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I'd rather they not take the time for the review. It took so long they sucked the life out of the building.

Mitts has looked exceptionally good tonight.

Yeah, this is the kind of game I wish I were at. Win or lose, it's olde skool entertaining. Have to give Comrie a lot of credit, he looks as solid as he did during preseason. Liking the rest of the team's jam; hopefully this knocks off the rust from the off-season.

Fun game!

I'm liking the new look of the team. Can they bring this game against league leaders who aren't playing the second game of a back to back?

VO's play has picked up.

I love how Comrie held the puck behind the net instead of panicking.

I see Dino mentioned a lot in this thread. Don't know why but then again Tim Horton's is popular around here for some reason.

I have no problem with those lines. JJP isn't being demoted so much as it looks like Meatballs is trying to spread scoring potential across all three lines. Unless you think DG is a fool and really believes JJP ought to be demoted. I think Donnie is trying to extend the philosophy behind the 1-3-1 system to where there are no top lines just 3 offensive lines plus 1 shutdown. We've seen that before although not from Meatballs.

Wasn't the knock on Lindy at the time he stifled the offense by forcing the forwards to commit to defense?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_from_authority

At least that conversation will be with someone who knows what good BBQ is.

I never said Dallas. Thanks for playing, though!

There is no best BBQ in WNY. Those aren't south enough. The only good BBQ in the country is south of Dallas/Ft. Worth.

BREAKING NEWS: Sabres veteran defenseman Erik Johnson has been loaned to the Jacksonville Icemen. Kale Clague has been called up from the Rochester Americans to take Johnson's place. ***This is obviously satire.

Levi played fine under the circumstances last night. I recognize he made some gaffs but that's because he shouldn't have played 4/4 games; he needed to have at least one of those off. Other than the gaffs he looks like he can keep us in games which is more than can be said about the other two.

In all seriousness, I thought for a long while there the Sabres rose to the occasion. It seems to me they didn't know how to corral themselves and play with discipline. Johnson's comments are in that vein.

Meatballs is on the clock. This is on him and his unwillingness to address defense.

Johnson's post-game with Hamsammich was very telling, I think. It's like he really wanted to say they don't know how to play team defense at all. I think it's somewhat condemning of Meatballs.

Whoever is b!tching about Clifton needs to stop.

Seemed like both teams were pooped out at the end of that period. I bet the second looks different.

So thrilled to see the boys do the opposite of sitting back and taking their beating.

Sitting here glued to the TV. I wanted to type in that I was liking what I was seeing from the Sabres. They're starting to match Calgary's energy.

Nice!

KO should have passed that.