DarthEbriate

It really feels like it should be 8-0

Is that the first time a Sabre went to the net all game? And it happened to be a poor decision as a 1 on 4.

Montreal is playing like a team that's been embarrassed all season and is out to fix it. The Sabres have been embarrassed for 7 years... and tonight as well.

All Caufield needed was a shorter coach.

Montreal is treating us like Boston has treated us the past 7 years. Edit: Or Tampa. They step up their attack and there is no response whatsoever.

Good start to the third, there.

Ouch.

Pulling Okposo's and VO's all-around game and savvy out of this lineup does disastrous things. Unless Biro makes up for it with a multi-goal game...

Montreal earned the penalty shot and this 2-goal lead.

Dahlin, you can't just stop playing there. They're all hurt. And he wins face offs.

Zhitnik loved them.

They escaped despite Okposo and Olofsson in carbonite. Now... spin that ship around and go back and rescue Tuch, and get away with a win. Or at least a point.

Ralph Krueger was 9-2-1 at one point in his coaching career.

Don't punish yourself. Do not worry about the alternate at the expense of the moment. Be mindful of the living Concept Of.

For as horrible as they've been.... only 7 shots against. It feels like Montreal should have a 16-4 shot advantage.

Thanks, Mr. Anderson.

And Weber, Perry, Danault, Kotkaniemi, and even Byron. They were crushed up and down the lineup. And the goaltending was garbage. Hutton-level.

All-out attack from Montreal, skating hard, and forcing errors. I love their game thus far. They look like an all-out try-hard team, despite little talent. That's admirable.

Just plain punishing us on the forecheck.

I don't like Gallagher. But I do wish some of our players forced turnovers, went to the net, and gave the extra hack like that.

There's something strangely enthralling about Patrick's shorts-sporting arms. 100 bpm open/close. Just keeping time on the Sabres' season.

For today, I'd play Biro on PP2 right side. He's on the Amerks PP. Shoots left so he presents the one-timer option.

Don't everybody thank me at once. Anyway, we should be at Alderaan the Canadiens at about oh two hundred hours. But what time zone? Is that the local time or Space Time? Okposo and Girgs are very good bottom 6 (middle-six for Okposo in the right lineup) NHL players who would fit in just about anywhere in the league. They provide a stability on the ice that the revolving door of JAGs for this franchise can cycle through. We'll miss them tonight. My concern is now on the PP. Okposo and Olofsson (when healthy) both give us the quality shot on the right side as a balance to Thompson's one-timer. The positive spin of missing them both is that the team will have to work harder and add more movement to generate shots. It might just wake the PP up a bit.

Lee-a/Leia, Han/Hahn, Bye-ro/Beer-o. It's an older pronunciation, but it checks out.

I like Seattle's Three Stars Salmon. Instead of just skating a circle and tossing a stick or whatever, the players are given a plush salmon to wave around and chuck over the glass. It's sort of a reverse octopus toss in Detroit. It also mimics the Pike Place Market throwing fish. Rumor is the plan is to have a different local fish species each season. This year, the salmon is 22 inches long because that's the regulation catch length size of the particular species. If it were smaller, you have to throw it back, but you get to keep it. It's informative and fun.