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Looks like the Stafford line is being double-shifted.

The prep'd Rob Ray is a definite improvement.

Yay team! Missed the first, looks like I missed a barn burner.

Good summary. I agree with all of it. I would have liked to have heard more discussion from the group in the "war room" about what a player may mean to the future Sabres, even if they didn't identify who it was they were talking about, just so we get a few more hints at the plan going forward.

Well, Hackett gave them a chance. Same old problem of there being no scoring talent.

That wasn't offside.

Myers was tripped, too.

Serious I am not quite.

Hackett looks better tonight than he did the last game he played.

Good PK.

I find that if you give your impressions of the game and team during the actual game, people tend to take in-the-moment comments out of context, too seriously, or completely misinterpret them. That can lead to unnecessary in-thread tensions and distractions. Best to comment on the game after it is played. Like, the next day or something.

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That's right, Leino's problem isn't that he sucks, it's the team around him that can't keep up with him and finish the plays he starts...

It wouldn't let me post these until someone else posted...

My interpretation of this game in pictures...

These outbursts seem like the last attempts of denial to assert itself before vanishing completely. To me it's akin to the denial of the existence of significant threats to the country, or that the United States federal government can (or, more accurately, has) turn against the people, that'd we see two blizzards here in one winter, or that there's life on other planets. If can deny those, I guess you can deny that Pegula has meddled to the detriment of the team.

I was impressed with him at the beginning of the game, just like I was impressed by the Sabres scoring 2 goals in 5 minutes. I think he has the tools but now we're seeing his weaknesses, which, to me, seem like issues that can be addressed (as opposed being issues that rule him out as an NHLer altogether).

I must have missed the memo explaining the elite joke.

His positioning is all out of whack. Leaving holes and, I think, too deep in the crease.

Stick hand upper corner at least twice on Lieuwen. He needs to work on that....

Lieuwen is lacking the consistency a regular, far more mature NHL regular goalie has, yes. From the little I've seen, it seems the goals on him are directly related to his lack of pro experience at this point.

Okay, Lieuwen may need a few more years in the AHL.

You have elite halitosis.

Uhoh. Are we looking at a 5-7 barn burner?

There's still Ullmark who isn't even on this continent yet.