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It only is if you want to stereotype an entire generation. I am a boomer that grew up with Lombardi, Knight, etc. I idolized players that sold cars and fast food in the off season. I remember that. When I was in my early fifties I was an executive reporting directly to a certain VP. The VP was a younger Gen X. He yelled and screamed, he blamed others publicly, said outlandish things to customers and suppliers, and he intimidated people. He saluted his boss and everyone above him and he $hit on his direct reports. I could not take his $hit or stand the way he treated good people. I had no choice but to quit him. I moved on and left him and the project. My leaving raised eyebrows and eventually exposed him for the fraud he is. Me too.

Good question. I was not aware of a 30 day thingy.

R Johnson could get called up simply because they don't want to expose a vet to waivers this early in the season. That would make more sense. You know injuries are coming, and you suspect we could unload a goalie at some point creating a roster spot - so maybe you wait on Stillman/Clague to avoid waivers. Right now we have little Bryson to replace our best defensive defenseman - oh boy.

I want to be better at face-offs, especially d-zone face-offs. Watch closely, sometimes we win the draw and we still get beat at gaining possession, which counts as a face off loss. During the big slump last year we lost two games directly by losing a d-zone faceoff, when a forward or d-man did the wrong thing and lost possession of a draw that we had first crack at.

The only recent group of players that can even talk about pride and winning is the mid 2000's group of Briere, Drury, Grier, Miller, Vanek, Pommer, Lindy, etc. That was 15 years ago and some left unceremoniously. Many of these players work for other teams now and identify with them. Heck, Mike Peca and Phil Housley are Rangers now. The culture of Buffalo Sabres hockey has been seriously fractured and replaced by losing - and more precisely by tanking, by self induced suffering, by bad coaches, unqualified GMs, a revolving door of change and commotion, young players wanting out, extremely bad ownership, and an overall acceptance and expectation of losing. The Sabres alumni came out strong to greet and support Pegula when he took over. We don't have what the Bruins have, we did at one time, for awhile, but we lost it. Kevyn Adams and Don Granato are not perfect, they are both learning on the job - both are works in progress - but they know enough to realize that a culture change is needed, just as it was for the Bills. So they are going slow and building from within (draft and develop), its their only choice. Even with this team on an upswing, we are still hearing about trades being foiled because the person we want won't come here (Pesce, Murray, and probably even more). The culture change, and the winning, is coming but it will take much more than alumni support, it will be from the current core maturing and winning and setting a standard. It will take an much improved level of stability and commitment in the hockey front office to keep the winning going.

We got two points. Your concern is only valid if Tampa beats us by a one point or maybe possibly in a tie breaker with Tampa. We have more games with Tampa that will effect this. Be an upper, enjoy a win

^ This. Some fans blame whoever is closes whenever there is a goal, they do it without looking at the play. Sometimes the opponents have good players that make good plays, but let’s just blame whoever we see on the tv screen The complaints about Power are nuts. The kids maturity level at 20 is incredible. Johnson is a guy we needed. Clifton will settle in.

Is he ahead of Stillman or Clague?

Positive - we won Positive - Levi Positive - we outplayed them, they are really good old guys but they can’t hang with us if we start finishing and put up the goals we are capable of.

Ok. Cozey got off the Schneid.

Mitts to the rescue

Ok Boys dig deep and get the win.

FU@K

Skinner making things happen. Would love to see Tage find the back of the next tonight.

Ugh. Get traffic in front and shoot. It’s easy.

Skinny draws a penalty. Now is the time for a PPG.

Dahlin’s defensive skills get better every year as he gets stronger and builds confidence. He is a very well rounded defender.

We have to shoot on their goalie. We should be salivating to put shots on him.

We are outplaying them. We need to shoot more on their mediocre goalie. TB getting lots of power plays. Hope that changes.

How about Point for holding?

Shoot the puck 77

Better shift. Keep working.

Psst. They are calling you …

Oh, Johansson is the goalie. would love to put 6 in tonight.

Any else tired of talking about Stamko? I missed the entire first period and I’ve heard enough.