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-Great win for the Sabres. Good effort on the road against a talented offensive team. -Miller played solid. Yes the first goal was on the soft side, but the difference between him and Marty is that he didn't allow any other goals the rest of the night. -Good to see Kotalik get a goal at even strength. He's got the size to be a power forward who can dominate at even strength if he puts his mind to it. -What the heck were the Sabres thinking in the last minute of the game. They came very close to giving up 2 two on one breaks while on the PP. -Dumont had one good chance in the 1st period & threw some nice hits. Bad news is, just as he comes back, Connolly goes down. -I REALLY want to see the Sabres pound the Leafs to the tune of 5-1 or 6-1. GO SABRES!!!

Max...jaw dropping one play, frustrating as hell the next. Good period of hockey. Lot of hitting and inspired play by the Sabres.

You can single me out, that's okay! :) It just pisses me off that on nights when you ended up scoring one goal, that you dressed a guy like Peters who contributes zero offensively while you sent Novotny back to Rochester. Granted Novotny has no proven track record, but from an offensive standpoint he is the equivalent of Wayne Gretzy when compared to Peters. I'll disagree that the Sabres need Peters as their resident tough guy. You have Gaustad who can drop them when needed and with fighting down to such a minimum, you just don't need a guy who can contribute NOTHING beyond being a goon. Keep him on the roster if you must(I'll even disagree there), but don't dress him unless the opposing team has just signed up the Hanson brothers. ;)

Boy I really hope that Lindy can still find a place in the lineup for Dynamo Peters if Dumont comes back. Maybe he can sit Vanek, Kotalik, Connoly or Max instead. I would hate to see Peters presence missing from the lineup. <_<

First off, if the replay official at the game is provided by the home team, this has to stop ASAP. Secondly, this concept that goals are reviewed in Toronto is bogus. On a busy night when there may be 11 or 12 games going on, how are they dealing with monitoring potential bad calls at different games? Hire competent video replay league based officials and cut out this micro-managing concept of reviewing replays at league HQ. What a dumb F***ing idea. Sometimes I really wonder about the NHL and their direction under Bettman.

-Marty...I don't care if you give up a bad goal from time to time, but can you at least try and be in the right position. McCarty barely made contact with the puck and there it went dribbling into the far side of the net while your angle on the play was horrible once again. -10 goals in the last home game and then 5 goals combined in 3 road games. This is not going to cut it. -On the 5 on 3 within a span of a minute, Pominville gave the puck away on a horrible pass in the Calgary zone and the next rush in, Connolly tried to stickhandle his way through the Calgary zone instead of pulling up and setting up the PP. THINK! THINK! THINK! -What breakdown in communication? Whether the ref saw the kick or not, when multiple players are arguing vehemently about the goal, shouldn't the ref have the common sense to go upstairs. I was hoping Lindy would have taken a play out of an NFL playbook and called a timeout after the goal to ensure that somehow the call gets reversed. Four officials on the ice, plus a couple upstairs and none of them saw the kick? Demote ALL of them back to the AHL ASAP. -The good news...Peters was a FORCE out there in his 4-5 minutes of play(up from 3-4 minutes the last game). I am now confident that sending Novotny back to Rochester was the right move. <_< I will ride Lindy and Darcy on this until the day that Peters is no longer on the roster. Let him go back to being a freak show in the AHL with 400 PM per season. -3-4-1 in the last seven games. The Sabres need to get back on track and try to get 4 points out of the remaining 3 road games. It's going to get a lot harder after the break, so start turning things aroung now. GO SABRES!!

Good thing Peters dressed last night. He was such a force with his 3-4 minutes of ice time. It would have been next to impossible for Novotny(who did not dress) to have made a bigger contribution on a night when the team only scored 1 goal. :angry:

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If I remain sitting in an upright position on the coach, I have a 10% chance that I stay awake for the whole game. Laying down on the couch or in bed, I'll be asleep half way through the first period. Sucks getting old and having to get up early. :angry:

one? Didn't he also coach the Sabres? I'm being very lazy today.

To be filed under the "it just wasn't meant to be" category... How is it that Scotty was wildly successfull everywhere but Buffalo? He won cups in Montreal, Detroit & Pittsburgh, but didn't do squat in Buffalo(especially come playoff time). :angry:

Great win to start the road trip. -Miller was very solid and once again made some big stops. -Good to see Roy get a goal. I really believe he has raised the level of his play over the last couple of weeks. You can see the confidence in him when he is handling the puck. -I thought the Sabres were quick, but damn...Edmonton can skate. -Nice hit by McKee on Hemsky. Also good to see Kalinin stick his nose in there when McKee was on his knees and could have been pummelled by Smith. -PP was in a funk all night. 2 great individual efforts by Connolly and Max, but overall, they were not sharp at all. -I'm not sure what is up with Vanek(foot injury bothering him), but his play the last two games has been very uninspiring. -Edmonton's goalie sucked. Don't they know that they have to do whatever it takes to pry Biron from the Sabres. ;)

This is why if they are going to trade Biron, do it now so that Mika can get 10 or so starts in before the playoffs roll around, so that he will be ready if needed.

Hasek was just unreal during his time as a Sabre. It's a shame that the Sabres couldn't build a team around him, that could have won 1 cup if not more.

I thought I just heard them say on WGR that Miller is getting the start tonight.

Go Sabres. Hopefully Miller is in the net and Biron is an Oiler or a Canuck before the west coast swing ends. ;)

Congrats to the Sabres. 7 even strength goals is a healthy boost to the plus/minus numbers of many Sabres. Novotny likes to throw the body around. It will be interesting to see how he fares on the western swing. Miller was great last night. Despite it not being a close game score wise, he made some quality saves over the first two periods. Nice way to close out the homestand. 3-2-1 isn't what I expected when it began, but hopefully this will be a kickstart for the road trip. I was thinking before the game that the Sabres need the vets to step up last night and they did...Drury 4 points, Hecht 4 points, Grier 3 points, Connolly 3 points, Kotalik 3 points and McKee even got a goal. The only negative...I taped the game on my Adelphia DVR and the box died after two periods. :angry:

I suppose Peters will be in the lineup because of LA's goon(Avery). Just what the Sabres need when in a goal scoring slump. <_<

...and all at home before BIG crowds. :(

7 goals in last 4 home games and a LA team up next, that is smoking Boston tonight 6-0 in Boston. :(

Pominville as the 3rd shooter...WTF?

C'mon Sabres. Phoenix has given up 21 goals in it's last 4 games(all losses).

Thanks for the correction. I was too lazy to look it up! :)

I thought the Sabres effort was great last night. Gaustad seemed to be hitting more than usual, Miler was stellar in goal and the defense did a good job of shutting down Tampa. Keep in mind TB just played two road games in New York and won them both allowing only one goal in each game.

It was good to kick their A$$es twice, but the first one was really special.