GDT: Blue Jackets @ Sabres Oct 28, 2025 6:45 pm ET TV: MSG-B, FDSNOH, Radio: WGR 550

[SabresBaltimore]

The 4-4-0 Blue Jackets are in town with a strange 6:45 start time to take on your 4-4-1 Buffalo Sabres. This game is the 4th one to start in tonight's all 32 team Frozen Frenzy on ESPN2. Games start at 6PM ET and stagger every 15 minutes or so until the last game starts at 11 ET.

 

Another division conference game (that could have implications on the wildcard at the end of the season) and ideally the debut of Kesserling. Who will he be partnered with? Power was the pre-season expectation but he seems to be doing well with Timmens atm. Meanwhile Dahlin and Byram got broken up so maybe he slots in with one of them.

And what of our 3-headed monster? Who gets the crease? I'd give it to Lyon.

 

Let's Go Buffalo!

Edited 9 hours ago by SabresBaltimore
columbus is not in our division

[#freejame]

Gotta take this one. No UPL please. 

[inkman]

38 minutes ago, SabresBaltimore said:

The 4-4-0 Blue Jackets are in town with a strange 6:45 start time to take on your 4-4-1 Buffalo Sabres. This game is the 4th one to start in tonight's all 32 team Frozen Frenzy on ESPN2. Games start at 6PM ET and stagger every 15 minutes or so until the last game starts at 11 ET.

 

Another division game and ideally the debut of Kesserling. Who will he be partnered with? Power was the pre-season expectation but he seems to be doing well with Timmens atm. Meanwhile Dahlin and Byram got broken up so maybe he slots in with one of them.

And what of our 3-headed monster? Who gets the crease? I'd give it to Lyon.

 

Let's Go Buffalo!

What are Power and Timmons doing well with?  😀

 

 

Let's go Buffalo!

 

Edited 11 hours ago by inkman

[SabresBaltimore]

29 minutes ago, inkman said:

What are Power and Timmons doing well with?  😀

OK, well is probably too strong of a word. They haven't been our biggest issue on defense. That was Dahlin and Byram. I also think they've been improving the more they played together. Timmens was awful in the first period of the Florida game (which is when I think they started pairing) and got benched for a few shifts and moved off of the pair until Bryson got hurt.

I think they've been trending in a better direction though. 

[LGR4GM]

I hope Kesselring can go because we need some reinforcements. Lyon better get the start and Buffalo will need to be sharp early against a young but talented Columbus team. 

[Doohickie]

1 hour ago, SabresBaltimore said:

Another division game

Blue Jackets are in the Metropolitan Division, not the Atlantic.

Important, though, from the standpoint of potential wildcard down the road.  Take two, no loser point for Columbus, please.

[SabresBaltimore]

23 minutes ago, Doohickie said:

Blue Jackets are in the Metropolitan Division, not the Atlantic.

Important, though, from the standpoint of potential wildcard down the road.  Take two, no loser point for Columbus, please.

Hmm. Why the hell have been thinking they were in our division? Thanks Agree about the wildcard bit though.

[OverPowerYou]

6:45. Who makes up these times? 

[Jorcus]

1 hour ago, inkman said:

What are Power and Timmons doing well with?  😀

 

 

Let's go Buffalo!

 

Timmons has 24 blocked shots good for 12 th in NHL

[SabresBaltimore]

6 minutes ago, OverPowerYou said:

6:45. Who makes up these times? 

The people planning Frozen Frenzy so there is more of a chance there is always some game to be showing

[PromoTheRobot]

28 minutes ago, OverPowerYou said:

6:45. Who makes up these times? 

 

21 minutes ago, SabresBaltimore said:

The people planning Frozen Frenzy so there is more of a chance there is always some game to be showing

6:45 beats starting at 6.

Edited 9 hours ago by PromoTheRobot

[inkman]

1 hour ago, SabresBaltimore said:

OK, well is probably too strong of a word. They haven't been our biggest issue on defense. That was Dahlin and Byram. I also think they've been improving the more they played together. Timmens was awful in the first period of the Florida game (which is when I think they started pairing) and got benched for a few shifts and moved off of the pair until Bryson got hurt.

I think they've been trending in a better direction though. 

 

31 minutes ago, Jorcus said:

Timmons has 24 blocked shots good for 12 th in NHL

I see my work here is unfinished. I bolded ATM for a reason. Maybe it's too early for those types of references.  

[OverPowerYou]

Is this frozen frenzy going to be a normal thing? I like that idea 

[Mustache of God]

4 minutes ago, OverPowerYou said:

Is this frozen frenzy going to be a normal thing? I like that idea 

I believe they started it last year and hope they continue it. Staggering the start times make so much sense so you can flip between games during intermissions.

[Doohickie]

11 minutes ago, Mustache of God said:

you can flip between games 

Makes sense in theory but "flipping between games" on a lot of smart TVs means leaving one streaming platform and going to another, waiting for all the buffering while they load and often watching a mandatory 2 minutes of ads while the game goes on.  

It would have worked better in the age of cable.

[Taro T]

20 minutes ago, OverPowerYou said:

Is this frozen frenzy going to be a normal thing? I like that idea 

It seems likel it's going to become a thing.  And agree that it's a cool idea.

15 minutes ago, Mustache of God said:

I believe they started it last year and hope they continue it. Staggering the start times make so much sense so you can flip between games during intermissions.

Would prefer they'd do it on a winter's Saturday or Sunday.  Whenever they choose their "national day of hockey" to be.  They could spread the games out over the entire day; you'd still have significant overlap of games but with 10-12 hours of staggered start times rather than just 5 or so could get closer to 45 minutes between starts which would give people an opportunity to watch pretty much a period of every game without having to watch anything on delay if they wanted to do so.  (Which ESPN and Rogers would hate as they wouldn't have the broadcast rights to all those games.)

[inkman]

17 minutes ago, OverPowerYou said:

Is this frozen frenzy going to be a normal thing? I like that idea 

 

12 minutes ago, Mustache of God said:

I believe they started it last year and hope they continue it. Staggering the start times make so much sense so you can flip between games during intermissions.

Why not have it on a Saturday or Sunday?  I suppose this time of year, competing with College Football & the NFL, the weekends would be tough.  College Football has a pretty sizable hiatus between their regular season and playoff. Why not just wait until then?  I'm sure hockey die hards will enjoy the experience regardless, I just think if you have a non-college football Saturday, you could have games starting at 11 am - 11pm, giving fans a chance to watch 4-5 complete games. Not a hodge podge of catching a period or two of about 3 games.  

[Drag0nDan]

2 hours ago, OverPowerYou said:

6:45. Who makes up these times? 

I know! So stupid! I wanted to grab a drink at ballyhoo before the game so now i have to take a call in the car.  It's also bills night so there's a free "jersey", so its going to take longer to get into the arena.  

[Indabuff]

Taking my boy.  Hope it's a good one.

11 minutes ago, Drag0nDan said:

I know! So stupid! I wanted to grab a drink at ballyhoo before the game so now i have to take a call in the car.  It's also bills night so there's a free "jersey", so its going to take longer to get into the arena.  

We might try to avoid doing dinner before in the DT area.  Gonna be a long wait at most places. 

[Drag0nDan]

3 minutes ago, Indabuff said:

Taking my boy.  Hope it's a good one.

We might try to avoid doing dinner before in the DT area.  Gonna be a long wait at most places. 

Yeah, i'm gonna head down for 430 or so, i hate paying arena prices for beer and id rather just have a couple and get a coke at the game.  

I forgot its "frozen frenzy" day, so every team in the league is in action which explains the weird start time.  

[LGR4GM]

11 minutes ago, Indabuff said:

Taking my boy.  Hope it's a good one.

We might try to avoid doing dinner before in the DT area.  Gonna be a long wait at most places. 

Sidelines. 5min walk from the train 😉 

[LGR4GM]

 

 

[Big Guava]

[Brawndo]

Ruff confirmed Kesselring will make His Sabres Debut tonight 

[Brawndo]

1 hour ago, Drag0nDan said:

I know! So stupid! I wanted to grab a drink at ballyhoo before the game so now i have to take a call in the car.  It's also bills night so there's a free "jersey", so its going to take longer to get into the arena.  

Is the jersey only for those that bought the ticket package from the Sabres directly?