GDT: Panthers @ Sabres October 18 2025 @ 1PM, MSG-B, ESPN+, Fubo

[pastajoe]

9 minutes ago, LGR4GM said:

You don't put him on the 4th line. You demote someone else. 

He’s not a good enough two-way player yet, so Lindy wouldn’t do that.

2 minutes ago, Pimlach said:

Power, Timmins, and Byram all had more TOI than Dahlin.  Muel’s TOI was up there too. 
 

A Bryson out side effect?  

Probably giving him a rest since they had the lead. Plus those guys play the PK more. 

[Demoted]

 

[bg17]

11 minutes ago, mjd1001 said:

Doan with not a lot of ice time this game.

My guess is his line this game was Doan-McLeod-Tuch. The Sabres were on the PK so much this game, and his line-mates of Tuch and McLeod are used on the PK so much....that after the PK was over those guys needed a rest, so unfortunately Doan was on the bench with them.

If not for that, I think he would have had more ice time than 13:55

So much time on the PK likely played into that. 

[Doohickie]

9 minutes ago, shrader said:

There was one little play late in the game that I thought said a lot. I’m forgetting the names at this point. One of the Florida forwards pushed our defenseman at the whistle. A second or two later, that panther had 4 Sabres standing directly in front of him. There was no contact beyond that point, it was just a simple “yeah, this scrum is over”.

They seem to be playing for each other more.  And also they seem to be a LOT more in sync with their passing.

[ExWNYer]

1 minute ago, Doohickie said:

They seem to be playing for each other more.  And also they seem to be a LOT more in sync with their passing.

Dahlin pretty much said that same thing in his post game interview. He said, "This is how we play from now on."

[Doohickie]

40 minutes ago, Mr Peabody said:

IMO Benson.  Looking better than I could have imagined.  Catalyst is the best word I can think of.  He’s driving a culture change. 

Doan is better than I expected.  He's doing pretty well for himself and that helps the team.  Benson, though, is the heart of the team right now.  I'm already looking ahead in my mind to the Sabres moving Tuch if he won't sign a long term deal, and maybe trading one or to of their other stars to shore up the build that's going on right now with Kulich, Benson, Doan, Krebs, Kozak, etc.

Looking at the D, I think once Kesselring is back, the defense will be largely set going forward for the next little bit.

But on the offense, watch for people like Tuch and Thompson to get moved.  When I watch the team it almost feels like they're outsiders now.

[GASabresIUFAN]

11 minutes ago, Pimlach said:

Power, Timmins, and Byram all had more TOI than Dahlin.  Muel’s TOI was up there too. 
 

A Bryson out side effect?  

Dahlin doesn’t kill penalties 

[ExWNYer]

2 minutes ago, GASabresIUFAN said:

Dahlin doesn’t kill penalties 

He kills Brad Marchand's pride...

[mjd1001]

3 minutes ago, Doohickie said:

Doan is better than I expected.  He's doing pretty well for himself and that helps the team.  Benson, though, is the heart of the team right now.  I'm already looking ahead in my mind to the Sabres moving Tuch if he won't sign a long term deal, and maybe trading one or to of their other stars to shore up the build that's going on right now with Kulich, Benson, Doan, Krebs, Kozak, etc.

Looking at the D, I think once Kesselring is back, the defense will be largely set going forward for the next little bit.

But on the offense, watch for people like Tuch and Thompson to get moved.  When I watch the team it almost feels like they're outsiders now.

You brought up Kozak. A few other post brought him up also.

Is there a growing opinion that he should be a permanent member of this team, and any chance anyone thinks he is anything other than a 4th liner?

[HumanSlinky39]

That was enjoyable. Let's keep it going.

[mjd1001]

43 minutes ago, aristocrat said:

Lot of winnable games coming up. Need the top paid guys to start scoring 

I guess every game is 'winnable', but I don't think they have things easy coming up at all...

Montreal and Detroit the next 2....both are 4-1 and actually look really good....then a home-and-home vs Toronto?  Its not exactly the Isles, Flyers, and C-bus.  

Their next 10 games have opponents with combined record of 31-16.

Edited 8 hours ago by mjd1001

[Mustache of God]

44 minutes ago, LGR4GM said:

Bryson in concussion protocol 

Better shut him down for the season,  just to be safe.

Edited 8 hours ago by Mustache of God

[Eleven]

44 minutes ago, LGR4GM said:

Bryson in concussion protocol 

Yet no penalty.  Hmm.  I wonder where Colin Campbell's son works.  Maybe he even has a sliver of ownership.

[Slack_in_MA]

Didn’t see any of it as we were on the road, but sounds like a quality effort and good result. Let’s get to .500.

Edited 8 hours ago by Slack_in_MA

[Doohickie]

20 minutes ago, mjd1001 said:

You brought up Kozak. A few other post brought him up also.

Is there a growing opinion that he should be a permanent member of this team, and any chance anyone thinks he is anything other than a 4th liner?

I think he's a bottom sixer who will be part of the team going forward.  He may get bounced back to the AHL, but I think late last year he shifted from an AHLer to a tweener in my mind, and I think he is moving from tweener to NHLer as we speak.

[Freeezo]

Anyone know of a free site to watch a replay? Mine shuts down once the games over. Thanks

[Jorcus]

1 hour ago, Mr Peabody said:

Benson, Doan, Krebs, Kodak across the lines are shifting our culture.  No longer waiting around for Tage to score, but creating opportunities.   Entire D was engaged and physical.  
 

Granddaughter’s middle school chorus singing the anthem at the Crunch game tonight and I’m looking forward to watching Amerks D men. 

Kodak Kozak, Hey that's pretty good. Both he and Malenstyn played more time short handed than they did 5 on 5. Amazing job on the PK. 

[Doohickie]

1 minute ago, Jorcus said:

Both he and Malenstyn played more time short handed than they did 5 on 5. Amazing job on the PK.

That was the general impression I got... so it's verified I guess.  It's almost as if they were holding them back so they'd be fresh when killing penalties.

[Doohickie]

Was this Power's best all around game as a Sabre?  He seems to finally be using his body size as an advantage.

[shrader]

35 minutes ago, ExWNYer said:

Dahlin pretty much said that same thing in his post game interview. He said, "This is how we play from now on."

Hopefully that’s the case because on top of that, they still have reinforcements incoming. 

[Slack_in_MA]

18 minutes ago, Jorcus said:

Kodak Kozak, 

 

and there’s always this guy.

[GASabresIUFAN]

44 minutes ago, ExWNYer said:

He kills Brad Marchand's pride...

Why has it taken 20 years for someone to punk Marchand?

[PerreaultForever]

1 hour ago, mjd1001 said:

Doan and Benson now the topping the scoring leaders for the team after 5 games, (Benson only playing 2 of them)

Who had that before the season started?

I'm half way there with you.

I don't think it should be true, and I'd normally rather have the better overall player...but maybe there is something to it?

See, this what we should have done when we first started to rebuild. Traded Eichel etc. When you rebuild with youth you want some solid toughness on the roster. Bodyguards if you will. When you do that those kids learn it's okay to initiate cause somebody will have my back. The team grows and plays bigger and then eventually you don't need that guy as much cause you have an army. In time, he won't be needed most nights, but for now he's vital. 

[Mr Peabody]

28 minutes ago, GASabresIUFAN said:

Why has it taken 20 years for someone to punk Marchand?

I can see Benson following in his footsteps.  Sans the helmet trick of course. 

1 minute ago, PerreaultForever said:

See, this what we should have done when we first started to rebuild. Traded Eichel etc. When you rebuild with youth you want some solid toughness on the roster. Bodyguards if you will. When you do that those kids learn it's okay to initiate cause somebody will have my back. The team grows and plays bigger and then eventually you don't need that guy as much cause you have an army. In time, he won't be needed most nights, but for now he's vital. 

Eichel asked for more toughness on more than one occasion.  He was spot on. 

[PerreaultForever]

6 minutes ago, Mr Peabody said:

I can see Benson following in his footsteps.  Sans the helmet trick of course. 

Eichel asked for more toughness on more than one occasion.  He was spot on. 

I could actually see Benson doing all of it, even the helmet thing (or something similar). Benson is a brat and I love it. 

True about Eichel. There was a standing around nobody doing anything incident with Eichel getting flattened way back before last year's Tage incident. I think it was in Colorado but I kind of throw old seasons out of the memory with all the previous garbage seasons. I just go from GM to GM though as a new era so under Adams, he should have addressed this right away and if he had we wouldn't be discussing it now.