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The thinking that new players are going to play their best right away and won't improve as they gain familiarity with their linemates and style of play has always been mind boggling to me. Like how is that not the default common sense thinking process people have? Johnson is just hammering people left and right...seems like he is bringing that nasty the D has been missing...Lyubushkin had it sometimes and Dahlin has started becoming menacing to a surprising degree, but neither are a "lay the lumber" guy like Johnson is consistently.

The Sabres sucked far too often at home last year and then reinforced it with a no-show opening night against the Rangers. They were one of the best road teams last year, but not very good at home far too often. If they want people in the building they need to start actually WINNING games at home and have a winning record. Nobody wants to go see games where there is a better chance of them losing and looking terrible half the time to boot and like they have no idea how to play defense. They had the 5th worst record at home in the entire NHL last year. The only 4 teams worse were the bottom feeders Columbus, Chicago, Anaheim and San Jose and they all finished over 30 points worse than the Sabres did. That's pathetic. Why would anyone want to spend money to see that type of crap performance? Yesterday was a good step in that direction...played exceptionally solid, especially on D and the PK.

Neither do my hips.

I thought they were exceptionally solid on D last night, even after Samuelsson went down. Tampa Bay had like 12 shots on goal almost halfway thru the 3rd period.

Cozens absolutely ripped that shot...Sabres dominated in OT including Power off the bar before that... Don't even think the Lightning ever even got possession of the puck. Deserved to win in regulation, they played a very solid defensive game for the most part last night frustrating the hell out of the Lightning and killing penalties with authority.

I'm lucky I don't drink, those prices are crazy! 😬 Usually go to Pearl Street prior to Sabres/Bandit games and just walk there. used to be nice when I worked at HSBC across the street and I would just go park in the lot for free right up close to the front and literally walk 50 feet across the street to the Keybank Center doors.

phew...thought it was going to be another 4-6 weeker with him...

Yakety Sax! A Classic!! Shoulda posted one that had the people running around on the show tho...

Maybe he needs to be like... "Back then, they didn't want me... Now I'm hot, they all up on me... Back then, they didn't want me... Now I'm hot, they all up on me... I'm Mike Bales!" He just needs to get some iced up grills in his mouth and be like "I'm Mike Bales! Don't act like you don't know my name... ain't nothing changed but my change, I'm gonna stay the same! Before Levi came... before I got my fame... these posters poppin' now didn't even know my name... they said UPL was lame... they said he had no game... I told 'em Levi was fixin' to blow, they thought I was insane..."

He started as their butler then turned into Lt. Governor...I mean what do you think a "Head of Household" is? It's a Butler. He is the person in charge of all the other staff members.

This would be like claiming an Administrative Assistant isn't a Secretary. It's a change in title, but the same thing.

probably because too many people have crowbars shoved up their ***** and need to loosen up a little and have some fun.

"The Butler just stole his coat!" (SHG) "The Butler just slammed the door in their face!" (ENG to seal a win) "The Butler said there is no place like home!" (scoring a key goal at KBC)

Benson...the TV show...he was a butler.

Don't be a hater...that name has so many possibilities on calls and fits him like a glove.

No, I just don't want them to be the best line. Thompson-Tuch-Skinner should be that line on most nights. That line can play the same, I just need better from the TST line.

Greenway-Mittelstadt-"The Butler" has been the best line by a country mile so far. That needs to change.

One, two... Freddy's coming for you... Three, four... Better lock your door... Five, six... Grab a crucifix... Seven, eight... Gonna stay up late... Nine, ten... Never sleep again...

Tage wrote in his letter that they can't wait to earn the fans back in the building...well, they definitely aren't earning anyone back in the building playing the way they did last night.

Come on Eileen...

well that wasn't how things were planned...just a bad game from start to finish pretty much.

like when the woman thinks she has a hot guy all to herself and is so excited until he pulls down his pants and he comes up...small...

do you realize how much offense the Sabres created last year due to Power's breakout/transition from his own end? There is NO WAY it's an overpayment simply based off that. He was off the charts good as a rookie at that. Defense takes a few years...that's usually the last part of the game to come.

Sounds like things got a little wild in London between the two... Guess they must have been listening to The Humpty Dance and they heard the line "I'm a freak...I like the girls with the boom...I once got busy in a Burger King bathroom", but they couldn't find a Burger King so they had to settle for "a Nando's bathroom" and got caught. Those thin walls in the UK I tell ya...

If you looked at the metrics of the way he started breakouts and odd-man rushes from brilliant plays and stretch passes from his own zone, you wouldn't be. The numbers were elite. Like top of the league for D-man elite. That's his first year...it's only going to get better and better. Power had a LOT more to do with this team being so high scoring than most people realize.