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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.

Ovi threatened his team he’d send them to Russia if they didn’t play better

And UPL got an apple

I love the lighting in Calgary’s stadium; the ice on the other hand seemed to give both teams fits

Ugly game but a win is a win. If they don’t lose again they have a chance 😉

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

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

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.

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

Cozens got swarmed and his two defenseman stood near him until he lost it the one time. The other was Olofsson trying to force a puck through a man in regards to two of our long shifts.

Scoreboard giving us nothing tonight, we need a win just to keep up

Well that's disappointing

I miss that, let’s win tonight so we can for a brief time again. We don’t need this. Take your defeatist comments to the moon. Throw everything at EDM, this is what separates the boys from the men.

I can’t say he isn’t, but he isn’t a good goalie. Good guy though seemingly

I think there’s two games and we each have 1 home game

Dahlin truly does hate to lose and even when the odds are a far from even remotely possible he'll continue to go down and defend an empty net.

They could hire Jesus and some of you guys would still have complaints

Thompson can be a 1C, Cozens is akin to a 2C/1W

Why can't he? Not that I don't think there will be a 50-50 split of his time but I highly doubt he's going to outright ignore the Sabres and give it to interns

Talent wise the forwards are pretty close, especially Miller. However our guys have had terrible seasons comparatively. Hughes is faster than Dahlin but Dahlin edges him in physicality by far.

Yes, had a couple nice effort plays and a couple turnovers. A rather mixed bag and likely right up the alley of high effort low effectiveness tonight.

I had mixed feelings on that play particularly; Thompson was tight to the net and DeSmith was way over to Thompson's side. At that point he either had to pass it in hopes of a deflection/tip or try a wrap around and with his wrist issues I'd guess he doesn't trust his ability to role his wrists over. Dahlin did everything he could to tie that game and definitely deserves kudos. (The ENG I'm guessing since he's dead to rights against their best player that he was hoping to surprise his countryman with a diving poke check but it failed) I'm both angry and less annoyed thanks to the last 10 minutes. I both want to give credit for the desperate push they made in the 3rd on the back end of a back to back but also feel angered they lost and didn't exactly play great for about 50min. As the Ben said on Twitter, if this were earlier in the season this would be a game to chuck into the bad pile and move on but we don't exactly have much wiggle room at this point.

Agitation to no end how Vancouver looked disinterested playing Washington but against Buffalo they skate like guns are trained on them.

The interview was recorded prior to the Isles game I believe. I think your spot on about Tuch’s “excuses” Frankly he’s likely very torn over the whole situation as a whole seeing as he’s a vet now and wants to play in the playoffs but also understands we have a very young roster. Any derogatory comments he made always included himself as a part of the problem and solution. My favorite comment though was about how the new baby affected his play due to sleep disruptions. He downplayed it yet still held it as a fact although minimally so. In the end facts do not automatically mean he’s hiding something and making excuses through them. Fact is they have a very young team, experience related problems have shown up many times these past two years. (Primarily in consistency) That doesn’t mean the team is excused of all wrong doing but has to be taken into account. Should they have got a couple more vets, probably, but both can be true.

We also need Toronto begrudgingly enough. If Philly keeps falling, it can eliminate 1 of the Metro teams from being a problem.