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  5. Around the NHL 2023-24 Season

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    The St. Louis Blues have a chance to tie Vegas with 9 games remaining potentially.

    The two play tonight and a Blues regulation win would put them 2 pack with Vegas holding a game in hand. Said game is the next day against Nashville. 
     

    Following that Vegas plays Winnipeg while the Blues play Calgary. 
     

    That race could get hot tonight

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  6. GDT / Buffalo Sabres @ Calgary Flames Sunday 3/24 9pm ESPN + MSG & WGR Radio

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    26 minutes ago, PromoTheRobot said:

    What was ugly about it? Overall a good defensive performance by the Sabres. You have to win low scoring games too.

    It's all the blows to the head he took. 

    The Sabres weren't ugly in particular; more so the game itself. Especially in the 2nd period where everyone kept falling or slipping as well as the puck getting stuck in puddles it seemed. 

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  11. Why aren't they calling up the kids?

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    5 hours ago, Alaska John said:

    The Sabres while still mathematically alive are clearly not going to make the playoffs.  Facing facts, they should be tanking to get the best draft position possible.  And based on the third period against Edmonton, it looks like the Sabres got that memo.

    It would be better not to bring any Rochester players up so they're not in the locker room while this is going on.  Toxicity is contagious.

    No way, I’ve learned my lesson in spades about purposeful tanking. Never again.

    Hopefully we go on a little run, pick around 10 or 11 and use it to acquire a player in a trade. 
     

    If we magically win 1 or 2 great, but most likely we’d have a nice trade chip 

  12. Do You Think We Make The Playoffs NEXT Year?

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    Bad luck:

    Injuries are often this, barring some idiotic oversight of stretching causing a groin tear; injuries can definitely be considered bad luck. 
     

    Jack Quinn, injured trying to better his game and then hurt in a freak skate pick accident. That hit us harder than even I thought it would. We didn’t even try to cover that wound to our roster which still annoys me.

    Zach Benson’s penalties, I have never seen a player in particular get so many questionable or outright absurd calls made against him. From a team standpoint this is bad luck. 
     

    Dylan Cozens runs the gambit of bad luck and bad play. Especially to start the year the guy couldn’t buy a goal. He has also had general lapses in judgment for games at a time. He had a rough year but not anything I’m concerned by, yet.

    Bad Play:

    Owen Power’s sophomore slump has left him mediocre at best most of the year. He’s looked better since his return from injury but too little too late.

    Jeff Skinner’s Jekyll and Hyde impression has gotten very old. He shows in some games he can play some degree of defensive hockey and can literally take over offensively for stints yet seems to outright refuse to do so some nights. Instead he’ll twirl and try to backhand pass a puck into a crowd hoping the banged up Thompson or ever moving Tuch stumble onto it.

    Eric Comrie, if he is every bit a good guy as he is a bad goalie then I can certainly understand his “well liked” status. The oddest part with him is always the good games he’ll play once in a while only for the offense to dry up. 

    Peyton Krebs, he makes me want to scream. When playing with scrubby hard workers with their stone hands he plays smart, makes great passes and generally plays very effective only to be let down by his line mates. For a very brief 2 weeks before Mitts was traded he showed his abilities with good forwards. But now with the good forwards he's gone back to his pre-4th line days again. Passing far too much east-west and looking reckless with the puck. Can anyone please convince him everyone is Girgs and Okposo so he may play straightforward but actually find some success? 
     

     

    Here’s just a few things I wanted to unload

  13. Do You Think We Make The Playoffs NEXT Year?

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    Really have no way of saying before I see what we do in the offseason.

    I gave the benefit of doubt that the players would grow and with a few tweaks we'd garner the extra points to make the show. Now I'm left holding the bag trying to parse through what was bad luck, what was bad play and what was just plain bad.

    We most certainly have a shot but again I'll hold my predictions off for now.

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  14. GDT/ Buffalo Sabres @ Edmonton Oilers Thurs. 3/21- 9pm MSG, ESPN+ and WGR Radio

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    2 minutes ago, GASabresIUFAN said:

    So, lets see if I understand this.  The Sabres jumped out to a good start and a two goal lead, played hard for 2 period, and then folded when they got behind.

    Coaching is definitely not the problem.

    To be honest they didn’t go downhill until goal 4 really. But that flukey 3rd goal probably set this up. After that it became a mad scramble to score and everything continued to backfire until they seemed to just give up

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  17. Around the NHL 2023-24 Season

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    28 minutes ago, Brawndo said:

    From Friedman 32 Thoughts 

    It sure sounds like Rod Brind’Amour is all but extended in Carolina. He has waited for his assistants to be taken care of. You will remember that, in 2021, Dean Chynoweth left for Toronto when he felt he could do better on the open market. 

     

     

    Well that's disappointing 

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