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I know what the rule is. Do you? The puck still has to go past the goal line for it to be icing. Until then, it’s just two guys chasing the puck. The linesman ***** up. There is no defending it.

What the hell are you talking about?! It’s not icing until it crosses the goal line. How could he already make that call if it wasn’t even icing yet?!

Then why call icing? It was the wrong call. Period.

Interesting. Pretty sure Quinn beat him to the dots as well.

Who?

So, Quinn touches the puck before the goal line and the linesmen calls icing. Un(totally)believable. I'm not a fan of Tage. I think he's a paper tiger and a one trick pony and we'll never win anything with him as our #1 C. If he doesn't learn from this game, we're screwed. It's the NHL, you can't do the same thing over an over and expect a different result,… you can't even expect the same result, ffs. Defenders learn. They know you are taking the slapper. He sees the defender sliding to the ice and still fires the puck into him, ending up in a breakaway that ends up in our net. How about pulling up short, going around the floundering guy on the ice, draw a bunch of guys to you, then making a pass to someone wide open. 0-2 since his return. I know it's been against tougher competition. I don't care. Still glad we got a point.

I love Benson. He’s a helluva player at 19!

That was a really good hockey game. The Sabres were excellent. They just didn’t score. Heck, the Wild barely scored. The non-calls were interesting. Pretty sure they would not have changed anything, but they were interesting.

Front of the net, and we're on a power play. Refs get hard-ons for letting that go.

Not sure, but, yes.

Sorry I missed it. Not.

4 on 1. Idiots.

I like that the Minnesota feed didn't show the anthems. Went right to the game.

It’s gonna be four in a row. Lindy’s better than Donnie at matching at home.

Since it was most likely tax money that paid for the arenas they are playing in, seems only fair. Gotta complain about something. Good a reason as any. Says nothing about house prices or other prices. Every time I’m back in WNY, I’m amazed at how easy it is to live there,… and how cheap.

All the music from Wicked makes my teeth hurt. So. Much. Shouting.

I was guilty of this and now completely admit I was wrong. In a GDT, I criticized him for letting pucks go by him at the blue line and I think it was @Taro T who pointed out how many he keeps in. I’ve been keying in on him ever since, and TT’s right, it’s crazy just how many difficult pucks he keeps in. And he’s great everywhere on the ice. My only criticism of him now is that he still gets nonchalant with the puck every once in a while, and doesn’t pay enough attention to the guy closest to him when making a pass. He needs to shoot through that guy like hi is trying to score on a goalie. He hits their feet way to much for how good he is.

We missed you. I also think his lack of an edge might actually be an asset. It means he’ll be injured less often.

12 days is a loooong stay. Congrats on being home. How is he in the hospital? Pretty sure we would have to induce a coma to survive that long with my kid. Both her and me.

So, he shows up right before the election, makes this feel good thread, spews some stuff in the politics group, makes some excuse to delete it, then disappears right after the election. Does anyone really think his true intentions were to talk Sabres?

Again, I hope you are right.

Sorry, I should have said “the statement stands.”

I stand by my statement.

Man, the Sabres were much better than the impression I got from reading this thread. I watched a much different team than was described here. I never saw a team that looked “like ass”, or gassed or terrible along the boards. Of course there were times they got hemmed in, but that happens every game to every team. I’m really enjoying the type of hockey they are playing right now and it’s not surprising that they are winning because of it. It’s some of the best in close hockey we’ve seen from a Sabres team in a very long time. It’s awesome. I so prefer it the back and forth, lose the puck, bag skates that doesn’t win in the playoffs. I really hope that they are winning in spite of Tage being out and not because of it.