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If a team thinks they are a playoff team, beating Montreal at home is a requirement. Disappointing game. Power play still costs us games this year. Chalk up another loss due to a terrible power play. Coaches can’t fix it or they would have by now.

I really thought Buffalo would finally have a great goalie for shootouts. Nope. Not allowed for this team.

I guess Levi’s stint in Rochester is over. Now don’t let Comrie ever play in net again for us please.

Shocker Bruins going to goon it up when confronted with losing to Buffalo with 8 minutes left

VO still one of the three best shooters on this roster.

Cozens just can’t buy a goal this year

Power play has finally come alive tonight. Nice to see for once.

About the same as they were in the summer. 0 %

Oh I agree. But I’d put the chances of Granato getting fired at 5%. I’d put the chances of KA being fired at negative 75%. Pegula loves this guy.

This Sabres team has ALL the looks of a team totally lost, they have NO idea what they’re doing on the ice. These are usually the type of teams where you see a coaching change made. Nope, not here. And definitely not mid season, where it would really embarrass people.

KA won’t do anything until Pegula tells him his seat is hot. I believe from KA’s attitude all off season was that he has job security here for the foreseeable future and he has handled business in exactly that way. As someone who can afford to have patience because the owner told him he’s safe for awhile. There is no other explanation for KA’s absolute refusal to show urgency to actually become a playoff team.

Actually it’s been comical for 13 years

Sabres special teams cost them a playoff spot last year due to league worst PK. This year special teams has cost them numerous games. Equally horrible PK and PP this year. I don’t see how that’s not 100% on the coaching staff.

Can’t ask for a better chance than that. Have no finish

Boy this team has the yips right now

Sabres never can take advantage of the few great chances they get. That puck is inches away from being in. Ridiculous.

Yep. Wings were supposedly behind us on the team development scale as of last year. They made solid moves and are now clearly ahead of this franchise.

Should. Will they? This front office is apparently just bystanders.

More outstanding defensive play in front.

That high scoring team from last year is long long gone and the defensive side of things is as bad as last year. Gonna be a longggg season now. Granato should probably be rooting for these injuries now, it’s the only thing that may save his job til next year.

Sometime during 2025 at earliest.

This has been going on for 13 years. History repeating itself. We just have a new group of “core” young players who have no idea how to win or what it takes to win in this league and they were given the keys to the kingdom before they were ready and had proven themselves. The Sabres have been doing this exact thing for years now and it never ever works.

If only the Sabres would have had a GM that would have realized all this back in July when it should have been fixed.

Amazing they actually made the right call. I’m shocked

All Kevyn has been doing is selling Pegula on patience with the young guys. It’s only buying Kevyn more time as an NHL GM, nothing more. It’s not translating to being a winning organization or actually playing playoff games. Eventually Pegula will realize this. Sadly by that point, we will have extended our streak of futility to 13, 14, 15 … years.