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More experience. There are going to be ups and downs and growing pains for the youngest team in the NHL. Lessons to learn, mistakes to make, and things to figure out. That is probably half of it. Comrie has been a little disappointing based on what he did last year with a not great Winnipeg D in front of him that allowed similar types of chances as the Sabres do. Maybe a few less breakaways tho...except he stops most of those. Need to be better at not turning pucks over in the O Zone trying to be creative but get a little too careless and turn pucks over for odd man rushes back the other way against. Samuelsson has been a major loss. He is by far their best traditional D man. Joker to a lesser degree, mainly because of who they have had to put in his place. It's not time for that yet. Maybe next year we can discuss that. Right now it's make incremental improvements to get you close to the playoffs...I have said from the beginning this is likely an 87-90 point team this year.

Joker is likely ready to return, he has been skating and practicing in a non-contact jersey.

I'm honestly more concerned with the forwards turning the puck over in the offensive zone leading to breakaways and odd man rushes the other way. They have become WAY too careless there. It's one thing to try and be creative, another to do so carelessly without any rules in place. 6 goals against the last 2 games off of Sabre deflections certainly hasn't helped either.

Possibly because he gets hurt and is out 6-8 weeks or more every year? Samuelsson has been a massive loss. He is by far their best defensive defenseman.

He is turning into a superstar. I don't think there is any denying it at this point. Basically the Sabre version of Josh Allen.

One thing I will say...Thompson is a freaking star

Comrie has made some good saves but allows too many "meh" goals and is not good at making big saves when the team needs them to either keep the lead or prevent a team from taking or extending the lead. His 3.62 and .885 save percentage have to be among the worst in the NHL. I'm thinking he needs to take a breather and let Anderson play more. Maybe sitting and observing will help him.

Going to have to figure out how to stop with these dumb turnovers leading to odd man rushes. Is one thing to be offensively minded, it's another thing to be careless in the offensive zone leading to odd man rushes in transition.

Just aren't good enough yet to play competitively with good teams missing starting defenders

Can we get a damn save from Comrie when it matters??

Pretty clear how important Samuelsson is to this team...he is the only one who plays a solid stay at home D game that can neutralize some of these chances other teams keep getting

How many times are we going to get goals off Sabre players?? Is that 6 in the last 2 games?? This is getting ridiculous

He is an entitled punk. Always has been, always will be.

You got that backwards. Nobody wants an entitled punk as their leader.

I have Disney+ but wasn't aware they were offering that bundle until after I renewed just Disney+ by itself. That sucks with the MSG thing...I just stream from my laptop, very reliable site for that and it carries every game.

Did you get the Disney+ package with Hulu and ESPN+ bundled?

Didn't Raddysh score the goal to either tie or give TB the lead when they were playing us a few days ago?

He could have been traded for "future considerations" which I think can be just about anything, so that would have been the closest.

That's true. What I meant was they didn't draft him for his abilities to be a downhill run defender. They drafted him to be a formidable pass defender. They knew he was never going to be a Ray Lewis against the run.

The problem is not understanding Tremaine is exceptional at taking away passing lanes and passing options over the middle of the field which gives teams easy completions normally. They don't get those same easy plays against the Bills. People are still stuck in the mindset that he needs to be some huge run defender or blitzer, but that is not what the scheme is about nor how they use him.

I am honestly unsure how Risto became a defenseman to begin with growing up. At what point did teams not realize that he was constantly on the ice for goals against them or that he would be either unaware a wide open guy was standing behind him like 3 feet away for an easy goal or that he would be off in the corner trying to hit someone while the puck went to his guy standing all alone for an easy goal? His on ice defensive awareness might be the worst I have ever seen.

Hahaha, one of the worst trades in recent memory...Adams fleeced the Flyers pretty badly. But Risto thought the Sabres were the problem...well, seems like he might have been the much bigger problem. While Tortorella has plenty to be pleased about, there is one player who isn't playing up to the 64-year-old's standards. Defenseman Rasmus Ristolainen missed the first six games of the season with an unspecified lower-body injury and has been held without a point with a minus-4 rating in the four contests he's suited up in. That's simply not good enough for Torts. “He just hasn’t met expectations,” Tortorella said on Monday. “He needs to play better. I’m not going to go that much deeper into it, but I don’t think he’s played well enough. He’s going to get another crack at it. But in everything about his game, I think he needs to be better.” https://www.yahoo.com/sports/nhl-flyers-coach-john-tortorella-rips-rasmus-ristolainen-for-poor-play-161339665.html

Nothing new.

Need to get back in the big dub column.

That was my prediction I made before the season and I'm sticking to it!