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Had Dahlin been on the ice he would of went after Noesen; as an A, that would of been the duty of Muel to handle it. He didn't and then Ruff told them not to respond in kind unless they scored again.

Brian Gionta would be #2 Nick Foligno likely grabs #3 From there its more a grab bag of journey men and a great at a time defensive d-man Add in the region for Tuch and Connolly and they probably help split up the randos and Orpik

I'd imagine there's a group of players who truly want to do something but can't. If there's anyone I lost respect for it was Muel for not doing anything. I have no illusions about Power fighting and Zucker was in the D zone when it occurred. Lastly I'm not expecting my rookie center to go after a freaking Neanderthal. Zucker seemed ready to go if Muel went but instead he just stood around. Lindy's response is both surprising and not. While for all intents and purposes we are "done" this year; I highly doubt the players are hearing that and in a playoff race that is how you are supposed to handle stuff like that nowadays. I'm disappointed that Malestyn didn't find a way to draw a fight though; but then again Kea is always looking for any excuse to tag us with penalties so that also plays into the formula.

Well we probably won’t see great Tage until late March now since coming off injuries he takes time to get his ball rolling. Muel, you needed to address that hit; your star center is laying prone on the ice so grab someone and chuck fists. Power isn’t going to and Kulich and Peterka aren’t exactly built to fight bare fist brawls. Can someone inform Quinn that on the PP, if Peterka is tangled with a PKer it only hurts us if you skate directly into them or that just throwing the puck into the slot when Zucker is in position for a screen is completely unacceptable. Peterka, love ya man but those knuckleball passes to the point need to stop. There isn’t a soul around who could play that puck and you put Dahlin in a catch-22. A win is a win though

Well again the refs jobbed us seeing as he got hooked the hell out of. We can see where the refs pockets were padded by

Why is it Buffalo regardless of sport seems to get screwed by refs. Logic and interpretation will help our opponents against us but we must obey the letter of the law when for us. I disagree, there were clips that looked it but wasn’t conclusive

Why is this team great in the 1st and have solid 5v5 numbers apparently yet are over 10pts behind 7th in the division while having 5 guys on pace for 20 goals. This team is honestly so freaking confusing. If Adams were in his 1st or 2nd year I'd fully understand his hesitance; but its been 5 years; figure it out!

He isn't good; he quite literally was a cap dump by said playoff team

It's a 1st + a 4th, the 4th can become a 3rd if Dallas makes the Finals. The 1st is unconditional

I can most certainly agree there at this point; I gave him multiple mulligans and it never panned out. He will make an occasional good move and drafts pretty well but has seemingly no ability to form a consistent playoff team and has had plenty of time to do so.

Actually I was busy doing something else with no time to give an actual response. The Reinhart deal wasn't a disaster; Florida definitely got exactly what they wanted but we also got pieces back that have high potential. A disaster would be the ROR trade to St. L had Tage not suddenly blew up into a great player. A trade doesn't have to have an immediate benefit to not be considered terrible. The situation that led to Reinhart being traded was what required him to be traded. Adams gave him a 1 year deal, in part due to COVID, and Reinhart refused to sign long term that following year. We could of kept him for 1 year and ran the high risk of him walking in the ensuing offseason. If without COVID the Sabres still chose a 1 year contract; I'd be far harder on them but none of us have any way of knowing that. Adams could of very well desired to sign him long term but with COVID issues arising was told to keep contracts at 1 year. I'm also sick of waiting year after year for the newest crop of rookies to "save us" but I have no willingness to play Russian Roulette with 4 bullets in order to try and risk everything for 1 run.

Why has that happened to us 3 or 4 times this year? Honestly we have absurd levels of bad luck.

They can ask all they want but it isn't happening.

I'm still holding firm at Cozens + Byram for Petersson and that is supposedly the price but apparently Adams might be asking for more back; he better not pull a Botts and strike down a trade for some sort of insane issue with receiving an extra piece.

SF Giants 2010, 2012 and 2014 are directly my favorite MLB team however my passion isn't quite what it is for the local teams The NY Giants Super Bowls versus Brady are my Dad's favorite team winning and the same goes for the Blackhawks so they are both my 2nd favorites

If that's their ask then I just don't see any reason to even entertain the offer. Petersson's possible boost over Thompson is no where near worth a 4.5mil+ increase in salary as well as other assets. For it to make sense from our standpoint, we need both Thompson and Petersson at the other end of the trade. Frankly we'd just get worse seeing as Cozens would apparently secure the 2C until Kulich can outright bury him. Its the grass is greener on the other side type of approach with Cozens. Cozens and Byram have ties to the area and are likely thought highly of. To Vancouver they may see Cozens as merely being miscasted or misled. Never underestimate the hubris of a GM to fix someone.

I would hope lightning strikes the GM if he made that idiotic of a trade. What we always have to trade away our top scorer? Or is it just because you hate Thompson?

I loved a Pens fan offering M Pettersson for Jokiharju and a 4th Get E Pettersson for Cozens and Byram Pettersson reinforcements and we’d have 30 games to figure out an extension with Marcus to be Power’s partner.

I'd do Cozens and Byram but as I've said before our 1st is off the table without Top 5 protection

Honestly the rest of the trade makes some sense; but the Chicago part just seems underwhelming for all that their doing facilitating the trade.

More or less accurate, there's a UDC Nils Juntorp also involved. The part I can't wrap my head around is what exactly Chicago got out of this whole mess. Apparently they retained 50% of Rantanen and traded Hall to Carolina for their own 3rd back. Not exactly a coup

The only issue there is he’s no longer trying to be bad by all accounts. Though it also shows that Pegula does have some degree of input on the team. Especially after watching Tim Murray’s goaltending carousel

The Sabres mean quite a bit to me; in part as my great-grandparents were part of my original reason for becoming interested in the team.

I wouldn't; I'd be incredibly depressed

Oh I'm furious but would never want to lose my team; no matter how bad it may be. Buffalo loses far too much and losing the hockey team would just be another knife to the gut.