TheAud

I have a feeling Bogosian plays better tonight...+/- should be at least +2 or +3 better than in Montreal.

That was probably another goal they aren't going to give the Sabres

I'm just glad to see a new commercial in the rotation

I just want to hear the song

I don't care for the anthem singer

I hear you. I am out the door at 4:30AM to catch a flight to Asia and I haven't even packed yet. Still going to watch. Amen, brother.

Thank you. Yeah,. I need to visualize it to keep perspective on the progress or lack thereof as my game-to-game emotions cloud my thinking but point accumulation by game is a clear indicator. It's not the only indicator of course (Goal differential, various Corsi stats, etc) but continued progress toward a playoff spot is the easiest guide I found for the journey to the ultimate goal, at least at this point.

Not going to weigh in on what is .500 and what does it mean. I am more interested in: 1) How is this team progressing vs. the past two seasons (i.e. since the Tank) 2) How far away is the team from contending for a playoff spot. The attached chart (which I have posted before) helps me visualize this. Better than last year, but still 6 points behind 96 point pace.

http://www.thehockeynews.com/news/article/prospect-need-to-know-rasmus-asplund-eagerly-awaiting-opportunity-with-sabres Nice article about Asplund

I've been arguing this for a long time. If it was an above market price, it was only barely so and you can't always get what you want at exactly the desired price. And Murray needed a starting goalie. I thought his rebound control was much better last night. Two of the goals were difficult shots to stop and he made several comparable saves on shots like those in the game. But you give a Forsberg an open shot in the slot, with speed, he's going to bury a large percentage of them and I don't care who is the goalie. The other two were weak and semi-weak. The McCloud poke-in was a terrible job at holding the post by Lehner. I noticed Nashville had been going hard to the post all game and Lehner stopped them to that point. But persistence paid off for Nashville and he let in a softie. That's lack of consistency. The other PP goal was not really excusable either, but admittedly when a guy gets an initial shot at point blank and then a follow-up at point blank with no harassment from the defenseman who is literally lying next to him (as was Risto), sometimes those will go in. I don't know how his career is going to go from here on out nor does anyone else but he's a reasonable option in net at this point in time assuming the team can score a few goals. If they keep scoring 1 or 2 per game then we need the reincarnation of Hasek and he's not that.

Use the stick Marcus

If the refs aren't going to call muggings on Sabres players it's time to take matters into their own hands

Ennis is drunk

Went to 30th in the league early in the season and has been just pegged there. Zero improvement.

I think that was his outlet pass

Our breakout passes are so bad

As bad as the 2nd goal was...the other 27 saves by Lehner were mostly pretty good

That's the way boys!

Foligno guns it into the goalies chest - dead center

Lehner has done a good job holding the post all night until then.

Derek Grant, waived by Sabres, picked up by Nashville. He's a scoring machine. The next Chris Hogan, I believe.

Michael Peca...only a mere 7 years ago!

I was almost 10 years old and playing on the hill behind our back yard. My younger sister and I were sledding after school. The hill seemed huge in my memories but when I see it today it's really quite tame. At some point I noticed we could no longer see the house. Then, we couldn't see 20 feet in front of us. Even at age 10 I knew it was time to grab the sister and head indoors. My birthday party was scheduled for the next day or the day after. That was postponed and I think it actually happened two weeks later. My Dad worked a couple miles from our home so he was able to make it back and brought a co-worker with him who lived farther away and couldn't make it back. He stayed with us for 2 days I think. We lived on a dead end street off a main road. They didn't even attempt to plow us after the first couple hours until days later. At that point they needed earth moving equipment to come in as there was no way normal plows on trucks were going to open up the street anytime soon. Snow covered the lower part of my bedroom window, drifting up from the ground. My room was on the 2nd floor of our raised ranch house. Playing with my friends in that snow was truly awesome and even intimidating at times the quantity was so massive.

Radulov made an all world offensive play to make the pass back and Sabres defense had over committed. Not sure what Lehner is supposed to do there. Kane was standing right in front of him in front of the net instead of picking up the trailing forward.