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I knew it! I guess you will be watching tonight too?

…. And join a long, and still growing, list of players that got out and did great.

You guys are harsh. He should not have shut himself down, he did the right thing playing through injuries. You have to do that in this league. He will probably get hot to end the season and still catch scorn for it. There is nothing that can fix the disappointment of this season but I’m not blaming Tage Thompson. I hope he gets 3 more tonight.

Nothing more fun than beating the Leaves and watching them go home sad.

Insightful commentary indeed.

Tomorrow is the big game against the Leaves. Maybe a few more Sabres fans will hold on to their tickets and the Sabres actually reward them by pounding Trono.

Good evening Teammates, Punching checking late, in time for the JJP Empty Netter. No NHL Network anymore. We have company in this weekend and I cooked, etc. So I listened to WGR here and there. Holy $hit, Tage with another empty netter as I type.

He has more work to do in the AHL. I can't help but think that Adams makes promises to his prospects that he should not be making.

My experience is that when games are on NHL network or TNT, then they are not on EPSN+

We need a play-by-play guy even more than we need a replacement for Mitts. The broadcast work of Dunleavy and Ray is not good enough. Once again, this organization settles for whatever.

No problem.

Sign are not allowed. Even the famous "Phantom Sign Makers" were told to shut it down. @PASabreFan might like this video. https://www.wgrz.com/video/news/local/unknown-stories/unknown-stories-of-wny-the-phantom-signmakers/71-fce5add0-8188-4f6c-90e6-23af600f44a8

OK, got faked out by the title. Let him play and be on the first pair, and experience leading a team and maybe even winning.

On a team that has big trouble scoring goals, Jeff Skinner is not the biggest problem. He is a limited player but he brings more than a lot of the guys on this team. The facts are we have a weak forward group. Last year we thought we had this highly potent scoring machine. Well the rest of the league has figured some things out, and several players are having down years, and the Sabres coaching staff has no answers. But yet Skinner plugs along on pace for 30 goals once again. I think we have one more year to go on that crazy contract, then we can look at a buyout. If I was Skinner I would be begging for a trade to a contending team and willing to rework the contract. He has to be sick of losing. If he isn't, then that is most likely his problem as a player.

Yup, when they lost Drury, Briere and to a somewhat lesser extent, Dumont and Grier, they lost a lot of good old fashioned grit. But they lost these players because Golisano would not pay, not because Ruff and Regier were bad. The core of homegrown Sabres that followed could not keep the team going forward.

Why? Why not let him continue to help a team make the playoffs? Is it just for the home stand?

If its on NHL Network then I'm pretty sure I cannot stream it on ESPN+. This great new cable package (sarcasm intended) that my wife just bought is missing key sport channels and instead added 50 other channels of fluff. I am going to have undo her best efforts to negotiate a lower bill. It takes me back to the early-mid 70's when I father proclaimed "no way am I paying $10/month just to watch television when I can watch it for free". He later found out you can watch R rated movies on HBO and that tune changed.

Roofing is too hard. How about sold Chevy's, or opened a restaurant, or moonlighted for State Farm (yes that means you Derek Smith).

Who logged in as @PASabreFan? What is this? Sarcasm veiled as optimism is my guess.

No. It’s not true. Linus simply says “ it was time to leave Buffalo”. Meaning, he wanted out, and money wasn’t going to change that. If this organization does not make more effort to improve, more players will do the same.

I don’t get all the Tuch complaints. Last year was a career year for him. This year, with all the trouble this team has scoring, he is on track for his second best scoring season. He has played through several injuries, he has become an excellent penalty killer, he still plays a physical game. Tuch is the least of our problems.

Come on out of the dark.

I think he wants his kids to run the sports empire someday.

And what makes it worse is that they have been terrible even with lots of good players coming into, and out of, the organization. The old Seals/Golden Seals were bad because they had no players and could not catch a break acquiring them. The Capitals were terrible but eventually established a pipeline of good players. The Sabres organizational badness triples these past haunted franchises. Their problems go far beyond the talent on the ice - it is the way they are run from the top down. It is shameful and its a good thing that Seymour does not have see it.