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We just need our 'Major League' moment where Ruff convinces them to win in spite of management.

This. Take Montreal - 3, 4, 5 passes as they enter the zone (barely contested) - and they rushed as a group. The Sabres are looking for the stretch passes, but other teams are onto it ... Quinn or JJ catches it, but there are two defenders and NO support. The other teams know if the Sabres don't have numbers, they pull up just inside the blueline and wait. The opposing D jumps that move most of the time ... turnover. Get. Pucks. Deep! Go get them! Build a numbers advantage. Ugh. All this stretch pass - turnover nonsense is getting super old. Most nights it looks like the first time they have played together ... maybe they should practice things? Today: two hours of practicing "I swear to god, if you leave effing Laine open for a far-side one-time one more time, Cliffy - you are on waivers." Two hours of "JJ, i swear to fvck, you lose the puck two feet inside the blueline one more time ... YEET! waivers." Two hours of "The next time the puck carrier looks up and NO ONE is trying to screen the goalie - I am placing the entire team on waivers!"

His hockey talent is undeniable. I am constantly amazed by even 'crappy' teams like Montreal in how they nearly always have players in better positions for breakouts than the Sabres do. The Sabres D finally get the puck, they look up and Quinn is at the far blueline already, JJ is standing on the wall right next to an opposing player (not open) and the center? Do they even know they are playing center? Rarely does a forward cycle back towards the D to help them. I think a fair amount of the "turnovers" from the D-men are due to such horrible breakout options.

lol - he was not playing against NHL-level talent? It is the same with lots of "top" players from the NCAA or any of the junior leagues. They get by on their temporarily superior physical skills. Those guys did not know how to get around his stick check. NHL players have far better dangles and will dump and chase if they don't think they can get by him. What he really lacks is that Dahlin hip-check.

Literally, and yes I actually mean literally, NOTHING this team can do would shock me at this point. I am dead inside.

why. are. they. so. effing. bad.

I gotta say - I am loving the Marty Biron Experiment. He knows hockey.

lol - he sure did.

D-coz with that lazzer?

Also, hold on. The RAVENS official twitter posted that. Let the dunking resume!

you gotta share that sh1t

And my favorite current PC game is crashing, so poop.

FOUR. SHOTS.

So like, Montreal is bad, too. Right? So, they could collapse under the immense will and pressure of our beloved Sabres?

wait wut??? I am getting Marty on the Sabres feed ... ???

If I was Ruff, I would just leave.

the dazed look of the players on the bench says it all the refs HATE benson

***** terrible.

The Habs' barn is full ... hmmm

i mean, now we KNOW the refs are against us?

Never(more)

But what about the preseason video where Lindy calls the guy that was super ill and Lindy cries and tells the guy he wants to get this team to the playoffs?? Or was Lindy crying because he already knew it was not gonna happen and he hated lying to a dying guy?

There were too many old looking players in the original. Obviously AI has not read Sabrespace enough, lol.

I was actually lamenting how, as bad as Skinner is this year, he would not be even close to the bottom of the Sabres' barrel. Although, his very pedestrian output is on a much more talented roster.

right? please? The problem with being an optimist by nature (and being AT The Comeback Game for the Bills) is that if the Sabres win, there will be a tiny part my brain, annoying AF, that will whisper "psst, this is it. The run begins now."