Thorner

Honestly? We won’t know till the playoffs lines are drawn

Krebs is like Johan Larsson but with significantly weaker defensive abilities, but also a Johan Larsson we acquired for our franchise C, which changes his internal positioning

I think they prefer it

Ya, he’s not the type of player that can be the best player on a line. He’s the guy who can fit in as the least effective player on a line in a pinch, and not actively torpedo said line

Lots of factors we can point to to attempt to alleviate the blame from Krebs himself. He’s likely just not very good. He seems the type of player than can provide the bare minimum useful role if every effort is made to accommodate his success. Not the type of player you want on a good team, but fits ok on a team lacking expectations

I don’t even need the “window to be open”. I just want to have a window to look through, at all, in this dreary never ending basement

Why such a quick 180?

Nah, having lived through it, nothing is close to as bad as this. I’ll take heroic runs for 8th thank you very much

Considering they are on a back to back, hopefully Chicago lets up in the third and we can bring it home looks like we need a bit of help

Ya I saw the score just noticed we’re getting outshot by a bad team. How’s the balance of play?

Watching the Grey Cup. Sabres hanging in there?

Yes I think just making the playoffs would be very successful. At least from the perspective of the fan experience. Certainly from the team’s as well given their inability to do so in 12 years. Clearly they’ve proven it to be a hurdle worth striving for. Probably best to stabilize that level of success before aiming higher. Maybe final 4 is the only success worth living if you are the Vegas Golden Knights and a fan of that club, but the Sabres have proven that success for them necessarily, for now, would be represented by a much more modest achievement It’s not inability to win the cup that is breaking fans’ resolve, it’s the utter lack of competitiveness. If you need a cup to justify the existence of a being a fan, you have picked the wrong hobby as it very well may never happen. A team that makes the playoffs every year and at least gives themselves, and the fans, the feeling of having a chance every year is really all I ask for. The Tank didn’t just fail, it definitively brought home the idea that “we aren’t going to win the cup this year anyways” was always a bankrupt and poisonous line of thought. Just be a reasonable hockey team. Everything beyond that is gravy.

Our first line would also be past it’s prime

Screw Patty Kane, my ears crave the sweet sounds of a Matt Irwin signing “We got him?!l

wEll aCtUaLly 6-7-1 in last 14 7-7-1 in last 15

The Buffalo Sabres

7-9-1 Its still early, but it can get late quick. Hopefully get right back to .500 in a timely manner before the slide gets too outa hand Not a boring hockey game

That’s one of those, “we’ve been in this league a little longer than you, kid” power position plays from the insecure refs

Nice save by Rick Comrie

Shortie?

Ouch

Dear Lord, please let Logan Stanley see the ice in the last 2 minutes amen

Benson’s mom praying