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***** Brandon Beane. All my homies hate Brandon Beane. Josh has nobody. A lot of that is McDermotts fault, who should have been kicked to the curb after 13 seconds.

They can have success between the tackles. It's a lot easier to run block than pass block.

Cook also is missing two starting tackles; it's not just Allen.

They're going to jump the routes all day because they know the ball has to be out fast, and there's no threat on the outside. If Cook cant get rolling, it's going to be a long day.

JA with a brutal pick.

Will likely show all game long unfortunately.

I did. I live in panthers country. Went to some playoff games.

Both starting tackles out shows on the first series.

Coleman playing today. Out of the doghouse. Chance to redeem himself.

Big game. Should be a good one. Need Josh to be accurate today. O-Line decimated. He will be scrambling. Go Bills! Josh 130th consecutive start! Wow.

Don’t know the answer to that question @Pimlach.

It speaks volumes about why we're so bad, 2 high end talented players on the entire roster after missing the playoffs 14 seasons in a row and no goalie at all to speak about. I have very little hope at all that the Sabres will ever turn this around and will most likely come by accident somehow.

Usually the games are shown on The CW

Sabres have the 10th best 5 on 5 high danger shot attempts against and 9th best medium danger. That's pretty good D.

I'm still going to swim against the tide and say the real problem isn't the goalies, it's the team D. Good D makes mediocre goalies into good goalies. We have mediocre goalies but bad D. When you have good D the goalies play braver, worry less about rebound control, have better sight lines, and less traffic in front. They suddenly look like better goalies in that sort of system/team. There are exceptions, but we aren't going to get an acrobat like Hasek again. We need better D.

It's absolutely impossible to evaluate this team with Norris as part of it since he hasn't played more than a few minutes. The biggest problem is still the D. They need another big guy who plays at least like Samuelsson is playing this year. If I'm the GM I'm trading whatever flashy forwards I need to to get that. Ideally, trading Norris, but I imagine that's impossible.

Cozens, Quinn, Nylander, Ristolainen, Mitts, and Savoie were all top 10 picks in this era. Not a lot to show for those picks. (Mrtka is a new draftee) Our top 1st and 2nd overall picks Eichel and Reinhart are great but traded away. Dahlin is great, but Power sucks. The only second rd picks to make an impact are JJP (traded away), UPL and Samuelsson. That’s all we have so far for 18 2nd rd picks and UPL stinks as well. Our other 1sts are still developing or made little impact with the Sabres such as Johnson, Zadorov, Östlund, Rosen, Kulich (out with blood clots), Benson, and Helenius. I like some of these players, but none are elite. Our top 2 players outside of Dahlin were both former 1st rd picks acquired in trade in Tage and Tuch. Both are 1st line players, but neither is truly elite. That’s not a lot to show for 15 years of bad play.

Still a lot of under utilized water courses in Canada. NIMBY has been the stumbling block of many generation projects, whether they are Hydro, Wind, Gas, Nuclear, Solar. Everyone wants the power, no one wants the responsibility of dealing with flooding, mercury, birds, aesthetics, greenhouse gases, waste with extremely long half lives etc… Ontario is around 50% nuclear generation and it has been pretty reliable. I know little about these huge data servers but don’t they also perform better and use less power in a cold environment?

Elite talent should have found its way onto this team by drafting top 10 for like 15 years including 2x #1 and 2x #2. The return for some elite talent that left was below elite. As you state, management is the constant through all of this.

I think it's very evident and becoming more clear every game. Not sure why so many were in denial the last 4-5 seasons...maybe all the hype and hope on the youth movement. This team has only one top six CURRENTLY IMHO. TNT and he even needs superior talent along side for that to be true. Sure Benson, Quinn will eventually be at that level eventually, but not now.

Yeah, Östlund is gonna be a good one. He is definitely in the Sabres' future plans.

Balance may have been the deciding factor. For all the floating Tuch did, his line had the highest xGF and their XGA suffered only bc of the egregious giveaway by Tuch leading to a goal by Boldy. The First line with two kids and Tage got dominated when playing against Kaprizov/Yurov/Zuccarella, and their XGF/XGA and Corsi bears that out. But the newly constructed Third line with Doan/Östlund/Tuch seemed to pick up the slack. It seems Minnesotas scouting saw the McLeod line has been high scoring as of late, so they tried to match up defensively to shut them down, and they did for the most part. That lines Corsi was 21%. Abysmal. Curious if Ruff tweaks it with two games of subpar performance and the possibility of Norris coming back into the mix next week. I think this confirms that Östlund can play center at this level, especially if he has two veteran wingers to support him. He probably goes back to Roch when Norris comes back as Taro noted earlier but his play and those silky mitts on the game winner makes me think his development is going well.

Is the power harvested from Niagara Falls maxed out?

amazing accomplishment. w/ 50% teams making the playoffs yearly . thats a 1/1000000000000000000000000 chance

Wide shots get 0xgf because they miss the net. I'd guess the Sabres sh% isn't very good. Xgf% is not accounting for sh% and most models don't account for screens or pre shot movement. It's not a perfect stat but my guess is Buffalo has a sh% issue that theoretically will improve.