Mustache of God

Why isn't Okposo, someone with 1 point this year getting similar treatment? Despite being stapled to the 4th line Skinner was still generating chances, and hitting posts. Okposo dumps the puck in and changes. I understand sitting Skinner for a game to get him going, but going into 3 games and not even practicing with the team? Something else has to be going on behind the scenes.

He was on the ice...with the taxi squad. At this rate he'll be in the AHL by the weekend, EHL by April and on my beer league team by May.

I hope the bolded is the case. I like Olofsson but he doesn't belong on the #1 line with Jack 5v5. He's a damned fine power play specialist but his even strength play is lacking, which is fine. Let Skinner play with Jack 5v5 and put Oloffson somewhere in the bottom 6. I'm guessing there's something else going on with Skinner, he's always come off a bit petulant to me so maybe Ralph doesn't like his attitude? Who knows.

I think I heard that the Pegulas also forced his hand on getting ROR out of town, before his bonus was due....which I probably heard here (not sure if true or not). We would have had 3 Stanley cups by now if it weren't for your meddling owners!

I'm predicting a Sabres win. Tonight they debut their reverse retro for game time action and this team always seems to win when they do stuff like this. Sabres are due for a blow out, 8-2. Skinner nets 6.

What is a reasonable return for Montour? Looks like we traded the first we got from San Jose in the Kane trade + Guhle (he played 30 games with the Ducks last year and is in the AHL this year). I can't see us getting a similar return for what we paid.

The quoted tweet saying Skinner was out was dated 2-22 , I don't think we have a confirmation of tonight's line-up yet.

Poille.

Yeah, but how many posts does Skinner ring?

PLEASE SIR CAN I HAVE ANOTHER?

I can't imagine a scenario right now where Adams could have a trade drawn up and Skinner would deny it. "You're saying there's a team with a coach who wants me and will use me properly, the team isn't a bottom feeder and I get paid the same? Sounds tempting but I like what's brewing here. DENIED."

Skinner is at least generating chances, he's hit some posts and is getting looks and I'm shocked he hasn't gotten a fluky bounce to go in yet. If memory serves me correctly, which it usually doesn't, Leino was pure garbage and wasn't generating opportunities, and was given a chance to succeed by the coaches (?) , besides them saying, "hey, you're a winger, i bet you'd be a great fit at...center..." Skinner needs to be better but so does his usage.

"From this point forward the goal of the Buffalo Sabres will be to hope to play completive hockey in March and April when the season starts in mid January".

This or just hand over the reigns to a competent hockey mind and own from a distance but I think those pesky egos might come into play.

I was convinced Bylsma was the problem and Housley would lead us to the promise land. It quickly became apparent that Housley was a glorified turd-polisher and needed to go. RK seemed like an amazing out of the box hire, who would surely have the team playing entertaining hockey. I'm now teetering on the "replace Ralph" ledge, but I don't think bringing in yet another coach will fix anything. I'm inclined to believe the problem comes from the top. I don't understand how someone can concurrently run an NFL & NHL franchise.

Like a warm glass of milk.

At least the tank teams offered hope for the future.

Here's a picture of my set up, got the nordic track skier (craigslist for $55), weight bench with 165lbs of weights (craigslist $230) and a punching bag (craigslist $20) - plus 3 packages of floor tiles from amazon $150. I'm trying to add one more piece in a rowing machine if I can find one. Measured my ceiling and the joists come in around 7", don't have an issue with being on the nordic track which is what I use for the games. During power plays and penalty kills i crank up the resistance but usually just keep it at a moderate level. The first period usually takes 45 minutes which burns enough calories to let me have a few beers without those going straight to my ass. The key to losing weight is your diet, you can exercise all you want but if you're overeating you won't make much progress, however, I've always found having a consistent exercise regiment keeps me honest with the eating. All you really need is to start finding 15 minutes a day and then building from there. Yeah, you'd want to see them at least pretend to try to win a puck battle. It's been tough to watch. I'll be curious to see if they can even get 10% of fans in the building once that's allowed.

This is the most underperforming team we've had since we've had a team capable of performing, so yes. We've suffered enough and at this point it's absurd how long this team has been a steaming pile of garbage. At least garbage eventually breaks down into compost and provides nourishment in the great circle of life. The Sabres just keep heaping more suck on a mile-high pile of suck and the only reason I still casually watch is it gives me an excuse to get some exercise. I've been building a home gym in my basement off of craigslist and when I don't have anything else going on I watch every first period from my nordic track skier and then have the game on the background while dinner is made / eaten. I have yet to actually cast a game on my television because it hasn't been worth the effort to do so yet. At least prior seasons they came out hot and gave us hope. It's all suck this year.

Looks like I picked the wrong day to start sniffing glue.

I've done some soul searching and I've come to the conclusion that tonight will be the start of 15 game winning streak for the Sabres.

Over / under on how many minutes it takes them to register a shot?

I've been holding out hope that Tage Thompson would start to show ANYTHING on the ice and that he'd be able to salvage an iota of value from the ROR trade. Maybe Ryan Johnson becomes the best defensemen ever and makes up for it? You can add "never adding a 2nd center after trading away ROR" as another blunder.

Conservatively predicting middtlestad scoring 6 tonight on Jack's wing.

Okposo has failed my "eye-test" with flying colors so far this year. I can't think of a single shift of his that I've been impressed with. All I've seen are weak clearing attempts on his back-hand, or skating the puck in over the line, hitting the breaks and then just dumping it in instead of making a play. He looks like he's too slow for the league. I thought it was a bad idea to give him an A when it happened and that looks like an even bigger joke now (assuming there's some stigma of sending one of your captains for a taxi-ride). A quick look at the stats sheet tells me that of all the Sabres to play 1 game so far this season, only Kyle (5 gp) and Asplund (1gp) have yet to register a point. I assumed that "3rd" line would be a shutdown line but those stats say otherwise. If it was up to me our 3rd line would be: Skinner - Lazar- Mitts/Tage and the 4th would be a combination of: Reider - Eakin- Sheahan/Okposo But what the hell do I know? It's also amazed me the 4th line is the only one that hasn't been tweaked yet.