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If you think the Sabres are bad...the Sens continue to show they are simply a tire fire... The new CEO was hired after an extensive search so he could lead the team for the next decade according to the Sens owners but he lasted only 2 months haha https://sports.yahoo.com/senators-fire-ceo-they-just-hired-8-weeks-ago-154711468.html

I don't buy it...Botterill has not been acting like a person trying to save his job, he has been acting like a person who knows he is being given time to implement his plan. Whether it works or not is a different question.

This team blows..constantly blowing 2 goal leads...WTF??

How do you keep fans from selling their tickets? Easy. Make them want to go to the games by putting a good product on ice that makes the playoffs for once in the last 10 years. JFC, had to endure the longest playoff drought in the NFL with the Bills and now having to endure the longest playoff drought in the NHL with the Sabres...WTF!

I have several that I can't decide between... 1) Hannan's 4OT goal against NJ to give the Sabres the 1-0 victory -- "This series is going back to where Jimmy Hoffa is" as Lorentz lets out a surprised little giggle 2) Jason Wooley's OT goal in the 1st game of the Stanley Cup Finals..."Jason Wooley!! Jason Wooley!! The shot heard round the world! The shot heard round the world!!" 3) Brad May's OT winner to beat Boston---"May Day! May Day! Brad May!!" 4) Pominville's game winner in OT against the Sens to sweep the series---"Now do you believe?!? Now do you believe?!?!? These guys are good...scary good!!" 5) Drury's goal to send the Sabres into OT with 7 seconds left against the Rangers combined with the shots of thousands of Party in the Plaza people going nuts... "The score!!!!!!!!! Buffalo Scores!!!! Chris Druuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuury!!! Who else!?!? Who else?!? Chris Druuuuryy has tied it at 1 with 7 seconds left!" And the ref pointing to the back of the net emphatically like 15 times while skating over there and then... 6) Afinigenov's subsequent goal in OT of the Rangers game to give the Sabres the come from behind win... "Maxim Afinigenov!! Blooooooooowwwssss it by Lundquist!! Maxim Afinigenov!! Gives Buffalo the win in OOOOOVVVEEEEEEEERTIMEEE!" And obviously any number of the La-La-La-La-LaFontaine calls were awesome

It was discussed on WGR that Tallon might be old school and believes that you don"t trade good players within the division.

Maybe, but Toronto is not on a 94 point pace playing the way they did the last 10 games...they are on an 87 or 88 points pace....if that continues the Sabres have a chance. Their defense and goaltending is atrocious...they can score with anyone but they have to win games 6-5. Same with Florida who has allowed even more goals than Toronto... The only 2 teams that have allowed more goals than Toronto and Florida in the NHL are the Devils and the RedWings, two of the worst teams in the league. No team is ever out of the game against either of them... Honestly they are almost the exact same team...Toronto has 220 goals for and 210 against in 63 games and Florida has 217 goals for and 212 against in 62 games.

Simple...they are only 4 and 6 points back of those teams not 12 points back like they are of the Metropolitan teams. Simple math.

Far be it from me to predict this will happen, but both Florida and Toronto have been pretty bad lately, and the Sabres have closed to within 6 points of the Leafs for the final playoff spot with a game in hand, that could make it 4 points if they win that. Part of the issue people had was looking at last month in regards to their playoff chances were all the teams they would have to leapfrog for the wildcard spots, but that is a pipe dream right now as there is no way they are catching any of those teams or leapfrogging that many in the Metropolitan division. However, with Toronto and Florida struggling and the Sabres finally surging a little bit, it has brought them to within realistic striking distance of the 3rd divisional playoff spot in the Atlantic, something nobody could have predicted when the season started, and not that hard to imagine them leapfrogging 2 teams instead of 5 or 6. I don't think anyone thought the Sabres would have a better shot at making the playoffs by finishing 3rd in the division versus getting in as a wildcard. That being said, do you think the Sabres make this last month and a half of hockey interesting down to the wire or do they fade away into the abyss at some point again?

Sheary reminded me of a much less productive Afinigenov. Like Maxim, he would often skate really fast with the puck but end up doing absolutely nothing and you would scratch your head many times wondering what he was thinking...at least Afinigenov had 3 20 goal seasons and a couple of years with 60-70+ points... Also, just saw Afinigenov is STILL playing in the KHL...has scored 8 goals with the Moscow Dynamo this year in 37 games at age 40...

Basically this guy is another Kyle Okposo that can hit... He has 8 goals and 24 points in 61 games...kind of the same stat production per game Okposo has put up in 45 games...

Who cares about a 5th...

Don't look now but the Sabres are 6 points behind Toronto with a game in hand for the 3rd playoff spot in the division.

Stage is set for a 3rd period collapse. Pens score an early one to make it 3-2 within a minute of the 3rd period starting and then the Sabres collapse to give up 4 straight losing 5-3. Book it.

Kind of reminds me of opening night where the Sabres slapped the Pens and won easily.

2-0. Perfect. Time for the collapse to begin.

I think Olofsson might be the first good forward the Sabres have taken outside of the 1st round in 10 years...this is what has hurt them most...not having the role players from later rounds able to fill in adequately in the bottom 6 to help chip in with secondary scoring. Pretty much every team has found 4 or 5 players at least during this time frame in the later rounds, the Sabres just found 1, but he is turning out to be a pretty damn good one...he actually is producing at a higher rate than Reinhart, nearing .9 points per game played to Samson's .8

Skinner will be fine. He has been playing with hot garbage for most of the time this year...wouldn't you be frustrated too?

Also did not realize that Dahlin is 3rd in scoring for all players in his draft class with 80 points...pretty impressive as a defenseman. Only Svechnikov from Carolina with 93 and Brady Tkachuk from the Sens with 83 have more and both are forwards...this kid is going to be a superstar

For a 2nd overall pick, I agree he is...especially when Draisatl's comparables are all HOF players pretty much while Reinhart's are Darren Turcotte and Kris Versteeg. Pastrnak was also out there and didn't get selected until the 25th pick. Those are the only 2 players with signifcantly more points than Reinhart in their careers. Draisatl has 407, Pastrnak has 368 and then Larkin and Point have 255 then Reinhart with 253...although Point has over 100 games less played in the NHL than Reinhart. Reinhart has settled in the past 2 seasons to about a .8 point per game player so that isn't terrible and he should produce 20-25 goals and 65-70 points a season as long as he is playing with Jack, but I am wondering who else could be producing like that with Jack? If Reinhart was on his own line away from Jack, what would he be producing? I fear it would probably be maybe 2/3 of what he is now...

About time...that place should have closed 20 years ago

I mean in the NHL teams draft players in the mid 1st round hoping they will become 3rd line players. No other sports league does that. Could you imagine an NFL team drafting someone at pick 15 hoping he will someday be a 3rd string player on their team or a great Special Teams player? It's absurdity.

Why trade these guys for next to nothing? Whats the point? What is a 6th or 7th round pick getting us?

Always seems he gets good results short term but fails long term as a coach... https://www.espn.com/nhl/story/_/id/28701145/wild-fire-coach-bruce-boudreau-playoff-surge

I have always read that they should be given sugar or something with easily absorbed sugar that can be turned into glucose quickly as well