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What's the adult hockey scene like in Buffalo? Do all the rinks offer stick & puck sessions and also open hockey? Where do you guys get practice time in? I have a friend back home that is interested in getting started and I'd like to give him some advice of where to go get ice time. What about lower division leagues, which rinks offer those?

This was truly the performance of a motivated bubble team tonight.

Is this us being outcoached?

WHOOOO! Suck it, Anderson.

Is it interference if he's out of the crease? I feel like this is coming back.

Haha wow.

I'm just looking at the standings of the league saying "oh look, the Sabres are 4th from the bottom. This makes them a basement dweller, opposed to those bubble teams sitting on the cusp of a playoff spot." I know full well I'm being pedantic about the basement/bubble scenario but this is an internet forum, ! There's no other way. I watch because the dreamer inside of me still has hope, any given Tuesday this team can win. Maybe they put a streak together and claw up towards a playoff spot. Go Sabres.

I'll be optimistic and say 94 points since we're hopefully going to be healthier for the 2nd half. We finish higher than NYI, NJ, DET and CAR.

This is the anthem of Buffalo Sports. This team is not on a playoff bubble. We are basement dwellers.

The Sabres are the 2nd worse team in the conference and 27th place in the entire league. Like it or not we are a basement team. We're a 5 game win streak away from being a bubble team and the catch is that basement teams are incapable of stringing together winning streaks like that.

It means you draft someone who can step up for Aaron when he inevitably gets injured and calls it a career.

going back to 2014 we're 3-11 vs. Tampa Bay. They seem to have our number. Here's hoping the new Sabres pick up the damn phone and do nothing but breath heavily.

Confirmed by DDB: Jack's new linemates are Mr. Ed and Shadowfax

Right, but the Winnipeg game galvanized this team. Things will be different now. Call me Mulder because I WANT TO BELIEVE!

A little off topic to the game thread but how to waiver claims work? If a team claims Grant can they send him straight to the AHL or would have have to remain in the NHL in order for them to claim him?

I think with Ennis on the cusp of returning the Sabres had to make a choice between Grant or Bailey. I think it's obvious Grant has maxed out his NHL potential while Bailey hopefullly can continue to grow.

He really over committed to thinking Laine was shooting. It was a terrible pass and there was enough to for hime to get over.

A true solider of Buffalo sportsdom.

I'm holding out for the time when Derek Grant centers a line between ROR & COR. The Legion of Who?

Per P.Ham's twitter "Nillson in net. Lehner could play but has some minor bumps and bruises from his last few starts"

Jack Eichel is Scott Norwoods illegitimate son.

What would happen if Pegula fired Bylsma without consulting Murray? I'd love to see the follow up presser from GMTM.

Reading some of his quotes in the BN articles posted here I don't think he's going to let em fly: “You don’t want to go chance-for-chance with the teams that we’re playing here,” Bylsma said in KeyBank Center. “You don’t want to go offense-for-offense or run-and-gun. You do have to limit what they get by how you play with the puck. That’s a focus for us in the next two games.” This roughly translates to: I'm telling my team to reel it back on O to focus on D which means don't expect more than one goal from us and we're still going to make bone-headed mistakes on D and give up goals

This is my only chance to see the Sabres play in the city this year and I have no interest in going. Looking at stubhub the cheapest seat I can get is $110.00 and it's simply not worth the money. Maybe next year. Go Sabres.