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The Flyers Blues game looks good already.

Oh no! There goes our playoff chances! The thirds look like PJs.

I think it's pretty clear Nolan sees Girgensons as the next captain.

If the Sabres' season were an automobile:

Ehrhoff has the Hodgson's.

That was a brilliant hockey play by Tampa on that goal. The Callahan goal, I mean.

The Buffalo Sabres: so bad the other team has to score for them.

You don't see that very often.

Looks like the Stafford line is being double-shifted.

The prep'd Rob Ray is a definite improvement.

Yay team! Missed the first, looks like I missed a barn burner.

Good summary. I agree with all of it. I would have liked to have heard more discussion from the group in the "war room" about what a player may mean to the future Sabres, even if they didn't identify who it was they were talking about, just so we get a few more hints at the plan going forward.

Well, Hackett gave them a chance. Same old problem of there being no scoring talent.

That wasn't offside.

Myers was tripped, too.

Serious I am not quite.

Hackett looks better tonight than he did the last game he played.

Good PK.

I find that if you give your impressions of the game and team during the actual game, people tend to take in-the-moment comments out of context, too seriously, or completely misinterpret them. That can lead to unnecessary in-thread tensions and distractions. Best to comment on the game after it is played. Like, the next day or something.

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That's right, Leino's problem isn't that he sucks, it's the team around him that can't keep up with him and finish the plays he starts...

It wouldn't let me post these until someone else posted...

My interpretation of this game in pictures...

These outbursts seem like the last attempts of denial to assert itself before vanishing completely. To me it's akin to the denial of the existence of significant threats to the country, or that the United States federal government can (or, more accurately, has) turn against the people, that'd we see two blizzards here in one winter, or that there's life on other planets. If can deny those, I guess you can deny that Pegula has meddled to the detriment of the team.

I was impressed with him at the beginning of the game, just like I was impressed by the Sabres scoring 2 goals in 5 minutes. I think he has the tools but now we're seeing his weaknesses, which, to me, seem like issues that can be addressed (as opposed being issues that rule him out as an NHLer altogether).