JoeSchmoe

Thanks. Was curious to see the SOG. Sabres seemed to control the play... was wondering what the shots were. Sorry... Just saw your post now... 28-21 thanks

Is there a box score anywhere for this? Thought the MTL goalie made some good saves, and kept the score closer that it could have been. It'd be nice to see the shots.

Agreed. Eye test wise was not great defensively last year. All young defensemen struggle early on, but 8x8 suggests he's already shown a lot of promise offensively and defensively, and he just hasn't.

I think you gotta get it done, but his defense this year gives me pause for thought.

Do you say this because you think a better coach would get a lot more designed run plays in for him... which in turn will open up his passing game? If so, I agree that Josh Allen, at least for a short time, can be one of the best QBs in the league. If you think better coaching can turn him into a pure-passing franchise QB that plays well into his 30s... I haven't seen a lot of evidence to suggest he's got those tools (other than his rocket arm).

I wouldn't trade him, but it's not that stupid. Will Allen ever be a true pocket QB? He isn't yet. If they're going to protect him and try to make him something he's not instead of running the 💩 out of him, we may find the window is already closed.

JA is only an elite QB when he's a consistent run threat on every play. There has yet to be a running QB that hasn't regressed after a few years of getting banged up and injured.

Josh Allen = Cam Newton

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I haven't read this entire thread, but... -Connor Clifton had a 48.4% expected goal % on a team that had a goal differential that was almost double the 2nd place team (+128BOS +67DAL). -His stats prior to being on last year's all-time great regular season team have been pretty abysmal. Why has he been crowned the #4 spot?

With the small s in UBs, and not knowing the name of the Isle's arena, I thought you meant University at Buffalo's arena... which I didn't think existed.

In football (not including playoffs), you've got seventeen 60min games a year, most of which is clock ticking off between plays. How does anyone listen to soooooo much football chatter 24-7. Give me no more than 15-30min of Sal Cappacio a week. It's all I need to be caught up.

Sabres and it's not close.

Was his fitness not one of the knocks on him last year? Now you've got me 2nd guessing. In any case, a player of his ilk needs to play a more physical game with three potential top-6's in Savoie, Kulich, and Benson knocking on the door of being NHL ready.

If I'm running the show, Greenway is on a short leash. He needs to: 1. Show up to camp in shape 2. Play a lot more physical than last year. If he fails on either two of those, I'm pulling him in favour of someone younger and hungrier, any of whom has a much higher ceiling than him.

So all those years he was a season ticket holder to the Sabres (by my quick Google search from 1980 to 1998), he was actually plotting to buy the Bills? That's a hell of a job in playing the long game. Well done Terry, Mr. President of the Buffalo Sabres! No one knows what's at play, but count me in as not being worried about the team. So all those years he was a season ticket holder to the Sabres (by my quick Google search from 1980 to 1998), he was actually plotting to buy the Bills? That's a hell of a job in playing the long game. Well done Terry, Mr. President of the Buffalo Sabres! No one knows what's at play, but count me in as not being worried about the team.

I never thought too much about it, but my perception is the Sabres were his love that he bought to enjoy his hard-earned money as he mentioned back in the early days. He bought the Bills to save the team from being bought and moved by Jon Bon Jovi et al. From the getgo with the Bills it seemed more like a Kim thing, and if she's not in the position to be managing them, that would be the team Terry would be most likely to offload if either were on the chopping block. Plus, with a stadium deal in place the Bills' future in Buffalo seems more secure.

See above... I see it differently. Given the choice, I think pegula would want to focus on his first love.

No love for Bob Cole? He's my #2, far above any of the others mentioned. Especially in the playoffs... Him and his newfie accent. I think Emrick is just average... Keep him off. I kind of remember Gallivan and think he was pretty good. Don't remember Foster Hewitt, but I guess you got to put him on.

Like many here, I liked Boosh too. His Expected Goal stats don't look great, but he took the most % defensive zone starts on the team. I'm not sure if there's another stat that accounts for that, but eye test wise he's worth more to us that a 4th round pick 2 years from now.

Really sucks. Some people cry when the good guy dies at the end of a movie. I don't watch a lot of movies, but Sabres Hockey has been my number 1 source of entertainment for a good part of my 48 years. Rick was my good guy. Knew it was coming eventually, but it sucks. RIP Rick

My buddy has been saying disclosure on aliens is imminent for so long now, and every single time it's a total nothing-burger. There's so many people that want to believe in aliens so bad (like my buddy) that they take any little tidbit of info and blow it up into something it's not. The worst is you consider the size of massive organizations such as NASA or the military. In those orgs, there's bound to be more than a few that REALLY want aliens to be real. Out of these tens of thousands of employees , all it takes is one so-called "expert" who thinks of themself as a whistleblower and then people like my buddy are addicted to UAP Twitter for another 6 months. It's all a bunch of BS.

Fake news

One thing I've noticed is that people these days that work in minimum wage type jobs all generally act like they could give two F's. It used to get me so upset! Maybe a month or two ago I had an epiphany. It dawned on me that in actuality... these minimum wage jobs buy less and less, but the business class just seem to get rich and richer. I'm originally from the Canadian side of the border in St Catharines (I've since moved slightly west). When I was a kid, we knew where the "rich" houses were in town. Those same "rich" houses are just considered above average now. The new rich have moved way upscale, yet the working poor cannot even afford rent anymore in the lower income parts of the city. So now when I'm in a grocery store line and the cashier is moving aggravatingly slow, I pause and try to remember that their wage likely doesn't even allow them to afford a rent payment. Yet the corporations and business class that are screwing them left right and center are sitting pretty from the comfort of their mansions, luxury cars, and 2nd homes... Many times backed by bailout money when times turn tough.

Greetings from my best spot a tank of gas away from Buffalo. This is the Castle Rock summit near Blue Mountain Lake. We love the less populated areas of the Adirondacks like the Central/Southern area we're in right now. As someone from Ontario, I describe it as being like Muskoka was 50 years ago before the rich Toronto people took over... Except there's mountains.