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Yeah, but Dahlin was a turnover machine in the defensive end. He also badly misplayed pucks at times as well. I'm not worried, he is only 18, but it is what it is...you expect that from an 18 year old but not two vets like Risto and Scandella...

Dahlin is an amazing talent but he probably made the most poor defensive zone plays of anyone on the team by a mile. EDIT: He did, with a team leading 79 giveaways...Jack was second at 76 but many of his came in the offensive zone. Nobody else was even close. In comparison Bogo had 46, Risto had 44 and Scandella had 41

This was the most obvious firing of all time

You picked a good one..Pominville even got a well deserved send off if this is indeed his last home game...atmosphere was very fun tonight.

Murray's urgency saw the 17 1st and 2nd round picks we accumulated over the next 4 drafts that should have been the cornerstone of our rebuild whittle away to nothing

The problem with this rookie goaltender argument is other teams have rookie goalies step in and do very well...look at Philly...Carter Hart helped them go from worst team in the NHL to just being eliminated from the playoffs a few days ago...well after we were...his 2.77 .919 numbers are way better than Ullmark's too. Look at Jordan Binnington in St. Louis...posting stellar 1.85 and .928 numbers. Being a rookie holds no water for a goaltender doing poorly, as numerous others around the league do very well.

Who knows..we are going to finish pretty low so our odds of getting Hughes while not great are probably 1 in 10 or so...

It's working for Dallas...they have the 3rd fewest goals in the NHL but they are in a playoff spot because they have the 2nd fewest goals allowed in the NHL and have a +6 goal differential

Should have been in December when we could have still saved the season. I mean winning teams sometimes axe their coach 10 games before the playoffs start when they are in the playoffs... we sit on a coach who has no answers for 4 months

Lmao...you know its bad when down 4-0 in the third the PA Announcer says "One minute left in the period" and its the loudest cheer of the night...

If Housley doesn't get fired I dont know how they can justify brunging him back...there very well may be a fan mutiny.

This team is a disgrace.

They might have 2 generational talents on their team...Draisaitl might be a 50 goal scorer this year...he has 47 this year and has been a 70+ point player for the last 3 years now...exploding to 100 this year... Eichel has "exploded" from mid 50's and 60 point totals to near 80 points this year... I mean can we even realistically say Eichel is a better player than say Brayden Point, Mikko Rantainen or Mitch Marner right now?? I guess in defense of Eichel, he is the focus of every team's game plan since they know if they can limit him they will win the game...other teams have more depth and better players on other lines so they can't necessarily focus on them, and in some cases they aren't even the best players on their team...which then brings up the fact that maybe the reason they are able to score so many points and be higher than Eichel in this category is because they are playing against the 2nd best line and 2nd best D pairings every night instead of the top lines...or maybe because they have so many good players that they can rack up points with far less work because those players are going to score more...

Maybe because the Sabres feel the pressure of expectations... Eichel...Dahlin...Skinner...a retooled roster that started out great...and when the play started going South they panicked and didnt know how to right the ship...and when you look to your coach for answers and he gices you none you lose heart...you think its hopeless... This team seems like a team that simply doesn't believe their coach can help them right the ship or get them to where they want to go.

We need to find our Jake Guentzel and Conor Sheary type players in Rochester who can come up and make major contributions to the Sabres...so far we have not gotten much if anything from the farm with call ups...hopefully Nylander and Placed in can be key pieces next year...

I think Eichel was touted as being a player close to McDavid's level where we expected maybe a 15-20 point difference between them during the year but realistically it's appearing as if it's more like a 40 point difference. And that isn't what he was being touted as coming out.

The goaltending is really weird...they will make unbelievable saves to keep the team in it and then let in the softest goal or goals where you are like "Serously??" If this was game to game, they could probably have at least 6 or 7 more wins where they would be able to steal a game here and there with their goaltending...unfortunately, its period to period and sometimes even half-period to half-period where they will look all-world for the first 10 minutes and then give up 3 garbage goals in quick succession in the last 10 minutes. I mean how does that even happen??

Sadly, this may be true about Eichel... TB and Calgary have 3 players with more points. Colorado, Toronto, Edmonton, Pittsburgh, Winnipeg, Boston, Florida, and Chicago all have 2 players with as many points as Eichel(OK Toews only has 76 points but still...they also have DeBrincat with 3 fewer points than Eichel at 74) And several other teams have players with more points than Eichel as well. I mean look at McDavid and Dreisatl with 100+ points a piece(and still out of the playoffs). 77 points is a good season, but its tied for 27th in the league. Some of the players above him are good but not great players, and the 2 players he is tied with are Pastrnak and Bergeron who have played 11 fewer games, so realistically he is 29th. Should we be expecting more from him? Would we have gotten more from him if Skinner was still on the top line?

I dont get it...this team has enough good players that is should not be the worst team in hockey since the end of November but here we are again...so we went from the best team in hockey over the first 2 months to the worst team in hockey over the last 4 months. Basically after a good two month stretch to start the year, we are exactly the same team as the year before. How has this happened? This shouldn't be....im not saying we are a top team in the NHL but certainly this isn't the worst team in hockey either. Something has got to be going on with them mentally like they just have zero confidence and are a mentally fragile team to allow things to get this bad from where they were...

Isnt 10 years a long enough time that the Sabres should have some of this luck like almost every other team has had...sometimes multiple times during this timeframe...Chicago struck gold like 3 or 4 times with picks outside the top 10...

Bet they were covered pretty heavily when they were winning all those cups in the 80s...

No...I'm saying the only time the Sabres seem to get a good player who develops and puts up big numbers is if they are the first or second overall pick in the first round. Outside of Eichel, Reinhart and Dahlin in the draft what have the Sabres gotten in the past 9 or 10 years?? The Sabres have 3 first round picks this year...if they use all 3 they need to hit on 2 of them...no more getting nothing out of their mid round first rounders while teams beneath them draft stars.

I mean outside pick number 3 overall in the first round.... Reinhart was 2nd overall, Eichel was 2nd overall and Dahlin was 1st overall. Yeah i know Mitts is a rookie but there are a lot of rookies who put up good numbers these days...except none seem to be on the Sabres.

The difference between good teams an bad teams is that the good teams seem to at least get a few of these types of players every 8-10 years and the bad teams don't...I mean the Sabres have had really bad luck even getting players outside of the top 2 picks to develop into anything...who was the last Sabre player drafted at pick 3 or later that did anything for us? Middlestadt? Dude doesn't even have 30 points this year...

Right...we don't need to find 80 points scorers in the 2nd and later rounds necessarily, but we need to find at least a few 50-60 point players and a few 40-50 point players...we just can't have 10-20 point players or even worse, players that never make it to the NHL or only do so after we have traded them and given up on them...those are the players responsible for the secondary scoring that help win games when the top line is having an off night or when the defense breaks down and the top line needs help with a goal or two to pull out a high scoring game... I mean we have Eichel, Reinhart, Skinner as the top 3 all at or above 20 goals and 60 points and then we have Dahlin and risto right around 40 a piece and then the next highest forward is Conor Sheary at 32 points...that is just not going to get it done. Not unless we have tremendous team defense like Dallas does who has only scored 198 goals(13 less than we have) but have only allowed 191 goals and will make the playoffs. You can't both not score many goals AND have bad team defense if you are expecting to be good. I mean realistically it seems like it should be a pretty simple fix...we need to score about half a goal more per game and allow half a goal less per game. If we did that we would be in the playoffs because we would have a +30ish goal differential which would translate to probably 12 more wins or so over the course of the year...