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when you post an .872 save percentage and a 4.12 GAA I would hope that's all he got. You need to earn your playing time when you are coming up from the AHL and you didn't perform well the season before. He performed worse. Much worse.

Levi has absolutely sucked in the NHL outside his rookie year and gotten worse each of the 3 years...not a comforting thought.

if they get some hot ring girls up there with the lottery, I'll volunteer to let them tamper with my balls...you know...just for good luck! 😂

You only get to make lasting memories with your kids for a short time. Don't ever choose not to do something you feel you might regret later in life when you had a chance to give her that.

OK, how bout I say they have been to multiple Cup Finals then? 😂 Yikes...have been to 7 Cup Finals since then but only 1 win...probably the worst performing Boston team out of the 4 sports teams...which is crazy to think about.

Tuch has 32 goals

Who cares? Jeremy Jacobs was a Sabres fan...hasn't stopped him from wining multiple Stanley Cups with the Bruins

Blues on a heater winning 11 straight games and 17 of their last 20

probably be in a playoff spot or very close to it.

Maybe...he has gotten progressively worse in the NHL the more games he has played which is somewhat concerning. He made UPL look like an All-Star this year in his 9 games where he went 2-7 with a 4.12 GAA and .872 Save Percentage this year. Has gone from a .905 to .899 to .872 save percentage in the last 3 years.

Levi has been worse than UPL numbers wise, so he needs to up his game first before he can provide that

The only times UPL has played well was when he had something on the line...his rookie year when he was trying to make the Sabres and in his contract year. Other than that, he has been bad. Unfocused, undisciplined, out of position, not driven to push himself but needs something else to push him. Not what you want out of an athlete.

Was bound to happen at some point...they kept trying to run it back as the team got older and older and never really replaced the aging vets. Pretty much the cautionary tale about holding onto aging players too long...should have taken a page from the Patriots book when Belichick was there and he would get rid of them a year too early rather than a year too late.

Upgrade UPL/Levi in games they played this year and they WOULD be a playoff team. Their team save percentage is .872 which is a joke in today's NHL. If it was even .895, which is still terrible, they likely would be in the last wildcard spot at least.

Quinn has the potential to be such a special player, here's hoping he gets it figured out for next year.

The same thing that happened to Carmen San Diego?

Probably....Over the first 33 games, the Sabres averaged 2.96 goals per game(.45 goals less) and averaged allowing 3.51 goals per game(.13 less). On balance, the change has netted the Sabres a +.32 differential based on how they play now, which is likely why Ruff made the change...a lot more offense, not much worse defense/goaltending.

With yesterday's performance, the Sabres are now #1 in the NHL in the last 40 games in terms of goals/game at 3.41. Unfortunately, they scored 141 goals over that time but allowed 145, along with having the 2nd worst save percentage in the NHL over that time period at .872. Just abysmal goaltending, #1, and defense #2.

Toronto did a pretty good job of that during their rebuild.

True, but on a per game basis nobody even is approaching NFL players salaries. NFL is also, by far, the highest revenue generating sports league in the world, nearly double the 2nd place MLB. NFL approaching $21 Billion per year in revenue, MLB is at $12.1 Billion. Also, out of the top 100 highest rated TV shows every year, around 75 of them are NFL games. A random week 12 NFL game draws more eyes than 99.5% of anything on TV. Super Bowl is, by far, the most watched TV show in the US every year and one of the most watched events in the world each year. To put in comparison...the Apollo 11 Moon Landing was considered one of the most watched events of all time with 125-150 million viewers. This past years Super Bowl averaged 127.7 Million Viewers.

I said the Bills, not the Sabres...the Bills are worth 5.35+ Billion dollars and are the 29th most valuable franchise in the NFL. Right, which is almost 70% of the cap in the NHL. I didn't say they were as much as the NHL cap, I said almost worth as much.

Won multiple cups in TB

the list of really good players that make great GM's is pretty short. Yzerman, Sakic, Doug Wilson, Serge Savard and Bobby Clarke are about it.

More like the NFL prints money while the NHL is a charity case. The Bills, one of the lowest valued NFL franchises, is worth 1.4 Billion more than the most valuable NHL franchise, the Maple Leafs. Just shows the huge disparity in terms of what each league is working with. There are players in the NFL that are paid almost what the NHL salary cap is for each team total.