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Meh, Thompson.

Sobotka couldn't be more useless.

USA beats Russia 2-1. Heading to the gold medal game.

Those middle two lines would be no better than what they have now, and the first line wouldn't be as good as it is now.

Eichel and Skinner have 35% of the Sabres total goals. If you want to distribute scoring on the current roster, those are the guys to move. It is a horrible idea, and that's why JBots has got to make some moves to fix the rest of the roster.

The problem is that if you want to distribute scoring, the guys to break up on that line are Eichel and Skinner. If you want a playmaker/scorer combo, then the move should be something like Eichel/Reinhart and Mittelstadt/Skinner. And, at this point, that's just a bad idea.

Yeah, they'll be dealing with his contract long after they're done with him.

Skinner is just a born-goal scorer. The Sabres either need a legit 2nd line center, or they need another Skinner to team with Casey.

Problem is that you would have three playmakers and no scorers on that line. Maybe if Olafsson is ready to come up, you can put Casey, Reinhart and Olafsson together.

Yep, no doubt. That trade could have been made at any time before the deadline. Jbots could have kicked the tires with O'Reilly's attitude, which would have probably improved with the team's improvement, over the first 20 games of the season.

Their numbers were not as good with Pomminstein as they are with Reinhart. That's my point.

He's a playmaker, one of the best in the league. His numbers would go down with less-skilled players, but Eichel's and Skinner's numbers would go down too.

He's also a key reason that those two elites are averaging a point a game. Scandella's goal tonight started with a two line pass from Reinhart that set Skinner free. He's made a ton of passes like this this season. His passing is first-rate, and he's made both Eichel and Skinner more productive.

Reinhart is a key contributor to this team. He is one of the best playmakers in the league. There is nothing wrong with the 1st or 4th line. The 2nd and 3rd lines are trash.

When you hate losing on this team, the GM trades you away for trash.

Time for changes on this team. Way too many passengers.

Yet at this point, after watching Sabotka do next to nothing the past 4 weeks, I say give Smith a shot.

ROR is the 2nd center the Sabres need. Toobad their GM traded him away before he realized this.

The Vanek-led Sabres used to make the excuse that they got too caught up trying to put on a show for the crowd when they lost home games. Tonight's game reminded me of those games. The team got too satisfied with its early success, lost urgency as the game went on, and got roughed up in the third.

Just a frustrating game. Total lack of puck luck, but at the same time, the Sabres need to play a more desperate game.

Anytime that secondary scoring wants to kick in would be good right now.

Feel like we just time-traveled to last year

Make 'em pay for it here Skinner

Skinner needs to give ERod pointers on finishing. Gotta put that one up high.

Heidi goal