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Rewatch, if you have a strong stomach, the 1st 15 minutes of the game. If you honestly believe UPL would've come out of that stretch only down 1-0, would like to have a discussion about a bridge that's available for reasonable payments. UPL wouldn't have stopped the 1st shot high to the glove, nor would he have survived the entire 3 shot flurry a bit later in the period. Plus the 1st goal against, that's 3-0 at a minimum. Down 3-0 to start, the Sabres don't come away with even the loser point. Personally, thought he should've been able to keep the 2nd goal out of the net. Yeah, he's getting screened, but if his stick is on the ice, that doesn't get through the 5-hole. After the turnover leading to the 1st goal, he didn't have much of a chance at all. Nothing he can do about a deflection from 3' out of the paint without a ton of luck. And can't fault him for a backdoor tip in off a puck coming from where it started either. That last one, Power has to get to the guy's stick sooner than he does.

Definitely not good enough. But also only 2 points off the pace they need to maintain. Now they have to make up those two points over the next 10 games. Gotta get at least 14 points or else the deficit will grow.

I thought Lyon was very UPL like last night. They can win with either, they can lose with either. Just my opinion.

You do realize of course that were Worthy a Bill he'd be used almost exclusively for Jet Sweeps and WR Screens. Curtis Samuel and Elijah Moore are both very quick. Neither is used to stretch the field at all. Maybe they were saving those routes for this week now that the "tough" part of the schedule is coming up; but won't expect it until we actually see them run deep routes.

They don't "always" look that way. This game ebbed and flowed, with Columbus having the edge early and late. The Sabres were dominant in the middle. I don't think he sees the game as well as others like Benson.

They need to avoid THREE straight losses. They did it once and have nearly overcome that. They can't repeatedly do it. The game tomorrow in Beantown is huge. Need to win that in regulation. No UPL please.

Is it okay to say the Sabres “won” that trade? … not sure of the rules anymore.

FTFY. And, yes, both Dallas and Calgary will say they won that trade.

pretty similar spot - they need to avoid 13 straight losses and they'll be right in the mix. Put a few streaks together of good hockey and they can make it.

This is the first time I’m hearing about this

This is about as good a descriptor as I have seen for why I don’t have confidence in Tage Thompson as a featured player. He just doesn’t strike me as a guy that is as good as the other guys that are around him, points-wise.

He does it all the time, and not just for shots. For as skilled as Tage is, I think he’s a terrible hockey player. He’s a shinny(shinnie?) all-star.

Not a word.

Speed, speed, and more speed. You can’t teach it. Worthy turns short passes into big gains. We also runs reverses effectively. He is outproducing Coleman. A team that needs help at WR, and more team speed in general, passed on the fastest guy in the draft. Worse, they traded the pick to their nemesis.

Minor nitpicking, but you can't patent math. I'm going to assume we're talking about some kind of novel mathematical method as a tool. Source: software engineer with patents that I would argue are fundamentally "math" but the Patent Office would argue otherwise.

The Titanic started to turn the corner. The Sabres needed to be steaming safely to harbor right from opening night. Not ready for the season, not ready for games... unbelievable. But lots of time left. We shall see. Happy Segmentarian Day.

Dodgers may be the better team on paper, but they sure as hell don't look like it. Jays have been the better team on the field through 4 games.

They’ve put 1 of the last 7 games into the loss column. If they can continue to keep games out of there, they’ll be in good shape. Call it the islanders approach.

Positives: - Legit victories that weren't just flukey bounces and legitimate 50+ minute efforts - Doan and Benson have helped drag some borderline players into the net front battle crew - Goaltending, minus UPL, has been solid - After an atrocious 0-3 to start the year we've bounced back with 4-1-2 including a shutout of the defending champs (yes I know they are banged up) - Timmons has been a hugely positive impact on the defensive play who brings what we had all hoped Clifton might bring (Clifton would get too hit happy and try to jump into offensive plays too much for a defensive stalwart) - Muel has reverted to the guy we all loved when he came up from Rochester Negatives: - Thompson has had a rough start to the year, thankfully he seems to be getting shots so its not 911 emergency levels - 4-4-2 is Average as a record, technically 5-3-2 is the bare minimum for a playoff pace when broken down to 10 game segments with 2 bonus games - OT looks impotent - UPL came back early, then arguably lost us the Toronto game - Team still has a tendency to go into lulls where 3/4th the team plays on power saving mode - Injuries have yet again stabbed this team in the side; losing Norris in 1 game plus Dansforth and Kozak who have given solid depth hurt this team as a whole ???: - Power has played better as a whole with Timmons as his partner but still fails far to often when physical prowess/size is needed - Dahlin's started ok; he looks somewhat distracted and or distant (honestly for understandable reasons) but is still a Top 4 D man with this handicap - AHL call-ups have been a mixed bag, happy Dunne scored though

DeLuca .500?

There deffo were glimpses of the above-describrled going on Quinn is starting to put it together IMO BUT, there were also glimpses of the "same old, same old" Maybe they're starting to turn the corner???

Shaq already named him Koshack.

It sure felt that way

You mean Columbus crawled back, and on the road too. Sabres blew 2-1 and 3-2 leads. The Sabres gave up goals with 16 seconds left in the 2nd, and 6 minutes left in the game. They failed to muster any scoring chances against the worst PK the league.