Bmwolf21

I know he never played a game in a Buffalo sweater, but he was part of the deal that landed us Drury: (From sabrefans.com/) July 03,2003 Sabres send Keith Ballard to Colorado for Steve Reinprecht. Sabres then trade Rhett Warrener and Steve Reinprecht to Calgary for Chris Drury and Steve Begin Second part is, like you said about Sarich - at that point, no one knows for certain that Ballard will develop into a quality NHL defenseman. He did, so that makes the deaL a little more even in terms of who got the best of it, but I'd still rather have Drury. ;)

Well then don't forget about Steve "we hardly knew ye" Reinprecht...You're right, Ballard would've ben agreat fit here, but I like Drury a lot and sometimes you've gotta give up someone you like to get better.

It gets even better - we got Warrener from Florida along with their 5th round pick, which we used to select Ryan Miller. Darcy should be in jail for getting whats turns out to be Chris Drury and Ryan Miller for an underachieving defenseman. IIRC the original deal (Peca/Mogilny) was a Muckler deal; it was Darcy who sent Wilson to Florida and Warrener to Calgary, but I could be wrong... http://www.legendsofhockey.net:8080/Legend...sp?player=15016 http://www2.sportsnet.ca/hockey/nhl/players/Rhett_Warrener/ EDIT: DAMN YOU SHRADER! You beat me to it.... ;)

Ward looks a little shaky - need to get some more pucks on the net and keep him moving around - he seems to be overplaying all the Sabres shots... Paetsch, Janik & Jillson look OK so far - Paetsch doing a good job jumping into the play and keep the puck alive at the blueline. Would like to see the forwards be a little stronger around their own blueline (JP Dumont & Grier had a couple bad clearing attempts that didn't hurt us) and need to see all the Sabres start to HIT THE NET!

No argument here... this team should start marketing Sabres-logo Tums and AED defibrillators...would be a huge market for them before Game 7... Nice to see Weight take a penalty to set up the whole thing...tired of listening to the OLN announcers keep talking about him & Recchi waiving their no-trade clauses for Carolina...

After Game 5, I don't know if I can take another OT game...my heart is pounding through my chest and throat...I can't take this! :blink:

Other D-man faked the shot before sending it over to Hedican...same premise applies - the forwards got caught in a grey area and hesitated on whether or not to challenge, block the shot, etc...

Can't really blame Staal, though - Carolina brought in Recchi to teach him those tricks, and it looks like Brind'Amour has added a couple lessons as well...

Brind`Amour did a great job of selling the phantom high stick as well. I really hope that the refs are embarrassed when they review the tape from this one... And I never want to see Grier head-manning a 2- or 3-on-1 rush again...he has average hands but aside from Max, I have never seen someone manage to lose the puck on his own as easily as Grier does...

The last PP, it looked like Max wasn't even interested in being out there.

Gerber didn't have to do much in the 2nd - all those "big opportunities" Davidson was talking about were shot right into his his pads & midsection - we apparently can't shoot upstairs tonight.

Shot was tipped - not Jillson's fault. Forwards - Dumont and Hecht come to mind - are being careless with the puck around our blueline. 1st period in the books, and we have some passengers tonight; kind of reminds me of game 2 - some guys are thinking "we'll win tonight and close it out Sunday" and aren't giving enough effort. Need some more desperation and faster puck movement on the PP, and we need some guys to get their a$$ moving to start drawing some penalties and get the PP until out there more. Finally - Max is absolutely killing me - he has completely reverted to early-season, doing-it-all-myself form and is getting acreless with the puck. Lindy needs to settle him down and get him spreading the puck around ASAP.

Might have been Mike Grier's worst shift all year long right there...nearly turns the puck over for a 2-on-1 and then gets blasted by his own guy...maybe that will wake him up...

Great second period - need to keep the foot on the gas in the third...

I think you're right about Campbell, we need to see him for what he is - a solid 5/6 guy who will/should make some plays on the PP. we really need to get Teppo or Kalinin back ASAP to take some of the pressure off Lydman, Tallinder & McKee...

I didn't want to single Rory out, b/c I know he is in over his head...if we can get either Kalinin or Teppo back, we can limit his ice time and limit his liability...also I didn't want to single him out b/c even McKee, Lydman and Campbell struggled at times last night.

Hopefully this game is a strong wake-up call for the boys - we have to play hard for 60 minutes and play our game if we want to win this series.

All right, I feel a little better, now lets go out and take care of business...stay out of the box, go back to punishing the Car "D" on the forecheck, and get some pucks on the net and we'll tie it up...LET'S GO BABY!

If we don't get either Numminen or Kalinin back soon, Carolina might wear down our D and we could be in big trouble. Not saying Janik or Rory are the problem tonight, just saying Car is going to keep beating up McKee, Lydman, Campbell & co. until they start turning over the puck all over the place.

They should be friggin EMBARRASSED by their 2nd period performance - there are a whole lot of Sabres who aren't going to want to see the tape of that period. I hope someone closes the lockerroom door and lights into the team - if you get beat by a better team that's one thing, but getting outshot 16-4 because you aren't paying the price to get the puck out of the zone, that's inexcusable. End rant... He was the best Sabre on the ice for most of the 2nd, and that ain't saying much...

Just missed a goal, thanks to OLN's ...err bonus coverage...

Didn't like the 4th goal, but not much he could do on the Forsberg goal - not gonna stop many players in the league when they get a run at a shot from that close, let alone one of the top players in the world... We have waaaaay too many players that are non-factors tonight, not just Max & Miller - what about Connolly, Drury, Kotalik, Grier...

I assume you mean soft in the terms of team "D", correct? Right now Forsberg is getting every bounce to go his way - that puck wasn't even headed for him but it hit someone and bounced right to him in the slot. There are a few players that need to wake up, and make their presence felt in the 3rd period - Drury and Briere, despite his goal, are both struggling; Dumont, Connolly and Kotalik have been non-factors overall; and Max scares me every time the puck finds his stick in our end.

Not a bad 1st period - would have been nice to get the third goal and open up a big lead going into the 2nd, but we won the period, and that's all that matters. Nice goal by Vanek, good to see the PP get one early.

WTF? TSN just switched coverage to the NYR-NJ game....which I am already getting on OLN! WTF????