Mustache of God

Came here to say Ennis.

Here's a fun fact. Last season the Islanders led the league with 10 short handed goals. The Sabres have 5 in 5 preseason games so far. Let's hope we keep this train rolling.

Whooo! Liking that we can start building up some trust for lehner and also his own confidence. When's the last time Sabres had a shutout?

Great PK work by Legwand right there.

Fours days ago as well.

Ugly power play by the Sabres.

GOAL! E-ROD gets another? Good play by Sam to set it up!

Early in the first period before any goals they said "The Sabres have already scored two short handed goals this pre-season and Eichel has one of them." It's like they don't prepare for these games at all or rather just discount the other team entirely. Before the game started they were talking about Babcock saying "You might expect him to get some boos but it's all Toronto fans at these games."

Ouch. Hope ennis is ok. He just took a slapper from Phaneuf right in the tongue of his skates. Not too much padding there and he's gone to the locker room. Here's to hoping it's just a bruise. Sabres down Ennis & Guhle because of Phaneuf. Someone please take a run at him.

Eh, deep down they know. They're not on air to tell the truth but to promote of product. That being said, I can't stand watching/listening to these guys. I can't wait to be watching a homer broadcast. Nothing quite like home team broadcasting confirmation bias.

It wasn't dirty but it was definitely on the line. Similar situation to the Akeson hit a few games ago.

Rodriguez pick up his own rebound from a bad angle shot and then wrapped it around the other side of the net for a goal. Gionta won a puck battle behind the net, passed it back to the D at the blue line who took a shot that Molson got a piece of somewhere in the slot.

Phaneuf just laid out Guhle with a high hit and didn't have the balls to face Deslauriers. What a ponce.

Not sure if this is against the rules but if anyone is interested in finding a stream they should look on the nhlstreams subreddit on reddit. edit: saying this only because this game is getting ugly (for toronto fans) and nobody should have to miss the Sabres manhandling them.

E-ROD!

Lehner got real lucky on that miffed 2-1. He was clearly beat but the Laugh just missed the net hard. It was a pretty great save by Bernier. Always fun to see a goalie stack the pads like that.

Eichel looked so effortless on that goal, his stride is incredible. Compare it to whoever was chasing him down, dudes legs were churning and he still couldn't catch him.

I can't wipe this stupid grin off my face right now. Are you serious Jack Eichel?

^ What this guy said. I see a lot of people complaining about how none of these songs are "good". We're looking for a 15 second sound byte, the songs don't have to be "good" and you're never going to have a major sports organization to select a song that everybody thinks is "good". They'll pick something that will appeal to the masses which means it'll be watered down and catchy. In this case, if we can actually put up some goals and get our fans accustomed to the song it'll be great to hear a full areana chanting "hoo rah, hoo rah, hoo rah yeah!". Big goals, blow-outs, it'll be fun to hear. And after a few beers you better believe that 10,000 men will join in on that. Also, things could be a lot worse, check out the Islanders new goal horn: https://twitter.com/barclayscenter/status/648669476335013888

I heard on hockey hotline that Larsson is actually not playing today. Per Mike Harrington the forwards will look like this: The lines will thus look like this: Kane-RO'Reilly-Ennis Moulson-Eichel-Gionta Rodrigues-Cal O'Reilly-Reinhart Foligno-Legwand-Deslauriers Was hoping to see Larsson & Reinhart jam together but that will have to wait for another day. http://sabres.buffalonews.com/2015/09/29/sabres-two-lines-get-first-chance-to-play-together-tonight-against-leafs/

With the injuries piling up I think Guhle will get a few NHL games with our 3rd pairing. Just how many games he plays will depend on how he handles himself, we won't really know until we see him in action when it really matters. Yes, Crosby/Kessel types will burn this kid everyday, I trust our coaches to not have them out there against the elite talent of our opponents. 9 games take us up to October 27th so without any further setbacks the injuries should be healed up by then and he can be returned to juniors. My hypothesis is that he'll see 3-5 NHL games before McCabe/Ruhweedal(sp?)/Bogo/and Gorges are back. Murray is going to tell him the same thing he told Sam Reinhardt, "you've seen which parts of your game needs improvement, go work on them and I'll see you next year." I'm liking what I've seen from him so far but I will eat a hat* if he sticks around longer than 9 games. *sandwich.

You know, this guy:

Individual rankings would be tough after that number one spot but I could definitely categorize these as the following: Players I hated watching and hoped would prove spontaneous combustion was more than a theory: Cody Hodgson Ville Leino Jamie McBain Alexander Sulzer Andrej Meszaros Andrew Benoit Players whose game I didn't hate but contributed very little when the rest of the roster had similar or sub-par talent (would tolerate no more than 2 of these players on a roster for a bad team): Drew Stafford Brian Flynn Torrey Mitchell Tyson Strachan Phil Varone Matt Ellis John Scott And finally, the "Who?" category, names I'll hopefully have forgotten in two years: Matt D'Agostini Cory Conacher Linus Omark Zenon Konopka Corey Tropp Zac Dalpe Kevin Porter Jerry D'Amigo I don't know where to put Luke Adam so he goes in his own Luke Adam category

Hats off to the following guys for making the last two seasons really worth watching: Cody Hodgson Drew Stafford Jamie McBain Ville Leino Brian Flynn Matt D'Agostini Cory Conacher Alexander Sulzer Linus Omark Zenon Konopka Torrey Mitchell John Scott* Luke Adam Corey Tropp Andrej Meszaros Andrew Benoit Tyson Strachan Zac Dalpe Phil Varone Kevin Porter Jerry D'Amigo and our rock, Matt Ellis *I enjoyed the antics of John Scott and am looking forward to see him shattering his 3 goal milestone this year in Arizona.

I really like the idea of Larrson and Reinhardt playing on the same line together. I feel Larson has more long term potential than Mcginn and I don't see giant a being here once his contract is up in two seasons. Playing with reinhardt they can develop some chemistry which could be blossom into something special in the future. Not sure if Bylsma wants too much youth on a line though and I wouldn't be surprised if Larson is traded as well.