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Had forgetten that he'd played in the Amerks 1st game against Pittsburgh. Was thinking he hadn't played any games yet. Considering he'll probably be Clague's partner, can see why they're not bothering with playing him. Get the other pairings set.

For those listening on WGR, any word why Johnson isn't playing for the Amerks, er, Sabres?

Sabres killed off the PP but before Novikov could get back into the play, puck went to STN-PCH on the back side for a tap in to the open net. 2-1 Sabres. Just over 2 minutes left in the 2nd.

Novikov with a crosscheck on Sad Tragic Non-politically Correct Headline setting up a BJ PP.

He'll get a handful of NHL games, but he's likely a future AHL team captain.

Tic-tac-toe. Metza finishing it off. 2-0 Sabres. 2 on 1 that turned into a 3 on 2 led to the goal. Merzerklins really didn't have much of a chance on it.

Kent Johnson with a partial breakaway on the PK draws a slashing penalty on Rathbone. Nice save by Ratzlaff. Going to 4v4 for ~1:20.

Ratzlaff just stopped another flurry. And now the Sabres will be going on the PP after a BJ got a stick in a Sabre's skates in a fairly non-dangerous situation in the BJ's end. Hopefully the Sabres can make them pay again.

Pretty sure the game you're referring to was one of our 1st (maybe THE 1st) Sabrespace meet ups. It looked like he'd be out a long time but wasn't. Though his play definitely slipped for a few weeks after that injury. Sabres just dodged a bullet. Puck was loose in front of the Sabres crease with Ratzlaff down but the BJ couldn't find the handle. Puck ended up going wide as Ratzlaff dove back desperately.

Yikes. That could've blown all 3 of the ligaments in that left knee. Hopefully it was just worse than it looks, because it looks REAL bad.

Those of you that are blacked out can be thankful of 1 thing. You aren't being subjected to the BJ's Pink Floydish phone on-hold music that they keep playing every time the BJ's radio broadcast goes to commercial &/or intermission. Couldn't take any more of that so switched to some Del Amitri instead.

Dunne being a former BJ/Lake Monster must be pretty psyched about that goal. Been really impressed with Helenius so far today. He is driving play.

James Van Riemsdyk. The saddest non-politically correct headline given out as a name ever.

Not sure why they do the non-regional blackouts in the preseason. But pretty sure they did the same thing last season too. You'd expect that if anything they'd let everybody watch whatever they wanted to so they could drum up regular season subscriptions. They got the colors right at least. Can't really expect much more from interns.

Nice rush by Helenius. Not sure who sent that pass up to him. The whole play was nice.

It's up now. But it's currently in a splash screen from the BJ's. (Who's webcast the Sabres are simulcasting.)

Anybody else not finding any links / articles on Sabres.com to watch tonight's game? (The broadcast of which is supposed to start in 7 minutes.)

You might very well have been successful at that. 😉

But the Events Crew needs to help too. There have been several (not hundreds, but several) times that the crowd would get a chant going, there'd be a whistle and either the organist would overwhelm the crowd or the speakers would start blaring something else. They need to be cognizant when the building is getting charged organically. (Realizing sometimes they're contractually required to run something (like the casino sponsored gambling segment); but that's not always the case.)

No skin off this kid's arse.

Umm, you realize this isn't the '21-'22 season where they had some games with only 4k or so in the building? The building is going to be 2/3's full on poor attendance nights and will have several SO's/close to SO's. (If your 1st sentence was misunderstood, apologies.) A few years back they looked into possibly reconfiguring the seating, particularly in the lower bowl, but they weren't really looking at SR sections. The radical idea they were considering was converting the lower bowl between the BLs into high end "seating" where there'd essentially be high tops (similar to the bar area in the 200's behind the Sabres net) with full service for people that bought those seats. Kind of a cross between the Panthers all inclusive packages between the blue lines in their lower bowl and that bar area. Would be a little surprised if they ever actually went that route as there would be a LOT of current STHers displaced from their current seats and however they decided to reallocate seats they'd wind up with a LOT of unhappy customers.

And could see him grow into more of a leadership mindset as he matures as well.

But the guy who looked great as FLA's backup the year before (Lyon) ended up in Detroit and had a rather up and down year IIRC. FLA may be wishing that Stolarz was back this year; but so might the Loafs be.

It worked briefly with Hutton, until injuries doomed that attempt to find gold in a pyrite mine. So, naturally, they HAD to take another crack at it. Not that upset that they tried to find gold in the pyrite mine; more upset that when it obviously didn't happen they didn't move on from the pyrite they'd mined.

Dude, no way your name would be Doohicksie; it'd be Hicks. (Maybe Hicker, but almost definitely Hicks.)