Randall Flagg

Tage had at least 2 shifts in OT

The bold might not be true though. It certainly wasn't true for Sheary last year, who scored a goal on a goalie one single time in a 43 game span while we fell out of contention. If these guys aren't actual good hockey players, production aside, then we are going to continue having the same problems that killed our season last year. And they don't have strong track records of being good hockey players, production aside.

The Bills are behind just two teams in number of 70+ yard TD drives. And sure, they faced some bad defenses - so did the teams above them, which faced NYG, ARI, MIA, and WSH

But how many points did Matt Donovan have??

I desperately need these guys to make a big trade or something. Ever since I re-watched those games for that project, I've been in a hockey malaise, and as things stand, this is the least excited I've ever been for a Sabres season by a large margin.

This game is disgusting and neither team deserved even a fraction of one percent of the attention they got this offseason.

Random thoughts: This is unscientific, but I enjoyed how often it appeared that Dahlin and Jack were on the ice at the same time. I'd try to make that happen as often as possible within reason during the season. The lighting in that arena was terrible. Initial thoughts on Joki are that he should get top pairing minutes in Rochester. Scandella had the best play of the night, batting a puck out of mid-air around a guy and then beating him to it in the corner and getting it out of the zone. Dahlin skates even better than last season, but PA would be sad to hear about that Pittsburgh breakaway goal! Beautiful pass to Sheary though. Tage was fine, but did not look different from how he did last preseason. Gotta see him play against real players. Nothing really stuck out super far positively or negatively, which makes sense given what the game was

I'd play Jack, Jeff, Rasmus in one more preseason game, but no more than that

Gilmore/Gilmour is pretty fast

Deliberate offside! Refs suck!!! Lol nevermind

If I were coach, stretch-pass icings for plays that would not result in breakaways or 2 on 1s would result in bag skates

Pretty sure in the tank year we took Carolina to OT at 4-4 while being outshot something like 50 to 15 lol Sabres fans were nooooooot happy a goalie coach will not bring returns in the first preseason game in Penn State Arena with the AHL backup

"Thinking instead of reacting" is 100% going to be the new "five man attack, activating the D" Like it's fine, but if Rob is gonna talk about it 8 times per game it's going to drive me nuts Was a single one of Skinner's 40 goals a slap shot?

9 to go.

Some "home game." Typical Pegulas!!!! (1000000000% joking) The score of this game is roughly as relevant to how I feel about this game as the color of the Sabres' jerseys is I would be so depressed right now if Skinner had left

Cozens with a very nice shift before breaking his stick.

Honestly that Eichel shift was the least-encouraging one of the night - the way Vesey and Sheary just sat there in front of the net while Jack and Dahlin and Joki were forced to go 3 on 3/4 with very little room. Move around guys! Make some lanes!

That's one of those Dahlin plays everyone magically forgets 2 days after it happens!

Besides last year's preseason of course, in which he was also excellent Fairly often, honestly, it's just most NHL RHD don't look like the Pens' did there ? Our transition game last year gets dumped on too much (not saying that's what you're doing here)

Ragin' Tage

Joker is a little too aggressive in the neutral zone when there's nobody behind him in this game. He's almost gotten burned a couple times, lucking out each one

The Joker! Joker's trick What happened to that man's teeth

Lmao that was some vintage Sabres power playing

WoUlD BaMa bEaT tHe BiLlS

Mahomes is/will be a GOAT-level player. It's also true that his WRs had like by far the most separation of any other QB's last year, isn't it? I've never seen a guy get so many wide open looks for TDs. So he's definitely helped a lot by scheming and talent, though he'd certainly still be ridiculous without it. But yeah I wish we had Mahomes