Big Guava

Sabres putting their streak on the line when leading after 2 periods.

Well I dunno...Clifton seemed to be pretty valuable with the Bruins and was their on 2nd pair unit. Hard to believe that he can be a top 4 D on the best team in NHL history but he could only be a 6/7 here or anywhere else.

Stupid play by Dahlin but you can't get beat from there seeing the shot perfectly as an NHL Goalie.

And low cross crease where both goals were scored. That looks intentional

Powerplay coming alive...looks like they are trying to go low cross crease intentionally...both goals came that way.

Save your breath, they aren't making any changes. Should they? Probably. Will they? No.

I mean...Sabres shooting from every possible location and can't buy a goal over the past 5 mins in a barrage of shots. Sens take one shot and get a flukey deflection and it's in the net. Just gotta SMFH at this team sometimes.

Literally turn the game on and the first thing I see is the Sens 3rd goal. FFS this team.

" I said you can't play here, Nadeau! I said Adieu! Adieu Nadeau!"

Then why tell us after? That's my whole point. Plenty of times you hear about an athlete who is missing games for the birth of their child prior to the game and many times in the week or two leading up to it. No big deal. How to tell us you are "Get off my lawn!!" guy without telling us you are "Get off my lawn!!" guy.

What was the secrecy for where nobody would say? I mean they were treating it like an injury for Christ's sake. Congrats Tage! Maybe the Sabres could dial back the secret society a little next time?

Not a huge statistical difference. Basically inconsequential

We have allowed the most first period goals in the NHL with 48 this year and are an NHL worst -22 in goal differential after 1 period. And the PP is terrible. Hard to win when you are constantly chasing the game for the last 2 periods and you can't cash in when you have the man advantage.

Would suspect death in the family type situation or family emergency.

When an 18 year old rookie 25ish games into his NHL career is your best forward without the puck that's a problem. Even bigger problem is he was that since about game 5.

Yes, which is what he talked about them getting back to. Not a good start with that although the other few games has been promising, especially the Leaf game

Yup...mostly the only way they score is on a PP rush or the odd one timer. Half the issue is they can't hit the net or get shots blocked constantly.

And yet they beat that same team in Boston a few weeks ago. And have beaten numerous good teams this year. This team in an enigma that doesn't have an identity and you have no idea what you are going to get game to game with them. And yet they beat that same team in Boston a few weeks ago. And have beaten numerous good teams this year. This team in an enigma that doesn't have an identity and you have no idea what you are going to get game to game with them.

Barrasso? Puppa? Biron?

Really amazing to see how the Bruins passed the puck on the power play like it was on a string bing bang boom and in the net...Sabres players went out to them and before they got there it was gone to the next player. Sabres need to put that on replay over and over again as an example of what they need to do. Their power play is so bad, they can barely even get a shot on goal when they get set up in the zone. They pass it around endlessly and then either get their shot blocked or lose the puck and it ends up down the ice. Or make a bad pass out of the zone. Or shoot it wide and out of the zone. They have way too much talent to look that bad on the PP.

Uh, I think you are forgetting this was the highest scoring team in hockey for a good part of the season and they finished 3rd. They looked like the Harlem Globetrotters on Ice much of the time offensively making teams look silly in their own end. Pretty sure all those games weren't against backup goalies and teams skating around aimlessly. Just an absurdly dumb take, IMO. They didn't make the playoffs because their home record was abysmal. 5th worst in the NHL and the only 4 teams worse were all 30+ points lower in the standings and the 4 worst teams in the league. They missed the playoffs by 2 points. If they would have even played league average at home they would have made it by at least 10 points.

You are going to win the National Golden Snowglobe award going away this year... Currently have a 55" lead over 2nd place Boulder, CO. Buffalo has won it back to back years but we aren't even barely on the map this year. Have under 8 inches of snow this year to date when we had over 100 inches at this time last year, on the back of a massive lake effect snowstorm in November and the worst blizzard in recorded US history the few days surrounding Xmas. Currently ranked 14th with 7.7", showing just how little snow has fallen in the lower 48 this year. Not only that but since November 1st, we have only had 2 days that haven't had a high temp over freezing and those days both reached 31. December has featured 12 days with high temps 45+(including 8 days 50+ and 1 day hitting 60) and another 6 days over 40. Absurdly warm for this time of the year, over 7 degrees above normal and currently the 2nd warmest December on record next to 2015 which was a crazy warm outlier, and also a strong El Nino year that featured a 71 degree high one day and several other days in the 60s and upper 50s. This year and 2015 are the only two years in recorded weather history since 1878 without a high temperature below 30 degrees for the month. Buffalo also just set a record for most consecutive days without a temperature under 20 degrees, reaching 305 days since the last time this occurred when it hit 16 degrees Feb 23rd of this year. Looks like this will extend out quite a ways as forecast well into January shows all highs above freezing with only a few days reaching the mid 20s for lows and the others in the 30s for lows.

The team needs to re-find their transition game that was so lethal last year. Let's not forget this is the same team that beat Boston 3-1 a few weeks ago and multiple other high end NHL teams this year. It's not all bad. It's just bad far too often for them, especially at home.

Another pathetic home game for this team in a season and a half full of them.

El Nino, not La Nina. Totally different It was warmer in Buffalo believe it or not