bob_sauve28 Posted March 3 Report Posted March 3 https://www.nhl.com/sabres/news/how-to-watch-buffalo-sabres-vegas-golden-knights-preview After nearly a month away, the Buffalo Sabres are finally back in action at KeyBank Center, taking on the Vegas Golden Knights on Tuesday at 7 p.m. Buffalo returned from the Olympic break and took care of business on a challenging road trip, beating the New Jersey Devils, Florida Panthers and first-place Tampa Bay Lightning, all in regulation, in the span of four days. Saturday’s 6-2 blowout in Tampa further legitimized these Sabres as Eastern Conference contenders. The Lightning – especially goalie Andrei Vasilevskiy – had been nearly unbeatable for months, but the visiting Sabres needed just 22 minutes to build a 5-0 lead and end Vasilevskiy’s night with a “mercy pull,” in the words of Tampa Bay coach Jon Cooper. NHL standings | Sabres in 2nd place in Atlantic entering Tuesday Now a force on the road (16-2-1 since Dec. 9), Buffalo looks to continue putting on a show for its home crowd, too. Despite losing to Montreal and Pittsburgh at KeyBank Center before the break, the Sabres own a .661 home points percentage (17-8-3) this season, tied for sixth best in the NHL. Tuesday’s crowd should have some extra juice as Buffalo honors Tage Thompson and Team USA for their Olympic gold medal. The forward thrived with three goals in Milan and has stayed hot with the Sabres, collecting four points (2+2) during the road trip. Based on Monday’s practice, the Sabres look to be rolling out the same lines from Saturday’s win. The one change is in net, where Alex Lyon is expected to start. more at link 3 1 1 Quote
PromoTheRobot Posted March 3 Report Posted March 3 I have a show in Boston to catch. I'll watch it on DVR when I get back. 1 Quote
bob_sauve28 Posted March 3 Author Report Posted March 3 Thompson said he hopes to incorporate Golden Knights Jack Eichel and Noah Hanifin, his U.S. Olympic teammates, into the pregame ceremony, as Jack Hughes did for him last Wednesday in New Jersey. 1 Quote
CallawaySabres Posted March 3 Report Posted March 3 Would really like to go tonight to see the Olympic stuff, but I think that Tampa game on Sunday is calling me 1 1 Quote
Mustache of God Posted March 3 Report Posted March 3 ***** Jack Eichel, tonight is a Must Win. Go Sabres. 1 Quote
PromoTheRobot Posted March 3 Report Posted March 3 5 minutes ago, Mustache of God said: ***** Jack Eichel, tonight is a Must Win. Go Sabres. Cheer the USA gold medal winners, then boo his azz the rest of the night. 👹 1 1 Quote
DarthEbriate Posted March 3 Report Posted March 3 Doan Solo: Tagey, we're home. Tagebacca: raarrr There's a wild stat floating around that the Golden Knights haven't defeated team currently in a playoff spot since 11/20/25. I hope the Sabres skate hard and crush run them out of the building tonight. 2 Quote
SHAAAUGHT!!! Posted March 3 Report Posted March 3 I'll be there tonight and am curious how the crowd is going to react to Eichel getting mentioned for the Olympic celebration. It is so nice this is the type of season subplots we get to enjoy in March instead of disucssions around tanking, potential draft picks, who in the FO needs to get fired first, and which average roster player the Sabres need to overpay to stick with the team because of "potential." 1 Quote
Weave Posted March 3 Report Posted March 3 At the end of this game I wanna see the Eichel face we got used to seeing at the end of Sabres games. Nothing personal. Just ***** that guy lol 1 2 2 Quote
DarthEbriate Posted March 3 Report Posted March 3 (edited) Interesting note from the dailyfaceoff's Last 10 Games tab (I'm not doing the full research to prove its validity). And of note: McNabb had a long break from injury -- his 10 games ago includes games back in December. But -- VGK's expected D-corps lineup tonight (Lauzon, Theodore, Hanifin, Andersson, McNabb, Korczak) has a combined 2G - 8A -10 pts in their most recent 10 games played each. By contrast, Dahlin has 5-10-15 by himself. In their last 10 games (each player individually), the Sabres D-corps is 10-25-35. Vegas does not activate their D, seemingly plays a cycle game only, has poor goaltending, and is 3-5-2 in their last 10 with Stone, Marner, and Theodore all listed as day-to-day. Get your legs going, gents. Edited March 3 by DarthEbriate 1 2 Quote
Popular Post SabresBaltimore Posted March 3 Popular Post Report Posted March 3 I'm not here to tell anyone else how to be a fan, but Eichel was an immature kid when he was here and there was a lot of hurt feelings on both sides. He's been gone for over 4 years ago. Personally, I'm over it. It's not like he's Lucic and put a dirty hit on someone. That's a guy you boo forever. Not someone who hurt your feelings once. I was rooting for him during the Olympics. If I was there I'd cheer him before the game and otherwise just cheer for the Sabres during the game and not waste energy booing the guy. It's nice to see the building is selling out again, and I'm looking forward to watching the pre-game stuff. Detroit won yesterday so I'd like to keep on winning and keep ahead of them in points (even though we still have the tie breaker). Hopefully the energy in the building powers us to our 4th straight win. 11 1 Quote
Weave Posted March 3 Report Posted March 3 1 minute ago, SabresBaltimore said: I'm not here to tell anyone else how to be a fan, but Eichel was an immature kid when he was here and there was a lot of hurt feelings on both sides. He's been gone for over 4 years ago. Personally, I'm over it. It's not like he's Lucic and put a dirty hit on someone. That's a guy you boo forever. Not someone who hurt your feelings once. I was rooting for him during the Olympics. If I was there I'd cheer him before the game and otherwise just cheer for the Sabres during the game and not waste energy booing the guy. It's nice to see the building is selling out again, and I'm looking forward to watching the pre-game stuff. Detroit won yesterday so I'd like to keep on winning and keep ahead of them in points (even though we still have the tie breaker). Hopefully the energy in the building powers us to our 4th straight win. Its not personal. He plays for an opposing team. And he is a key member of that team. ***** that guy. Lol 2 1 Quote
That Aud Smell Posted March 3 Report Posted March 3 Let's Go, Buffalo!! As I stated elsewhere (and before Nashville failed to deny points to Detroit), I am depending on (expecting!) the western conference to continue to roll over for eastern conference contenders. Quote
SabresBaltimore Posted March 3 Report Posted March 3 (edited) 10 minutes ago, Weave said: Its not personal. He plays for an opposing team. And he is a key member of that team. ***** that guy. Lol Yeah, just like Sabres fans spend their time booing Kopitar every time he touches the puck when the Kings are in town? Because to me it's basically the same thing. Vegas is in the western conference. We play them twice/year. It'd be a different story for a division rival or something. Some folks just can't/won't get over things. Even is you say well Eichel is a former Sabres player and Kopitar isn't. Reinhardt is on a team IN OUR DIVISION and Sabres fans don't boo him. I think its disingenuous to say it's just that he's on another team. I'm also not saying you shouldn't boo him if you want to. Edited March 3 by SabresBaltimore Quote
That Aud Smell Posted March 3 Report Posted March 3 11 minutes ago, SabresBaltimore said: Eichel was an immature kid when he was here and there was a lot of hurt feelings on both sides. I mean this without any actual animosity: The dude is an as*hole. I say that as someone who had a guy in my (Boston area!) college-years friend group whom we affectionally called "As*hole." Because he was one! There's a reason that the term "Masshole" came to replace the oft used phrase "flinty New Englander." Eichel is (can be) a prickly SOB. 2 minutes ago, SabresBaltimore said: Even is you say well Eichel is a former Sabres player and Kopitar isn't. Reinhardt is on a team IN OUR DIVISION and Sabres fans don't boo him. Reinhart ... not an as*hole. 2 3 Quote
FrenchConnection44 Posted March 3 Report Posted March 3 It would just show class from the fans to cheer Eichel for the gold medal. Just like Fl fans did. Then root like heck against him once the game starts. 1 Quote
That Aud Smell Posted March 3 Report Posted March 3 I agree with the sentiment that the fans in the Buffalo arena should loudly and uniformly cheer the USA gold medalists during the pre-game recognition. 2 Quote
SabresBaltimore Posted March 3 Report Posted March 3 5 minutes ago, That Aud Smell said: I mean this without any actual animosity: The dude is an as*hole. I say that as someone who had a guy in my (Boston area!) college-years friend group whom we affectionally called "As*hole." Because he was one! There's a reason that the term "Masshole" came to replace the oft used phrase "flinty New Englander." Eichel is (can be) a prickly SOB. Reinhart ... not an as*hole. Is he still an *****? I mean that genuinely. I honesty have no idea. Because he plays on a team I don't follow/care about and we only see him twice/year. The last interview with him I can recall he seemed to want to move on from the animosity with Buffalo, even if fans here never will. The only recent clips I've seen of him he's being goofy for commercials. Nothing I saw of him during the olympics gave me that impression. I don't follow him enough to see if he's still prickly and an ***** since winning a Stanley Cup. I agree he was a prickly ***** in Buffalo. It makes sense he was one in college too when he was even younger. People change. I feel like he's matured, especially once the pressure was off of him to be the guy here in Buffalo and win a cup. Quote
Pimlach Posted March 3 Report Posted March 3 31 minutes ago, SabresBaltimore said: I'm not here to tell anyone else how to be a fan, but Eichel was an immature kid when he was here and there was a lot of hurt feelings on both sides. He's been gone for over 4 years ago. Personally, I'm over it. It's not like he's Lucic and put a dirty hit on someone. That's a guy you boo forever. Not someone who hurt your feelings once. I was rooting for him during the Olympics. If I was there I'd cheer him before the game and otherwise just cheer for the Sabres during the game and not waste energy booing the guy. It's nice to see the building is selling out again, and I'm looking forward to watching the pre-game stuff. Detroit won yesterday so I'd like to keep on winning and keep ahead of them in points (even though we still have the tie breaker). Hopefully the energy in the building powers us to our 4th straight win. I cheered for him in the Olympics, but not tonight. I want to pound Vegas tonight. Quote
That Aud Smell Posted March 3 Report Posted March 3 9 minutes ago, SabresBaltimore said: Is he still an *****? Presumably. Tigers don't change their stripes. 9 minutes ago, SabresBaltimore said: People change. 1 Quote
SabresBaltimore Posted March 3 Report Posted March 3 2 minutes ago, Pimlach said: I cheered for him in the Olympics, but not tonight. I want to pound Vegas tonight. Yeah. Same for me. But it's because they are our opponent tonight and I want to keep stacking wins. 1 Quote
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