darksabre

I don't think I've ever attended a Sabres loss that I was less upset about.

Tokarski might be barely NHL level but he got hung completely out to dry. It might have been one of the worst games I've ever seen from skaters.

I have never watched less of a game I was physically at

I will note that I was a little concerned with like a minute left in the game when Skinner was out there to get it into the garage. Granato basically saying "you're on the team, you're going to play when we need you to" even if it's a terrible idea, is fine with me lol

Spicy. I like it. I think Adams also agrees with you...

It's compelling, though, that Ullmark has been pretty mediocre for Boston so far this season. At the moment Adams' choice to walk away looks shrewd. We'll see how it looks as the season goes on but...

Running the Tokarski-Dell tandem for a few more weeks is going to be dangerous. Tokarski has played well, but he really needed to be splitting time with Anderson. Carrying more of the workload is more likely to end with him injured because he's a cusp NHL talent who's body will break down at this pace and playing behind this roster. We might get to see UPL soon anyway.

I'm always gonna be bummed, btw, that we didn't take Draisaitl in that draft. I didn't have a problem with Sam but I definitely liked Draisaitl more. Bluh.

@SwampD he heard you

Every goal in this game is squirrelly

Thompson having a pretty good game all things considered.

These deflections are no fun

Signs of life

Another tough deflection on a screen. Bummer.

The biggest concern for a guy like Tokarski is that there's just no way his body is going to hold up to getting this much work every game. He's playing very well, but playing at the top of his game every night when he's a fringe NHL goalie is just going to wear him out. It feels like an injury is inevitable.

There is just no where near enough talent on this roster. Which is, of course, not news lol

Donny been reading my posts

Anderson is day to day with an upper body injury of some kind

I gotta be honest, I'd try Dahlin with Pysyk or Hagg. They've both been doing pretty good work getting HEAVY D-zone starts. So maybe split that pair up and divide the grit across two pairs instead of one. It could fail horribly, but it's not like we have any reason not to try it.

Sports fans are fickle. They need a new fixation.

They were right about Risto and now they're going to be insufferable.

The whole thing feels like a weird dream.

Right. I'm not going to sit here and defend Dahlin till I'm blue in the face. He's got his issues. But he's good. This isn't a Ristolainen situation as much as the self-congratulating stats nerds on twitter want it to be... But man, just look at this roster. They weren't expected to have a winning record at any point this season. And the road trip exposed them. They can't get the matchups they desperately need to win on the road and they're getting blown up because of it. It just...is what it is. I'll worry a lot more next season if a bunch of these much-anticipated prospects make the jump and improve the forward corps dramatically and Dahlin's game doesn't become more consistent along with it.

It's really tough to suss out what is Dahlin's fault and what is the fault of the fact that other teams are now taking the Sabres seriously and exploiting the HUGE dearth of talent in the forward ranks in order to press the defense. For as good as guys like Tage, Okposo, Asplund, etc., are playing, they're still not very dangerous. Losing Mitts and Joker hasn't helped an already depleted roster. This team is just not built to make life very easy on the defense or goalies.

Tokarski is gonna be seeing double after this one, he's had to make a lot of big saves.