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Portillo knew.... portillo saw his future in Buffalo....Portillo knew

I was thinking the same thing

RAe standards for goalies are still too low. Goals 1 and 2 by Comrie were garbage and when he has a chance to close out the game, he basically scores on himself. BTW, do the sabres even practice penalty shots, we score on one which is a total mistake and the other 5 weren't even close - pretty pathetic. Oh and f*ck the refs - that call in OT was ridiculously bad - they ignore real penalties and make up a call on Krebs

or if we don't want to sh*t on him in one of his and the team's best efforts this season...he certainly built up his extension case in today's game

and the 4,000 fans in the stands boo the team off the ice

Yep our 3 NHL goalies: 1. A geriatric who has nothing left 2. A guy who's ranked 68th out of 68 goalies who KA thought was a good one to sign to be a #1 NHl goalie 3. a big lug with no angle control, no rebound control was lousy in the EHL, lousy in the AHL why would he be less than lousy in the NHL? I read a stat today that in the Boston 7-0 loss, Boston scored on 4 of 8 high chance shots (apparently UPL also got scored on 3 time on non high chance shots) while Buffalo went 0-8. Buffalo also outshot Boston by 1. Every game it's like we start down 3 goals due to the difference in goaltending. Saros vs Anderson is a joke

Is Jost sitting due to injury or for trying too hard and overchieving?

UPL isn't an NHL goalie and never will be. goal off chest was bad but so was the 4th goal. He's on his knees with a bad angle to Wilson, for no reason whatsoever. All he has to do is stay on his feet and the shot hits him in the chest. Needed a save there nad, per usual he failed

Did you seriously watch the game? UPL is the sole reason it wasn't 7-2. winning goal was garbage - not sure why it would count and 2nd goal was caused by a stupid giveaway by Klague compounded by Klague deciding to vacate his responsibilities in front of his own not. The D we are starting is a direct implication of KA ignoring d at the trade deadline. He desperately needed to make a trade for an NHL dman but didn't. Stillman is a good AHL one and it's not like trading for one would have blocked any D prospects

Yep - he was the sole reason the 2nd goal went in cuz of his screen. he also forechecked well. Blaming Greenway for this loss is a serious stretch, he was about 15th on the list Start with Klague, go to the tage line then transition to Joker and Bryson - thee are the main problems tonight

He seems to be getting a pass but Anderson absolutely has to save that weak 3rd goal. 12 minutes left, game tied, a relatively weak 5 hole shot needs to be saved, mcDavid or not. 1st goal was unlucky but he did score on himself. Skinner outplayed Anderson

He wasn't the problem nor was he the solution, he was just present

Bryson -20 on the season. Jokiyaru is also really bad if you watch him enough - contributes less than 0 offensively, is small and doesn't, turns the puck over a ton. We really have 2 defenseman on the ice, granted those 2 are a great start. Samuelsson could be argued but he hasn't been good this year. #46 is decent.

KA MAKE A G*D DAMN F*CKING TRADE. SHOW THE ROOM SOMETHING FTLOG

Glad to see Adams is allocating his time to things like this

we need an above average, or even and average goalie

We needed a save from him tonight, particularly goal 3 which was hideous. Goal 2 was bad too - he was on his knees for no reason. Johnson got ouplayed by a backup goalie is reason #1 we lost. Too bad we couldn't play periods 1 and 2 like we did 3. Power and Cozens were bad, quinn and Peterka were very good. I guess it's the nature of young kids. Oloffson was useless again

A guy can only be claimed when being sent down. No need to send Vinny down again as after the trade deadline (March 3) there's no roster limit of 24

it could be changed after the fact

Linesmen do, but they can report to the referees if they see a major penalty

the 4 referees should be suspended without pay also

Refs really blew this big time and should be held responsible. I find it hard to believe than none of the 4 saw the blatant elbow. All major penalties are reviewable, and can be upheld, changed to a minor or changed to no penalty. So what should have happened is they call a major and review it. When no penalty was called it wasn;t reviewable afterwards. The continued ineptness of NHL refereeing is incredible.

Proper call would have probably been hook on Boosh, dive on stamkos. A hook in a waist doesn't cause both legs to go flying in the air. Stamkos tried to fake and it backfired

No way they're trading either for a 5/6D. Mittelstadt has been one of our best players lately and Quinn has also been very good. Quinn is a potential 30+ goal scorer and is leaps and bounds better right now than Peterka, who looks a little lost

2 notes: The Sabres would have won with me in net. Jost was the best player on the ice