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Obviously Gil Brandt hasn't gotten word from all the Bills message board GM's and coaches that insist Gilmore sucks.

In black and white it's easy to say that Ennis cost us those two goals but he was also influential in both goals scored. So if Ennis wasn't on the ice, are the goals even scored ? I'm not happy with what we are seeing from Ennis, although throughout his NHL career he has been a slow starter and has come on as the season progressed. IMO getting rid of your second leading scoring forward is not the answer to improving the team, no matter how frustrating it has been watching him at times. I don't like the line with Ennis and Echiel, I think having 2 players that both like to control the puck the way they do on the same line is sort of counterproductive, it almost seems like they cancel each other out. I also haven't seen any real chemistry between them. Maybe DB is seeing something else, because he seems insistent on pairing them up. If they're going to stay together, I'd like to see Gus on the line, not Larsson or McGinn.

Moulson is skating hard, he's not getting any scoring chances but his hustle looks better than in any game this season IMO.

Funny, my wife says I look like a Silverback in this picture.

I'm not a fan of having pictures taken of myself, but I'll share one.

If Ottawa would have gone back up the ice (if Kane didn't score) and scored a goal, would the Sabres have been able to challenge their own offsides and have the Ottawa goal disallowed ? What I'm wondering is if there's no whistle for a couple of minutes and a few possession changes, how far can the challenge go back ?

That's a pretty interesting trivia question, thanks. There is one more that has a Super Bowl ring, but did not play in the Super Bowl. Drew Bledsoe.

That's got nothing to do with being able to improve or change the way you learned to do something. You can always change, the way you threw a football at 10 years old is not going to be the same way you throw a football at 23 years old. You said you can't learn how to be an accurate passer after the age of 10 and I say that is ridiculous to think that is true.

This is nonsense, it's like saying that you can never hit a baseball better, never shoot a basketball better, never improve your golf swing, etc, It's about the mechanics of how you do these things, which can all be improved. There is muscle memory which could be difficult to change after a person has done something the same for a long time, but it's not something that can't be changed or reconditioned.

Tyler Ennis ! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Byyvf22P2rU

Wow, I must of had a different feed.

Supposedly O'Conner met with a few teams yesterday and it was said Buffalo was out for O'Conner. Also on WGR they talked about O'Conner and Rodigues not getting along with each other. Could the Rodigues signing taken the Sabres out of the running for O'Conner ?

I looked up the 77 draft and it shows Seiling was drafted 14th overall and Bossy 15th. I was 5 years old so I don't really know which it was. Not trying to be a #**#, just curious if there was something different in the draft positions. http://www.nhl.com/ice/draftsearch.htm?year=1977&team=&position=&round=

I'm going to guess Eichel takes #15 as it's a number he has worn in the past and because of the draft year.

From a fans point, that's fair if you have a owner with deep pockets that doesn't mind spending, but not very fair to the fans of teams that don't want to or don't have the resources to get into bidding wars for top talent. I'm not crazy about the lottery system as it is/was now, but I prefer it to just automatically rewarding the bottom team with the 1st pick. Hopefully the brain-trust of the NHL :blink: will find a better option.

After the CGI programmers get done with it.

Ovechkin made his goal look almost effortless compared to some of the others, which could be why it was only the 6th top goal, but it shouldn't be looked at as less of a top goal because Oviechkin pulled off that move so smoothly. I also thought it could/should of been #1.

They're a slow starting team, but after 65-70 games they caught fire.

They use the top of the slot a lot, sometimes too much. It seems to work for them though.

From the way the crowd reacted after that goal, it sounds like there's a lot of Sabres fans there. ;)

I'm almost certain it was Kaleta, Deslauriers, Ellis, Strachan and ? I'm guessing Meszaros. As far as which of those players will be part of the long term plans, I would think that Deslauriers would be the only possibility. Then again we could see Kaleta, Meszaros and Strachan all here in 2 years.

There's no way I believe that one player is the difference between being basement dwellers and Stanley Cup Champions. I'd love for the Sabres to have a McEichel (I'm not for tanking) but if if they don't land one of the top two, there's is still a lot of young talent in the system plus at least a top 3 this year, to make this a good team in the near future. Maybe it's some strange belief, karma or whatever, but I have a feeling they have a better chance at winning the lottery (McDavid) by not finishing 30th. I'm not saying I want them to finish 29th, but I'm not gonna pout and damn the team if they do.

Not defending the idea that Thomas was better, but I'd guess the majority that voted that way probably never saw OJ play, heck some probably never seen Thomas play.

I just had this conversation a week or two ago with my brother and he was pretty sure the first games broadcast locally were on Ch 7 with Ted Darling and Rick Azar, I was 8 years old so I really can't remember. The earliest I can remember when ch 29 started showing games locally.

The "idiots" are the Sabres fans that find it necessary to cheer an opposing teams goals. We all get it that it's beneficial for the Sabres to finish last, but why not just be quiet instead of disrespecting every player out there in the Blue & Gold.