sabresouth

There is no doubt the only reason we are still in the hunt is because of Levi. If we were still going with the other three we would have been eliminated before now. So as long as Levi says he's good, run him.

What a win. Dahlin with a great game. I'll give them credit for keeping the pressure on after they scored the go ahead goal.

Let's go SABRES!!! It's April 8th and the dream is still alive..... barely. Just win. Find a way.

Wild one. But we got the two points. The dream is still alive on life support. I agree with most. At least 3 of the goals were not on Levi. Levi will need some help next year. It's too much to expect him to make the jump from college to first string starter in the NHL in his first year. I hope KA brings in a true 1a to tandem with Levi next year.

Absolutely. Tage knew the importance of this game and was going to play if at all possible. Sometimes that's not good because there may be a healthy player that could do better and you don't want to risk reinjury. It's a judgment call between player and coach and you hope they make the right call. But you definitely want that attitude.

Play Levi. He's the best goalie we got. We are still in it however slight it is. Crazier things have happened. LET'S GO BUFFALO!!!!

You have more faith in KA than I do

Exactly. What's the total salary for the team? We could have dished out an extra 3-4 million over Comrie's salary and gotten someone better over the last 2-3 years and we would be in the playoffs now. This is KA's last shot at it. Surely 3-4 million would have been worth being in the playoffs. For next season, Levi is till a rookie and very young. I'm not sure he can handle the #1 spot right out of the gate for the entire season. I also want no part of UPL or Comrie. They haven't hardly shown they are backup worthy. Get someone to compliment Levi effectively (a1-b1) and even with no other changes to the lineup we make the playoffs. Hopefully there are a couple other upgrades to the roster.

Levi is by far the best goalie of the bunch. I can't remember the last time one of the other three only allowed two goals in regulation two games in a row. Tage definitely playing hurt.

Levi in net. As it should be. Let's go boys. This is the season.

Let's go BUFFALO!!!!! I sure hope Levi gets the call. I think we can win this one with him in net. Probably less than 50-50 with anyone else.

Well it's a crap shoot for any of them. Any of them could play a great game and any of them could crap their pants just as well. So if it's a chance on any of them I go with the kid. The pressure of this game could be an issue for Levi just being his second nhl game and essentially our playoff hopes. But I believe the team will rally around him and give them a jump for this game.

I don't know what this feeling is🤣. It's been soooo long. Still in the hunt with just a handful of games left. Happy camper here.

UPL with a good game. Only let three in. I'm all in for Levi against Florida.

Great game. What a refreshing sight to see what a real goalie looks like. Not one soft goal was let in. Kept the team in it with just two goals allowed. Any of our other goalies and we lose this 4-2. I will also give credit to the team for playing good defense in front of Levi

Great game, was not expecting that out of Comrie.

Their goalie stopped 6 out of 8 point blank shots. Ours only stopped 2 out of 8. There's your difference. Our team plays a much different and I would contend much better hockey game if our goalie stopped 6 out of 8.

Honest question. How many games have we lost because of goaltending this year? 2-3, 6-8, more? We are close enough to the playoffs that almost any amount would put us in the playoffs. I know we need defense help but I'm just focusing on goaltending. Just one player could have made a huge difference. Also I know even good goalies have bad games and cost games but I'm talking about losses above what average goaltending would do. I think we're in the 6-8 games lost solely because of poor goaltending.

Let's go BUFFALO!!!!! All the right teams lost last night, now it's time to move up.

At about 10 minutes left in the game after a couple of great saves by Anderson Dunleavy said "you aren't going to get far in this league without great goaltending." Next season will be KA's 4th season at trying to fix the goaltending situation. He better get it right this time. Just imagine if we had this caliber goaltending as tonight all season we wouldn't be wondering if we can make the playoffs we would already be in a playoff spot.

I'm not going to say it.... Yes I am. It would have been really nice if we had picked up a couple of defensemen before the trade deadline. You can't praise KA for sticking to "the plan" and then gripe when we lose games because we have crappy players as backups.

Granted, they did play good defense today as well.

Amazing what great goaltending does for this team. Just wish we had it more consistently. Maybe Comrie is turning the corner. We can hope right.

Ain't gonna happen

To the bold. Unfortunately most of the teams around us have been adding players for the playoff push. It's just sad for the team and the fans that KA hasn't made much of an effort to help this team make the playoffs. It might be different if we had made the playoffs a couple of times in the past 11 years but since we haven't, it makes it more imperative that he make a trade that will improvethis team. Unfortunately there probably isn't much left out there that could help us. As someone up thread mentioned, we don't know the future, we may not be this close to making the playoffs next year (we should be but you never know). When you are as close as we are, you have to make some sort of effort to make it in.