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I was actually hoping we’d start to see Anderson at home. Goaltending has been tough at at KBC, and Anderson has the best number in Buffalo by a decent margin I believe.

I’ve been just sort of mapping out the Sabres path to a possible 8th seed in 5-10 game increments. I certainly knew the road gets tougher come March. But man, I just looked at the schedule. I thought 5/10 points to finish the month would be quality. But man. I wish we did better to open up post ASB to give us some wiggle room come March. EDIT: This wasn’t the first time I’ve looked at the March schedule. Sometimes I just try and take stuff in digestible and actionable chunks. This week was the first time I had to fully digest March.

I was shocked he didn't get 5 for that. Stunned. I thought there was a strong argument to toss him from the game for that. It was wildly flagrant and targeted.

My uncle texts me after every big loss something along the lines of “I can’t believe you think this team is moving in the right direction, could make the playoffs, etc.” My personal favorite is “this team would get destroyed by the 99 team” because the Sabres are likely a Stanley cup favorite with prime Hasek between the pipes playing 60-70 games per year. Similarly to this it drives me nuts. And he has nothing to add to the conversation. I don’t need it to even be positive. But just add something…anything…other than basically “haha, we suck and you’re a loser”

We surely need to beef up our lower pairings. But it seems like we have an abundance of good to serviceable left handed defensemen and we’re in desperate need of a couple of righties.

Calm down this is a family page.

I am drinking the koolaide. I think we’re on to something. I think it will be tough sledding for this team to make the playoffs and win a series in the same year. I’d love to get the monkey off of our backs now and be able to slightly raise expectations in the 23/24 season.

The team is getting better and guys are developing. We’re the youngest team in the league. He gets the opportunity to try and see this thing through.

Good post. I keep having the Sabres playoff conversation and friends just chirp me after games like this. I don’t think the Sabres are world beaters. They’re a middling team in a log jam of other middling teams for the 7-8 seed. None of which I think are hands down better than the others. Sabres are one and done in the playoffs and not close at all. If somehow we could push Boston to a game 6, that would be incredible. But like are out in 4 maaaybe 5.

Tuch looks pissed!

We got’em right where we want ‘em!

Sabres are being out played everywhere. So let’s start there. But man, UPL really put us behind the sticks. If he could have just kept us at 2-0 this could be a different game with 2 periods to play.

We just had our ***** kicked against Carolina, then Calgary…then the Kings.

It’s not that the Sabres lose. It’s how they lose sometimes that makes me question my excitement. I am drinking the kool aide still. But games like this and Calgary really make me question WTF we are doing some days.

If we collect 5 of the next 10 points this month we’re right there in the 7/8 seed and it’s ours to lose going forward. I agree, 24/32 feels aggressively high just to “stay alive”. They’d be firmly in the drivers seat at that point.

I don't believe Youtube TV has MSG, or am I wrong on that? As somebody who lives in the capital region, Fubo has fit the bill pretty well for me for that reason. They don't have TNT, but I don't really need it much and I have Kodi on my firestick to watch whatever I want. I cut the cord forever ago and I hate it. Well I hate the cost of consuming TV in general. For all the crying everybody did 20 years ago to piece out their cable subscriptions for "stuff I want", the cost is astronomical. $65 for Fubo/Youtube plus Netflix, Hulu, ESPN, Paramount, Peacock, Apple TV, etc. I pay waaaaay more now for "cable" than I ever did when I just went through Spectrum, Time Warner, DirecTV etc.

Think about it Thorny.

Im convinced Razor comes in to the broadcast right from the bar sometimes. He just looks like he’s either winding up or winding down from a bender on some nights.

Today was a long day for us on the homestead so the Mrs. So the Mrs. and I treated ourselves. We burned one down, ordered a pizza, and watched Zoolander and Jurassic Park. Anyways. I woke up from a nap and was very confused to see us getting outshot on the power play.

I was just having this conversation the other day after they looked Schitt's Creek after the ASG. It is a long season, this isn't the NFL, the playoffs are a sum of 82 games, not a "what-if" once per week like the Bills. As long as the Sabres can play .600 hockey it will be OK. The way we play clunkers, especially at home, drives me nuts.

Was that Clague with the jumpy eyes? That was wild.

Razor is tired (drunk). He’s just projecting.

Ceremonial puck drop by a young Hispanic kid for a police outreach he pup and the ceremonial centers were the only two players of color. LAPD must have paid a pretty penny for that one.

Razor looks rough tonight. Like they just dragged him to the booth from the bar.

I think part of it is that most other teams white jerseys have a full color shoulder and/or sleeves not just an insignia. This one has the blue basically under the armpit then nothing until the wrist/cuff. On TV the entire jersey gets washed out on the ice in part because of it. I like the jersey otherwise, like on its own/on a hanger. Just the pants plus how it presents on TV from above aren't great.