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I assume they think he can fill the hole Montour left. In their system he just might. Montour was pretty "defense-woof" when he was a Sabre.

Bad game between bad teams. Really sloppy at times. Neither team going to make the playoffs but I guess their rebuild is going faster than ours (if we are still in a rebuild it's hard to label any more). Power is one lazy dude. I'm starting to really dislike him. I thought only Peterka and Greenway played well tonight. Maybe Dahlin. That's it.

Well this time they got an outdoor game with the right match up.

You're a bottom feeder team so any good GM makes offers to anybody he wants to keep and then they take them or they don't. If they don't, you move them at the deadline for whatever you can get and then if you want to you can circle back to them in July. You most definitely do not keep a UFA who remains unsigned because he said he'd like to stay or something. That's dumb. If he wants to stay, and you want him, sign him now. KA however is not a good GM.

My guess. Nobody.

Whalers looked like a really well coached team. Solid team structure the Sabres just can't deal with that. Game was never close. Weird to see Jost and Robinson putting up minutes for them. I guess anybody can play if the team around them is good. Now what was that Cozens fight all about? That was weird and all it told me was boy, that kid don't know how to fight at all.

What is our "top line"? Is that with Kulich or Tuch? Is Thompson center or winger? Best is always a point of argument. When Boston had the perfection line (Bergeron-Marchand-Pasternak) it was "perfection" because they could score AND defend. So in this ranking I'd be interested to see how these lines perform when they go strength against strength and how well they keep pucks out of the net as well as scoring goals. There's no doubting this team has offensive talent. The questions are always about roster construction.

It's Whaler night there I think. Doubt that has any impact but maybe they are wearing those old uniforms.

Don't get me wrong, watching winning is more fun than watching losing but this team can't excite me with a late season surge. Burned too many times. I'm not going to jump on the just wait until next year bandwagon that might create either. Too many variables and if the same people run it they can screw it up again.

Well ya, it's all those things. They generally don't handle adversity well and that's the youth and lack of veteran leadership at the core. So beginning of the game no adversity, other team napping, then their coaches wake them up sometimes. The team is playing better right now and they are doing things they should have been doing for years now. Going to the net, pushing back, being physical at times. But where was this in the first half of the year? The teams that are in the hunt have been playing like this for a lot longer and thus they are far ahead. It's Adams failure all the way.

Oh please stop dreaming. We're climbing over all those teams. Detroit won, Columbus won, we're finally playing the way some of these teams have been playing so we compete but we are way too far below. Way too far.

Ducks looked gassed in the 3rd so the young fast legs got the comeback win. Still in last place though. Penguins looked like garbage against the Flyers so I suspect we pass them but not sure about anybody else.

Do you think that that stat might also be an indicator that teams do in fact get caught napping when they face the Sabres?

Detroit getting ready for a big move? Do they still want Cozens? Ducks finally preparing to actually trade the always rumored and yet never moved Gibson? Ducks don't quit. This might actually be a good game.

Or make a Power/Tkachuk deal, trade Cozens and sign Raantanen in the off season. I'm just throwing that out there to say there are always things that can be done and there are wild and crazy things and big things and small things and this GM does not seem very active or competitive and just seems prepared to wait for his beloved draft choices to develop. Other GMs make moves and try things. Some work some don't but they try. We have players teams want. We have picks and prospects. We have cap space and an increasing cap. We have an owner who is filthy rich and has money to burn if he would want to. What we don't seem to have is a will and a real desire to try to win.

Not in any way suggesting we "subtract". Rather that the composition of this roster is not ideal and changing one type of player for another will get you sooner rewards than waiting for the next guy. For example, if Power and Brady Tkachuk were the center pieces in a big hockey trade I'm all ears on it. I also want to move prospects and picks for veterans. I want to win now, or I guess next year as this one is too late and I would do whatever it takes at this point. Whatever it takes.

You're a last place team, for the right price ANYBODY is tradeable.

This team does this every year. Don't be fooled.

Does not seem to rise to big occasion games. Not very competitive. A highly skilled guy that maybe doesn't care all that much about winning? That seems to be the case. The Miller thing was pretty weird. Gay slurs and stuff? I don't know how much of that was actually true but it was nasty and it's amazing that team didn't fall apart completely with that going on. Peterson might need a sports psychologist at this point to try to get back on track.

This reminded me of pummeling the Leafs the other year. This team has one of these offensive outburst games every now and again where they seem unstoppable but it's never lasted long before so likely doesn't now either. They are too far down for any of this to matter. Just going to make themselves and some fans think that everything's fine and just wait for next year. So enjoyable, but meaningless. How does that math work?

Only with an extension and long term signing. Otherwise I wouldn't trust him to stay and commit.

Looked good in the first period but playing with Draisaitl didn't hurt him that's for sure. Flyers shut down all the Oilers in the third though. The Russians were well rested .

Kind of true, except Austin Matthews be Austin Matthews on that final goal.

Rags had a bunch of 4Nations guys. It'll be interesting to see all over if these guys are still on the higher level or if they are all gassed and float. Sabres are out of it so I don't want a late season surge. All that'll do is save Adams job and feed us the same bs as every other year.

Interesting that the article calls it "botched" when it was a deliberate change. Agree with it or not is your choice but it wasn't "botched", she changed it to ONLY US command as an obvious message. This is the first place I've seen it viewed negatively. It's gotten positive reactions overall.