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I don’t disagree at all. Granato has to shorten the bench because he has a bottom three that can’t be trusted in crunch time. But that doesn’t mean Bryson and Clague don’t suck.

Gee, and here I was thinking it’s because they suck and simply can’t be trusted.

Shocker.

Our 3rd periods blow chunks.

Kyle!

Clague is a one man disaster.

No game in 10 days, no practice in a week? Not exactly a formula for success tonight. Never wanted to be more wrong about anything though.

He’d be a third pairing D on the Sabres. It’s not like he’d be the piece that puts us over the top. While it would be nice to have him, his loss doesn’t fill me with a sense of regret, either.

You can thank the CBA which strictly forbade any team activity of any kind on Dec. 24, 25, and 26. The Sabres’ only available option was to organize as a team on Tuesday morning, transport everything to Rochester, and attempt a flight to Columbus from there. This after not playing for more than a week. The logistics were against them the entire time.

He’s holding up pretty well in the A. Not exactly a gentle league.

There is a time to trade young assets for proven veteran talent and a time not to. Look no further than GMTM for an example of the time not to. The time to do it is when adding those good veteran players puts you over the top and turns you into a perennial contender. And that doesn’t happen until you have a young, solid core of good players to add them to. I submit that the Sabres are nearly there given what we have seen so far this season. Sometime soon we are gonna be thanking KA for being patient, stockpiling assets, and doing it the right way.

Hopeless. We are DOOMED!!!

I have a hunch there will be a lot of blazing going on at home today.

Somewhere, @pi2000is smiling and nodding his head in approval.

No, he is serviceable at best. Same goes for Bryson, Fitz, Pilut and and other AHL level D man we’ve been forced to play.

Cozens threatened to retire if forced to play with Mitts and VO on the same line.

I don’t care if Cozens gets more ice time, he is now saddled with two worse players. I view that as a negative for him. And we are talking past each other, so never mind.

It’s called sarcasm.

Risto would kick Reaves’s ass.

I’m not saying his TOI is gonna drop at all. I’m saying that by playing with Mitts and VO, Cozens is playing with two lesser players than Quinn and Peterka. And those two lesser players have shown they are a disaster when paired together to boot.

I’m surprised because the Devils were the best team I’ve seen in person this year when they beat us earlier.

Playing with Mitts and VO is such a worse opportunity for Cozens as opposed to playing with Quinn and JJP, so yeah, it’s a demotion from where I’m standing.

The NHL Game Center stats show we were outshot 17-1 vs. Colorado and 23-5 vs. Vegas in those third periods, for a total of 40-6 in both games. I’ve seen different numbers posted in this thread. Are you guys getting stats from a different source? Are the NHL game stats not reliable? Thanks.

He’s what we hoped many players would be, not just Eichel, who probably came the closest.

That’s a demotion for Cozens more than it is a promotion for Jost. It has become increasingly hard to watch Mitts and VO on the same line.