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The one thing that could have kept his job was fighting and he never fought this season not one single time.

Right, and even further on this, they are basically on the same career path. Next season, realistically, both of them are penciled in for the AHL. I don't think he wants to be stuck next year behind Levi in the AHL and on top of that have a 24-year old on a one way contract in already in Buffalo. Unless something drastic happens, the only way for Portillo to get a solid run of games next season in the Sabres organization would be in Cincinnati. And i doubt he cares much for that.

Last year when Seattle came to Buffalo it was when they were playing the worst hockey. Sabres lost 7 in a row that period and 13 out of 15. But this Sabres team can compete against anyone i think.

Carter Hart played tonight and got lit up by the Leafs 6-2, so Samuel Ersson is expected to play tomorrow. He's actually won his last 3 starts, stopping 80 out of 86 shots in the 3 games. Also, with this being that weird make up game (Tampa moved to Saturday in March and this moved from March to tomorrow) i would imagine tomorrow will be the smallest crowd of the season.

awesome!

Very cool. Got pics?

Pardon? Where was this reported? And how's nobody talking about this... ? lol

I was there and yeah it was a great time. Very festive. What sucks for this team is they don't get to experience that too often and the game before the Christmas break (night 1 of the storm) was also going to be a sold out arena vs Tampa. If not for this massive storm we would've gotten this type of crowd back to back home games. Next one will probably be Ryan Miller night.

Hell of a first post. Welcome to the board!

But he came back per Joe Yerdon

Yeah it all comes down to cost. I'm okay dealing some of the prospects as long as it makes sense for us too.

Besides making it tougher for the opponents to score i think the big reason is his presence gives Dahlin more space and allows him to play more aggressive. Imagine what this team could become if they added someone like Jacob Chychrun to the blue line?

That 8 game losing streak was a major buzz kill for this season though. Any slump of like 4 or more games the rest of the way will doom them.

Did you watch on nhl network? i did, and at the end of the 3rd period they cut away and said “we’re now going to the USA vs Switzerland game, when someone scores well let you know.” Wtf I couldn’t believe it. I watched the entire Sweden/Czech game but didn’t see OT. Wtf As far as the game, I thought Kulich was very solid. Rosen was quiet today. Could barely tell he was playing. Wasn’t active attacking or creating scoring chances as he usually does.

It’s interesting, bc this morning Adams said no dates have been mentioned yet for the Columbus reschedule and he was expecting a call either today or tomorrow to discuss some dates. But Dreger said the other day most likely it’ll be added to at the end of our schedule. So instead of Ottawa being our last game, it’ll be our last home game and then a trip to Columbus.

The Sabres are fun. They’re still not a complete package. Really enjoying how well Jost plays both ends of the ice. Crazy how that was only a waiver claim. Such a small addition but a big add to the lineup. On a day twitter had some banter about defensemen bc Pilut was waived, I thought Bryson was poor. First Wings goal I’m not exactly sure what he was doing on that play. Don’t know how long this will be sustainable for but if the Sabres play with this energy, pace and chip on their shoulder (some feistiness from JJP, Cozens and Dahlin tonight) they can compete with any team in this league if goaltending holds up.

100th career point for Murray. Also 100th career pro victory for Subban. The fight between Hutchinson and Murray really woke up the Comets. I was sitting few rows behind the Comets bench and when Hutchinson came out of the box they celebrated him like he just scored a gwg, my buddy and I joked that with the game over (4-0 at that point) they just celebrated anything even small victories to hype themselves up. But it really fired them up. I thought even despite not scoring Weissbach was one of the best Amerks players tonight. Biro and Rousek also stood out to me.

Canada might put up 15 on Austria, including 2 “Michigan's”.

lol exactly. 2014 5th round pick by Tim Murray. Didn't even know he was in the nhl til i saw him on the waiver wire.

Old friend Max Willman on waivers today.

Ahh, now that you mention that it does make sense. My bad.

Damn

That Kings trade looks so bad every time it's brought up. What did the Sabres think they were getting in Fasching? Wild. Not like he was a first round pick who never developed. Dude was a handful of picks away from being a 5th rounder.

Sabres can still sign him. Btw, speaking of Suchanek, the kid has 3 assists so far this tournament. haha