Kruppstahl

I'm sure a huge factor in this is that the border is closed. There are a lot more Canadians in that building for a garden variety Sabres game than a lot of people think. It's a huge part of why the franchise is successful over the years. The Sabres are like the Bills: they have a regional fanbase. With COVID and the closed border, a huge chunk of our ticket base just got cut out of the mix. And of course what is left is so frustrated, they aren't interested in jumping through hoops to attend. I don't blame anyone.

Keep an eye on the covered up seats with sponsorship on them, down close to the glass. Those ads are going to remain there, even when people are back in the building! The fans in attendance will sit around the covered ad seats.

I think some people will pay to do that! And if Ralph is still the coach and things are still status quo in a week, I think we could hear some boos and see some signs. It might be the most interesting thing that has happened in a while. Looking forward to it.

Hutton is 1-7-1 with a 3.4 GAA and a .883 save percentage. Currently ranked 48th out of 50 goaltenders in the league. What could go wrong?

Not enough people seem to understand this. Pegula is the cause of all of it, and our problems will remain as long as he is the owner. Bills fans went through this for basically TWENTY years, not 10. When it is this messed up for this long, with all these changing parts, it can only be ownership. It's not just embarrassing! It's actually mathematically nearly impossible. ESPN's analytics department reported on the odds of the Bills missing the NFL playoffs for 17 years, and that was like 1 in 7 million as I recall. The odds of an NHL team--with its playoff structure as it is--not missing for 10 years in a row have to be pretty incredible. It's actually difficult to do something like that. Though Pegula does make its look rather easy! PS: Kudos to MODO for realizing the Krueger hire was a freaking joke the moment the news broke here. Not all of us were stupid enough to think this "outside the box" hire was a good idea. MODO has been onto the absurdity of this hire from Day 1.

"Getting your bell rung" is a concussion. It's a question of severity, with lots of factors at play.

Presumably the Sabres haven't been able to find any of the help they are looking for.

You don't get "do overs" with this type of thing! Either you show up when its unexpected and you are called to do something, or you don't. Last night, Miller stepped up and showed up when he had to. But after Ruhwedel's cheap shot on Dahlin, no one did a thing, and that was the cheaper of the 2 hits by a mile IMO. This is the Lucic incident in Boston all over again. Maybe next game we can send Paul Gaustad out there to crack some skulls like we did last time. LOL

There are a few guys on the team who will step up and fight when necessary. Jake McCabe comes to mind, though he's out now. NONE of them are actually good at it. Over the last many years, the league has gone from lots of fighters to few fighters; then for a while you had to be a good fighter but also a pretty decent hockey player to see a roster. That was sort of the Adam Mair type players. The hybrids. Now they're pretty much all gone too. This is why when teams actually get pissed off at each other and pair up, *nothing* happens! LOL! The people to do something about it just aren't on the ice anymore. It was no different in the '80s, if the wrong guys were caught on the ice at the wrong time. The difference being that the mistake could be corrected next shift or whenever the coach wanted to do it...the personnel was on the bench, somewhere. Now it's just gone for the most part. Not all teams are as soft as the Sabres right now, however.

Reports are that he was loopy and struggled to get into the locker room after the hit. So he had some type of concussion. He'll be OK...give him a couple days.

Yes. Ridiculously bad play with no awareness whatsoever of what was going on around him. LOL

Listening to Ralph's post game PC right now. He said "We don't want to use the language of excuse." Maybe he should try that. Could it hurt?

Dipping into the Sabres vs. Penguins vault for this one....

That's how I saw it too. Bob Errey doing Penguins color for the game immediately called it as such as well, for what that's worth. He suggested someone on the Sabres needed to respond and thought it was alarming that no one did. I wouldn't blow this out of proportion to some big thing given all the other problems surrounding the team. We have a solid shot at pushing our losing streak to double digits on Saturday. We need to focus on that. 😳

In the regular season? 14 in a row; 2014-2015. All-time NHL record is 18; that was Pittsburgh in 2003-2004. I've been cheering for the opposition for quite a while now; that definitely helps. Now I'm looking to see the loss streak become a new record. Something we can all be proud of achieving.

Did you hear Ralph's post game Presser? The ***** was spewing at full force. He had some great turns of phrase in there. The guy is so fantastically full of *****. I think it was at least somewhat dirty. Definitely poor judgment; he extended his leg/knee way out there. He knows what he's doing.

It's not how many you win or lose, it's how many you show up for. At least Miller showed up! Can't ask more from him in that situation. Ruhwedel's cheap-shot knee on Dahlin went totally unresponded to! It's not like Dahlin is important to our future or anything... This team sucks so bad. Yes, of course! No response on the knee was discouraging to see, but this entire team is a ***** show and has been that way for a long time. No surprises here.

Oh. LOL. Thought you were in NS.

Surprised you haven't made it down there yet. I've never been there myself; I watch the show too.

Claude, have you ever visited Oak Island?

He's almost certainly getting a second opinion b/c his primary physician is telling him surgery is necessary. Assuming the second opinion is similar, he will probably get the surgery done ASAP and miss the rest of the season. I'll be surprised if it doesn't play out that way.