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Vegas is getting away with some extra and late hits. These refs are not calling it. No wonder there is a fight breaking.

Mike Bales - goalies Jason Christie Matt Ellis Marty Wilford - handles the defense.

Right after his best shift he flubbed the clear. 😂

Come on ref. The crowd called that one.

They play better and they are a mature team, I think we are just as fast but often slow down and get beat to pucks.

Tuch you have to bury that

Knights are hitting. Need to equal that.

Tage huge turnover.

Cozey scores. Kolesar was chasing him down to retaliate.

We need some finish from 72 and 89. It’s time for them to get things going and carry us Nice pass Krebs to JJP .

Good food and beverages ?

Dan and Rob were obviously told to talk up the Sabres team meetings and hard work in practice. They are also emphasizing every shot. Orders from above no doubt.

I’m not. Looks like a great place to see a game.

Power playing too slow.

Sabres please wake up. The game started 4 minutes ago.

Good evening Teammates, Punch checking in. Big game, let’s see what they have tonight. Muscle Weight

Hockey lines.

I also was thinking that today could be another surprise game where they play hard and beat a good team. Then I saw the lines. It will be a big upset if we pull this out.

He’s checking the list @PASabreFan, better be nice.

All the vets were purged for the tank. The team was left with no vets that cared about the crest. Aside from Skinner, who has huge contract from TP meddling with Boterill, the bulk of the cap money tied up with the young (Dahlin, Thompson) and the very young players (Power and Cozens). We have Mitts, maybe our best two way forward, up next for a contract. Tuch or Dahlin should be Captain.

who would you give the C to?

Yours is a big list and there are interdependencies for every item in it. Does this team have the players, the coaching, and the heart to play .570 hockey the rest of the way? Players - probably not Coaching - No Heart - No It will take a fortunate coaching change, on the scale of when Berube took over the Blues, for this group to even seriously compete for a wildcard. Will TP want to pay DG not to coach? No Will Adams have the gumption to hire a strong and experienced NHL coach right now? No

who would you give the C to?

Good point. None of of our star players are playing anywhere near the level they did last year - Tage, Dahlin, Tuch, Cozens -all way down in production. Dahlin at least looks ok, most of the time. The one guy who gets a lot of criticism for his 200 foot game, Skinner, is at least producing at a 30 goal pace. Mitts has not had a point in the last 4 games. He needs to contribute in the Vegas game. On defense we complain about EJ and Clifton but they have been better overall than Power and Samuelsson. Peterka has stepped up. Ryan Johnson and Benson are pleasant surprises. Levi and UPL are doing ok. Its the big guns that are MIA.

I said I would comment on the coaching more at the Holidays. Well they are here. We have 12 wins in 30 games, 0.400 winning percentage. We have to play somewhere around .650 -.700 hockey to get into the race. If you fire DG now and replace him with Appert as the interim, then maybe they wake up and play better. The problem with that is this cheesy organization will most likely stay with Appert, and next year we back where we started with an unproven NHL Coach that is part of the losing culture. Painful as it sounds, I keep going with DG a bit longer, with the thought of doing a thorough coaching search in the off season. Not the laughable coaching search they did when Granato got the job. I want to them talk to Berube, Gallant, anyone else who becomes available, and to also talk to the highest regarded assistants in the NHL. The time to retool is the off season when the coach gets input into the roster, the GM makes the changes, the owner stays far away on his yacht.