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The game is on MSG-B. Will be watching on TV rather than attending. Somebody bought the tix to this game months ago. Good for them. Not up for dealing with the drive home with needing to be at a meeting by 7AM in the morning. Go Sabres. Tuesday was a loss, so tonight they're due for a win, right? Of course, 2 of their really pathetic home games were the 2 somebody bought our tix; so they're due for getting booed off the ice. Moveable force meets resistable object. Which trend is weaker? Tune in to find out. 😉

Will be at at least 24. Am on pace for over 30; will likely be somewhere between that. Plus at least 3 other trips to the arena for other Sabres related events and likely 1 more. (Like Hank Hill used to say: "that boy ain't right.") To the bolded, you would be wrong. Am finding other avenues to be a part of it, but the Sabres being what they are for so long just is killing the passion for watching others play it. Get it that you're having fun getting to tell others that they aren't really a fan considering how many times you've heard that from others. But, again, you would be wrong. And we'll leave it at that.

Still get CI, but for a few years haven't bothered watching it more than 1 or 2 games per year during the regular season. That changed last January and actually started to watch some other teams play when it seemed the Sabres were back in the NHL after so many years of not being a part of it. (Well, not being a part of it in any meaningful way.) Haven't watched more than a few minutes of any other team's games since mid-October. But, unlike in the past when the NHL in general took a back seat, haven't been replacing that time with youth hockey, college hockey, and the Amerks. Just slowly getting to the point of not caring. Still haven't missed any of the Sabres games in what seems like forever. But don't know how much longer that'll be the case. And am on pace for making 30 or so games in person this year. That drive is getting LONG lately. Still love being at the game but adding all that extra time to actually get there is wearing. The Bills being in the desert so long changed the view of them. Used to go to 1 - 2 games every year (the Fishies and sometimes one other) but just had no desire to lose an entire day at the game back in the Ryan era. Got a free ticket to a game last year and went, but the experience in the stadium is so much worse than watching form the living room, doubt my shadow will ever be seen in the new stadium. (Maybe will get tix to 1 game just to say we were there. We'll see.) And the league doing so much to make the games inaccessible and unenjoyable lately, not sure how much longer will even care about the Bills. Am not renewing ST next year. (YouTube's set up sucks.) So, @CallawaySabres, completely feel your angst. Expect you're just a bit further into it than the few stragglers that are still trying to fight the good fight are. Stinks so much that they missed the dance by 2 measly points last year; because this down year wouldn't be nearly as painful nor hope draining. Still expect it won't take much in terms of adjustments to make next year a great year. And do believe they will get made. (Not fully sure why, guess that's why they call it belief.) But, how many are going to be turned off by only those handful of adjustments being all that gets done? So much damage has been done to this fan base.

There's more to the coaching staff than just Granato. And it's possible they love the whole crew, but honestly don't see how at least a couple of the assistants aren't wearing out their welcome.

Genny Bock is actually quite good, but it's only sold from late January into March.

Have the same issue here at home. But can watch the game from DTv's website.

Nooooooo, noooooooooo, don't do it! Please, for the love of all that's good and Holy, don't do it! 😛 😀😀😀

No Schlitz, Sherlock. A significant portion of that cap space will be gone then, but the cap will also be significantly higher then too. So, worry about that in 2 years. Greenway is only under contract through next season so ramifications on the cap 2 years from now have little bearing on a potential Greenway deal today. Having a $3MM 4th liner (should they make a move to put a goal scorer on Mittelstadt's line) is NOT an issue to be concerned about. Right NOW cap space is an asset that the Sabres can use whether it be retaining salary on a deal shipping Olofsson out the door or taking in some other team's overpaid soon to be UFA. Just because Adams hasn't used that asset the past 2 years doesn't mean he must not use it again this year.

Both of which they already have in spades. So why would they need to trade away Greenway to get an extra (presumably) late 1st (if he'd even bring that back; he didn't cost that for the Sabres to get him)? It makes no sense with the team sitting with nearly $9MM in cap space (which is effectively nearly $17MM in cap space at this point in the season) to be trading him away.

They can't lose every game they ever play against the Krackers, so why not get that 1st win tonight? Will be a great test as to whether they've turned a corner with the flipping of the calendar.

He IS replaceable. But the Sabres have nobody in the system that can replace him within the next 2 years. IF he is traded (and personally, don't see it happening), they then need to go out and get a replacement for him. He has a skill set and a role on this roster that nobody else possesses. Trade him, and the team that people already decry as having too much of 1 style player and not enough of the Greenway types now has 1 less Greenway type and (because it's all that they have in the system) 1 more of that other style player. And, this is not addressed towards your point, but have seen people here state that Greenway should be traded and the pieces he brings back should be part of a package for a real D-man. What pieces can he bring back that the team doesn't already have to use in a trade? They have (at least this year and POSSIBLY next year) cap space; they have high end prospects; they have draft picks available; they have players on expiring contracts. Wtf is he bringing back that is magically more tradable than what they already have as trade bait?

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.

That, or he'll take a major paycut to continue to get to wear his blue and white underoos.

Hoping their idiot leader kept his "I wish it was colder" T-shirt. 'Cause, he's going to get his wish.

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.

Antidisestablishmentarianism. 😉

Congrats to your boys as well. Hopefully they kick the Pokes in the arse next week.

Alive.

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.

3 A's. And, as mentioned earlier, all 3 wearing an A scored a goal for them last night.

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. 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.

Good catch. Yep. Dahlin will have to wait until Tuesday to get his next ENG.

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 😉 ).

All 3 goals by the guys wearing A's tonight.

Pretty sure they said the Moe-ray-all one was his 3rd. So, that should be #4.