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They put Mike Reilly on waiver but since our defense is almost fully back now I doubt we’d take a shot at him

Last game we wore the originals. Ironically before the opening faceoff you see our present GM on the bench.

Sure…. It makes a ton of sense to lambast your team playing down 3 of your top 5 D and with Bush playing somewhat hobbled. Id guess Granato was disappointed in blowing the 3-2 lead but in the present circumstances he isn’t going to crucify them. They were underdogs to begin with. I hate losing; and it certainly seems to me that the team does too.

So sick of how much ***** Tampa gets away with between slew footing Thompson or double hitting Power. They fought and clawed with one of the best but came up short on the back of a back to back against arguably the Top 2 in the East on the road.

Yes, the MTL offer sheet kid punched him with his glove on when the linesman had Dahlin tangled in the 1st

Hopefully it’s nothing serious and he’ll be back for Arizona. I pray Bush can play since otherwise we’d literally be fielding a good AHL defense with Owen Power.

In most cases I would agree; but much of what he did was not just typical bullying but rather cruel and unusual torture to a person with a disability. His apology was merely a statement made to clean up his past of wrong doing and nothing more. Bullies pick on nerds; not people with special needs. You have to be unusually twisted to do that.

We are hanging in there, just wish we could a couple bounces to go our way.

There’s a reason Clague is a AHLer and Pilut and Fitzgerald are tweeners

If anything changes in that video annoyed me it was Matthews just standing around smirking while his teammates got to into a scrum just off to his side. If you are willing to stir up ####, then at minimum you should aid your teammates by keeping the numbers even and grabbing a body. He has no requirement to fight but standing smugly isn’t helping Giordano or Bunting in the slightest. It’s akin to a noble sending peasants to fight on his behalf while he scoffs at their squalor.

Just so you know, someone on CapFriendly last season ran the numbers and found that the Sabres Arena seems to be much more difficult to garner hits in. On average the Sabres averaged more hits, by a pretty significant margin, on the road than at home.

He hasn't even had 100 tries yet lol

Part of agrees with you and part of me thinks the Sabres were a bit stymied by Pittsburgh in the 1st with extreme pressure. When the Sabres started to adapt in the 2nd they started looking better and in the 3rd when Pittsburgh ran out of juice we ran them over like a Greyhound Bus

Unsure if they are quite to that team's level of skill but their manner of play and fight certainly is similar. Great Win!

No; the team isn't leaving for Canada or Niagara Falls, NY either

My personal favorite point was when their goalie personally left the net and iced the puck after Mitts hit the post the 2nd time.

That was fun and truly showed the difference between this year and last year. We blew every game against Detroit last year and the threat started creeping up after Larkin's goal but instead of turtling; they lit the Red Wings on fire and danced around their charred corpse.

I mean as a roster spot The Sabres now have 13 Forwards Asplund being #13 Defense we have Dahlin, Power, Fitzgerald, Bryson, Clague, Pilut Injured: Lybushkin, Jokiharju (IR) and Samuelsson (IR) So we have 13 F, 7 D and 2 G which leaves 1 roster spot open.

He had been a healthy scratch the last 3 or so

At very least 2 of the 3 injured guys do actually clear out the net front usually. Dahlin has also learned how to dish out some pain behind the net.

When they do the puck gains sentience and avoids Sabre sticks like the plague

Well, we’ve comeback on Chicago from worse; we just need the team to lock it down. Cozens and Thompson are snakebit and Everyone but Dahlin and Power have made enormous gaffes during the game.

You can’t sign 12 NHL dman

How many bloody posts and bounces on rebounds must we deal with before Lady Luck helps us?

I honestly just feel cursed, nothing we do seems to ever work out. The puck actively seems to avoid going in the net for us.