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VO sucks at every other aspect of the game. Can a marginal team with so many holes really afford to keep a player who only contributes in a limited role and who often goes long stretches without even doing that? I think it’s a fair question. Regarding the scapegoating, I can’t agree at all given those glaring holes elsewhere that I mentioned previously. What do 30 goal scorers usually fetch in a trade? Can VO honestly get us the going rate?

I want him to hit 30 first in the hope it will make his one-trick pony more fetching to interested teams. Then again, they all watch the same video so it’s nit like VO is fooling anyone.

Perhaps when the team is actually less embarrassing than the crowd, that will change.

Same here. I realized the playoffs were slipping away a couple weeks ago, so I contented myself by needing to see young guys still learning and contributing while the team still put up a fight. But the pressure is clearly too much for this fragile group it seems. I can only hope this serves to inform them moving forward.

How dare you question any aspect of UPL’s goaltending. Every goal scored against him is somebody else’s fault.

😂😂😂😂

UPL needed that overturned call, lest his save percentage and GAA suffer unduly.

Are you saying it is the fans’ fault?

That’s entirely on the Sabres to correct. We’ve been season ticket holders for decades and while we give the tickets to relatives and friends rather than sell them, I resolved not to attend another game in person when they lost 3-0 to Philly at home back in January. And I won’t until I’m convinced they have re-earned my in person patronage. They are one of the worst home teams in the league. And that’s just not our fault as fans. I can’t blame my fellow ticket holders for selling them and recouping some of the cost. I see many Boston fans sitting in seats surrounding ours where normally people we’ve known for years would be sitting. When the Sabres are back, the fans will be as well. In the meantime, letters from Dahlin just aren’t gonna cut it.

Check the numbers. Not revisionist in the least. Lehner also put up better numbers on poor teams. What’s hilarious is your hyperbole about what we all ever talked about. UPL is not good enough currently. As is the rest of the team. It’s that simple.

While Boston provides a superior surrounding cast, let’s not lose sight of the fact that Ullmark is also a superior goalie and has been for years. He put up respectable numbers on some worse Sabres teams.

Crumbling like the delicate little waifs they are.

He made a save! Be still my heart!

😂

For the sake of my confidence in Granato, I better find out that Jost is nursing an injury because there is absolutely NO other excuse to keep him out of the lineup. None. Oh, and Mitts absolutely blows at center.

Fast approaching Lehner’s 0 for 8 in 2016-2017.

At least we waited until March for the annual swoon. Usually, the season is over by January.

I put the Philly goal on a lazy clearing attempt by Girgs. He had time but instead rushed the play and tried the usual clear around the glass which was easily kept in by the Philly point man and they scored on the ensuing sequence. Girgs could have just waited a second to see nobody was pressuring him and cleared down the middle of the ice. Poise is important.

I honestly don’t know the AHL playoff eligibility rules. Good idea to let him get some practice with the team. Let him see some TNT one timers. That’ll get him acclimated.

Cannot disagree more. He is done. Let him prove it elsewise somewhere else. Like Green Bay, perhaps.

Tell that to Cormac McCarthy.

Elliot is absolutely washed.

Good ‘ol St. Padrick.

Works for me because there is no way he can be any worse than UPL and I’m damned sure he can stop at least one out of three shootout attempts. I doubt the Sabres agree though. Gotta believe he starts in Rochester. But stranger things have happened.

Perhaps many of you have read this article previously, but for those that haven’t, it’s a decent insight into the type of player we are getting. Talk about hockey character. https://huntnewsnu.com/68648/sports/devon-levi-from-underdog-to-olympian/