Forecheck

The bar for that couldn’t have been much lower. But yes it certainly was.

Oh they are definitely the most poverty franchise in professional sports. I think a lot of you are getting me confused for someone who thinks this team is good or ever can be.

Not making excuses. The Sabres are the losers. Have been for 13 years and will continue to be. Any other questions?

Panthers didn’t play well tonight. What are the odds Paul Maurice lets them come out flat again Saturday vs Buffalo? Not likely

Sabres were in control most of this game. And it’s a shame to lose control of the game not to the opponent but to the officials.

Penalty kill has been good tonight but this is asking a lot late.

Awful call. Ref had a terrible angle to even see what happened. Should be reviewable.

Almost as bad as having a losing team year after year isn’t bad enough, it just really started to dawn on me that I’m going to have to listen to Duff, Marty, Razor and Dan do Sabres games for likely the next 10-15 years minimum. FML

The single biggest area in need of improvement for this team from last season was the power play. They still haven’t done it.

If she gets the opponents just slightly off their game for the first shift 5-7 times this year, it’s a win.

Olofsson with 2, Mittelstadt with 1 and Eichel with 3 assists through 40 minutes. Meanwhile the Sabres struggle to score 1 goal per game. Lol Yep sounds about right.

Forgot Olofsson was in Vegas. Nice early goal for him. He will probably score 25-30 fairly easily on that team.

Well at least the guys got a European vacation paid for by the team and got lots of great pictures. I’m sure we will be told there was lots of team bonding that will carry them through the season.

86 points NO playoffs for the 14th straight year

Can count on Levi playing tomorrow

You’re welcome

This game was lost in the first period when Ullmark made 3-4 point blank stops. Amerks/Sabres should have had at least a 4-1 lead after the first.

Every team is going to test them physically this year to see if they’ve really changed or grown. It’ll be up to the Sabres to prove to the league they won’t be pushed around. But they need to realize they are probably going to have to prove it for months. Not just a couple times.

He also won the cup with Pittsburgh. In fact he took every team he was with(Blues, Habs, Pens, Red Wings, Black Hawks to the Stanley Cup Finals multiple times, except one, you guessed it, our beloved Sabres.

Would have rather packaged Joki as part of a larger trade, but happy it’s for just 1 year, slight overpay, but we have the cap room to comfortably deal with it as it’s just one more year. Joki could be moved at the deadline if we are sellers this year.

McLeod likely becomes the Sabres best face off man since O’Reilly was traded away. Also greatly adds to team speed. Much needed.

Possibly a directive from higher up

Yep same here. Was at this game in our families season ticket spot, last row of the upper blues. Great view of the ice but zero view of the scoreboard, oranges and above. Lol Sabres had shut out the Habs in games 1 and 2 in Montreal and completed the sweep here in game 3 to win the opening round series 3-0 before heading to the second round for that epic 7 game series with the Bruins that ended in heartbreak with Brad Park in OT in game 7.

Yeah that’s one of the hardest things about being a Sabres fan, especially the past 13 years, the dreams and fantasies never quite live up to the reality.

Stamkos will be looking to sign with a contender, not Buffalo. He’s made plenty of money in his career, big bucks here won’t sway him. I’m guessing he’s pretty used to winning after his years in Tampa, he will be looking at a chance for the cup. If for some reason, none of the top 10 teams in the league want him, maybe at that point we’d have a slight chance, but I wouldn’t hold my breath on that no matter what we offer. Buffalo would have had a better chance at Kane than Stamkos you’d think, and Kane shunned us two years in a row to sign with Detroit. If Kane doesn’t want to be here, I have a very hard time believing Stamkos would be interested at all.