Doohickie

***** me.

The last few games anyway....

Skinner is such a good all-around player. That was a perfect pass.

I should report you for that.

Nope. I don't think it did.

Kyle Brandt's tee shirt 😛

Okay, the Sabres are incensed. Let them use that as motivation. When good vibes don't work, channel the hate.

Power needed to cover that man.

Well *****.

The Sabres were hot trash in the first period just like in Boston. Fortunately the Hawks are hotter trash. Casey Fitzgerald sent to Rochester; has two assists tonight, helping the Amerks to a 4-0 lead.

Thompson playing too confident in his own end. Not a good trend.

He stepped on a puck in practice this week. He was questionable for the last two games. Didn't make it back.

HOLY CHIT... Malcom Subban singing the Star Spangled Banner. For an obviously not-professional singer, he did okay.

The part that Boston beat was not the AAV, it was the term. And even if Boston had merely but not exceeded the Sabres offer, Ullmark may very well have left anyway. He apparently wanted out of Hockey Hell.

That attempt at a comeback was obnoxious.

(or as Rayzer would say, "No, you're right.")

They showed an angle that showed that was clearly *not* the case. The skate closer to the neutral zone never made contact with the ice. He was trying to get off the ice and was leaning on the boards so that skate never came back down on the ice.

You can say ass on Sabrespace you know.

The only Sabres Dman who wasn't a minus in +/- tonight? Power.

How many teams play "good team defense"? Maybe 20%? Okay so those will be losses mostly. But next season the Sabres won't be playing with an AHL goalie (check that: If they are, Adams should fired) and the whole team will be another year older and Granato will need to get the team to learn to play against team defense like that. In tonight's game Bryson and Fitzgerald were exposed for what they were: Individually not good enough to hold down a pairing between them. Both of them are good enough to play a complementary roll paired with a strong defenseman. I know Donny Meatballs wants to play consistent lines and pairings but if those are the six he's going to play he needs to split those two up; Fitz and Muel were a pairing in Rochester and not awful at the NHL level; Bryson and Dahlin have been an okay pairing in a small sample size. If the Sabres were actually playing for something more than pride, Granato would have had to do some "line juggling" with his defensive pairings. (Actually if they were playing for something it probably would have been Pysyk and possibly Miller out there in place of Bryson and Fitz.) ...but I am on board with GMKA bringing in veteran defensive help, possibly two of them.

Did you hear Marty's explanation of the one in between periods? He said Granato was actually correct and the officials got the ruling wrong. Basically there are two play conditions: Zone entry and Tagup. If you're entering the zone and any part of you is outside the line (even if up in the air) after the puck is in the zone, it's onside. If you're already established in the offensive zone (which Foligno was), you have to tagup which means you have to physically touch the ice in the neutral zone (being above it is not sufficient). In the case of the first challenge, Foligno was solidly in the Sabres zone. As the puck entered, he tried to get to the bench but he also lifted both feet up. The right foot was over neutral ice but he never touched neutral ice to tag up. As such it should have been offsides.

It's been a long time since they looked like an AHL team but they did tonight.

The guts aren't so good.

le sigh

Okay. Let's get reset now boyz and start producing some offense.