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Amerks getting bullied.

The sadness is real. I'm 60 and remember when the Sabres were and expansion team. I didn't follow them right away, but I had older cousins that I looked up to that got me into Sabres hockey and I've been addicted since. My first game (I've posted this before) was the famous fog game, but much of my Sabres enjoyment came from the radio. Even in the 80s when I lived in Westchester I could tune in at night and listen to Rick. Such a constant in my life it's like a relative dying. Even though I know he's still out there and we've never met. Many folks wish they could hang with a favorite athlete, musician, author, etc. Me, I'd have a few beers with RJ.

I took my kids to a few games during the drought pre-covid. The product was boring and the atmosphere was dead. It's hard for me to drive in from Rochester and spend three hundred+ with parking and concessions and not have much fun. I've loved hockey but it's been a long time since I saw a game that had any meaning. Somehow this is my/our fault?

I think the style of play is so much better. They are actually entertaining.

I'm not crying, you're crying. Actually I am.

I joked at my Key bank branch if they were giving tickets away. They told me they might not have any takers, because I am sure they only watch the standings. You have to be a real fan to have any hope, which I do, but I can see how it's a bigger lift for others. For some reason this feels a bit like when Pominville, Miller, Roy and Campbell were in Roch. It just had a good feeling of optimism. Hope I'm right.

Maybe he's just bored.

If I didn't think Rasmus wasn't hard on himself or not interested in learning, I'd be concerned. His body language doesn't say that, and at times he's both absolutely amazing and absolutely frustrating in the same game. I'm enjoying watching him develop. I would be significantly disappointed of he is dealt in any way.

No need to bash Eichel, but he wasn't a leader. Saw him speak at an event 3 years ago with BB Kyle Williams. Kyle was a leader, and Jack was all about himself. No shame in that, it's what makes some athlete's great. But once he was given the C, it was never going to work. I'm glad it's over......

True that, sloppy second, but a great amount of youthful effort.

= "we will get fooled again!"

Tanky McTankFace.

RIP Rene. I know every Sabres fan as old as me has a Rene story. Here is mine I've told before. I listened and watched the Sabres from the time they were an expansion team, but my first #buffalosabres hockey game was the famous "Fog" game 4 of the 1975 Stanley Cup Finals when I was 14. Dad somehow scored tickets as he was working for NYSEG and had some connections. The seats were right where the players exit. When Rene Robert scored in overtime to win I had never had that kind of sports joy and really haven't since. Here's a few pics I took with my Dad's work Polaroid camera he let me take. There was a camera right behind me and clearly it took the footage here 45 years ago https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlNHmgBzPwY&t=24s Rene was a lot of fun and lived life large and now the 2nd gone from the famed French Connection. Thanks for all the great memories!

Old timer watching since the start. I vote yes. Worst ever. Evidence: Realizing Eichel was never going to be the leadership guy I wanted. The L streak. The delay in pulling Krueger. RJ forced to create enthusiasm. Risto still getting big minutes. COVID games in morgue atmospheres. And then the resurgence with no games played for any meaning except another "next year". Then Eichel's press conference. F this guy. I hated the tank years and I think they have never recovered from the stench, but this is rock bottom.

This. I want to have a meaningful last game of the regular season. Win and in, or win and a better seed. Too many times lately my trips to Buffalo has been to watch non-meaningful hockey in a morgue-like atmosphere. Oh, and while I'm going full curmudgeon, I miss the ramps at the Aud.

Thanks for that. Still laugh / crying.

I got a bottle of winners choice spirits on who finishes higher in the standings, Sabres or Rangers with a friend. I figured This would at least keep the season interesting. That last game was disheartening after some optimism. Also, many of my favorite Sabres memories involved Lindy. Let's hope for one today.

Sabres 7-1. Tampa rode the euro-disco train celebrating win last night. I can visualize it and it wasn't pretty.

I am the boss. I can't allow that.

How can i watch MSNBC at work?

These days I have more hate for the Sabres. Our franchise is just flat out bad.

It's game day, and this thread is this short against the Leafs? That's a depressing sign of the state of this team.

Thanks for sharing that RadioLabs. I don't know why, maybe because I was just an average athlete that had to work twice as hard, but I got just as teared up as when I watched it actually happen. Maybe because of his and his wife's narration. Fantastic stuff.

Great thread. I'm 57. When the Sabres were an expansion team I had a cheap radio from WT Grant (way before you kids time) that I used to listen to games on after my parents sent me to bed. There was a great game in the first couple of years against Montreal when the Sabres called for a goalie pad measurement and Montreal's goalie (Dryden?) had oversized pads. The Sabres scored on the ensuing PP and won. To me that game was like David slew Goliath. At the time Montreal was like the Patriots are now. I remember it like yesterday. I was already hooked, but that game took me over the top. My first actual game was the famous "Fog" game and I have posted pics from it and my boy crush for Schoney. Later I remember the Sabres playing the Russians (and winning) before the "Miracle on Ice" in Lake Placid. I listened to AM radio to feeds through a tuned antennae when I lived in NYC in the early 80's. "May Day" "No Goal" "Pommenville's epic goal in Ottawa. So many great moments and truthfully some pretty low ones. The loss to the Hurricanes in the ECF was crushing. But one of the most frustrating things has been that my kids are in their late teens and they have never seen good hockey from the Sabres. I've taken them to many games in the dead atmosphere of the F'N Center (It will always be that to me), but they've never seen a win. Mostly they saw bad hockey and when this streak started I think for some reason they started paying attention. There are so many other distractions for kids these days that I can't blame them for not catching the fever I caught 45 years ago. But something happened last night. When the "1,2,3,4..........." chant started, my youngest son stopped doing his homework. The Sabres were up 2-0 and I was getting ticked about the fans jinxing but you get old and you get crazy grumpy thoughts. I've had this feeling that this team is so young they remind me of the "Confidence is high" days of youth and to watch that win with my youngest son and see him have the fever.......it was the kind of joy I'm not sure I'd have again. He went straight to bed and I watched the post game and with the streak and seeing all the cancer survivors and the emotion of the broadcast......yeah.....I had tears.

Je pisse sur les Canadiens de Montréal