Mustache of God

Wonder when the last sell out was.

Liking how were erasing the impact of the 8-game skid. Only three more to go.

This city could use a win and it feels like our teams usually pull out big wins after the city has a tough time. Let's go!

It's what they call in the business, a "rookie mistake".

I don't think I saw Peterka on the ice after a weak attempt at a no-look backhanded clearing attempt that got picked off and created a scoring change for Vegas. It shouldn't be that surprising that a line of mostly rookies is starting to slump now that the season is starting to grind. Since they're not currently producing I wouldn't mind seeing the 2nd and 3rd lines getting thrown into a blender. Quinn - Cozens - VO Mitts - Jost - Peterka

Anyone whose listened to GMKA speak knows he operates by his plan. Comrie and Anderson are the starters in Buffalo, when healthy. When Comrie is healthy UPL will be sent back to Rochester and will have the majority of the starts until Anderson or Comrie get injured again. Next year it will be Comrie/UPL in Buffalo and Levi taking UPL's spot in Rochester.

Eh, by my count there were a jillion icings in the last 3 minutes, so they were catching their breath. And since the only time the puck left the Sabres zone he didn't have the opportunity to get them off the ice.

28:30 for Muel and 29+ for Dahlin tonight. Those guys deserve a few days off.

Way to grind that out. UKKO fn PUKKO fn LEKKONEN, everybody.

The only thing worse than that penalty shot call was that attempt.

JJ

It's rare to see players exercise that sort of patience, the defense looks like they're freezing because they're expecting the immediate shot and are trying to block it. Tage has unlocked matrix like powers where he slows reality down and weaves around until his finds his spot.

Top 3

Tage ***** Thompson

Longer than average butt cracks.

You know what they say about goalies with small samples sizes?

Trading Thompson for a 5th would have really been a nice feather in that O'Reilly trade. St Louis gets ROR and a cup Buffalo ends up with a 5th round pick after what's his face quit, Sobotka played himself out of the league, the 1st round pick of Ryan Johnson walked and Sabres fans got to watch Tage Thopmson rise on another team. Yikes! Which GM would have made that trade? Part of me wants to say "no way Bottreril does that, so it has to be Adams", but mabye Jbots called another audible? Yeesh.

Maybe that's why Jerry Forton was in tears after the last draft.

Do the players receive any financial bonus when they get named start of the week?

My takeaway from this latest episode is that Mittlestat and Byrson spend most of their day sitting around, not doing jack *****. Looks like that translates to the ice as well.

10PM REVENGE GAME - lets grind out another win tonight before we can get some much needed rest. And by "grind" I mean Thompson puts on a show and puts up anywhere between 6-9 points.

Yikes

I know we need goaltending help, but I'm trying to put myself in Adam's mindset. To date, we really haven't seen Comrie and his struggles came during our stretch with the depleted D, so the book is still out on him once he gets healthy and he's signed through next season. We also have Levi in the wings (but it is silly to rely on a college kid to come in and instantly solve all the goaltending problems). My point is we have some type of term and depth for that position - not quite so with the defense where we have nothing in the pipeline and the lack of depth is killing us. Byrson is a -15 , we need to push him down the depth chart.

It really sucks having one of the best offenses in the league and being 7 points back out of the playoffs. We have an overabundance of draft capital and young prospects, and if even half of those prospects/pick "hit", we won't have room on our roster for them. Hoping GMKA and his analytics team can identify the prospects they don't think are going to work out and move them + a pick for more immediate D help.

If we trade for a goalie what do we do with Anderson and Comrie? UPL is easy, he can be sent down to Rochester. There is zero chance Adams would waive Anderson this year (out of veteran respect) nor is he going do anything with the FA goalie he targeted this off-season. I'd only do one of VO or Mitts and that 1st round pick would have to be a 2nd. I'm struggling to decide who provides more value for the Sabres, Mitts or VO.