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  2. GDT: 9th Dec. Habs visit. CBC, MSG-B, TVAS, SN360

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    Power and Levi will be fine. Unfortunately Power is going through the sophomore slump much like Dahlin did. We are putting way to much pressure on Levi to be a true number one goalie at this stage of his career. He will be a great goalie in the future IMHO but expecting him to be that in his rookie season is not reasonable. 

    KA is doing a terrible job of management. We all know the areas of mismanagement. He is way to slow to fix problem areas.

    Whoever is the power play coach should be fired immediately. The bills fired their offensive coordinator mid season, the Sabres need to take a lesson from them and get a new perspective looking at the power play.

  13. GDT November 30th Sabres @ Blues 8pm MSG, ESPN+

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    Very sloppy game at times for the Sabres. 

    KA is not going to do anything. I'm sorry, but he has had 4 years to fix the goalie problem. Not going to happen now. Which is sad.

    Everyone complaining about poor defense, I know, but we are happy with the offensive side of our defense. But not sure you can have it both ways. To get better defense I believe you will have to give up some on offense. To play this offensive D game you have to have a true elite goalie who can bail out the defense on a nightly basis. We don't even have close to what we need. 

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  17. Penguins (9-9-0) @ Sabres (8-9-2) Black Friday 6pm TNT

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    47 minutes ago, LGR4GM said:

    Until they get serious about icing the best team and stop with this making everyone their buddy shtick, idk where this team will go.

    Waive Bryson, send Levi down, callup Kulich or Rosen or both, bench E Johnson and give R Johnson more minutes, trade for a middle 6 guy and get olofsson off the team. 

    And get a competent goalie. We're going on What now, three years of sub par goaltending 

  22. GDT: 🏒 Buffalo Sabres @ New Jersey Devils 27 October 2023 7:00 PM MSG

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    4 hours ago, Randall Flagg said:

    This is exactly what my buddy and I were talking about when the Sabres got their fourth goal. Sometimes the hockey is wild, and you're clinging on for dear life, your goalie gets hurt, the other team is good, whatever. But when you get to 4-4 that late in the game, real hockey teams get the game to OT. They batten the hatches, find a way to at least get that point. We both knew what everyone in this thread and everyone on the bench knew - this game wasn't ever going to get to overtime. The goaltending was not going to hold up, the defensive zone coverage wasn't going to hold up, and the forwards were out of control, completely frazzled - they were whiffing, weak-wristed, couldn't bear down on anything. It was obvious and it didn't even bother me, because that is the team we chose to come into the season with. 

    Everything we needed to do but didn't do, every hole we needed to fill, was in a position that would help a team get through a game like this one. We never did those things, and so the game played out just like it did last year. Whatever. That's what they wanted, that's what they get. They can deal with the consequences when it all plays out one way or another. 

    The Sabres desperately needed a vet who can play forward, especially as Okposo gets older. It's clear that whatever he can bring to a game mentally and with experience isn't going to help with how limited he now is as a player. We needed a shift from one or two players just like this, to settle things down and get the game tilted more evenly in the third. The Quinn injury only added to the heaping pile of reasons to make an addition like this. But Kevyn didn't do anything. And he won't.

    The Sabres desperately needed a goalie they could rely on in the event that Levi struggled with his first time experiencing this workload and this level of hockey for an extended period of time. A real goalie, that has been there before. They stuck with the three headed monster, Comrie who can't ever stay healthy, UPL who just can't play and will never play in an NHL game where he allows fewer than 3. Well, Levi was overloaded after being played 4 games in a row, Comrie got hurt, and UPL led the team in melting down, just as you'd expect. Kevyn had every reason to make an addition with foresight for a game like tonight or a start like this. But Kevyn didn't do anything. And he won't, even with these injuries. 

    He has told us this all along, and we should listen to him

     

    they are 25% of their games played under .500, which would correspond to 20 games under .500 if extrapolated, hence last place pace

    Agree 100% with what you said. All the success KA has had in other areas (signing good contracts ect.) is completely wiped away by his failure to address obvious needs in the lineup.  And this goes all the way back to his hiring. 

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