Mustache of God

BATTLE FOR THE BASEMENT. TWO TEAMS ENTER ONE STAYS DOWNSTAIRS.

This team is simply throbbing for an actual defenseman. If you address that in the draft, it's going to take years for that player to grow enough to make an impact, so I'd rather see a move made to swap the pick for a ready to go D man or 2? I know good players like that don't grow on trees and most guys have NTCs, but the allure of a high pick might be able to help teams address their needs?

I've been advocating for trading our 1st round pick since we drafted Östlund, Kulich and....Rosen(?) in that one draft. We've had a problem of having too many "skill" guys and nowhere on the roster to accommodate bringing up all this young talent. Instead GMKA has sat back on his hands doing the bare minimum as a GM and here we are.

How on earth could anyone express a vote of confidence in the current management, who on their 5th year of being "playoffs or bust" are riding a 10 game losing streak. Oh, right, it's Pegula.

MTL is next, the battle for the basement!

I am shocked that this gdt is only 5 pages an hour after the game ended. I came here guessing it would be 3.

Victor Oloffson was a 7th round pick who, when used properly, could get close to 30 goals.

8 in a row.

Face offs don't matter...

I've only watched the second period but I have seen multiple sabres whiff on shots/passes/clearing attempts. Part of me wonders if it's the ice but I'm not seeing it from the Rangers.

How do the Rangers, a team in New York with no palm trees and high taxes attract any talent on their team?

This feels like a game where the Rangers right the ship. When's the last time a struggling team came into this building and left in worse shape?

Matt Ellis salivating in the corner...

I liked Kozak....

Another 5 years and we can finally collapse in the playoffs!

One of these days the new gm is will take one look at this team and say, "I'm going to cut you into little pieces"

This result felt inevitable.

I've been debating in my head all about the outcome of this game, do they put it together and beat one of the few teams as bad as they are? But they usually lose these types of games, but they've also lost 6 in a row and something has to give. Ultimately I hope they lose every game going forward, I don't give a ***** about draft position but they need to lose and lose and lose again until Adams is fired.

"I need you guys to win tonight so I don't look like a complete ass tomorrow."

If the team hasn't sucked for the past 15 years nobody would care.

Maybe we'll blow a 6 goal lead tonight.

Agreed to the bolded! We didn't even make it back to our seats for the 3rd, we just half-watched the collapse from the lobby, and none of us even cared that much, that's how far gone we are as fans. Hopefully last night becomes some sort of rock-bottom moment where something clicks within the team and they turn things around. I am not hopeful that will actually happen since this is the 10th "rock-bottom" moment they've had in the last decade and they somehow manage to continue digging deeper. Hopefully Pegula fires Adams and that starts a change.

I will! The buffet sounds dangerous but I probably won't be walking into the arena until at least seven so that's...off my plate for tonight. We can grab an intermission beer though!

I feel like they usually win these games where they've dropped multiple games in a row, and another loss would really make the wheels fall off. Often they're against top tier teams. It's "big" games they usually lose are when a win would vault them up in the standings, typically against a lesser team that they "should" win.

I'm sitting club level as well. I'll be the guy wearing the Sabres jersey.