Dreams Burn Down
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7 hours ago, Demoted said:
The only thing that ever mattered was the Sunday night game. Nothing else matters.
The Bills have been in playoff mode for weeks now so nothing has changed for them.
I agree. After some of the horrible football the Bills have played at points of this season, one thing that cannot be questioned is their resiliency. They've clawed their way back into a situation where they now control their own destiny.
The division championship is all that matters and all that should matter to those 53 players tonight.
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Two wins in a row?!
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Jarry with the slide and the miss.
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Girgs! Way to stand in front.
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1 minute ago, Scottysabres said:
UPL having a game.
He's bailed us out a few times tonight.
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Hahahaha..now please tighten up on defense boys; for the love of all that is holy.
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Benson is all over the place. I'm really liking this kid.
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Offside - no goal.
Hah. Screw you Crosby.
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The Penguins look old and slow in their own end thus far.
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Tuch! Great release on that shot.
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The Penguins, though not nearly what they once were, are still more than capable of giving the Sabres a reality check. We will not be able to roam so freely down low or in the blue paint as we were allowed to by the Habs. I'd like to see more of the new defensive pairings, though, and continued improvement on the PP. Those two PP goals the other night gave me a nice jolt in an otherwise moribund season.
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2 hours ago, PASabreFan said:
It was that old bat. And I don't mean Kate Smith.
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Benson and Quinn are unafraid in front of the net. It's refreshing to see.
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SHG. Dahlin with yet another giveaway in our own end. There have been a few of those from him tonight.
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2 minutes ago, K-9 said:
Two for three, but who’s counting.
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Skinner! Two for two on the PP?!
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Great nose for the net by Mitts there.
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We're very charitable with the puck, again. Thankfully, Levi is on his game. We're going to need it.
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That's two nice hits from our team thus far.
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2 hours ago, PerreaultForever said:
You are cherry picking the games though. We beat Boston once, but lost to them twice. Colorado and the Rangers have also beaten us. We have losses to Philly and Pittsburgh and Carolina and New Jersey and a host of others. Some of them we've also beaten but overall we lose more than win and there's only a handful of good games where we were the better team by far.
I looked it up we have won 2 games in a row ONCE this year. October 29 against Colorado followed by Philly on Nov 1. It was a Halloween miracle.
You can keep talking about "how we finished up last year" but I tell you it was an illusion. A few teams we beat near the end had depleted rosters, a few took us lightly. We played some good games, but we were not all that good. Not that different from how we started this year.
This might shock you but Krueger's points percentage in 2019 was actually better than Granato's is now. Bylsma's was better in both his years. Ruff, Ruff only had us below .500 in one bad season. The rest were all good and some VERY good. Floyd Smith of course gave us our best numbers for obvious reasons.
Do you remember when the bar for acceptable was much higher? Sator got replaced because he wasn't high enough above .500 and Dudley got axed the minute he dipped below.
Granato is below .500 and with him it's "patience". F that.
The bolded hits home for me. The minimum expectation used to be to make the playoffs. I remember being relieved with the May Day goal because we finally got out of the first round, which the media and fans were down on the organization for not achieving for years; and rightly so.
It shows me how far my own expectations have fallen since. Honestly, I don't think playoffs anymore. I simply want the Sabres to be a fully functional hockey club in every sense of the word.
KA and DG deserve their full share of blame for the dysfunction now, but TP is the common denominator here. Unless he lucks out and finds a GM and coach combo that he is willing to grant certain autonomy, we're going to be spinning our wheels here for the foreseeable future.
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2 hours ago, #freejame said:
But he’s taaaaalllllllll. Chara was tall are you saying he wasn’t physical?
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Even with the no goal, our defensive positioning was still wretched.
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Wow! What was Cozens thinking about there?
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Posted · Edited by Dreams Burn Down
Happy thoughts.
51 here. First Sabres game was 14-2 win over the Capitals in December 1975. I remember asking my dad if all the games were like that and he laughed and said, "No, not all of them."