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The dude has never made the playoffs, if public speaker embarrasses him more than that, sell the damn team.

This team is a league wide joke. Pegula need to make changes, major changes, or sell the team.

So they didn't win in regulation? Ruff pretty mad at the reffing.

I'm so bored. Glad we're winning but bored.

I can't fathom why Lyon isn't getting starts.

Paul Hamilton's right, okay that felt weird. Pegula needs to fire Adams, now.

... no... you're kidding?

I did the actual math, it's 14% to get into the 250 range.

I'm sorry... is that ***** Peyton 0g 8a Krebs on the top line? Burn this God forsaken hellscape down already.

You are focused on a tree. The Buffalo Sabres have to cut 14% of the goals against the are giving up. That's the issue, they score at a rate similar to HALF of the playoff teams and have goals scored against them at NO rate near a playoff team. Peterka being gone doesn't unbalance anything because of how wings are run. The line balance and scoring is not the problem, this team has to go from 290 goals against to 250. The lines being balanced with or without JJ or another LW is not the issue here. This team gives up too many goals against, period.

There is no reason to keep 3 goalies. UPL has not been good. Ellis has not been good. Pick one and move on. Also start Lyon, the season went to hell when Ruff or Adams or whomever decided that UPL and Ellis needed 9 out of every 10 starts.

The Sabres have lost 13 games by giving up 4 or more goals. They only have 2 games where they scored 6 or more so that's not really inflating their totals much. You are arguing that without a player like Peterka we simply are not scoring enough. We are scoring enough, but we cannot and have not for years been able to stop other teams. We needed a 20% reduction in goals against to make the playoffs, right now we are on pace for 291 goals against, 2 more than the 29th worst Buffalo Sabres were last year. TBF I ran the numbers the other way as well, we are running at a 249goal pace which is 20g less than last year. So Buffalo is actually worse at allowing goals (because the goaltending is ATROCIOUS) and they aren't scoring as much as last year. Half of the Eastern Conf playoff teams last year were close to 249goals (252, 242, 245, 243) but 0 of them were anywhere near 289ga. The closest was Montreal at 265ga and no other playoff team in the East was over 234ga.