HumanSlinky39

The Sabres suck, but the Rags are in a steeper death spiral and just lost the only really good thing about their team. So we have that going for us, which is nice.

Yeah, but how many moral victories in that span?

All logic points to an absolute bloodletting at the hands of the Avs, so this is probably the kind of game they inexplicably win 4-2.

If they're just going to flip him for more draft picks, hard pass. The last thing this team needs is MORE prospects. They should be thinking about extending him for the very reason you mention. If we start flipping guys at the deadline for draft picks I'm gonna...well, piss and moan on a message board because that's all I have at my disposal.

I have no complaints about the effort tonight, or most nights for that matter. What I have a grievance with is how poorly this team is, once again, constructed. We lose so many puck battles it's absurd. We are terrible against the boards. For a team supposedly built around skill, we are a terrible passing team. Our entire offense is disjointed and sloppy, so most nights it feels like we spend 80% of the game in our own zone chasing the puck around. Our forecheck is either non-existent or weak most nights. KA has bungled this rebuild badly. I'm not saying we need to blow everything up. There are good pieces here, but we need somebody to ID which pieces stay and then get different pieces to compliment them. 3 wins was nice, but it didn't erase the enormous warts we saw during that long skid or for most of the last two seasons. It feels like we're running in mud right now. What we need to be using the rest of the season to do is to ID who are really the "core" pieces to move forward with and who is expendable/redundant. But KA absolutely cannot be the guy making those calls...yet we're stuck with him until after the season. If they even move on then. Very frustrating. 14 years...

Yeah. UPL kept this from being 5 or 6 to 2. The effort was there, but that doesn't mean they played "well."

Blech. On to the next one.

We have been horrible offensively this game. Just cannot maintain possession.

SHOOT, Power! JFC

***** Jaime Benn

Feels like we're losing every puck battle.

Inevitable. Absolutely dominated this period.

Well, just because they're built that way doesn't mean they have it...

These guys need to ***** help UPL out. He's been under assault all period.

We have a roster built with an overreliance on speed and skill.

Good things happen when you have someone in front of the net. Go figure.

MALENSTYN

Wake TF up!

They've been a mess.

Not a good start, geeze... Knew that was coming. Absolute garbage start to the period.

Stalemate through 2.

***** up, dummy. MOTHERZUCHER!

That feels like a dagger. We have nothing offensively tonight.

BALLS

This has been a problem for YEARS