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Ruff sucks and needs to be fired tonight. What a disaster this team continues to be. They’ve had a ton of home games, so the easy part of the schedule is over.

Several teams probably have had 2+ successful rebuilds during the Sabres drought. Just sad here. Canadians and Detroit looking good. Teams like Utah and Anaheim finding their way.

The Blues beg to differ on that.

Was following here. This is the single most depressing game thread in Sabres history. Everything is negative. I did not have any hopes of playoffs since i see 6 teams better than the Sabres in our own division.

Toronto scored 4 goals on like 18 shots vs Mammoth. Then an empty netter. Won the 3rd period, won the game.

That’s a 3 game losing streak and that can turn in to 5-7–10 if you’re not careful. we know the history here.

I mean you want saves but my gosh you gotta score more than 1 goal against one of the worst teams.

I don't blame Levi. They have 3 guys ahead of him now, one of which was plucked from another organizations AHL squad. If he orchestrates his way out of the Sabres organization then best of luck to him.

So the answer looks to be No, they are not for real. Yet. Clearly the next 20 games will separate them from seasons past if they can keep stacking points and not have the dreaded 8-10-12 game losing streak.

Every other Atlantic division club won tonight so this was a pretty bad blown 3rd period lead. and OT loss.

As others have said the problem i have with UPL is his penchant for giving up mid-late 3rd period goals. Thats the money time when a lot of games are tied or you are up 1 or down 1 and need a save. But maybe even getting to OT is improvement. Certainly we have lost plenty of games the last few seasons by giving up the late 3rd period goal to break a tie. and UPL has been in the net for a lot of those.

I saw on X that Ellis was scheduled to start, but he wasn’t feeling well or something. Not sure if that’s true but supposedly UPL was not supposed to play as of earlier today. Then got the nod.

I want UPL traded yesterday. There are plenty of other clubs looking for a goalie with experience, and Buffalo should take whatever salary hit they have to absorb to make a trade

UPL scares me. Usually fails in 3rd periods. Not all him of course but he doesn’t make me think the Sabres are getting 2 points. I’d happily take the OT point and see what happens.

What i like is that he took swings at new goalies this season and eventually will luck his way into something really good. So now Lyon is playing at a high level (that save last night late and Tuch’s goal 10 seconds later is an example of what would not have happened last year). and Ellis coming from the Blues organization could be another goalie ready to break out at the NHL level. So maybe KA finally hit the winning goalie lottery