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Sabres are on a tear and the best part about it is they are so offensively gifted they can simply outscore teams at times... Would like to see them a little better with leads heading into the 3rd but that type of stuff comes with experience. Bottom line is they are coming from behind at times to tie games and then win in OT, and they have also shown they can put teams away in regulation too.

I just wish they wouldn't make it so hard on themselves to put games away. I just think eventually that tends to wear you down mentally and emotionally. But they are young and have a lot of jam so maybe they are more capable of weathering it than an older team of vets.

Didn't get a chance to watch the game live but saw the updates and just watched the highlights...man that building was rocking. Looked like a super fun game to be a part of...I think both goalies will be wishing they had a few of those goals back last night...overall great effort to come back to tie and win in OT, but my lord, what is with them allowing goals in the first 2 minutes of the 3rd with 2+ goal leads?? Has happened a lot recently...

Good Lord!! I am hurting just from thinking about it... And he finished the game that it happened in 😱😱 https://sports.yahoo.com/jets-blake-wheeler-ruptured-a-testicle-last-month-vs-predators-222806472.html Wheeler returns to the Jets lineup on Friday after missing three weeks with a ruptured testicle he sustained against the Predators last month.

They also are the highest scoring team in the NHL even with some teams having 5 games in hand. What's the saying? "Drink whiskey out of boots"?

So replace someone who is starting to play well with an unknown? No chance.

Comrie has sucked. I'm sorry. No excuses for him. He has pretty much allowed 1-2 non-NHL goals in every game other than the first game this year. I was all about him getting his chance here after putting up great metrics last year in limited time, but he has been awful mostly. I don't care who the competition is, you can't allow weak goals from barely inside the blueline with absolutely nobody in front of you where you simply get beat cleanly. Sabres cannot afford to be put in a situation where they start losing games 7-6 or 6-5 or 5-4 again every night because he can't stop a beach ball from way out. And why the hate for Anderson? He has been the most consistently good goalie the Sabres have had this year REGARDLESS of who he was playing and backed by the metrics.

Hey now...you're an all-star, get your game on, get paid!

It's crazy to think but he has no clue what has transpired since he got up from making the tackle and then collapsed.

The Sabres get it too...obviously Kevin Adams growing up here as the GM understands it better than anyone and I am sure that has been shared with the players and they seem to embrace it...

That's My Coach! *sniffle*

Comrie was allowing bad goals...not legit goals...goals you were like...huh? Goals you'd be yelling at your goalie in a beer hockey league for letting go in, that shouldn't be a goal at the NHL level. Ever. So the Sabres are forced to score 6 goals a night every game if they want to have any hope of winning? No thanks...I was big supporter for him coming here, but he can stay in Rochester or get waived for all I care right now.

Why? Anderson has been better than either of them. I damn sure don't want to go back to seeing Comrie allowing 1-2 softies leading to 5+ goals allowed night in and night out again.

That time is coming. Maybe not this year, but next year it would be shocking if they aren't comfortably in the playoffs.

Our daughters earn money by doing various household chores, which they negotiated prices with myself and my wife...wife tried to lowball them on some things and they agrees(kids don't always know how much things are worth), so I told them to never accept the first offer and that they needed to negotiate a better deal for themselves. We haggled for a bit and came up with a price chart for things. There are chores available for them to do on a daily, semi-weekly and weekly basis and it's up to them to choose what they want to do, but they only earn money for the work they put in. Oldest usually earns about $30-35 a week and the youngest $15-20.

Not faint praise and when you are the youngest team in hockey and also the highest scoring team in hockey even with some teams having 5 games in hand currently, it isn't undeserved.

Really good article from Pierre LeBrun: https://theathletic.com/4058153/2023/01/05/tage-thompson-sabres-trade/

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Toronto Media doing their best:

Hmm...you may not be wrong...stunning difference between numbers with Power on the ice versus him off the ice in terms of goals scored. The Verdict Simply put, Owen Power is having one of the better seasons we have ever seen from a defenseman his age in the NHL. While his point production may say otherwise, he is a defenseman who has been able to create offense in non-traditional ways. He plays the game in a selfless manner, always looking for ways to manipulate time and space to allow his teammate to create. It’s very easy to see why the Buffalo Sabres took him 1st overall in the 2021 NHL Draft as he is pretty much a coach’s dream on the blue line. Will he ever develop Rasmus Dahlin’s finishing ability? Probably not, he’s never really been a volume shooter. Will he ever play with the same flare as Rasmus Dahlin? Also, probably not. He really does not have to do either of these things to be an effective offensive defenseman and this season is showing that. Dahlin and Power are two players who attack the game in different but good ways. I do think there may be room for him to grow his point production as he becomes more confident with his individual skills in the offensive zone. Also, the fact that his team is scoring so much with him on the ice, he’s bound to pick up more points. However, his individual numbers have no bearing on whether or not he can be an effective offensive defenseman, as this season has illustrated. Think of him as a supercharger of offense on the backend of the ice. He will make the good offensive lines (especially rush-heavy lines) better as he generates time, space, and opportunity for them to make the magic happen on offense. He also makes the poor offensive lines viable offensively by giving them the puck under better conditions. He could be better on the defensive side of things, but that could be said of any 20-year-old defenseman in the NHL. That will improve in due time, making him an even bigger net positive presence when he is on the ice. https://thechargingbuffalo.com/2022/12/30/owen-power-the-secret-ingredient/ So Basically Dahlin is the guy who can carry the puck, go through the other team and make them look silly at times and Power is the guy who will draw forecheckers in while backing up and then send laser pinpoint passes to send the offense in on 3 on 2 breaks from his own end.

I don't think anyone is putting a 100+ point player behind 3 other dudes...maybe Dahlin, but that is it.

Uh...did you watch when he scored 4 goals in the first period against Columbus?

Have you not seen Tuch or Girgensons over the last few games?