Kristian

I hate KA. I hate TP.

So you’re saying, our goalies suck? 🤣

And I only remember that happening once in his first tenure here. Lindy has always been totally fine with not responding, or actively prohibiting it.

I certainly hope last nights loss isn’t taking away Ryan O’Reilly’s love of hockey…

He likely will pretty soon, anyway.

All of the above.

Yeah, cause missing they playoffs for a decade+, really should put butts in the seats, right? 🙄

I think Lindy Ruff is becoming pretty embarassing.

Nah, maybe the league thinks it’s a team thing. We can hope, right? 😂

Trade Power before the league finds out how piss poor he is on D.

Get rid of the entire roster, fold the team. It’s over.

Seriously, ***** Tage Thompson. Weakest play i ever saw, him getting stripped off the puck for the gamewinner. I say again : ***** Tage Thompson.

Easiest position to build around, if you got the goalie, I suppose. So theres that.

Fair point, but I think it’s also fair to say “Let prime Dom backstop the current team, and he’ll only have two Vezinas and no Hart trophies”.

Of course they were outshot, and badly most on nights. Look at the roster - Derek Plante lead the team in points in 1997. The team was, for all intents and purposes, pretty mediocre at best. Yes, Hasek was amazing, no duscussion. The 1996-1998 Sabres were a bad squad after Lafontaine went down. They had no business getting beyond the first round, let alone reach the conference finals. Hasek, or no Hasek. What you’ll notice in a lot of Doms highlight reels after he makes two crazy saves, is a Sabre clearing a fat juicy rebound in front of a wide open cage. You know, the ones we’ve seen banged home on every Sabre goalie again and again for the past 10 years. That’s how it looks when your skaters aren’t putting up an effort. They started improving offensively in late 1997, by adding guys like Satan, Sanderson, eventually Stu Barnes and ended up a pretty rounded bunch for the 1999 run. But before that, the Sabres were Hasek and 18 skaters. Sadly, they lacked the offensive punch to overcome a stacked Stars team. But while “the hardest working team in hockey” may have been a catch phrase, it was rooted in the scrappy Muckler/Nolan teams that eventually became the Regier/Ruff team that should’ve beaten the Pens in 2001. The Mucker/Nolan team being the hard working team, and the Regier/Ruff team slowly morphing into a pretty “stacked” 2001 squad, with more emphasis on a well rounded game.