miles

eichel does not deserve to be an all star. he spent half of the season to now just slopping around and not trying. he only recently turned it up. meh

this was happening for me to. i jumped ship. i now follow the wild, but keep an eye on the sabres. I decided i will never go back to them full time though, win or lose. hockey is my favorite sport and i refuse to let a poorly managed, terribly played team ruin it for me. watching the wild introduced a whole new breath of life into hockey for me. win or lose, they play to win every night. its amazing to watch a team that gives a hoot.

same. no matter how hard i try, my wife has no interest in my interests

7 goals. hm.

i am calling it now. 5 to 1 jets over the sabres

i would be concerned the sabres horrible defense would stand around enjoying their easy bake ovens instead of playing defense and ullmark gets toasted and loses confidence.

the biggest problem i see, line in and out, there is not someone camped in front of the goalie distracting them and popping in the rebounds and trash. i think there should be 1 person tickling the goalie, telling him a joke or talking about the weather at all times in the offensive zone. reinhart does it on the power play when he is in, but it should be all the time.

i hope ullmark is not just a plug. i saw that and was hoping it was a perm call up

been a pretty good game today. i have enjoyed it so far. hopefully they can come back and get a win

it looks like reinhart has been taking some lessons from olly and jacob

Either will give up a mess of goals, so meh

since the sabres took last night off, they should be well rested to play tonight :wallbash:

i mentioned in a prior post on this thread. i have basically stopped rooting for the sabres. i have been a fan of the sabres since around 1993 when i first started to watch hockey and between this season where everyone seems to have given up on trying and the tank season, that i cant support this team anymore. i realized it when i had a ticket to a flyers/sabres game in a luxury box and at game day i made every excuse of why not to go. I will always be a fan of the sabres deep down, but win or lose, i will not pay to watch their games anymore. That being said, hockey is still my favorite sport, so I have been following the wild very closely for several weeks. this game was really an eye opener for me. i noticed right away that everyone on the sabres were just standing around and the wild were doing as they pleased. Nobody crashed the goal, nobody kicked anyone of from camping in front of the goal to stop redirects and rebounds. i always blamed lehner, and i still do, but there is not a single person on this team besides kane and sometime eichel that should be on this team next season. (i think eichel pouts too much too and quits like the others) In the 3rd quarter the wild basically backed off to keep from running up the score any higher and the 2 goals were junk goals because nobody cared anymore. i hate to say it, but the entire sabres org should be ashamed of themselves to where they let this team become. its sad

participation trophy?

i have been watching the wild a lot in the last few weeks, and they got into some flack from their coach after the win against florida for going soft in the 3rd after a big lead. i wonder if they will continue to push and keep up the scoring like they have.

stewart is probably the one for the wild that likes to throw down, maybe foligno?? i think stewart is a scratch. i doubt there will be a fight tonight

i wonder if johnson will be in soon

it is night and day difference in the quality of play. the wild are passing the puck cleanly, and the sabres are just standing around and watching like spectators. i have been blaming lehner for the losses they have had, but so far in this game, i have not seen a single good defensive good play by the sabres.

i was looking for one of the fanatics jersey, but the one i want is out of stock in my size. does anyone know if they typically restock during the season or do i have to wait until the start of next season i tried to contact them but they said they didnt know stock status refills i know this is a shot in the dark here, but i am hoping someone knows the answer

i can honestly say i have no idea what you are trying to say here. i am not sure where errikson-Ek came into this, but the wild are not going to be traded errikson-Ek. he is just starting to get time and the coach really loves him and he is getting the time to prove it. i can honestly not speak to stalock 2016, but this season stalock had been filling in for dubnyck since he got a lower body injury. stalock has been nuts for them. he faced off against some of the best teams in the league and did everything he could to keep them in or win games. i have watched a lot of the wild games lately, and he is really good. i think he is going to be traded because he is way too too good to be a backup. yes, kane is incredible, but he is a half season rental. unless they get an agreement that long term negotiations can happen for the trade approval. getting a great goalie and a first or second round is not a bad trade for a half season rental.

lehner is not the only issue. there are so many issues. he is however one of the many issues. i think their biggest issue is a lack of a team leader that will get on them to not give up. too many times they have given up a second goal and they give up. their shoulders hunch down and the slow down on their skating and just look beaten. they dont have anyone that will step up and be the leader the team needs. i think they though that would be oreilly, but really he is not.

i swore i would stop commenting on lehner because he is the goalie until he isnt. however, the biggest problem with lehner is that he will give up any shot not directly hit at him where most of the other goalies will not give it up. he relies on his size to block as much of the net as possible, which works most of the time. people say he is giving up the soft goal, which is true, but those soft goals are typically shots from deep over his glove or blocker. he cant catch up to it. he doesnt collect many rebounds which gives a lot of second chance shots. i safely assume most break-aways will be a goal. The scoring is also affected by the lack of quality of the goaltender as well. you may have noticed, the sabres did not have many points by defense and if i remember correctly, no goals by the defense until just recently. they are unable to go deep in the scoring area because they need to be back quickly, i believe because they dont trust that lehner will be able to bail them out. I am not saying lehner is garbage, he is night and day better than johnson. he has respectable stats, and i think he would be better on a more defensive minded team. yes, the sabres defense has a lot to be desired, but between that poor goaltending and the poor defense, the sabres are always battling back. i also noticed the sabres as a whole, often seem to give up when they get behind. i feel they dont have a clear leader on the team that will help motivate them to not give up. i honestly think if the sabres got a better goaltender and a solid veteran leader defenseman, they would be a much better team.

i admit i got super worried when kane was laid out. i want them to trade him sooner than later.

I am enjoying the game, but this announcer is complete poo. i get that he cant say certain players names, but he calls the game like it is on radio. i hate that everything done on the ice is spoken.

i really love the sabres jersey. i very much dislike the camera action and that announcer he is an F-