GDT: Blues @ Sabres, 7:00pm Nov. 6, 2025, 🎙 📺 ESPN+/MSG

[LGR4GM]

The Blues are bad. They have the worst goaltending in the league right now. The Sabres are meh. They have half the top 9 missing. 

Can the Sabres take advantage of a team with bad goaltending? Will St. Louis kidnap Ellis on the way out of town? Will Buffalo get goalied? Will this game also go to OT so Buffalo can lose? Does Seth Appert know his pp and 3v3 strategy sucks worse than soggy wings? 

Find out tonight on another adventure of, as the Sabres turn.

[LGR4GM]

Here are the projected lines, Ukko Pekka Luukkonen will be the starter. 

 

[LGR4GM]

 

 

[Night Train]

[SabresBaltimore]

Kozak can't play tonight without a corresponding roster move right? Please be the day we FINALLY waive Geersten.

Blues lost 6-1 last night and gave Ovi his 900th goal down here in DC. If we can't win this game, even with a depleted roster I dunno.

 

Also tonight is a Goathead night.

 

Go Sabres!

[PromoTheRobot]

I know UPL said he's starting. I would have bet money Ellis would get the start tonight.

[SabresBaltimore]

3 minutes ago, PromoTheRobot said:

I know UPL said he's starting. I would have bet money Ellis would get the start tonight.

They really need to give Ellis another start, this seemed like the perfect spot. But I think UPL played well enough on Sat to earn the start tonight.

[ska-T Palmtown]

37 minutes ago, SabresBaltimore said:

Kozak can't play tonight without a corresponding roster move right? Please be the day we FINALLY waive Geersten.

Blues lost 6-1 last night and gave Ovi his 900th goal down here in DC. If we can't win this game, even with a depleted roster I dunno.

 

Also tonight is a Goathead night.

 

Go Sabres!

The butterfly kisses @LGR4GM quoted above have him in the lineup and Brawndo has not posted about a roster move ...

[JohnC]

2 minutes ago, PromoTheRobot said:

I know UPL said he's starting. I would have bet money Ellis would get the start tonight.

Making a determination on UPL’s status with the team is a more important consideration than determining what Ellis’s role is, of course if it is believed that both goalies give you the same chance to succeed in tonight’s game. If Ellis ends on waivers and picked up, then so be it. It shouldn’t be forgotten that Levi is still in the system and can be moved up when the need arises.

[Doohickie]

12 minutes ago, PromoTheRobot said:

I would have bet money Ellis would get the start tonight.

That would be a Granato move.

[SabresBaltimore]

12 minutes ago, ska-T Palmtown said:

The butterfly kisses @LGR4GM quoted above have him in the lineup and Brawndo has not posted about a roster move ...

Guys can practice while on IR. Just because they lined up that way in practice doesn't mean he's on the roster. He was put on IR. They had to put Zucker on IR before Tuesdays game just to call up Östlund. So they either need to send someone back down or (I hope) waive Geersten.

[ska-T Palmtown]

6 minutes ago, SabresBaltimore said:

Guys can practice while on IR. Just because they lined up that way in practice doesn't mean he's on the roster. He was put on IR. They had to put Zucker on IR before Tuesdays game just to call up Östlund. So they either need to send someone back down or (I hope) waive Geersten.

I dunno - the lineup said "Projected Lineup" not "practice lines".

[SabresBaltimore]

we have 13 forwards not counting Kozak, 7 defenders and 3 goalies. That's 23. They need to make a spot if Kozak plays.

[OverPowerYou]

Was a time table ever given on Norris’ return? 

Edited 1 hour ago by OverPowerYou

[Stads]

Just now, OverPowerYou said:

Was a time table ever given on Norris” return? 

Which return? This one or the fourth one in April?

[ponokasabre]

40 minutes ago, Stads said:

Which return? This one or the fourth one in April?

Lindy did say he skating on his own 

Suprised Ellis isn’t starting, I feel he would pitch a shutout against his former team! 
 

St. Louis got destroyed last night so they should come out with some fire

Play like we did against Utah and we will win this game….hopefully in regulation 

[LGR4GM]

58 minutes ago, OverPowerYou said:

Was a time table ever given on Norris’ return? 

No, last we knew December was the target. 

[JP51]

1 hour ago, OverPowerYou said:

Was a time table ever given on Norris’ return? 

They said months... so that would be December before I was looking for him.... that said... I am not sure what the injury is... but months to me means there is a potential they are conservatively treating him hoping he heals and avoids surgery... so to me there is always the possibility that this time  line is pushed back... basically... they said December we will see if that pans out.... 

Edited 12 minutes ago by JP51