestuous cesspool of misery and failure... but like you I think the best we get is Keko and Appert and more failure as we watch players demand trades and all we get are picks and prospects.... I will say this.. please dont fire Lindy before Adams... I do not want Adams to make another coaching choice... then again its probably Pegula making the picks...

DeBoer is out there. Maybe they make a coaching change soon but I doubt it since the plan was Lindy for 2 years and then Appert.

The reasonable position to take would be that the Iggles keep the ball and continue that 2nd possession of the OT. However, technically, it is the 4th possession of OT and because the Bolts had the lead, the game should be over. Would be quite surprised if the league thought that far through their new OT rules, and considering they've already ignored a clear rule in a playoff game and allowed the backup refs to overturn the actual refs in said playoff game; expect that the league would ask itself "what would Taylor Swift want done here" and then act accordingly.

Maybe not as earth shattering as some of you would like, but can we please trade Owen Power, and send UPL down to Rochester. We're not going to get better defensively with these two have a serious role for us.

Yes, or you are not human.

Today is the day.. they can establish a new lowest point in franchise history. It's important to have goals, in this case the good news is that the Sabres can achieve them without having to actually score goals.

There is no reason to keep 3 goalies. UPL has not been good. Ellis has not been good. Pick one and move on. Also start Lyon, the season went to hell when Ruff or Adams or whomever decided that UPL and Ellis needed 9 out of every 10 starts.

I'll have to hammer the Oilers ML tonight. Not great odds but still it's nearly an automatic win for the Oil. The Sabres suck and they're not sweeping Edmonton this season.

For those of you clamoring for Don Granato or another Sabres coach... lets examine what the league thinks of them Granato - not employed in the NHL, nor as a coach anywhere he does part time analysis on Sirius XM Housley - Not in the NHL or in coaching Kreuger - nothing listed for current employment Bottom line, not one recent coach even has a job in the NHL anymore... Granato and Kruger didnt even get a look, Housley was fired twice as an assistant in a few years and is out of the league... Ruff is clearly not all that and I believe when he is fired the inevitable will be he is out of the NHL as well... this is not a referendum on these men... but it is an observation that NHL execs certainly are not clamoring to give these guys a job... like any job... Ruff in his day was very good... but he is out of touch I believe and just looks plain old tired... like I cant fix this... please fire me soon... Bottom line Adams coaching hires (or Pegula's I am not sure) are uninspired, lack competence and are clearly not in demand for literally any job in this league... Is Muckler still alive? I know Scottie lives in Williamsville still on the transit Valley golf course... maybe he can coach via zoom call like we do our scouting...

The Sabres have lost 13 games by giving up 4 or more goals. They only have 2 games where they scored 6 or more so that's not really inflating their totals much. You are arguing that without a player like Peterka we simply are not scoring enough. We are scoring enough, but we cannot and have not for years been able to stop other teams. We needed a 20% reduction in goals against to make the playoffs, right now we are on pace for 291 goals against, 2 more than the 29th worst Buffalo Sabres were last year. TBF I ran the numbers the other way as well, we are running at a 249goal pace which is 20g less than last year. So Buffalo is actually worse at allowing goals (because the goaltending is ATROCIOUS) and they aren't scoring as much as last year. Half of the Eastern Conf playoff teams last year were close to 249goals (252, 242, 245, 243) but 0 of them were anywhere near 289ga. The closest was Montreal at 265ga and no other playoff team in the East was over 234ga.

My give a crp meter is also low but I’ll watch them all and hope the cavalry is coming to save this franchise.

He still (or back to being) on McDavid's line?

Seriously, does anyone even care at this point? Injuries don't matter anymore. Every single solitary aspect of this organization is beyond terrible. Face it, there is no fixing this team. I would LOVE to know out of the now 15 years they have missed the playoffs, how many times were they 8 points or more out of 8th before January even started. Defense - Awful Top 6 - Awful Coaching - Awful Goaltending - Worst in the league GM - Beyond awful Owner - Absentee landlord