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This game featured every fear I had for this team: bad goaltending, bad defense and bad special teams. Not much looks to have changed in Sabreland.

Wasn't Korab playing as a forward when we got him from Chicago? Big heavy player really came into his own as a Sabre. Mean too. In more recent times Dustin Byfuglien reminded me of King Kong Korab. And wasn't it Rick Dudley that wanted him back on defense for Winnipeg? I think so but I might be remembering it wrong. If it was, maybe he was thinking of Korab as well. We don't need a Bryson. We could really use a Korab.

I'm waiting for the regular season for that but yes, so far he is near invisible much like last year.

He did stay at Michigan for a year after being drafted.

Peterka will continue to produce. Quinn, I have major doubts about.

This thinking is why the team stinks every year. Up and coming youngsters like Samuelsson, Power, and Cozens get paid but not proven players like Reinhart and Tuch. They can forget about signing top end free agents.

I couldn't watch the game due to a late work meeting and getting my daughter to hockey. From the stats, and a couple of grainy highlights, it looks like we could have won this with actual NHL goaltending. Hopefully with UPL down, Lyon gets this job and keeps it.

Can we talk about how useless Quinn is?

Jerry Korab, had he developed with today’s modern training, would be an excellent top pairing defenseman today. Size, strength, great shot, offensive skills, defensive skills, and the ability to put fear into opponents and protect his teammates. He would get PP and PK minutes. Not to mention the great ‘stache and the fur coats. It’s actually insulting to mention him with Bryson.

Glad I’ve missed the past few preseason games. Sounds like they are rounding into mid season form.

I think it's called being a Buffalo Sabre.

30 minutes before the draft.

It's preseason, lets relax. lol

Common sense comes with life experience. The idea of observing your environment and being realistic about the times we live in should not be a foreign concept. Confusing those simple concepts with paranoia makes people soft targets for criminals. Same type of people who stare at their phones in public, think complete strangers value life as much as they do, and mix reality with what they want reality to be.

It’s sarcasm. He needed a year in the AHL. He would have to stayed in NCAA if the Sabres had a decent roster.

Norris surprised me. He is as advertised. But, as you said, he needs to stay healthy. I’m happy with Mrtka but he isn’t ready yet. Although, at the rate we are going, he might end up on the opening roster by virtue of being last man standing. How many pre-existing camp conditions can one team have?

Your post seemed to imply that it’s naive to approach a strange car at night. If that is mistaken, ok. But if not, then what I said has everything to do with your post in that there are ways of assessing situations to ascertain threat levels, etc. If you don’t agree that paranoia prevents us from being engaged, fine. And I didn’t equate common sense with paranoia in the least. That is your judgement alone. And while my comment about Trump and the right wing media had nothing to do with your post per se and you are free to ignore it, I stand by my comment nonetheless. He and his admin are fear mongers that want us to be paranoid of each other, that need us to be paranoid of each other.

Trying to stay optimistic It's not going too well GD WHY is THIS the team that I love???

The way he played tonight against Pittsburgh I'm down to 6 million tops 🙂

For those that are gluttons for punishment, Friday's rematch game will be on MSG local, so it should be on ESPN+ for the out of towners.

Well I finally got to see a preseason Sabres game. Not impressed overall. Norris is definitely better than Cozens was. If he stays healthy (which is the big IF) that's an upgrade and should lead to some goals for himself and Thompson. Mrtka is a real smooth skater and should develop into a good player but he's a running around rookie and if he is in the line up I doubt it goes well over this season. Tuch wants over 10 million (or at least people sat that)? He was a turnover machine. Let's just say he's getting the rust off and leave it at that. Dahlin had that impressive rush but we already know he's a star and nothing's changed there. The bottom 6 (really the bottom nine) did not impress in any way at all. For all the rhetoric and talk it looks pretty much the same. Not tougher, not more physical, not winning board battles. Same open ice and perimeter play and most of the time it results in nothing. Same same same. Maybe they are still in preseason mode and it'll be better once the season starts. It'll have to be. Rob Ray on the other hand was in full apology/excuse form. I guess that's the same too.

"Twas the witch of November come stealing"

Good thing we have that elite D group to project the goaltending. Power, Kesselring, Samuelsson, and Byram all hurt already. This franchise is truly cursed.

Didn’t they go something like 6-1 in preseason last year? How did that translate to the regular season?