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It isn't in my eyes. Not when they've played this heartless. Maybe in your eyes its just a bad stretch. However, this bad stretch mentality is that of a weak team. Call me silly but i'd much rather be the 8th seed and the underdog than the 1 seed and the frontrunner... However, if we are the 1 seed now, don't fall to 8 because you forgot how to win. I'll believe it when i see it

1pm Other than to note the early start time, i don't have much to say about this game. The sabres are well past "slump" and are now in an obvious downward spiral. Time to reverse course and JUST WIN BABY!!! LETS GO BUFFALO!!!

i heard that guy. he also dropped an "f bomb" during the first period. I heard miller use the f word too when he misplayed a puck behind the net. There's a renegade live mic somewhere. maybe razyor doesn't have his off and its pointing out? who knows. The sabres have had one good stretch in the 2nd period. luckily they scored twice. Unfortunately, its tied at 2 after 2. This game has the feel of either an OT thriller or yet another game hwere we come out dead tired in the 3rd and the opposition slowly takes the game from us. Hopefully we'll go the OT winner route!

damn it, my secret identity has been revealed. Because of my blatent forgettfulness, i announce that I am indeed Tim Connolly. DCSabres saw my wingman/underware model posing as "Corp000085". Touche hopeleslyobvious for outing me!

7pm If thursday's game told us one thing, its that the Sabres hit a wall. When they play well, they played AWESOME... However, those spots were few and far between. One bright spot from thursday's game was the Power Play. Yes, they let a 5 on 3 get away, but they did convert 2 later in the game... The sabres need to use that PP momentum and gain some confidence. This is a team that's holding onto the 8 spot right now... This is a team that will probably remember that 7-1 (i think?) thrashing we gave them a couple months ago. The sabres will have to play mentally strong and use the "underdog" roll. That's Lindy's job though. I'd like for tonight to be the beginning of another string of victories leading up to the all star break.

that was the call i was refering to... the "trip". total, completely obvious job by the refs. and now they scored. great

no word... BS call in afinogenov by the way... we're playing the leafs... time to overcome the leafs and the JOB by the refs

for as "great" as our defense is, top to bottom, the only two guys who have inpressed me are campbell and tallinder. the rest have been, quite frankly, very dissapointing.

FINALLY! a sweet PP goal... no garbage there! briere to spacek to vanek. vanek gets the goal as he was crosschecked IN THE CREASE (no penalty called of course). 1-1

ugh... i hate when the sabres completely fall asleep

7pm Go sabres! time to rack up another win against the leafs. There's some fresh bad blood with the whole belak thing, so its time to kick their butts. the leafs are rather banged up so we'll hopefully get a victory... hopefully.

our stupid defense blew that one. kalinin and numminen are way too slow together

another PP... lets see some production now that the game is almost in hand.

to be fair, it appeared that the goalie had it. nobody knew it was in for a second.

WWOOOOOOOOOOOOOW. what a goal by afinogenov... 2-0 sabres. Max shot that from a wide angle and just beat khabibulin

i agree... too bad the refs got involved.

thus the scariest type of game...

drury is back on the bench... hasn't played yet though. drury just completed a full shift.. looks like he's ok

um, spacek is a disaster maker tonight... he just hip on knee'd some guy and hurt him

damn... the hecht, poms and briere line has been great this game.

they're to the point now where they're being overcoached, and its obvious. It will just take some smart puck movement, clear heads, and time. The best bet is to concentrate on something else... The PP will come back, and it will come back STRONG, but not till t hey're just able to regain their confidence. Time is what they need. We can just praise our lucky stars this crap isn't going down in the playoffs, like it did in 99.

end of first... The PP was moving the puck around, but unfortunately they still suck... Really unfortunately is that drury got destroyed by a puck to the leg, who knows on that one. 1-0 sabres after 1.

spacek has now hurt drury and a chicago player with his shots. someone get that man to th e skills competition! and the PP looks SO bad now that ruff should just let it go... DON'T practice it. The only thing that will help at this point is time... Well, time and Tim Connolly...

and now a penatly on chicago... a 4 on 3 jesus... drury got PWNED on that one... he blocked 2 shots on the same series. was very very hurt, but then got the backhand off before getting crosschecked. this could be bad

and the reworked PP gets a workout early... lets see what happens and... garbage so far HECHT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! nice passing, forechecking and puck movememt... It wasn't on the PP, but if you get goals like that, you'll have plenty of PP practice by the way, miller is in net