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Dahlin is showing signs of life

Poor Skinner. Can't buy a goal

Dahlin is looking better

Tokarski has looked calm so far - what the Sabres need. He feels reliable. Maybe he will get lit up, but maybe he'll be a decent enough backup to hold us in this game

This could be good for them - few days to articulate visions etc. explain new style of coaching (all assuming they want to implement changes). Some time for reflection and rebuilding

I've never seen a trade so public be so drawn out. Normally news drops minutes not hours before it is announced

Dahlin had a few nice moments

Out of interest, given the assistant coach has been made the head coach - how much real change are we expecting? I would imagine Don had an input on the style of the Sabres play and therefore I expect them to broadly play the same way - e.g. Dahlin passing to wingers and not skating with the puck.

I don't see the Sabres keeping Eichel into next season. Dude is already checked out. What is sad, is if he actually tried this season i think we would have had a shot. He had 6 points in his first 3 games. We lost and that broke his spirit - when we needed our captain to step up and lead this team, I think he just broke and quit. Since then he has 9 points in 15 games. 8 of his 15 points are secondary assists - he is often not the one creating the chances. As for the point about a player of Jack's calibre not making the playoffs for so long - Jack is less than a point per game player across his career and plays mediocre (at best) defence. Crosby can pretty much play with two mops on his wing and he'll make them seem like serviceable NHL players. I am not fully blaming Jack - it is unfortunate that Sam and Skinner seem to be unable to drive lines themselves. But I don't see how you really recover from this.

In the last 17 games, we have scored over 3 goals precisely 0 times...

Or he hurt himself in NJ and twinged it during the warm up

Flash of what Eichel once was just there

Lazar is our top line C. Good for him. Making the most of his time. Skinner with Mitts and Sheahan could be nice

If our shooting percentage was normal for the team it would translate to just under a goal per game. We are low because we are unlucky so far in my opinion

Except when he's not doing it. Lazar, never famed for his goal scoring, has managed 4 goals on the 4th line. Jeff is on track for less than 6 points in an 82 game season. That is Andrew Peters territory. And Peters never saw PP time

The Skinner stuff is odd. There must be some drama behind the scenes. Even a punishment benching is usually 1-2 games at most

Cliff notes?

If there is one thing I have learnt from the last decade of being a Sabres fan, it's that just one more coach might be what we need to fix all our issues

96.2 PDO for the season. Has to change at some point. Right?

I fully expect a shutout. And not the good kind.

Across an 82 game schedule, Eichel is on track for 11 goals. How many one goal games have we lost? Eichel - 11 Hall - 5 Skinner - 0 Okposo - 0 The issue with this team isn’t the defence, goalies or cheap forwards. Those four players combine for $33.5 million and would be on track for 16 goals in a normal season.

Man that's basically his entire knee

Squeaking still counts for 2. Be still my beating heart.

Quite a fall from the NHL

He's out for a while. No Risto. No McCabe. We've lost our grit Flashes of life from Dahlin this game