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Samuelsson, Tuch and TNT. Levi is unproven as an NHL starting goalie. He's never even had close to that sort of workload.

I'm going to simply say this: I don't think the Sabres are making the playoffs this year either. They never addressed a goalie tandem, the defense looks rough and the forwards are still soft. Add to it injury-prone players and very, very tough competition in the Eastern Division. I hope they prove me wrong.

The soft tissue injuries concern me. Injuries in general concern me very much. Particularly, Tuch, EJ, TNT, Samuelsson and Savoie. Okposo doesn't concern me so much as he has little function on the ice anymore.

Tampa Bay is looking for a goalie in Vasilevskiy's absence. Here are three choices. The most intriquing choice to me is 31 year old journeyman Louis Domingue of the Rangers (Shesterkin and Quick are ahead of him). He has a .905 save percentage in 142 career NHL games and from 2017-1019 was 28-8 with a 2.88 GAA and .910 save percentage. He spent 2022-23 in the AHL. I like him better than Luukonen or Comrie. Do something. Please address the goaltending! https://bleacherreport.com/articles/10092025-3-lightning-goaltending-trade-targets-amid-nhl-rumors-andrei-vasilevskiy-injury

Hey, Cal Petersen just got put on waivers. 😕

I hope neither. Hate 'em both. Get a legitimate goalie and don't cheap out on these half-baked projects.

We're getting dominated.

I hear Luukonnen is supposed to play the whole game. If he ***** the bed, I wonder what's going to happen?

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Zegras is signed: https://www.nhl.com/ducks/news/ducks-zegras-agree-to-terms-on-three-year-contract

More impressive still was Skinner batted that pass out of the air just prior to the score. It would've gone over any mere mortal's stick.

Lately it looks like Buffalo is going back to a team that can't score. 🤢

Passing looks shaky. Pass it to the stick please, not the feet. They will go high on Levi. Ryan Johnson looks too fancy.

I'd finally like to see Tuch-Thompson and Skinner together. Don't mess with success.

Any progress on Savoie? He seems to be the forgotten man here.

Trade. For. A. Good. Goalie.

Anyone know why the electronic backboards were at some point, flashing WIN BRUINS with the Bruins logo -- in Buffalo? It was also flashing Rangers logos and the word "Overtime" even though there was no overtime. I don't get it.

Last year, I heard Jack Edwards try to cop the "Top shelf where mama hides the cookies." It didn't work. You don't get anywhere in life trying to pay "homage" to legends. You get called out as a cheap imitator. You have to be original and carve your own legend.

I'm listening to the radio feed and have to call Dan Dunleavy out. This is the second time that I've heard him steal shtick from the long-dead Ted Darling. For those of you too young, Ted Darling was the original Sabres pbp man. He was from HNIC, his diction was impeccable and he was a bit of a know-it-all. He was such a know-it-all that he claimed to even know the origin city of the person who caught the puck when it was shot into the crowd. Dan, we know you're copying Ted's shtick, not thinking that there are fans who knew anything about it. It's a cheap copy. Get your own gimmicks, don't pass Ted Darling's off as your own. Sheesh!🤬

https://www.nhl.com/sabres/video/skinner-kicks-off-the-scoring-6337886029112

But they are last in the NHL in hits. Poor in faceoffs too. The iffy situation in goal is also concerning. These problems should be addressed.

Hard No.

The whole team doesn't hit, that's been fairly established. With Tuch-Thompson-Skinner and Cozens-Quinn-Peterka we have maybe one guy who hits, Cozens, and he's more known for finesse. We have to trade for hitters. Why can't we draft them? Rob Ray was 6' 220 in his playing days. You don't have to be huge to hit, you just have to have the hitting mentality, which our guys don't have. Even Clifford, who seems to be a designated hitter for the defense, to make up for our other d-men who are more known for their finesse game, is only 5'11 175.

Buffalo seems to draft smallish skilled players year after year. And so the Sabres are usually last in the league in hits. I'd like to see at least one draft where they draft all thugs. Rob Ray, Barnaby, May and all those guys had a significant positive impact on the Sabres winning when they played.