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Certainly nice to have while the team finds its offensive game.

Did you see what Tkachuk did to warrant that response by the Sabres? I doubt it because otherwise you’d know exactly why they went after him.

Well, that would explain a few things. Especially his reluctance to engage physically like we’ve seen in the past.

Again, the gap is evident. Especially when a few of your supposedly best players don’t show up. Did well to keep it a one score game. I like what I’m seeing out of the younger guys the first two games. Comrie looked good as well. FLA could have had several more this game. DG has some work to do.

The refs have swallowed the whistles and entered the arbitrary penalty phase of the game. Gotta love NHL officiating.

That’s DG though and he’s gonna give his players a chance to play thru the adversity. Not necessarily a bad thing, especially early in the season. That said, those two have to wake up soon.

Good point. The Panthers possess the puck with a ton of confidence in where each other player is, regardless which line is out there. They’re a machine. Whereas the Sabres don’t yet have that confidence from every line. Tentative is a good word to describe it.

The gap between the Sabres and elite teams is on full display today. Lucky to only be down one. And some of our better players need to decide to wake up and actually play because going thru the motions isn’t acceptable.

Good call on the JJ/Stutzle angle. They were virtually the entire German team at the U20 a couple years ago. Both had good tournaments.

First, a goal in the NHL. Then, hair on the nuts. These young players look younger and younger every year.

I’d say Power’s partner was the worst Dman.

He was out there on the ice to congratulate Anderson after the game.

Fixed that for ya.

Granato always seizes the growth opportunity.

Sabres look like they got caught up in the emotion of the moment so it’s not a surprise to me that they looked a little flat and tentative in that period. Let’s see if the PP to open the second gets them going.

Yeah, we’d have Samson but as Liger pointed out, then we wouldn’t have Levi. And based on what we know now, I’m glad about that as Levi has the potential to be a transformative goalie for this team in the future.

I don’t think that’s relevant. Samson will have been a good piece on a loaded team that was a contender before they acquired him. If Levi makes us a contender, I think that trumps Samson’s contribution.

Not that I think it’s a great song or a bad song or anything, I just think it lends itself to goal scoring:

Not upset at all. I wouldn’t pay to much attention to line numbers anyway, as Granato doesn’t really adhere to that idea very much.

Must of been driving the wife crazy so Sandy gave the Sabres a call to see if there was anything, anything he could do around the building just to get him out of the house.

Krueger was in his second year of a three year deal when fired in March, 2021 so I believe as of the end of the 2021/2022 season they are now all off the books.

I didn’t think it was possible to raise the level of cynicism around here, but you succeeded. Well done.