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Larry Playfair

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  1. GAME THREAD

    in 2005/2006 Season

    Posted

    Roy, Vanek and Max are due.

    and they came through! nice win. I love us scoring late in games..that has never happened before. We were never able to come back like we have been lately. Our players are just feeding off taht confidence.

  4. Game Thread

    in 2005/2006 Season

    Posted

    Is there a cooler hockey city to play in than in Montreal???? I went to the old forum once, and the huge oil paintings of the great canadians players in their history gave me goosebumps. Anyone been to the new forum?

  6. GAME THREAD

    in 2005/2006 Season

    Posted

    OK, here is my report from NYC after attending tonight's game: great win for the sabres. We came out flat and got dominated in the 1st period. Understandable given that we were starting our 3rd string goalie (yes, I am officially giving that status to Marty), were missing our best player (no info on Briere but he wasn't playing, that's for sure), lost a shootout last night after being ahead in regulation with 4 minutes left and had to travel today.

     

    Even so, we got it together and took it to them in the 2nd and dominated the 3rd and OT. The D was pretty solid -- looks like we dressed 7 defensemen since Briere couldn't go. Pyatt's stock is rising, as he took Briere's spot on the top line with Connolly (who led all forwards in ice time) and Kotalik. Connolly again was not as aggressive as I'd like in the offensive end but still solid, esp. on the PK.

     

    Glad to have Max back. He just makes things happen. the goals will start to come for him. Same for Vanek and Roy, although Roy needs a little more muscle and feistiness to his game -- like Max has.

     

    Kotalik is officially our most dangerous goal scorer or at least is tied with Briere for that honor. One Kotalik item I've noticed in the past couple of games is that he is now playing the right point on the PP, instead of the left, where he scored all those goals with the big slapper. I really liked him on the left, but Lindy knows what he's doing.

     

    I'll say it again: LINDY KNOWS WHAT HE'S DOING. If the Sabres weren't a well-coached team they would've gone into the tank when down 3-1 in this game (on the road, 2nd game of back-to-back, lost in shootout previous night, etc.). Instead we pulled it together and are now 3 games over .500 and have won 4 out of 6 plus gotten a point in one of the 2 we didn't win -- all after losing our goalie and promptly going 1 and 5.

     

    BTW, Miro Satan flashed back to his last 3 years as a Sabre, playing 24 minutes and recording ZERO shots on goal. He was completely invisible -- and at $4 million per year (which is I think what he's making), that's $50K the Isles paid him for punching the clock tonight. Notice they didn't bother putting him in the shootout (although he might have been the 3rd shooter had they gotten that far).

     

    Speaking of which, Marty obviously deserves a lot of credit for stoning 2 good players in the shootout, esp. after getting abused last night (which was putting him in an unfair situation).

     

    Finally, I'll say that I really like the Nassau Coliseum. It's an older, smaller arena, very reminiscent of the Aud, the Boston Garden and the other small bandboxes. Easy to get to, relatively inexpensive (parking was $6.50 and we walked up to the box office and got $95 face value tickets -- about 15-20 rows behind the goal with a great view -- for $38 on a "student" discount for my 5-year old son) and the seats are close to the action. I'll definitely go back there and would recommend it to anyone in the NYC area.

     

    Go Sabres. Time to take it up a notch and beat those smelly Habs.

    nice write up.

     

    $95 tix for 38 is a bargain!

     

    Go sabes, nice comeback win againt shitnik and shitan.

  22. Canes @ Sabres Game Thread

    in 2005/2006 Season

    Posted

    I am seriously losing interest in this team.  Great chances, no finishers, below avg goaltending.  This is so typical Sabres.  We make every goalie look awesome.  I love how the 'Canes announcers are so giddy because thier goalie is "in the zone" tonight.  Everyone is in the zone against Buffalo.  They suck big time.

    this is so unbelievably true. 40 something shots...jesus, we should be up.

     

    biron has let in 4 goals on 16 shots.

  25. GAME THREAD

    in 2005/2006 Season

    Posted

    dummmmont! pp goal.

     

    another assist for campbell, and its sounds like afingenov was driving towards the net and assisted on the play.

     

    afingenoc has asissts in 7 of last 8 games, and campbell in 3 of the last 4. surprising.

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