Samson's Flow

Well they won. Be still my heart

Nail-biter

Skinner plays his best when the entire other team is pissed at him. He gets back at then on the scoreboard (and then ***** talks all night I'm sure)

Thanks Luongo

I'm with you on the PP, but the PK is top 5 in the league. Tonight we're playing a top 5 PP

Keep attacking. No Alamo please

Tonight is going to be different. Tonight is going to be different.

Quoting myself for truth. *****

Good job KO. Give the struggling Panthers a chance to get back into the game with thier excellent PP

My biggest worry this game is we're going to be on the wrong end of a cheap shot. Getting chippy

Getting close to owing you a cold one

Dare I say this Thompson Sobotka Sheary line looks dangerous

Whoever was hating on my boy Samson earlier this year - he's almost a point per game player. 40pts in 41 games.

If you call all four goal scorers tonight the first round is on me! ?

Who are these guys?!? You can all thank me for the early GDT start.

@... Where in the hell did you find that?

Is there any way to improve the existing building in an economically feasible way? i agree the building itself sucks, but it seems the current location is about as perfect as it gets and has been integrated into the Harborcenter in a way that Terry & Kim aren't going to want to give that up.

The two coaching whipping boys have been fired. Castillo and Crossman. Huzzah! I think this is exactly what the masses (mainly me) was hoping for. McClappy isn't great, but I think continuity is important for success in team sports. That said, Castillo and Crossman (along with the WR coach who also got canned) were the obvious areas that the team and coaching quality were lacking. Correcting that goes a long way towards renewing my faith that Beane and McDermott have a clue what they are doing.

Fair enough. I think I will revise my stance to say that it is important to have the following things in a team for contention status: 1. Your high AAV salaries are used on difference making players and stars, and the GM has minimized paying higher salaries to complementary or ineffective players. I'm fairly confident that Eichel and Dahlin are sure fire investments, and we need to hope guys like Skinner, Risto, Reinhart are the right players and get appropriate contracts/don't become Moulson or KO. 2. You have enough of a prospect pipeline and young players on ELC's that you can afford to let the non-difference makers on your roster go instead if they are asking for too much $. Having a top 6 forward/top 4 defenseman on an ELC allows you to fill the rest of the roster with better players. This is arguably where GMTM went wrong, is he pushed his chips in for ROR and Kane and then had nothing left to fill out the roster. 3. A decent enough goalie that he has the skills to get hot in the playoffs and steal some games for you. Doesn't have to be vintage Hasek, but needs to be at least league average. Hot goalies beat star brand-names all the time in the playoffs, so you need a bit of luck here.

Good points. I certainly hope this is the case, but I am really struggling to come up with who on the roster has the talent to step up and fill even a portion of Jack's production.

We already ate up the opportunity to have a successful team with Eichel on an ELC. Let's not make the same mistake with Dahlin. Good/great players on ELC and cheap contracts is a HUGE factor to being a step above other contending teams, and if we don't get our ***** together soon both Eichel and Dahlin will be on $10M/yr contracts and our competitive advantage is gone.

It's amazing that we have had a version of this thread every season for as long as I can remember. It can't be that hard to recognize what other teams do well in arena atmosphere and just copy that. It wouldn't be groundbreaking, but it sure as hell would be a lot better than the crap we've been getting for years. I'm not asking for Nashville or Vegas level fun, but lets at least be on par with the rest of the league. I worry that the executives for the Sabres have been insulated by the season ticket and attendance consistency that they haven't felt the need to improve the game experience.

Its the worst kept secret around that the Sabres could use some secondary scoring. The top AHL guys have to know that they can play their way into an NHL role if they can demonstrate some strong AHL play.

D4rk made me do it. I'm a (mostly) innocent bystander here. You old folks and your rules...

Woody - you and I both know you have the victory in the bag.