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You missed an Ivan there. There's three of them. 🙂

I don't even want to try and put these in order Turdburger ROR trade Everything about Jack Eichel Ralph Krueger Phil Housley Pat LaFontaine Tank Tank Tank "Starting today, the Buffalo Sabres' reason for existence, will be to win a Stanley Cup." The list goes on and on and on...

At some point players want to be in Buffalo because they aren't good enough to be on any other team.

Tuch? The guy who is the embodiment of the problem? No. The sooner he's gone the happier I will be. I don't care that he likes to go to Bills games or grew up next to Tim Connolly. I'd say he's checked out but he doesn't check, so I can't even give him that.

I don't care who buys it or if the team moves. This team is an insult to the city of Buffalo because of the owner. People laugh about Buffalo because they equate the Sabres to the city. Who wants that? Get it over with already.

Skipped most of the GDT as I suspect it reads a lot like yesterdays. The most entertaining part of that game is watching Sabretooth on the glass when Tuch and Dillon dance. If you have not noticed it, go find it. I think we're all right there with 'Tooth. No surprise Tuch didn't hit Dillon, he can't hit the net, he can't hit a player with a check (thanks for the drive-by on Casey's goal) so it's no surprise he won't hit another play with his hands. He's the embodiment of the problem right now and he was last year. He's 6'4 who playes like 5.9.. where as Benson is 5'9 and plays like he's 6'4. The team is a joke, still. The Devils are roasting the team on socials and I sure as hell hope the team gets their ***** booed off the ice next Thursday if the turn in another divine effort like they did in Prague. The owner is a joke, he needs to go.

Woot. Missed most of the game in meetings. I know most people will say I was lucky and didn't miss anything. Meh. I didn't GAF before the game and I still don't. Allowing this franchise to impact one's quality of life is letting Terry Pegula win. Not a chance I am giving him that satisfaction.

Was in a meeting the whole first period. About to go into my next one. But checking in and reading the forums between (the game is on in the background). I guess the forum is more:

There's gotta be some kind of AI bot for Invision that can do this for us right?

In what time zone? The one the poster is in? The time zone the game is in? Eastern Time because that's the Sabres home time zone? This is why time zones suck.

I always drink something good to kick off the season but sadly today I will be in meetings when it starts and have to be on camera, so that won't work. I also have to go to a high school volleyball match this evening, so drinking is not the best idea either. So... since I am starting this season with a change perhaps that's an omen? yeah, I am going with that. I imagine that after today people here will be either: OR Let's hope for a lot of this from the Sabres

Tough call. I don't think I would pay any goalie that amount. From 2006-2019 the highest paid goalie that won the Stanley Cup was Braden Holtby, 2019 at $6.1M. From 2020-2024 you had Vasilevsky win twice making $9.5M and Bobrovsky win in 2024 making $10M. I don't know that I would attribute those teams winning to the goaltending superiority, but it does support a team winning the Cup with a goalie making a high percentage contract relative to the cap. Those teams also had very skilled skating line-ups as well. I don't think the Sabres are there and I think their money is best spent elsewhere.

And no longer on the precipice... I cannot stand how anyone can talk about war and then talk about the "rules". If people are crazy enough to engage in these massively destructive actions it's hard to believe they are going to care too much about "rules". It's disgusting... I sincerely hope we don't see more escalation.

I wouldn't blame the telecom industry. It's a content holder and rights holder issue. They are the ones who determine who and where a broadcast can be viewed. Sorry if some of this was covered already, but I am also watching CNN right now hoping we don't end up in a larger world war soon. Viewing Sabres Games: MSG Games Cable - if local Fubo - anywhere DirecTV Satellite and Stream - anywhere TNT Games Cable DirecTV YouTubeTV Sling NHL Network Pretty much all services with some level of additional subscription. ESPN+ is fine if you are out of market and the game is not on NHLN or TNT or any other national broadcast the NHL dreams up. MSG+ is clearly an option. Good luck with it! The only two sources I am aware of where you can get ALL the games is cable and DirecTV. Everywhere else you are going to miss some games.

Wasn't PSE dissolved last year? Is it just produced by the Sabres org or whatever organization they split PSE into or is there still a PSE that owns things?

It's simple. If I answer no that poll right now then I log off the forum and free up my calendar from watching or talking about this team. So I have to answer yes.

Unless Swayman said he wouldn't consider signing until Ullmark was gone. At which point Swayman then pulled his antics. I'm not here to say how or what happened other than to open the possibility that Boston was acting honestly and the player boned them. Of course Boston could have just dealt Ullmark and then hoped Swayman would sign. I'm not as much interested in who did who wrong here so much as I am getting full on the popcorn I can't stop eating.

As I said going into this week. The Bills had played suspect level teams and the Ravens, while starting slow, had found their mojo. It went how I expected it to go on the Baltimore side. I'm not sure I expected the offense to be as bad as it was, but it was. Yeah, hopefully they learn. Or, they're just not that good. Their defense is not a good match for Baltimore's offense, especially with the legitimate rushing threat of Henry.

When I get back to work tomorrow I expect to hear a lot more about the impacts to people in my company. We have a large group of employees in the Spartnaburg/Greenville area and it's just south of Asheville/Busick areas in NC that got hammered. Most of them had no power early Friday morning and it only got worse. We also have quite a few people in the Charlotte area and while many had no power I had yet to hear about the same impacts. I had not realized that the storm had increased in strength so much. Finally getting up to watching the news, etc. and seeing the damage. Earlier I spoke about the rain to snow ratio and talked about 13" of rain.... 30" of rain would be 300" of snow. 25 feet of snow... I know we can imagine a lot of snow if you've been in the snow belts, but 25 feet?

I'm not saying this to support any kind of stereotyping, etc. However, unless you know what the cheerleader does when not cheering, I'm not sure you can assert it's not the same thing. 🙂 For you? I am envisioning "Flow".

I'm confused. The last time the Sabres fans collectively chanted the team got mad and would not salute the crowd. Do we want to fire the coach already?

Get to see my son play college hockey today. .. granted only club, but he had basically quit hockey after HS opting instead for club baseball when he was at Bonaventure. Now he's at Fisher and his buddies got him to play. I love hockey so much more than baseball.

or... not. This will be like an all-star game.

Will Keeso be mic'ed up so everyone can hear his chirping? NSFW then... I'll show up to support the Jims. 🙂

100%. Moreover, A's or not on the sweaters, those players were clearly providing leadership on the team and would continue to do so. Getting a letter is a reflection of what they already do. With regards to work ethic, there's no saying that these players didn't have a problem with how things were last year. But, they had a coach they had to work with and we already have heard how Ruff operates things more stringently than Granato did. I would imagine having a coach letting little things go would make it rather difficult for the leaders on the team. Of course it's speculation, but I have a similar situation where I work right now. My boss is all over the place and talks a big game but when it matters he forgets stuff and people get away with putting out a poor product. I also manage people under him. I am routinely fighting his leadership to try and make sure people are not taking the easy way out. I don't always win. Let's just see what a coach with a more detail oriented attitude and a new leadership group can do with this team.