Andrew Amerk

I thought Allen was okay. Nothing spectacular, but also nothing atrocious. I agree about the playcalling. It’s also frustrating watching WR’s that can’t catch a ball.

Ummm... I don’t think he’s played professionally since he got injured with the Amerks in 2010...

Observations: -Hutton stole the game. With any of the goalies we’ve had since Miller, this was likely a loss. -We were even with the Rangers in 5v5 play. Back and forth. Considering they might be one of the worst teams in the league - take it how you want. -We won the game based on 2 PP goals. -Buffalo seemed to be playing “prevent” in the last half of the 3rd. Whatever happened to playing the game that got you the lead? -Saw a lot of “dump and chase” hockey from the Sabres. I assumed assembling a “speed” team meant they would be entering the zone in rushes. HCPH seems to interpret the speed as hoping they can retrieve the pucks on dump-ins. -Overall, most of the Sabres players seemed more comfortable tonight. Whether that is because they were playing their game, or a system HCPH designed, remains to be seen.

While I agree with all of you, players are doing it reactionally in these situations anyways. There was no intent to injure. The NFL has lightened their rules which have allowed more scoring (under the guise of player safety). The fans like scoring. if you have the skills to score a goal like Tage did, and were not out to take someone’s head off, maybe they should consider allowing those goals. Just throwing it out there.

Maybe someday the league should rethink their rules about those goals. That took a lot of skill to “score” that one.

A gold star to each of those fine posters.

So nice to see the board in a good mood. Wonder if the concessions are tasting better tonight, since the team is winning so far.

Skinner may have had the play of the period in selling that penalty. I knew of his figure skating skills, but not of his acting skills. As i mentioned in another thread, Elie was a fan favorite in just one season in Dallas. Seeing why.

Wow really? I always thought it was “Sheery”

Duffer is calling him “Sherry” too. Biron saying “Sheery.”

Drew Stafford?

A couple people had Sheary.

After what Vegas was able to do last season, I no longer buy into the “too many new players” theory.

Dang. I was hoping to hear that they spent the day playing Fortnite, or engaging in a Dance Dance Revolution dance-off.

My friend that I went to the game with waited probably close to 20 minutes in line for a slice of pizza. They were all already premade - all the staff had to do was dish out a slice and take a payment. We almost missed the introductions because of how slow they were.

I saw this too. It was in the 1st. He also did a little thing in the 3rd that nobody seemed to notice. As a Bruin was entering the zone, Dahlin choked up on his stick and made a weak attempt at a poke check. I assumed he was trying to fake out the Bruin into thinking he had more room to stickhandle with. Then, Dahlin quickly slid his stick to normal hand positioning and tried another poke check. It was so fast, and so minor, and nothing came of it. I was still impressed.

This is the feeling I’m starting to get as well. Seems like he’d rather be “safe” instead of seeking a “spark.” The Dahlin debate supports this, if he’s telling Dahlin to not run. If the lines falter early on in the game, I’m curious to see how long it takes him to make adjustments.

Those lines have the potential for being atrocious. Swap Elie and Zemgus, swap Thompson and KO. I get that Wowie probably doesn’t want a line of all “youth” in Elie-Mitts-Tage, but so what.

Saw that. Pretty awesome. Thought I was being slick when I signed up, and used a Los Angeles zip code to avoid Sabres blackouts. Then I only saw Kings and Knights games listed, and freaked out for a second. Kinda lame that you can only get the games in your market, but I guess if you wanted to change your account zip code all the time, you could see whatever games you want to.

The Wings games have a far better selection and quality of food than what I saw at the Sabres opener.

Signed up for a free trial of Fubo. The team has one week to help me decide whether or not I’m going to pay for it.

Did we ever find out what they did for “team building” that day? They certainly didn’t look excited to be playing their home opener yesterday.

Didn’t bother to read the responses. I’m sure there were plenty of optimists. “Oh it’s just the first game, oh there’s a lot of new players, oh Boston is better.” They sucked. No identity, no unison, no soul. If you think that’s going to change in two days, or two weeks, idk what you’re smoking. Vegas had a team of all new players and almost won a Cup.

Ehhh. Some of the stuff I just saw...not so good.

So many of you living in the past.