GDT: Sabres @ Flames, Dec 8, 2025, 9pm. WGR, MSG, ESPN+(out of market)

[Scottysabres]

Just now, Crusader1969 said:

Ruff blames refs and thought UPL was "fighting it" tonight 

He seemed pretty irritated though, I don't think he really said what he was thinking 

 

 

He was thinking he could be sitting on the beach surrounded by palm trees paying 0 state income tax on his retirement checks.

[Goldseatsaud]

Live your life and don’t worry about the damn Sabres! 
They don’t give two shits about you either. 

Edited 7 hours ago by Goldseatsaud

[PerreaultForever]

2 minutes ago, Crusader1969 said:

Ruff blames refs and thought UPL was "fighting it" tonight 

He seemed pretty irritated though, I don't think he really said what he was thinking 

 

 

That's Ruff and it's fine for the coach. It bugs me that so many times I saw Sabres looking to the refs for calls, No other team does that this much. Fight through it ffs. 

[Goldseatsaud]

55 years of following these ***** you have not care anymore. 

[PerreaultForever]

Oh and Greenway's a heck of a hockey player isn't he? Genius putting him on the top line. 

[SwampD]

Just now, Goldseatsaud said:

Live your life and don’t worry about the damn Sabres! &nbsp
They don’t give two shits about you either. 

What if I have no life?

 

1 minute ago, Goldseatsaud said:

55 years of following these ***** you have not care anymore. 

What does this mean?

[Believer]

That’s it for me tonight.

Catch you all tomorrow night.

Let’s win one.

[SwampD]

At this point, It’s coaching.

[PASabreFan]

https://www.nhl.com/sabres/video/thompson-postgame-at-cgy-6386219939112

[Spoonman]

58 minutes ago, Scottysabres said:

This team sucks donkey balls

[Pimlach]

1 hour ago, ska-T Palmtown said:

Bryson, Sammy, Benson, Doan, Kozak, Krebs, Beck, and McLeod all even or plus in a 7-4 paper bag game ...

Beneficiaries of less TOI. 

[Nitro60]

24 minutes ago, SwampD said:

At this point, It’s coaching.

Sorry but you can have the very best coach in NHL history and still lose with these guys.  Same song every year:  we are young.  They are young but seem not to listen or if they do they forget the lessons the next game.  I no longer care if they win or lose.  I watch on occasion and shrug when they lose.  If you players want to embarrass themselves, so be it.

[Pimlach]

16 minutes ago, PASabreFan said:

https://www.nhl.com/sabres/video/thompson-postgame-at-cgy-6386219939112

I don’t get that he, and probably all of them, think they played good enough to win.  He talked about not getting enough bounces.  They had 4 goals on the road.  That’s enough to win.  But not when your top line guy goes -4 for the game like he did.  He totally ignored the poor defense, the errant passes, and the uncovered players in their defensive zone.  

Compare this to what the Calgary coverage said about them.  The Sabres live in another reality.  Probably for survival. 

[gilbert11]

Two mote empty net goals given up!   Woohoo!  That gives the Sabres 12 and a 2 goal lead on Florida!

[gilbert11]

1 hour ago, PromoTheRobot said:

They probably wait till they are back, if it happens. Sucks they can't stem the bleeding sooner. This roadie is going to sink what little hope they had.

It would be great if they were fired on this trip and Pegs said “find your own way home”.    But, that’ll never happen.

[Sidc3000]

Just woke up and saw the score…

[Trettioåtta]

3 minutes, 30 seconds, 1 minute. That's the time gap between pulling within one goal and letting in another (excluding empty net). I didn't see the game, so can't fully comment. However, my chief complaint of UPL is not his stats, but that he never makes the save when they need it most. Those time gaps certainly seem to support it.

[spndnchz]

Pfft was really 5-3. Yeah still loss

 

on to the oilers

[LGR4GM]

6 hours ago, PASabreFan said:

Tage thinks the Sabres outplayed the Flames.

 

 

[LGR4GM]

6 hours ago, JohninMinn. said:

Greenway our first Liner -2

What!? It can't be! No one could have seen that coming. I thought for sure a below replacement level player would thrive on an nhl top line. 

[Slack_in_MA]

The dearth of leadership at all levels…

Will anyone stand up and say “Enough is enough”? (Besides the fans)

[mjd1001]

10 minutes ago, Slack_in_MA said:

The dearth of leadership at all levels…

Will anyone stand up and say “Enough is enough”? (Besides the fans)

Paid attendance at home games is 16,608 so far this year...up slightly from 15,998 last year.

So the only really 'important' fans, as of yet, are not saying "Enough is enough". Far from it.

Lets see what it looks like after this road trip though I guess.

 

[Archie Lee]

6 hours ago, Nitro60 said:

Sorry but you can have the very best coach in NHL history and still lose with these guys.  Same song every year:  we are young.  They are young but seem not to listen or if they do they forget the lessons the next game.  I no longer care if they win or lose.  I watch on occasion and shrug when they lose.  If you players want to embarrass themselves, so be it.

Entirely disagree with this. They are playing to a 73 point pace right now; that’s below what they played in Granato’s 1st full season when their key players were younger and the line-up was dotted with Wil Butcher, Andres Bjork, John Hayton, Aaron Dell, and Dustin Tokarski. In Granato’s next two years, with a younger core than now, they played to two games below DeLuca .500 and had a goal differential of -2. In a season and a 1/3 under Ruff, the Sabres are 17 games below DeLuca .500 and have a -35 goal differential. 

We act sometimes like we have been embarrassingly bad year after year. For 3 seasons under Granato we either met or exceeded reasonable expectations, based on the roster, every year. Ruff was a terrible mistake. He has had precisely the opposite impact that he was brought in to provide. 

[mjd1001]

46 minutes ago, LGR4GM said:

 

 

After a somewhat better start, I have felt that Jack Quinn has almost fully reverted back to his awful 2024-25 form.

At least for one game, The stats totally verify that.

[mjd1001]

A quick look at the analytics from the lines last night and a couple of things stand out... 

Even strength, I think it's the worst offensive performance from Tuck and Thompson all year. No official scoring chances... No official high danger chances... And that was with Greenway on their line. 

Other than Greenway sinking that top line last night, there were a bunch of different line combinations, but the next two worst combinations had one thing in common... Jack Quinn.

Both of them were signed to extensions and that was a mistake. But right now Quinn and Greenway are back to hurting this team compared to some of the younger guys who could be playing for them. But yet keep on playing them because we have to justify those bad contracts.

Edited 24 minutes ago by mjd1001