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Best part about Hines might be he reduces the amount of touches McKenzie gets, on punt returns, slot routes, etc. McKenzie is a fun person but man is he an unreliable mess on the field sometimes.

Yeah that’s just human nature, you can’t micromanage players of a fluid game. And the Xs and Os can be filled in by the right assistant coaches. But there’s nothing I’ve seen him do yet that’s going to get the team to win a 7 game series unless the team completely out matches their opponents. That’s what I’m looking for as the team is clearly on the path to playoff worthy.

Oooh glad we got rid of Moss. Guy never could find an opening. Hope Hines can fill that elusive catching back it’s clear Beane has been hellbent on acquiring. Wasn’t so eager as the media to find a new back but this cost us nothing. Marlowe is at least some insurance, hope that doesn’t relate to Poyers reinjured elbow. Wish there was more for the Oline, but they just don’t exist in surplus. Looks like Miami is going all in. Interesting they aren’t a little more patient.

He’s a risk player. He doesn’t do things conservatively and out hustle/muscle like Asplund. He outsmarts- except he’s two years away from outsmarting NHL players. Then there’s two trains of thought- he can learn to do that playing 4th line minutes trying to turn him into a player he’s not, or he can learn to dominate further against AHL talent until he gets over the cliff of being a positive impact player. Shoving a square peg through a round hole 8 minutes a night with grinders isn’t how a skill/smarts player develops. That’s what I mean by a JAG, he is one today - his pros don’t outweigh his cons yet. There’s no slight in this assessment yet whether he can get there or not, but that’s what people keep responding to defend him as and getting all childish and school yard bullying with ignore nonsense instead of dealing with a sincere opposing opinion. I happen to be in the send him to the AHL camp, there’s other JAGs who can take that role for now. Obviously Granato is in this permanent development mode, putting youth development in front of winning. It’s early in the season but when we’re finally in the playoff hunt can he transition to a winning coach or does he not actually know how to be one? Yet to see it. Either way this was a good game, Detroit looked awful. This is what this team is capable of doing when other defenses don’t get physical with them. The Sabres can’t be taken for granted. I’ll be curious to see how many backup goaltenders we start getting this year versus the previous years.

It’s one thing to say it like this, but that doesn’t absolve the front line getting bullied. First time I’ve ever seen that with Philips out there

His dipsie doos is a mental thing. Confidence. Took him a little to get it back. Thing about that reach of his you can’t just shut it down.

It’s a good use for him. Sad he needs defensive staples just to be a JAG but he has 2 years of development needed still

Been a steady optimistic with this for ten years. Was always optimistic about Tage since day 1 despite literally being banned on message boards for holding the contrary opinion. Funny how not bring an emotionally driven ***** comes off as being miserable? Anyone who stayed awake for the second half of the Packers game has cause for concern, Josh got hit and regressed four years for two periods and it was ugly and concerning.

It was a one goal game until their goalie imploded. They were outplaying but let it get close

I’m happy? They still let 3 stinkers in against a bad team

Quick game. Detroit looked awful, no defense, goalie looked exhausted by the end. Sabres still struggling on defense without physicality. Power still doing stupid stuff. Krebs still a turnover king. Didn’t matter with Tage coming out of his cage. Next up is Mittelstadt with a bunch of ringers off the post. Passes on offense are looking better and if teams don’t get physical with the Sabres you see shellackings like this.

Buffalo playing straight awful. Yet still up by 3+ scores. Bad team off bye week I guess.

How do we get Horvat? Vancouver wants defense

Better than Krebs. Bleh

Anderson played great. We’re only in these games because of good goaltending. Chicagos goaltending was stellar yeesh Tage is back. Slow start to the season sure, but he’s battling and defenders can’t do anything about his reach when he’s moving his feet. Oloffson has a shot. Needs to play 4th line with Girgensons/Okposo though, he’s killing any rookie he plays with. People put him up in trade talks because he has real value, an elite shot, but is a luxury a team like ours could use the value elsewhere. Like our struggling defense. No physicality when all our physical defenseman are out. Nearly lost this game solely to this reason on junk goals. Power is a train wreck out there with no defenseman setting the tone for him. I get that he has potential, but he’s two years from it at least. This is mostly an injury problem. Krebs is a disaster and needs the AHL. Giveaway giveaway giveaway doesn’t make up for one out of ten bonehead giveaways being a completed pass. He will always be this player but his odds can increase with experience gained down low, not destroying this teams chances. He’s a year or two out. Id rather be icing Sheahan right now. Asplund is needed. With our defensive defenseman out how can you justify sitting him? I’m losing respect for Granato he did exactly what he never should have done with the non merit based benching protocol. Glad they bounced back that Chicago team was bad. Even when we skated slow we were outplaying them, just lost the bounces. This team still has consistency issues and needs to figure that out if they’re going to make it through the season with a fighting chance.

Don’t put Clagur Power and Krebs on the ice together and maybe we won’t let in trash goals. Rocket science coaching is

Trash game. Need our trash picking defense for games like this and they’re both out. Ugh.

Krebs is a disaster. Demote him

Coach had to challenge that regardless of whether he thought it’d succeed or not. Scummy goal, these refs are losing the game Krebs is a disaster. Get him in the AHL. Does anyone plan on actually shooting and not whiffing golden chances?

Okay that made me smile

Never let this girl back

Ugh these d pairs the end of us

This was always known with these two players Its just exaggerated with thin defense

Bank up cap space for a deadline deal

MTL looks worse