SHAAAUGHT!!!

Dahlin in the final game for 1 milly. It’s been a fun watch so far. Bob at 35 years old still looks great out there. Made a couple brilliant saves in the first 5 min.

Is that why, or is it because he’s in a contract year?

Or their parents are connected. We had this happen in Niagara Country a few years ago. Hockey/Rugby player, both parents lawyers. Truly a disgusting family with no remorse or accountability. https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/crime/christopher-belter-rape-sexual-assault-case-b1960618.html

That’s best case Ontario. 6-8 weeks

Sabres have 34 games left, including this one. Luckily there are a lot of underperforming teams in the East this year. My back-of-the-napkin calculations estimate the last wildcard slot for the eastern conference will need at least 94pts, which means the Sabres will need to win 24 of those games. Another way to look at it is they can only afford to lose 10 or less games. That said, they need these 2pts today before the All-Star break so they can come back with a full head of steam to close out the season at a 5 win for every 7 game rate.

That is a great point and something I hadn’t noticed. Earlier in the season he looked like he was making so many extra unnecessary moves that caused him to react late to the actual shot…

It’s not the players. We have good players. They just don’t know what they are suppose to do out there. This group is an underachieving joke of a team. They should be ashamed of this effort. But they don’t have anyone telling them that because then someone might be held accountable. Can we all stop pretending these players are the problem because once we trade promising players away, 9/10 they have a successful career.

Did we not watch the same game or is the bar that low for this team? That effort was *****, that coaching was *****, this team is embarrassing.

lol, I meant Donny. But at this point I don’t want any Granato near this team

Fire Tony

What is the Sabres game plan? I e been here for the first 50minutes and I still don’t know what they are trying to do. This sucks

Sabres looked like lazy trash the first 5 but bounced back the next 10-12, and then looked average the last 3 min. They need to come out hot for the 2nd

Nope. 90% Sabres fans in the building today

I thought players had to wear a helmet in warmup or get fined, but Tuch, and three Canuck’s aren’t wearing a bucket…

I’m so old I remember when this place was called SabresReport 😁

Idk about genius. We may have seen a better version UPL this year if Adam’s didn’t run a 3 goalie rotation for almost half the season. Still nowhere close to sold on UPL, but it’s also hard to have a definitive opinion on a goalie playing behind this defensive system.

The Foligno-Smith fights were such fake fights. I could tell Foligno was just postering because those were the most…let’s call them… “cautious” punches thrown I’ve seen in a tilt from a “tough guy.” 100% Folingo was only thinking about his paycheck, and that he didn’t want to get lambasted like Reaves did in TO.

Not to be a Donny downer, but this is one of the reasons why I’m not very excited about this win. This team is an above average team when they show up and compete. Last night it was Levi’s first game in Montreal, before that it was to “be there for Donny” or because they wanted to step it up to beat a top team. Otherwise they win one, and then take the next game or two off. The Penguins are 7-2-1 in the last 10. If the Sabres come out and play a solid 60 on Saturday night it may give me some hope they turned the corner on the season. If they lose bad or give a half-hearted effort, well, it’s just more par for the course with Donny Meatballs at the helm…

It looks like that from the outside at least. I was at the Colorado game earlier this year and they looked amazing. Later that week I went to the Philly game and left during the second period it was such an awful effort. I can’t remember the last game I left early for, no matter what the score was… Seems like semantics, but whether they try less, or don’t try as hard, it’s literally the coaches job to prepare them for the game, and to make necessary changes throughout the game to get them going. Power would likely have been healthy scratched a few weeks in. We also would have seen him get more like 13-16minutes instead of the 20+ every night. We need a coach that isn’t afraid of his players getting upset with him.

I thought the “it’s not the coach” narrative was put to bed when we kept watching the Sabres outplay top teams when they felt like it, and then the next game went back to sleepwalking. We have an above average team, and they have the ability to be a playoff team, they just need to be motivated to play solid hockey every night for 60 minutes. I can count on one hand the number of times we’ve seen that this season. Could you imagine if we had someone like Torts, Ted Nolan, or Lindy Ruff here running practices? I bet the Sabres wouldn’t have such poor starts and inconsistent efforts.

I’ve recently assigned the Sabres to the Non-Watchable list.

It’s almost like these players (Johnson and Benson) that haven’t been coached by Granato know how they are suppose to attack the puck. Everyone else on the teams knows how to do it, but only does it when they “wanted to back Donny.” Weird. It’s almost like they know how to play the right way, but choose not to. Weird…

The refs in this league are suckers

Completely agree that defensive play is also an issue, but that isn’t necessarily on the players. That lack of preparation is on the coach. He talks about it, but I don’t know if Tony really understands what “accountability” looks like in this league…

I really hope after this game everyone will stop saying the goaltending situation is not a problem. The Sabres do NOT have a #1 tendy on this team this year and it has been obvious all season. Levi will be great, but he’s not there yet…