GDT: 2026 1st Round Game 2 -- Boston Bruins @ Buffalo Sabres 4/21/2026, 7:30 pm ET, MSG-B, NESN, ESPN

[LGR4GM]

Let's Go!!!!

[Jävə Keith]

Love that gif of Sunday's epic historic goal celebration moment. I can watch that goal and reaction on loop all day. Fun to try to see Samuelson somewhere in that group hug fest.

Hard to wait all day for puck drop. Every minute seems like an hour.  Will be refreshing this thread all day as my Sabres "addiction" therapy.

 

Let's Goooooooooooo!

[GASabresIUFAN]

7 minutes ago, Jävə Keith said:

Hard to wait all day for puck drop. Every minute seems like an hour.  Will be refreshing this thread all day as my Sabres "addiction" therapy.

It’s going to be a long day. 

[#freejame]

I’ll be there again sitting in my season ticket seats for the first time ever. I’m still almost in a state of disbelief that this is all happening. 

Anyone going to Canalside tonight? Weather looks a little better. I’m hoping to see some huge turnouts there through the spring. 

[Big Guava]

[Derrico]

I’ll be in there!  Go Sabres!!

[SabresBaltimore]

Hate the late start again. Why does it need to be at 7:30 and not 7? *grumble*

Hopefully we can get the first goal tonight, and have figured out a way to enter the Bruins zone on the powerplay.

I'll be curious if Östlund gets in tonight over Dunne. Lindy doesn't like to mess with the lineup after a win, but our PP was abysmal and Östlund seems like the easiest tweak to make in the hopes of getting it going.

[LGR4GM]

 

[LGR4GM]

1 minute ago, SabresBaltimore said:

Hate the late start again. Why does it need to be at 7:30 and not 7? *grumble*

Hopefully we can get the first goal tonight, and have figured out a way to enter the Bruins zone on the powerplay.

I'll be curious if Östlund gets in tonight over Dunne. Lindy doesn't like to mess with the lineup after a win, but our PP was abysmal and Östlund seems like the easiest tweak to make in the hopes of getting it going.

For reasons... tiny ones... 730 is great for starting. But I am being selfish. 

[Flashsabre]

Must Win!!

Bruins are a poor road team and a great home team. 
 

Sabres need to win their home games and find a way to steal a game in Boston.

Lets Go Buffalo!!

[Doohickie]

7 minutes ago, LGR4GM said:

For reasons... tiny ones... 730 is great for starting. But I am being selfish. 

Didn't they usually start at 7:30 back in the 1970s?  Or am I remembering that wrong?

[SabresBaltimore]

13 minutes ago, LGR4GM said:

For reasons... tiny ones... 730 is great for starting. But I am being selfish. 

I get up for work stupid early (3:45), so I'm also being selfish too. Even a half hour can make a big difference. If it goes to OT, I'm going to have to take PTO or make up the hours. It was hard enough working yesterday with less than 5 hours of sleep.

 

Thursday's game is at 7, so I don't get why the last 2 couldn't be. Never going to satisfy everyone though, everyone has different schedules

[LGR4GM]

6 minutes ago, Doohickie said:

Didn't they usually start at 7:30 back in the 1970s?  Or am I remembering that wrong?

I was not alive in the 70's

[Pimlach]

28 minutes ago, SabresBaltimore said:

Hate the late start again. Why does it need to be at 7:30 and not 7? *grumble*

Hopefully we can get the first goal tonight, and have figured out a way to enter the Bruins zone on the powerplay.

I'll be curious if Östlund gets in tonight over Dunne. Lindy doesn't like to mess with the lineup after a win, but our PP was abysmal and Östlund seems like the easiest tweak to make in the hopes of getting it going.

The Bruins are keeping 3 guys on the blue line.  Dump it in and get two forwards on one defender.  Instead they do 2 drop passes and lose all their zone entry speed.  Ray Ferraro figured it after one power play.  What is wrong with Appert?  

Edited April 21 by Pimlach

[sabresparaavida]

2 minutes ago, SabresBaltimore said:

I get up for work stupid early (3:45), so I'm also being selfish too. Even a half hour can make a big difference. If it goes to OT, I'm going to have to take PTO or make up the hours. It was hard enough working yesterday with less than 5 hours of sleep.

 

Thursday's game is at 7, so I don't get why the last 2 couldn't be. Never going to satisfy everyone though, everyone has different schedules

The NHL is staggering the start times of games so you can watch other games in the intermission. We start at 7:30 so the lightning habs game at 7 is on a slightly different schedule. The Thursday game is at 7 because the canes-senators game is at 7:30.

[Pimlach]

10 minutes ago, Doohickie said:

Didn't they usually start at 7:30 back in the 1970s?  Or am I remembering that wrong?

Faceoff was 7:05 on Sunday and 8:05 on weekdays. 

[Pimlach]

5 minutes ago, LGR4GM said:

I was not alive in the 70's

Bummer.  
 

[LGR4GM]

1 minute ago, Pimlach said:

Bummer.  
 

90's were pretty cool, no leaded gas and the internet wasn't a really a thing yet. 

[inkman]

12 minutes ago, LGR4GM said:

I was not alive in the 70's

[ska-T Chitown]

As cool as Sunday was ... I'd take a nice 5-1 domination game here ...

[Slack_in_MA]

So, when do we expect Boston to really goon it up? Tonight or Game 3? 

I think it's coming, just a matter of when, IMO.

And more importantly, how will we respond?

[GASabresIUFAN]

2 minutes ago, Slack_in_MA said:

So, when do we expect Boston to really goon it up? Tonight or Game 3? 

I think it's coming, just a matter of when, IMO.

And more importantly, how will we respond?

Same way we did against TB.  
 

 

[ska-T Chitown]

1 minute ago, GASabresIUFAN said:

Same way we did against TB.  
 

 

Agreed. The question has been asked and answered by this team.

[SabresBaltimore]

17 minutes ago, Pimlach said:

The Bruins are keeping 3 guys on the blue line.  Dump it in and get two forwards on one defender.  Instead they do 2 drop passes and lose all their zone entry speed.  Ray Ferraro figured it after one power play.  What is wrong with Appert?  

I think everyone on this board has been asking that question all season.

[nfreeman]

Even though Lyon is back, I assume UPL will start, yes?