Big Guava

Groundhog day

Brussel Sprouts...these are the equivalent of eating tiny balls of feces without even knowing what feces tastes like because I am confident it could not taste worse. Asparagus...not a fan of the taste or the way it makes your pee smells after.

That's because Meatballs just told them to go play without any structure. That was good enough to get them close to the playoffs but was never going anywhere long term. All it did is teach bad habits, bad fundamentals and then force the next coach to then have to undo everything they learned since Meatballs was here and re-teach them the proper way. They weren't starting from 0, they were starting from -500 due to having to unlearn what they had learned first. If you can't understand why this was the worst possible hire the Sabres could have done...one who essentially let them do whatever they wanted and didn't bother teaching them any structure, I am not sure what to tell you. It set this team back even more than they would have normally by switching coaches. Essentially, we have no real way of knowing anything about Ruff until he can get these players to play the proper way and that probably is going to take most of the season.

Because Meatballs never taught this team any fundamentals so Lindy basically had to undo their bad habits before trying to even teach them the proper habits. And is still struggling to do so because their default in tight situations is to go back to their old default still

When you have multiple coaches that have succeeded in many other places but seem to have the same issue here eventually you have to look at the constants involved which are the players.

It's going to really suck once football season ends and the Bills aren't there to ease the pain.

Unreal...what the hell is it with this team blowing multiple goal leads against the Avs to lose?? At least we don't have to play them anymore this year.

Just f***king ridiculous.

Apparently the Sabres really like playing the Avs in the first two periods this year. Hopefully no repeat of the 3rd coming up.

I'm guessing that doesn't happen.

Hmm...dare I say our special teams are starting to actually be pretty good?? 🤔

Dallas wanted to make up for the Sabres shutting them out and making them look bad in Buffalo 2-0 earlier this year.

4th time we have had a 3 game winning streak and failed to make it 4. We have to figure out how to get over that hump if they want to make a run. Easiest bet in sports right now is to bet the Sabres to lose if they have won 3 straight.

Good effort, just not good enough

I mean Goddamn, could they win a face off every now and then? It's 91% faceoff percentage for Dallas

More like between two portapotties 🤣

https://thehockeynews.com/nhl/edmonton-oilers/latest-news/struggling-oilers-forward-continues-disappointing-season After the coach when asked what Skinner could do to earn more ice team said "Play good hockey", he is now being healthy scratched for Derek Ryan, which marks the first time a healthy scratch has occured to a player under this coach... Skinner appears to be done-zo with the Oilers.

Kulich starting to turn it up... Can the Sabres renaissance continue?

Tied the record high of 61 today set back in 1990 and 1984

I mean he seemed to bring enough to win Stanley Cups 3 consecutive seasons with 2 different teams(Blues and then Lightning twice), but what do they know?

What a Maroon.

Quinn starting to regain his form...6 points in the last 5 games including 4 goals and several patented Quinn laser snipes. Not surprisingly, so is Cousins as they seem to regaining the "kid line" form that made them our best line many nights

I guess they are really feeling themselves after getting the monkey off their back... .

Looks like a sharp end of the year warmup in WNY including 2 days in the mid 50s on Saturday and Sunday is going to rescue us from having our first below average temperature month in over a year. Currently average temp thru 12/26 is 30.7 for the month, 1.5 degrees below normal, but with my calculations of the expected temps thru the 31st, we should end up around 32.8 for the month which should put us comfortably ahead of the average monthly temperature in December which is 31.4 for the entire month as the last week really drops the average temp for the month historically.

They were in a playoff position prior to the skid with a winning record coming off a 3 game winning streak on the West Coast. Let's not try and write revisionist history now.