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1 minute ago, shrader said:
And after one more year Tavares will be finding a new home.
That, or he'll take a major paycut to continue to get to wear his blue and white underoos.
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30 minutes ago, Doohickie said:
Dolphins getting paid back for last season's Heat Stroke Bowl. Karma's a bitch.
Hoping their idiot leader kept his "I wish it was colder" T-shirt. 'Cause, he's going to get his wish.
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18 minutes ago, steveoat87 said:
Keep Gabe Davis off the field. Draft a wide receiver in the early rounds next year, as well as a developmental quarterback.
Expecting you'll get your wish this week on that. He was in street clothes the 2nd 1/2 of yesterday's game. Messed up his knee.
They'll miss his blocking, but not his not being able to get onto the same page with Allen on which way to break a route. He and Josh not seeing eye to eye on 3rd down on that 1st drive kept the game much closer than it should've been.
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22 minutes ago, shrader said:
Well hey, the next bills-chiefs game is guaranteed to be in Buffalo.
The next 2 regular season ones definitely will be. Chefs and Bills have to take care of business next weekend to make the next playoff matchup get played in Buffalo too.
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2 SEED!!!!
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3 hours ago, Night Train said:
Supercalifragilistexpialidocious
Antidisestablishmentarianism. 😉
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3 hours ago, Buffalonill said:
Congratulations.
You guys will go to the Super bowl if you win tonight.
Congrats to your boys as well. Hopefully they kick the Pokes in the arse next week.
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9 minutes ago, Sabres Fan in NS said:
The Bills handled a full Fins team easily in week 4. Miami is not at full strength and may rest some guys since they are already in. They probably think the 2 seed would be better and play at home for sure.
If Miami loses where do they land in the WC? Does that depend on the Jags game?
The Bills are playing well and peaking nicely. As mentioned, they have been in playoff mode for at least 4 games and probably 6.
This game is theirs for the taking, but they better be ready.
I believe they will be ready and they will dominate.
38 - 17.
Pretty sure the Browns are locked into the 5 slot, so the Fishies would be either the 2 or the 6. A Bills loss or tie locks the Fishies into the 2. A Bills win drops the Fishies to 6.
A Bills win locks them into the 2. A Bills tie locks them into the 6. A Bills loss will put them in 8 or 7 depending upon whether the Jags won earlier this afternoon or not.
But, make it easy on themselves and just win this game like the "should." Then they'd host the Stillers if the Jags didn't win and they'd host the Eulers if the Jags did win.
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47 minutes ago, Sabres Fan in NS said:
Tuch was wearing an 'A' last night.
Are they going with 3 'A' with the Captain out? Or is Dahlin wearing a 'C'?
3 A's. And, as mentioned earlier, all 3 wearing an A scored a goal for them last night.
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10 minutes ago, Hawerchuk said:
Sorry late question here. I watched the game but didn’t have sound available. What was the call that gave Pittsburgh an immediate 5 on 3 powerplay? I Cant remember last time I’d seen a team get two different penalties simultaneously. And of course the Penguins score.
Girgensons got called for a slash along the boards on the puck carrier. Clifton got called for interference for a check he threw in the slot with the puck nowhere near.
10 minutes ago, Hawerchuk said:Sorry late question here. I watched the game but didn’t have sound available. What was the call that gave Pittsburgh an immediate 5 on 3 powerplay? I Cant remember last time I’d seen a team get two different penalties simultaneously. And of course the Penguins score.
Girgensons got called for a slash along the boards on the puck carrier. Clifton got called for interference for a check he threw in the slot with the puck nowhere near.
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13 minutes ago, K-9 said:
The net was empty, but it wasn’t an empty net goal. Almost a save by Jarry.
Good catch.
Yep. Dahlin will have to wait until Tuesday to get his next ENG.
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That might be the best hockey game they've been in since sometime middle of the year last year. Both teams were skating. Both got chances (the Pens for the most part better than the Sabres, but they both got chances). Both got big saves. Both were getting ridiculous penalties called on them (the refs were very fair, but they did call an awful lot of ticky tack penalties both ways).
It was a really fun game to watch.
For the 1st time ever, the Sabres have both Levi and UPL on their games. Let's hope both can sustain it. Levi played his best game of this year, and likely his best NHL game on Thursday in Moe-ray-all and UPL followed that up with his best game of the year, and likely his best NHL game ever.
The Sabres gave up a lot of chances, but UPL was up to the task and they did a reasonable job of clearing the relatively few rebounds out of high danger areas.
Once again, a really fun game to watch. Would like to have been there. And personally prefer that had one Pittsburgh team had to win and one lose tonight, wanted it to be this permutation of that finish. The Sabres took care of business today; let the Bills take care of business tomorrow (or let Tenessee bail them out; Tennessee sent them onto the 17 year drought, IF they need help, it would be appropriate for those SOBs to finalize removing the Home Run Throw Forward curse 😉 ).
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All 3 goals by the guys wearing A's tonight.
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4 minutes ago, Huckleberry said:
Lol is that not like his 6th empty netter this season ?
Pretty sure they said the Moe-ray-all one was his 3rd. So, that should be #4.
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They keep showing the IC Light sign as the puck moves out of the Sabres "shoot twice" end. Anybody else who grew up with the Old Vienna beer jingle hear "just say I.C., add an L, add an E, and you've got Lice" when you see that sign?
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30 minutes ago, DarthEbriate said:
Wow. You can win challenges.
Who knew?
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35 minutes ago, Weave said:
Crosby was not a tank effort. They won the lottery in a year we had the better odds.
Sabres had the same odds as the Pens had that year. They were 2 of the teams with 3 balls in the lottery; the Rags and BJs being the others.
Everybody else had 1 or 2 depending upon their results the past 3 seasons.
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5 minutes ago, Big Guava said:
If they are it would be a travesty comparable to them being an "experiment" to be the first team playing in London against a team who was there for 2 weeks to be acclimated to the time change.
Yeah, with the Bills and Fish having the last game of this weekend, you have to figure the winner will definitely get a Sunday game next weekend and the other one SHOULD get one also. (Presuming both are in the playoffs this year.)
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8 hours ago, dudacek said:
Patience?
You have to wonder about the coaching. Their lack of focus, connectivity and consistency is often the mark of an inexperienced team. It’s also the mark of a poorly-coached team.
I guess if you’re Adams and you believe Donnie still has the ear of the room, the leadership skills to get these players back on the rails, the technical chops to course-correct his system, and the balls to revamp his staff you can be patient.
I guess if you’re Pegula and you that believe Tuch, Thompson, Power, Dahlin, Cozens, Samuelsson and Levi are a legitimate contending core and worthy of the investments Adams has made in them, that he will eventually leverage his considerable depth of young talent into the proper supporting cast, and that his draft-and-develop policy is the correct path despite the bumps on the way, you can be patient.
Especially if you remind yourself that you wanted an attacking team and that Benson, Peterka, Quinn, Krebs, Johnson, Power, Levi and Luukkonen — more than a 3rd of your roster — has played less than 200 NHL games.
Really though, it’s about the core. If you like that group of players, you should be patient, because if they turn things around, the team will inevitably turn with them.
But if you don’t believe in the people and principles Adams believes in — the players and the culture he has chosen to be the pillars of his rebuild — then any patience is a waste of time.
Which is both sad and scary.
Sad because I actually liked this group in a way I never did the previous few. Scary, because it inevitably means another push of the reset button and three more years just to get back to where we were in September.
Right now, it's very much on inexperience and poor coaching. Tack on key players playing through injuries and it's a very rough combination. Personally expect that Granato does have the leadership to keep the team on the rails because if the team had the mindset of the fans they'd be the Sharks. There hasn't been any stretch where some momentum has built; they've never gotten on a roll and that is painfully frustrating. It's frustrating for those of us just watching it, it has to be maddening to be living it. But, except for when Levi was down in the minors, they've never been on a long losing streak. One 3 game streak (which followed a stretch of 7 points in 5 games) and less than a handful of 2 game losing streaks. Keeping the truly horrible losing streaks at bay, IMHO, is a sign that Granato hasn't lost the room.
But the PP being horrible for pretty much the entire season and their continued inability to win games at home both shout out that the coaching simply isn't good enough. Yeah, it was nice seeing them change up the PP; personally not convinced that wasn't more an accident than a plan and also not convinced that an actually reasonable PK unit would have all 4 defenders continue to focus on Thompson regardless of where he went which is what opened up the low cross ice passes. Would absolutely take 2 or 3 more games with 2 PP goals before teams realize the Sabres have adjusted, but not expecting 6 weeks of it again like we saw last year.
Don't know what to do about the home game woes. Expect that could come down to simply getting them out of the mindset of trying to put on a show at home. The transition game kills them at home; both too many turnovers leading to odd-man rushes and getting caught too deep with nobody covering leading to odd-man rushes. Both of which, if you aren't looking for the highlight reel play, maybe you don't go for the overly fancy play that blows up in your face. (And that's a significant oversimplification of what they're doing; but without writing a novella ...)
Still like Granato. (Not convinced he's the right man for the job at this moment in time; but also expect he's here at least into next year so there is that.) But want to see him make at minimum 2 changes to his assistants like yesterday.
But, expect this roster is what we have through next season. Kulich will be on Mittelstadt's line bumping Greenway to the 4th line with Krebs and likely some vet brought in as a FA. And maybe one D besides E Johnson isn't here as the mythical push/search for a Chychrun to round out the top 4 continues; but expect most if not all the other 6 back next year. And expect them to return Levi and UPL between the pipes.
If they don't make at least a push towards the playoffs, maybe they make bigger changes. But not expecting them. And that does increase the anxiety levels because it makes missing the playoffs this year a real possibility and people will have an entire off-season of expecting a team that wasn't good enough to return en masse with the expectation that simply being a year closer to their prime won't be good enough for the jump necessary.
Can't blame you for not wanting to be here right now. This place is dark. But, it is a new year, maybe Ellis got a PP Coaching for Dummies book for Christmas and has been studying it religiously and maybe the Levi we saw on Thursday is the one we get the rest of the season, and maybe they'll stay healthy for a spell, and ... (####, hope springs eternal. Somebody on the outside today will be on the inside come April; why not these schmucks.)
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11 minutes ago, Buffalonill said:
I'm sure Dahlin would rather do his own vacation these players hate the all-star game .
Wouldn't be surprised if "he says he's injured" and missed the game
Doubt it. But we shall see.
He seemed to enjoy himself in Lauderdale last year. (TO in the dead of winter could be another story altogether, but expect he likes the recognition.)
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26 minutes ago, pastajoe said:
Mittlestat is not an All Star. His stats look relatively good because of injuries and underperforming by his teammates. But there are plenty of other NHLers more deserving.
So then cast your votes for Savoie. It'll make his parents happy. 😛
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2 hours ago, PromoTheRobot said:
What I didn't understand is how the teams were even strength with 2 MTL players in the box to one Cozens? And if Coz got a double minor, isn't that 4 minutes, not 2 minutes served concurrently? None of it made sense but I guess it was good for us.
The NHL Rulebook doesn't specifically state how 2 and 2 from 1 team vs 2+2 from the other are to be served when all occur coincidentally. But it does state that 2 and 5 from team 1 vs 2+5 fom the other result in 5v5 play. So, one can infer that's the correct way for that call to be enforced.
2 hours ago, SwampD said:If someone told me that that has never been called that way in the history of hockey, I would believe them. Third man in always gets the extra two. Complete BS.
Except 3rd man in refers to a fight. The original 2 penalties were only 2 minute roughings, not 5 minute fighting majors. Since there was no "fight" there was no 3rd man into the fight.
(Personally felt that Cozens should've only gotten 2 minutes, but wasn't asked by the refs for help with the call. 😉 )
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Why would he?
By NOT concentrating on it he both got a Brinks truck backed up to his house AND gets his Springs free to do what he wants without having to worry about that pesky 2nd round of the playoffs.