Turbo44

Ugh he kind of won us the last game in case you have forgotten. Granted, I can’t wait for the Levy era in a couple of years

1. Maybe a game at the end of the season if we’re out of the playoff hunt. Full time - 2025/2026 season 2. not really, 5%? He has a clear path to a #1 NHL goalie role on an up and coming young team. To sign elsewhere he’d have to play another year at NE and sign elsewhere in August 24. That’s throwing away a lot of time and $$ 3. 100% - he’ll likely be the #1 goalie there for 2 years, like Ryan Miller did

I don’t know if the coaches sucked or the players - probably both. But I do know they coach scared/conservative. That’s why they destroy backup and rookie QBs and get destroyed by good Qbs ill never forgive them for 13 seconds - that was all coaches shrinking under pressure. Pooch the fkn kick to the 5 yd line = game over. Yeah I’m still bitter. we needed Oliver to be Chris Jones last week instead he was as affective as Daquan Jones.

Sabres are playing with supreme confidence right now / they can beat anyone. They can also lose to anyone - it’s the nature of the NHL

Makes sense, but then who'd you give up for Meier and what did you get for Oloffson?

I like Peterka's game better going forward

SJ says no. I think it would take a 1st, Quinn (I'm not giving up Peterka) and a lesser prospect (I'm not giving up Kulich)

Pretty sure Anderson retires after this season, so next year will be UPL #1, Comrie backup, Levy #1 in rochester, Portillo signed somwhere else, hoping he finds the same fate as Quick.

There a decent team, playing on 2 days rest, with two of their top players back in the lineup. It was a really nice win for the Sabres on a B2B, a winthey mught not have held on to in past years

Bills have Maddie Glab,,,oh wait

Hecht is a really good comparison. He's a little smaller but faster. Maybe not as good defensively but as good offensively. He does the dirty things that Middelstadt isn't good at and really helps that line. Fantastic free pick up.

He's in the 2nd year of a 2 year $4m contract. After this season he's a RFA, so I'm sure we resign him or qualify him

Bills are dead now, unfortunately. I flew in town for 2 Sabre/bills weekend and the Minnesota game was the best crowd since 2006. Last weekends sellout wasn’t as loud (a lot of kids with the 12:30 start, but was still a good crowd. kids play better in front of a loud crowd

RHD?

Refresh my memory, could we have drafted Beniers instead of Quinn? Didn’t think so, so stupid comparison. If you want to argue taking Beniers over Power, you could do that. You’d be wrong but you could do that

Did you watch the game cuz Casey was the least of our problems. How quickly you forget about his great pass for our first goal If you did watch the game you’d know that When the Tage line plays like they did tonight we have no chance UPL was really good, except unfortunately for his overcommitment on the breakaway, but we need our own Hellebuyk. Switch goalies tonight, Sabres win 6-1 Jost and Ollefson we’re by far are best players - great for them/not good for the rest of the players you think we’d learn from Winnipeg’s first two goals and actually have someone in front of their goalie once in while. We need more dirty goals

Two mishandles by skinner in the last 20 seconds unfortunately - fails on a Basic shootin and he a lane to the net there on the pass at the end I’m being too hard on Comrie but, i honestly don’t need to see him play anymore. Having 3 goalies up is stupid we desperately need a tough RHD who clears the front of the net - I thought we had that with 46 but he’s pretty lousy. Lubushkin was directly responsible for goal 2 and 4 against. When you contribute nothing offensively you cant play like garbage in your own zone

Comrie just does enough to lose games - it’s been that way all season. He’s not horrible but he’s just not good enough. The timing of the goals are killer and he IS allowed to make a huge save once in a while. he’s an NHL backup switch goalies tonight and the Sabres are winning

UPL wasn’t the issue last night, and I’d be the first one to harp on it if he was. You switch MAF for UPL last night and Minnesota wins 10-3. A couple of fleury goals by Minn and D zone breakdowns. Can’t say he should have saved any of the 5 against + he had 6 saves in OT including a couple great ones

Rookies being eased in. They did give up a goal but I thought they played well/agressive when playing

Not sure why your hate for Skinner? Overall, that line was good tonight not great while the other lines (especially Mitts) made up for it. Only player I though was subpar was Samuellson - he had an off night and Bryson subbed in with Dahlin for him a lot in the 3rd. UPL was even great, despite giving up 5, overall D was suspect and Minnesota could have scored 10

Was at the game and Mitts was extraordinary last night. Vs Minnnesota he knew everybody back home would be watching ……

Was at the game - with what’s happened this week decided I needed to make the trip from CT for this game and tomorrow’s. Came with my son - crazy atmosphere - not sure if it was a sellout but sure looked like it. Sat near the Sabres bench and they were going nuts when the crowd started chanting MVP for TNT after his goal. UPL was very good despite 5 goals not sure why everyone is saying fleury was insane - Sabres got outshot by a lot - and the 5th goal he gave up to Dahlin was hideous Dahlin was insane middlestadt was insane - perhaps he needs to play vs his home state team every game crowd was loud ref tried to take game away from us in the 3rd samuellson has a rare very bad game we’re missing hardhitting dman but it is what it is. When Dahlin is your best checking dman, there’s an issue amazing game now let’s go Bills - behind Buffalos bench for tomorrow’s game too Yes Jost is a steal - one of the best players on the ice today. Claque is solid - was our 3rd best dman tonight

Picking on the wrong D tonight. Dahlin and Samuelsson were the problem (combined -3 and a lot of d zone sloppiness). Power and Bryson were fine; +1 each

Not power - dahlin/ samuellson pairing had been hideous tonight last goal Dahlin screws up behind his net and Samuelson leaves the front of the net leaving Ovie wide open we are defensively a very undisciplined team - sloppy