mjd1001

True, because this fanbase hasn't seen Ellis be absolutely awful for the majority fo the past 1+ seasons.

I'm not saying UPL had an awful game. But we have seen a lot of games where the Sabres were 'goalied' this year. Where non-Vezina winners made incredible saves that led to a Sabres loss. I need UPL to have some games like that. If he did, they likely would have had 1 or 2 goals tonight. He didn't play awful, but he was the 2nd best goalie on the ice tonight.

Rangers leading right now in th 3rd, Leafs tied in the 3rd. One goal by the Leafs and just like that the Sabres back at the bottom of the conference.

Good point.

UPL certainly did not 'win' the game by his performance, and his recent play has him not getting the benefit of the doubt from fans. Nor does he deserve it. He has been so bad for most of the past 1+ years, he needs to win games, steal games, for this team. He's not doing that.

Every time this team seems to get close to .500 or gains in the race over the years, the JUST CAN'T take that next step. Why? They aren't good enough. When I say they can go ahead and Trade Tuch, Change the front office, make big moves to the roster this is why. There are a lot of players you can make a case for being good, being REALLY good individually, but they aren't good enough to help the team win. They can lose with anyone on this roster, they can lose without anyone on this roster.

Thompson, Tuch, and Dahlin are the leaders and stars of this team. Time to show it and make something (good) happen here to tie it up.

Some of us do our best to call it the way we see it. Quinn was the worst forward in the league at times this year, but I have said hes playing better this year. Power has his ups and downs but some of us say when he has a good game, and when he has a bad game. I loved UPL 2 years ago and for a few weeks last year, but when he started to play bad, that is when I started to cal him out. The bottom line is, UPL has not been good. He's not playing like a starting goaltender. He is not winning you any games but his sometimes below average play is losing games. Goals saved above or below average is probably the only stat that tells the story of a goaltender better than save percentage (it takes into account the quality of the shots being taken) and again, he is negative this year. So maybe you were generalizing when you said "all of you" but your criticism of those 3 guys does not apply to 'all of us'.

That is the difference between him 2 years ago and all the time since then. He's letting in way too many goals that are just 'slipping through'.

Its not getting old when he has under a .900 save percentage this year, coming off of a season where he was one of the worst goalies in the league last year. You want him to not get any criticism? Start playing like a #1 goalie, which he was declared to be last year and is getting paid close to being on. One good, game, one bad game, a few good saves, then a couple softies....doesn't cut it for me and he's going to get criticized until he gets better on a consistent basis.

In the 2nd period, they have looked better the last 3-4 minutes. But before that, they LOOKED like they were trying/putting the effort in, just they weren't coming away cleanly with any pucks out of battles.

Just get through this period without UPL allowing another one. Yeah, the Sabres need to score, but this almost 'feels' like where UPL will let them down.

Overall, the Sabres have played worse games. I don't know if there has been a more boring 35 minutes this year though.

So the Sabres are on pace for 9-10 shots on goal for the entire game at this rate.

So, the forwards generated a total of 1 shot on net that period...by...Malenstyn.