GDT: Predators @ Sabres, 5:30pm, March 7, 2026 (MSG, ESPN+, WGR-550)

[PASabreFan]

Local news has picked up on Sabres Fever. Remotes from the arena are all the rage.

 

[PASabreFan]

1 hour ago, SwampD said:

Until 4 minutes left, this game was kind've a snoozer.

I can't believe the second goal (Tage) counted. I really thought Krebbs was at least 5 feet offside. Oh, well.

All this winning is weird. I love it.

Maybe an optical illusion. I think he stayed onside. Hard to believe Nashville would miss it.

Kind've is great.

[PASabreFan]

11 hours ago, thewookie1 said:

Carrick did his job, won 2 draws against RoR and just smothered him

Loved the focus. Looked the linesman right in the eye and listened to the instructions. "OK."

[PromoTheRobot]

8 hours ago, Doohickie said:

I would say then that the coaching needs to put them in a better position to succeed.

You still have to execute, like not limp wristing passes or passing behind your target.

[Doohickie]

6 hours ago, phil_soisson said:

In Jarmo's presser, he said that is exactly why they got Carrick, for face offs in the D zone and on PK. I think he cited Sabres faceoff percentage at 44%. To come up big in that fashion in his first game in Buffalo is a credit to some serious GMing  IMO.

Kind of weird actually.  Prior to that, Carrick was 33% on the faceoff dot.  He wins two at the end to pull to 50% and he's a hero.

[Taro T]

15 minutes ago, Doohickie said:

Kind of weird actually.  Prior to that, Carrick was 33% on the faceoff dot.  He wins two at the end to pull to 50% and he's a hero.

The best faceoff guys don't try 100% all the time at the FO dot nor will they use their best move consistently.  They realize a CI faceoff in the 2nd period is not the same as one to the right of their goalie with less than 3 seconds left in the game.  They save their best efforts for when the FO matters.  And he won the FOs that mattered.

He also took several shifts on the PK.  That trade looks really good right now.

[Taro T]

15 hours ago, Doohickie said:

I didn't think anything of it during the game; didn't strike me as offside.  I just went back and looked and you can see Tuch wire the puck in, but I couldn't actually pick up the puck coming off his stick.  But an instant after that, Krebs' toe is still on the line, and another instant after that the puck is behind the net.  So I'm pretty sure it was on sides.

Rewatching it again, yeah, Krebs' toe likely was still on the line when the puck got over the blue line.  Good catch.  Did not look that way live.  But with the puck so close to the boards, couldn't really see it and was going off the "body language" of all involved.  Linesman (near Krebs) signalled it was good immediately.

[Weave]

5 hours ago, Doohickie said:

Kind of weird actually.  Prior to that, Carrick was 33% on the faceoff dot.  He wins two at the end to pull to 50% and he's a hero.

He acknowledged that he was having a poor night with faceoffs prior to the las couple in his post game interview.