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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.

It’s Youth Hockey Day in Sabre Land. Since the early 70’s the Sabres PR department, under the excellent leadership of Paul Wieland, started a free afternoon open Sabres practice for the kids. Many kids that I knew never went to real Sabres game back then because every game was sold out, 16,433 in The Aud every game. So this was a way for kids to see the team and for the players to reach out. They practiced drills, played a blue gold scrimmage, and Paul would put on his pads. These were great events, lots of fun, and always filled to capacity. Perhaps some of the old timers here attended one, they first occurred over Christmas break when schools were closed. The community really loved this team, Gilbert, Rico, Rene, Schoeny, Kong, Luce, Rammer, etc. I guess all this died out and morphed into matinee games, kids day, and today’s matinee targets specifically - Youth Hockey Day. The crowd today will consist mostly of young families with kids. Lots and lots of local youth hockey boys and girls will be there wearing their team’s jersey and cheering for the Sabres. Within those kids there may possibly be a few future players, and hopefully even some future fans. The Sabres better be ready to play hard, be positive role models, put on a good show, win a home game, and acknowledge those kids in the crowd afterward. If that’s not the tradition anymore then it should be.

meaningless - not when it is considered acknowledgement, fans cheers are "thank you" and the salute is "your welcome". overdone - it is not overdone to the kids who get to go a few times a year and want the participation, acknowledgement and feedback. Beside, perennial losers do not get to salute too much so the Sabres should not have to worry about the over exertion. I look at Carolina and the over the top post victory celebrations they do, with and for their fans. There was time that franchise was in trouble, like Buffalo is right now, and then that was fixed. Brind'Amour made sure sure his steam saluted the fans and he still does, and people in the league complained. Guys like Don Cherry said on HNIC that Brind'Amour should be embarrassed. His is not. The Canes are tough to beat at home and their fans have fun. I wish the Sabres were like that. I don't boo. I cant be bothered. But I am not going to tell someone not to either. The overly sensitive cry babies look like the players to me. Their coaches head would not be called out if they actually played the game like they cared. So many home games they glide around in an effortless trance. Sometimes they wake up for a while, but when it gets tough they usually fold. Sometimes a Sabre player will break a stick or throw things and accomplish nothing. Talk about over sensitive cry babies, they have all the control to do better. I am in town for March 14 vs Isles. I am not gonna go, I have nephews in town that will use the tickets.