Kristian

Looked like Sabres Vs. Cryers last spring, for a minute there.

Huge shift there!

Overconfidence has crept in with some people. Now is the probably best possbile time of the season for them to learn a few lessons, not time to hit the panic button just yet, even though it's maddening annoying to watch. *beer goggles are on BTW :-)

1-1 Bummer.

The man is playing like crap, and you'd rather play him cause he makes two million. Sharp. While we're at it, shouldn't we play Marty some more? I mean, he makes two milion as well. I never mentioned actually playing Peters instead of Kotalik in any of my posts, so why you're bringing him into it, I have no idea.

I fully understand this and I agree. I also realise you didn't say Paille was some sort of saviour, I was merely trying to make a point - That last night was a team "effort". That said, I'd rather see Paille have a go at Kotalik's spot for a game or two. Not sure if he can play RW, but I doubt he can do much worse than Al right now.

Still doesn't change the fact that the loss last night was probably the biggest team effort I ever saw, and had nothing to do with Peters, other than the fact that he dressed. I'm not a Peters fan, just pointing out that dressing Paille IMHO wouldn't have meant jack, unless he'd beaten the crap out of everyone in the locker room during the first intermission, and threatened to do it again unless everyone got their in gear for the second. I like Paille, but a one-man army he is not. Also, let's examine who he's playing with. Mair is probably the worst finisher in a Buffalo uniform since Vaclav Varada, and Gaustad is no Brett Hull either. Although he's definitely not as bad as Mair. I like them both, but offense is not what they're supposed to bring with this line combination.

Never can tell, that's true. I was just pointing out that Peters wasn't the sole problem last night, he had 17 of his teammates helping him.

Honestly, last night's effort couldn't have been saved even if the 92-93 editions of LaFontaine and Alexander The Great had suited up on the fourth line. Couldn't care less what Briere said about Peters, but there is no way Paille makes a difference in last nights absolute joke of a game. It's no secret that I'm personally getting pretty fed up with Kotalik. Trade-bait at the deadline I hope, cause right now he's a waste of space, ice-time and salary.

He's starting to remind me of good old Taylor Pyatt in that respect. Not with an effort like this one.

I hear ya, but this is a repeat of the lesson we SHOULD have learned against The Caps, no need to recap thank you very much.

I believe the term you're looking for is "lazy".

On the bright side, it's a nice dose of reality. Outshot 2 to 1 by one of the worst teams in the league.

I wish Ryan would just scream at his teammates to get their #%^$#! together *sigh*

Well at least Marty and the team that's on the ice tonight deserve each other.

I wouldn't blame him if he asked to be taken out, his teammates are the 2002-2003 Sabres. Being sarcastic I might add.

Let's just get a few more of these games, we quite clearly have some people with too high opinions of themselves, right now.

Anyone is an all-star compared to Kalinin at the moment.

I'm starting to wish we'd kept Fitzpatrick and dumped Kalinin instead.

You mean the one where he tripped over Belfour afterwards? This one?

Who other than Briere?

Only good thing Sanderson ever did for Buffalo was scoring that one-handed breakaway goal against The Leafs in the conference final in '99. That was very sweet though.

The 1998 Sabres couldn't finish worth a damn, for obvious reasons.

Maybe that'll get 'em going, been an embarassment so far. Miller must feel pretty alone out there.

Way to go Danny.