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  2. GDT - Sabres at Blues - December 27, 2018 - 8:00 PM

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    3 minutes ago, PASabreFan said:

    As for the record, the notion after the 10-game winning streak was that the Sabres just had to play .500 the rest of the way. Maybe. But with a loss tonight, they're 4-6-3 since the streak. A decent sample size. If this is who they really are, they absolutely will miss.

    They still strike me as a team that doesn’t have a killer instinct and maybe doesn’t realize they’re not nearly a safe bet for the playoffs even with that 10 game streak. Perfect example was the Philly loss where they got a 2-0 lead and then completely stopped trying and ended  with a blowout loss. At this rate, I wouldn’t be shocked if they’re out of a playoff spot 20 games from now and scrambling to get back in. 

  4. GDT - Sabres at Blues - December 27, 2018 - 8:00 PM

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    1 minute ago, darksabre said:

    Dude was battling. Stuff happens. Maybe if the rest of the team wasn't standing around having a smoke this stuff wouldn't happen. I mean, he's literally the only guy who showed up tonight so far. Everyone else is busy icing the puck and losing battles. 

    Literally the only guy who showed up when we completely outplayed the Blues in the first. 

  10. Sabres Expected to Get A Third Jersey for 2019-20

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    3 hours ago, Kruppstahl said:

    I'm probably in the vast minority when I say I liked the red/white/black era!  The goat head was horrible, but the all black uniforms were f-ing mean.

    I personally like the darker blue color; the lighter "royal blue" and gold and white is pretty cheesy.  You don't really see a lot of things in the world of design in royal blue, gold, and white.

    The best you can hope to do with the scheme, IMO, is this, but it requires the addition of red to the colors:

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    The 1997 uniforms were spectacular — the logo, colors, striping, everything. If the Sabres were an expansion team that year, there would have never been a reason to change. But with the team’s entire history in Blue and gold, it was still a bad decision to adopt those. 

    I wouldn’t mind the goat head eventually coming back as a shoulder patch or 3rd jersey crest just to tie everything together in our history. 

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  11. Sabres Expected to Get A Third Jersey for 2019-20

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    1 hour ago, dudacek said:

    Current navy superior to royal blue.

    The original blues are OK, but also highly overrated.

    Everyone went to navy blue and black in the 90s to sell merch fo teenagers and because they did look better on TV at the time. In the era of HDTV, uniforms with bright colors look way better on TV (and have always looked better in person) so teams are wisely changing back. 

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  14. 2018 - 2019 Sabres Prospects

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    10 minutes ago, dudacek said:

    Pominville got 34 as a 20-year-old AHLer, but guys like Roy and Briere and Vanek were around point-a-game as rookies.

    So did Luke Adam.

    Obviously you’d want every 20 year old in the AHL to have a PPG rate (and you’d expect nothing less from a future star like Briere or Vanek) but it’s not decisive and not everyone is the same. This is literally the point of “development isn’t a straight line.” Like who the hell was Lawrence Pilut as a 20 year old?

     

  15. 2018 - 2019 Sabres Prospects

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    Just now, GASabresIUFAN said:

    I think I quoted the research before in this thread.  I was surprised as well by the age.  I’ll find it and repost it.

    I really doubt it’s 20 since most players don’t arrive there until they’re 20. And a quick check of Jason Pominville’s stats showed he had 34 points in 73 games as a 20yo in Rochester. 

    I might believe 21 or 22. But either way, we’re way too down on Nylander because we rushed him to the AHL before we should have and he struggled as a teenager and because we’re comparing him to his brother. 

  16. 2018 - 2019 Sabres Prospects

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    Sounds like UPL had a stellar WJC exhibition game last night against Canada. It’s been great to see him have a strong year after last season was so frustrating — and shows that development isn’t a straight line. After last year, UPL was struggling, most people were still down on the Laaksonen pick, and it didn’t seem like we’d be signing Borgen. (And we didn’t even know who Pilut was.)

    Then you have guys like Guhle, Asplund, and Nylander that need more time in the AHL than we were hoping they would. 

    Anyways, I guess we’ll see. And the WJC is quietly one of my favorite parts of the Holidays so excited to finally get a better look at some of these guys. 

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  20. GDT - Ducks @ Sabres - December 22, 2018 - 7:00 PM - MSG-B; FS-W

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    9 minutes ago, Hoss said:

    You're literally the only one on this train. This is the right way to handle it. If you're somber and act like it's a funeral you'll alarm people even further when it's probably too early to know much.

    The way they handled it (and still are since they haven’t said anything yet) is making me think it’s not too serious. And it does sound like RJ was feeling lightheaded and that they took him out almost as a precaution. We’ll see, but I was impressed with Rayzor and Duff stepping up. 

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  24. GDT - Ducks @ Sabres - December 22, 2018 - 7:00 PM - MSG-B; FS-W

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    13 minutes ago, Taro T said:

    No point in him being up as the 8th or 9th healthy D-man (depending upon whether Beaulieu's ready to go).

    Hopefully the brief stint with the Sabres & the quicker pace of play has him picking up his play in Ra-cha-cha.

    Being brought up last year had the opposite effect - he returned to Rochester and never played as well as he had been. Maybe this will reverse that?

    ”She falls down a well and her eyes cross.  Gets kicked in the head by a mule, they go back. I don’t know...”

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