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Players are a more valuable commodity than coaches or GMs. If Botterill and Krueger can't build around proven goal scorers, you fire them before trading the players.

Moving Skinner would add to Boterill's record of trading away 30 goal scorers ?

This game is a good reminder that there is still a lot of suck built into this roster.

Nice to see the Sabres play inspiring a lot of Bills discussion.

Sheary just pulled up on a 2 on 1.

Watching this game makes me feel bloated. I'm gonna try some liverite.

He has a 3rd line left winger as his center. Not getting much help out there.

18 Sabres out there sitting around, waiting for Eichel to do something

Dahlin played great today. From a grit standpoint, it was his best game of the year.

There were a lot of good players, but for whatever reason, there are several players on the roster who aren't scoring. The effort is there, but without Eichel's streak, this team is probably 2-8 over the last 10. This is where Botterill needs to make a move. The team is playing hard, but needs more offensive production. A legit 2C snaps a lot of players on the roster into the right place. Ultimately, Cozens will be that guy, but he's a season or two away. Botterill owes it to this current roster to make a deal.

I'm not going to blame a loss on the refs, but there's a longer term concern here. Dahlin has taken an elbow to the head in two of his last three games. Reinhart took a cross check face first into the boards. Eichel was taken down from behind in the corner. The Islanders play to the edge because the odds of the refs calling a penalty on a dirty play is 50/50, and probably less at the end of the game. Is it the goal of this garage league to have its stars knocked out of games by cheap shots? At some time player safety has to be a priority, right?

Shoot the f'n puck.

Sabres playing in the dirty areas right now.

Eichel is the best player in the league right now.

He's pressing to hard. This is way the team needs another couple of contributors on the forward lines, even though the team is playing better.

Johansson needs to simplify his game.

Eichel with a captain's interview.

Jokiharju with with a grown-a##-man play there at the blue line

B.Y.E. Baby Yoda Energy

Ha! Poweplay! (This game is over.)

I get it. Still think Botterill could have done better than the Krueger though.

Maybe I exaggerated Nolan's coaching acumen in comparison to Krueger's, as we watched Lucic carve up the Sabres defense....

So Vesey steals the puck at the point, can't beat the turned-around defenseman down the ice, and ends up holding the guy for a penalty. 50 years of Sabres hockey and this is what we've ended up with.

EPL strategy.

Fundamentally, the Sabres are a horror show. They had better zone coverage under Nolan, and that's not saying much. Being gritty and constantly out of position doesn't fix their problems, albeit the games would be more entertaining (like under Nolan).