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I’m out of market with the ESPN package and it was simply not available today on that platform. From what I understand it was an NHL Network broadcast, but oddly not even the NHLN had the game available to me. In an age where you can stream anything AND get local advertising as I do when listening to WGR, Pandora, whatever, I hate hate hate broadcasting rights.

This is a major reason it’s hard to be fan. All day I had a feeling that this game had LOSS written all over it.

Perhaps elsewhere, it should be pointed out the proper spelling of KESSEL-RING

I mostly remember him just running his mouth constantly. And he must’ve been good at it because it seemed like he was hated.

I feel like Dahlin got that treatment (maybe not that particular chirp) right away and had to grow into it. Perhaps Power needs more of that and weirdly never got it, likely because Dahlin had more bite to his game initially? Power punched back. I liked his reaction and I’m of the opinion that he’s Charmin soft. He needs to feel that fire and realize he can in fact handle that and more.

I noticed early on he was uncharacteristically engaged. He took a few shots at Giroux during that scrum and headlock/face washed another in front is the Sabres net later. Maybe the message is being received?

I think Les should probably be relieved of his duties as well

Like, at 11 PM last night if not before.

To add insult to injury concerning Mair, how about being replaced by "a joke of a player" Anyone remember this? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqzOtW4zpBc

Black Keys with Gary Clarke Jr opening tonight in Canandaigua PAC. Super pumped!

We tend to look at our own ineptitude concerning players coming here and it's completely warranted, but if we zoom out to the NHL as a whole I think we see less movement (go figure) which dilutes a lot of excitement. And naturally, the teams at the bottom do not get that dose of hope that comes with a blockbuster deal.

Totally agree. There was one thing on that Sabres embedded draft edition that struck me. Karmanos was the one who seemed very critical of everybody’s take on the first round pick, at least the clip that was shown. He seemed to have a vision of what should be and was actually holding his colleague’s feet to the fire, despite the fact that he’s essentially the one heading up the farm team. Moreover, his moves for Rochester are superior in team building. The current structure is baffling to say the least.

Colorado just put on a Ted Talk on how to handle adversity. I just can’t anymore

Detroit. Raymond vs. Chiarot Happened the day after the Sabres took it to them last March.

I live on Long Island and the MSG partnership is an abomination. There are 3 other teams that compete (get priority) for the space instead of maybe just one. If you're a tri-state area fan of one of the NY teams you'd never care. But for the many relocated WNY fans it's just a poor way to make your product available.

It seems to me that this Benson nonsense is a pretty good place for a guy like Gilbert to apply his particular set of skills.

One of these things has a happy ending

My memory may be playing tricks on me but wasn't Ruff actually interviewed or at least had a discussion with Buffalo before the official hiring of Meatballs?

Clifton’s old man was pining for dirty goals. His demand was 3!

I’m kind of here. Would I love a Tkachuck in concept? 10,000%. But with the reported “maturity issues” we have nobody in regards to veteran leadership to rein that in at this point. And I don’t hold much hope for that to be resolved anytime soon.

He broke Derek's nose

Just watched his post skate presser and the kid is just off the charts even keeled and genuinely embracing it as an opportunity to round out his game. Also thinks that the road should be bumpy and not easy. He's got such a consummate professional attitude. It's like whatever is the complete opposite of entitled, that's Devon Levi.

I have 645 reservations about watching, but I'll probably watch anyway.

White goat heads at home would be the ultimate. I’ve never liked home darks.

The recent officiating, lazy reader. Already addressed earlier. The team came out tonight and played hard and tightened up defensively. I watched a complete effort tonight with a few missed chances and a tough deflection that I saw happen to Zhitnik 800 times in the 90’s. As someone else pointed out, I’ll gladly watch this game, loss and all with that effort vs. the Dallas game. I’ll also take this effort over the Islander game which was decided by a debatable call. I was there. They were indeed outplayed in that game. But there they were, in the final minute still trailing by that goal. And don’t tell me you’ve never seen a team win a game they don’t deserve to. Overall, I’m optimistic on the outlook of this team but there are some holes to fill and lessons to learn. I was hoping one of the lessons learned would be the grind of playoff hockey. I suppose the first lesson is to avoid committing ticky-tak penalties and fighting through defenders blatantly laying on top of two of your forwards,.. with the ref literally looking directly at it. When you get this far after this long, it’s tough to watch it kind of fall apart this way. Maybe I’m the fool.