Randall Flagg

lmfao - since when is Bruce the Nucks coach

Nice quick shot from Ollie

Love when Eakin steals Tage's entire shift

Please do not trade Hinostroza

Nice shot Mittsie

That name is stirring something deep in my blood memory, but I can't quite grasp it Perhaps a depth chart goalie in an NHL 15 be a GM mode years ago

So even if it's true that the Sabres have less pressure to perform than they would in a preseason game (I think this is just an exaggeration that is meant to emphasize the spirit of the claim) IMO that doesn't matter or shape what will happen on the ice, and doesn't have to doom its relevance to the future as "not at all"

I don't think the inherent pressure of "game importance" has played an appreciable role in the results for any Sabres team in the last 11 years. I could be convinced this matters in March IF you are in a playoff run, or in the playoff itself. So I don't think the Sabres' success this March, or lack of it in other months and other years, has to be explained away as random noise, or as a comfy equilibrium following the opening of a pressure release valve. There are explainable factors for other brief periods of success (Oct-Dec of 2018) when pressure was high, and for their downfall afterwards, which don't support or disprove the idea that those Sabres at that time were implicitly better or worse at handling the grind when games still mattered. The March games don't "matter" but that doesn't mean that you can't parse what is going right and believe that those things can be present, and potentially even improved, come the fall, and the argument IS made stronger by the general characteristics of March NHL hockey and how these results have distinguished themselves from years past. It's as valid of a thought process as the complete dismissal of anything that is going on. The comparison isn't being made directly between the March 2017 iteration of the Buffalo Sabres and the March 2022 version, but people are trying to tease out the causes for the difference and can reasonably argue that they've found tangible explanations rather than quantum fluctuations in the hockey-void What role did "no pressure" play in a win compared to the fact that Tage or Dahlin has figured something out, and which is more likely to leave its mark (or have its absence show) in October "when games matter" ? Everyone agrees either way that a lot of work needs to be done to make sure that the traits people are excited about can actually translate next year, and that work won't involve psychological conditioning to make sure players can do things when they're still tied with Boston, it will involve complementing the good things happening on the ice now with more good things at more positions where the Sabres are still lacking...ie the positions that are the reason the hockey right now doesn't matter

There are some higher numbers that could be incredibly aesthetic on the back of a half-tucked jersey worn by a monster defenseman. Hedman is example

I am also trying to build (or buy) a house in WNY. I'm a lot more lost, swamped, overwhelmed than Tuch is, I would imagine Go Sabres!

No joke, I'm pretty sure I remember that game. Pls lobotomize

That was a hard play for Tage to make. Sick

Wow, I just heard him on the radio recently. Very sad

Reminds me of Baltimore last fall.

Let the AFCN and AFCW eat themselves alive. Bills float to the top, only have to face two of these teams after they limp out of the wild card round

It feels like Calgary brings the same roster into every season and alternates between being a top 5 team and a bottom 10 team in any given year

They have always had a subpar roster outside of those two guys, but some nights the best two players in the league just go off

Theyre completely different players with completely different roles and skill sets. That Pats game was unique too. Bill just kept letting Bryant, a bad player, get toasted by Mckenzie on the same over route over and over again, never shifting coverage away from Diggs and Knox to help. Most coaches wouldn't keep doing that. Mckenzie was just faster than Bryant and always managed to find himself open on the over route. I've never seen him used to pick apart zones and establish that very tricky mental connection with josh, this is what Beasley was elite at I'm not even convinced Mckenzie can be a dependable WR when not completely ignored by a predominantly man defense. He's a really good gadget guy and i don't want to ASSUME he will be better than that without seeing it first, so I hope we draft and sign Beasley/Sanders' replacements even though I know we are probably only bringing in 1 more guy

They care, but they're outmatched and Connor/Leon are in prime form

Draisaitl is such a goofy looking, clunky hockey player. But he's so good

Keep throwing stuff at Smith, he doesn't look right

And it ain't over yet

This game will be good for the Sabres. Lots of feel-goody vibes for a team that still needs a lot of work put into it, work that Kevyn NEEDS to start now. The Oilers aren't even all that good

Cool it with the jinx attempt Dan

That ref waited for McDavid