GoPuckYourself

Looks like I'll be ditching the Sabres soon and will be watching some playoffs again with the bandits next season. I watched the Bandits go down then go up, had a bit of a lull and then turned it up to championship level.

All we need is our own Bill Zito for a GM and we'll be set.

Rochester wins!!!! It's getting heated, Laval can't score so they're going full goon... Xhjakhai, Mailloux, Östlund all booted.

2 guys jump our dude and nobody helps him? This is looking very similar.

What a shot by helenius short handed

Definitely looked like a Sabres power play

So painfully true.

I get what you mean now with the cap space, I was thinking what player in free agency or a trade could they possibly get that will be better than Marner? I get it now, I'm Polish so it takes me awhile sometimes 😀

If Mitch Marner signs with another team then the Leafs will have let him walk without receiving any compensation. I just don't see that happening (although there may be nothing they can do about it if he doesn't want to be there). I would highly disagree that the Leafs think they're better off or equal without Marner in the lineup plus Matthews has been equally as bad in the playoffs.

I think the Maple Leafs will let Tavres sign elsewhere and re-sign Marner, I just don't see how you let a talent like that walk for absolutely nothing. Either way I think he would use us to get a better deal somewhere else, why in the world would he come here if he can get the same money elsewhere on a better team? The only plus I see is that he's Canadian and maybe being that we'd be closer to his home may be the only positve and literally the only positive.

Perhaps, we may never find out.

I'm not so sure about that, UPL the 2nd half of the season before we gave him the contract was playing at a very high level and we still didn't make it. Maybe if we had a goalie who played like that all season long perhaps but that would be requiring a top of the line goalie which I'm not sure will be available.

Agree to disagree.

Norris has played in 3 games so I won't count him as being anything until he actually suits up for us, Kulich/Malenstyn/Krebs/Kozak are hardly great defensively.

Buffalos forward group seem to be skilled offensively but lack any defensive awareness especially in our own end of the ice. Also our situational awareness is terrible. We still lack players who go in front of the net or that battle hard along the boards, still lack players who can throw their bodies around or drop the gloves when called for and it’s been this way all throughout Adams tenure.

The fact these bum assitants still have a job with us is criminal at this point.

Yeah that's brutal and a rival #55 scored to seal it also.

This game has been amazing considering it's only 1-1, 2 big physical teams laying it all on the line.

He scored the game winner in OT

I wish we had a Sam Bennett/Jamie Benn type on our team.

My eyeballs tell me I watch the games in and games out guys just standing around while pucks are in the back of the net. How many times did we watch Power not take a man in front of the net or our whole defense just allowing guys to park right in front of our goaltender? That's not just a 1 player upgrade and goalie problem, thats a defensive system problem/ a toughness problem etc. imo.

Thompson gets destroyed and not 1 single Sabres player came to his aid, Anyone who even comes close to Barkov almost dies on the ice by everyone. That must be such a nice feeling, maybe 1 day we'll experience that. I felt from the very begining of the playoffs that if the Stars beat the Avalanche they'd win the Stanley Cup and I feel even better about that plus Oettinger looks much better than the Colorado series.

Imagine being in cap hell with a bottom 9 worst roster, the same GM who signed off on those terrible contracts is now allowed to sign off more terrible deals to players. You can't even make this stuff up, this is beyond insanity at this point.

Nobody wants to work under our failed GM? I'm shocked.

Ted Nolan- marriage counselor