Taro T
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1 hour ago, Sabres Fan in NS said:
The Bills are pretty far and away the best side in the NFL at the moment. They may not lose a game this season.
20-0 baby. 😉
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39 minutes ago, PASabreFan said:
That works, assuming you mean right thru the Stupor Bowl.
Entering the playoffs 16-0? Terrifying.
Truly. As the only way they cancel a game is if something horrific happens (like a Damar Hamlin type event).
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If all 3 of the healthy guys continue to play well over the next 2-44 games, a BIG if, wonder if they'd hold off on getting UPL any game action in the preseason to be able to send him down to Ra-cha-cha on a conditioning assignment buying themselves a bit more time to make a move with one of the 3 guys that would have to be waived to play for the Amerks.
Of course, with Reimer getting claimed last year trying to send him down late, they might decide its best to waive goalie 4 (Levi is 3 unless he earns 1) at the roster cut down day to try to sneak him through when there are literally 100's of names on the waiver wire.
Will be interesting to watch either way.
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1 minute ago, SABRES 0311 said:
I wonder what made the organization (TP) decide to hire for this role. I mean why now and not before?
Umm, do they perhaps know something about Adam Mair's status that hasn't been made public yet? That's one possibility.
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1 minute ago, Derrico said:
Are their wings any good?
Yes.
They're slightly different than most served in Buffalo as the base hot sauce isn't Frank's but it's sill a traditional "Louisiana" hot sauce (like Frank's).
They have a good menu; it's bar food, but it's good bar food.
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1 hour ago, mjd1001 said:
Yeah, I'm not denying that Kulich might have some growing to do in his game, and there's a possibility he could take a step back.
I'm just saying that I would start there and then make changes if necessary after you see it works or doesn't work.
Maybe the coaching staff thinks a key to this team's success is getting good on the power play... And you want Thompson and Norris to play together to develop chemistry that will translate to the power play? I don't know.
I'm supposed to be working now so I don't have time at the moment... But I think an interesting project might be to look at Norris's numbers in Ottawa. Who is he the most and least productive with? Where were his analytics good versus bad? Basically, to find out what type of player in Ottawa he played the best with versus not so well.
Realize that the analytics say that Kulich and Thompson were very good together and they were in the offensive end and against middle of the pack teams. But, from the eye test, Kulich got absolutely stomped in his own end against teams with very good top lines. The Sabres didn't face many of those down the stretch, which IMHO skews their results.
Completely expect Kulich to get better at that; but IMHO at least against teams w/ GOOD top lines, he is NOT a top line C.
Maybe the guy to play with Thompson and Benson is McLeod; then Norris gets Zucker and Tuch or Doan and Tuch; and Kulich gets Quinn (until Helenius steals his spot 😉 ) and Doan/Zucker. McLeod is very defensively responsible and showed more in the offensive zone last year than people expected. Especially if opponents are keying on trying to take away Tage, then maybe McLeod's offense last year wasn't just a mirage.
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It's time to put on our gear.
It's time to light the light.
It's time to get things started on the Sabres show tonight!
To introduce our goal scorer, that's what I'm here to do,
it really makes me happy to introduce to you ...
Mr. Tage Thompson!!!!! Yeeeeeeeaaaaaaa!!!!!!!!!
It's the most sensational, inspirational, Sabresnational, this is what we call the Sabres Shhhhhhhooooooooooowwwwwwwwwww.
(Then have Ray and Biron make a little snide remark to each other like Statler and Waldorf always did.)
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Great work by Helenius to keep the BJs off-balance with the CB net empty and he eventually clears the zone.
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Just now, Sabres73 said:
Sabres dominating in faceoffs tonight 32-14 so far. Out-shooting, out-hitting. It's the power play that needs work.
Yep. And pretty sure the BJs were all over the faceoffs yesterday. Funny how having your top C's in the lineup affects that stat. 😉
Just now, Sabres73 said:Sabres dominating in faceoffs tonight 32-14 so far. Out-shooting, out-hitting. It's the power play that needs work.
Yep. And pretty sure the BJs were all over the faceoffs yesterday. Funny how having your top C's in the lineup affects that stat. 😉
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Just now, erickompositör72 said:
So has Helenius made the team yet?!
Not sure. But he has the inside track to be the 1st skill F brought up when injuries or a need to shake things up strikes.
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Far wall to Helenius across the crease to Zucker. Sabres up 2 - 1.
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2 minutes ago, dudacek said:
Listening to the Columbus radio feed “that was only a matter of time,”
Sure sound like it’s been all Sabres
BJs had 2 shots in the 2nd; both on the PP. Sabres now have 26 shots for the game through 2. And they've had at minimum 6 high danger chances this period. So, yeah, kind of inevitable.
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3 minutes ago, Pimlach said:
So the Sabres have pi x 100 fans?
For a preseason game, that live in the area and didn't care enough to buy $10 tix, that actually want to watch the game on a Tuesday? Well, it's slightly hyperbolic, but not by much.
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Thompson from Benson(?)
1-1 w/ 2 to go in the 2nd.
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There goes the season-long shutout.
Deflection on the PP of a shot from the point.
BJs - 1
Sabres - 0
Just over 11 minutes left in the 2nd.
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3 minutes ago, bob_sauve28 said:
You really wouldn't learn much about the game anyway listening to Dan and Rob
No, you're right.
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Speaking of Muppets. Rosen with some great chances about 1 minute into the 2nd. Couldn't bury any of them but at least he got the chances.
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Because they could use Kermit's voice for the introducing the Guest Star part but instead of a Guest Star like John Denver, it could be whoever scored the goal.
Mr. Zach Benson!! Yeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaa!!!
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Just now, In The Buff said:
some truly awful selections the Sabres put out
Lately the only songs that seem appropriate are the Benny Hill theme song & the Muppet Show
The Muppet Show theme! Now, THERE's something we can work with!
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1 minute ago, Pimlach said:
Agree, and if they were on MSG then they would be on espn+ for us out of towners.
BuffaloSabres.com says you have to be local. That restriction makes no sense to me. Do they want more fans?
Again, fully expect the Sabres would love to have all 314 people that want to watch the game be able to watch it, but MSG isn't selling any ads because advertisers don't want to pay for 314 sets of eyeballs and MSG has the exclusive rights to the Sabres games that don't end up on ABC, ESPN, nor TNT, so they aren't exercising their rights and they also aren't subletting the rights to any other carriers. One more way the Sabres deal w/ MSG stinks for the fans.
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9 minutes ago, PromoTheRobot said:
I'm quite certain it's the NHLs rules.
Am guessing it's more on the NHL's & the individual teams' "broadcast partners." They likely aren't going to get enough viewers to be able to sell advertising at any reasonable rate and they have "exclusive" rights to games in the team's barn.
Since the BJ's were showing last night's game on TV, the Sabres were allowed to do so as well. And because the game was on the regional networks that ESPN+ has rights to broadcast, they showed it as well.
MSG wanted nothing to do with tonight's game, so the Sabres are showing it to all 36 of us in the area that want to watch but not attend and the BJ's website is showing it as well. Expecting you have to be in the greater C-Bus area to watch their feed; just know it isn't available here in WNY.
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7 minutes ago, DarthEbriate said:
So... they can stream a scrimmage worldwide, but a preseason game just can't get out of the local region?
I hesitate to listen on the online radio only as I'm unlikely to have any concept of what's going on. Particularly preseason where you've got a random guy like Kopff who the announcers don't recognize so they just don't mention what he's doing with the puck. (But Dunleavy is very good about announcing left-to-right or right-to-left at the beginning of each period.)
Expecting it has to do either with the way their contract with MSG is written or the league's contracts with Disney and TNT are written.
This has been SOP for a while now.
Which stinks for the OoTers.
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1 hour ago, dudacek said:
Marty said last week that he's skeptical Benson is talented enough to play with Norris and Tage.
Said today he thought they lacked chemistry in the weekend scrimmage and will be watching them closely today.
Just for clarification, he meant that as in at this moment in time Benson doesn't belong on the 1st line with Thompson THIS year, right? Not that he's implying he doesn't see Benson ever belonging there.
Adams: we have an elite D corps
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That seems to be about where he should be.
Hopefully they aren't a tire fire in their own end again, the PP isn't beyond useless, and the goaltending scary. Because if that happens then the Sabres will be relevant, and then people will recognize just how good he actually is.
His abiiity to keep the puck in the zone is beyond elite.