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Krebs is getting his shot at 3c but not really impressing me at all. Upper body strength and shot are not there . Still very young, but so far he is not close to the Cozens/Quinn/Peterka level. Will he bloom?

Backup goalie for Habs, career journeyman. Probably knows hockey though.

Ryan Johnson has played 11:53 after 2 period and is -4. It will be interesting to see what DG does with him in the next 20 minutes.

So I covered it. Who is their color guy?

What is he seeing? Porous team defense? Over passing? No body checks? Missed shots from the perimeter? Inconsistent effort? It is all there today plus bad goaltending which hasn’t been the case lately with UPL. Why else would his Ducks be completely outplayed but winning?

Wow. Ukko Pekka Leakkonen today

More like no effort

Godus beating on Skinner.

Ugh. The Johnson’s are -3 each. Benson gets one!!!

Ugh. Another ugly one

Ok Tage is off the schnied

The Sabres had a winger named Ron Anderson. He hit the post a lot it seemed.

The shot was there, the goalie made a great save and kicked it wide.

Tage can’t buy one.

Terrible call but Peterka threw a shot back and negated a holding call. He was hated before that. There is an anti anthem thing here as well.

Vattrano and Peterka not getting along

Good afternoon teammates, Punch checking in. I said my peace about this team. They need to play hard and win a game for the kids today. It’s just that simple.

Well customers are entitled by definition. As a customer I expect good performance, high quality, and honesty from the supplier. For sports, where you buy tickets in advance, I have even higher expectations and promises to be kept. When they get booed its because they are playing poorly, going to lose badly, and no salute is going to happen anyway. You wanna be fair, use the correct data - the Sabres average attendance is 15,935 this season. This seem high, probably a lot of no shows, but the chanting for DG's firing happened once and was very small. The teams reaction to this was to stick it to the fans. They have done nothing since that day accept continue to slide downward in the standing.

It was Okposo. I shuddered at the comment too. To me that comment shows complacency, not urgency. Everything about this group shows a lack of urgency or caring. The one guy who shows he really cares was Cozens, and he lacks the experience to lead effectively. Sean McDermott inherited a 17 year drought. He said although he and his staff were not here for it, they are here now so the have to own it, they did and they ended it the first year. He ended with Tyrod Taylor and Nathan Peterman at QB. The Sabres simply need better leadership to turn this around. Adams and Granato seem to have a free pass to develop prospects without any real goals for the NHL team.

A team is a reflection of their coach. They should not have to stick up for him. They should play better. Be ready to play in the first period, and put in a better effort.

I just happen to think the Buffalo media is soft and I expect this story to die soon because they stop covering it.

I doubt any questions come up. Never heard of players openly discussing their locker room conversations. The word “we” will replace “I and me”. If I’m wrong then they are worse than I thought.

If Adams knew about it and allowed, then he is an accomplice. We already know the coaches were aware of it, how could they not be.

Teach him to cheer. Teach him about loyalty, honor, and tradition. Don’t let this current regimes flaws ruin a good day.