Thorny

- chemistry and culture needing to be prioritized, at first, over talent - I thought it unlikely Dahlin would establish as a mainstay RD (though he’s been back on the left, lately) - Comrie: I thought he’d prove to be an adequate backup rather than proving little of anything which, after this long, proves enough. - Thompson and Tuch being THOMPSON AND TUCH

Dahlin through 54 games played has outscored or equaled the leading Sabres point-getter in 3/6 seasons before last year. He’ll have more than 4/6 in a few games.

Dude you aren’t leaving one of us

It was a common L we’ve been losing half our games all year when teams lose sometimes it’s by a lot. I know for a FACT we do that to other teams b/c our goal differential is good and proportionally better than our record. I can also just remember the games. We just scored 7 goals, no? if we were occasionally running up teams, but never getting run up in turn, we wouldn’t be the 2022-23 sabres, we’d be the 2022-23 Hurricanes. said the same thing to GA: not yesterday, not the next 4 games defines the season. Yesterday looks like a big blip sitting right beside that mountain the next day but if you pan out it’s one hill in a long line of ups and downs that looks like a mixed bag, when we’ve built from only Death Valley. Losing to the leafs sucks but objectively it’s not special nor is it revelatory. Not diminishing your frustration and pain in losing - I just know you actually know that it’s better than feeling nothing for the team at all

Agree, the negativity in here is worse than the 83 All-Stars - - - Personally I think it’s a tip off to the fact people sometimes still get a smidgen too “high”, outside the GDTs between games, at this stage, with the inverse being the GDTs, during a loss, roller-coaster the other way.

Tough game. Next game we’ll have to

Detroit win unfortunately drops us out of 8th by points %. Oh how the turn tables. They shall turn back

Looking at the replay, probably the easiest assist of Thompson’s career on Tuch’s goal

Score effects providing a soft landing is always something I’m here for

Yes. It’s very dumb. And what was a medium coke at the theatre is now the large. It’s all very dumb and an un-hidden rip off

Well laaaa deeee daaa Mr Body Break over here

McDonalds is so good. but honestly 10 bucks won’t even do you right there nowadays. Used to be a Big Mac meal (No cheese) and junior chicken under $10 alas they’ve also altered the Big Mac recipe over time and as of now it’s settled on something inferior, if I must say

Whatever . we’d still wallup the 83 all stars

Isn’t the Tage line getting dominated defensively by the ROR line? Which F line do we have that goes good against ROR? Needing D and G is well played, we also still need forwards, or the development of forwards. I say it again the talent level overall isn’t at THAT level yet I think our record is proportional ie Granato = good job

Not in today’s nhl. We’ll need a Leafs breakdown though in addition to solid play on our end as the Leafs are a great defensive team. Or we need to be really good and really lucky, that also works

It’s 1998 and the Sabres are in white! Crowd erupts for our goals, too!

Love trivia. 2 time Harry Potter trivia contest winner actually. Once for The Office, too

“Hey, did you see Will Smith is back on Twitter?”

Correct me if I am wrong, this then means you believe Levi will be good enough next season to allow for winning playoff series to be a realistic goal? Of course, under the assumption we add the defensive additions you are referring to

So with the proper (realistic) defensive supplementation, to your satisfaction, you believe we could realistically have hope of winning playoff series next year, with UPL between the pipes?

You are on record saying the goal next year needs to be *winning* playoff series. In your estimation, can that be a realistically set goal, should we enter into next season with exactly the tenders we have now? Up to and including Levi?

I think we have like 342 games in hand we’ll be “in it” for a while

I honestly don’t think they do, yet. They are viewing it from a different perspective than we are: we are in different stages. They’ll get there, though

Washington losing again lol. Silver lining

Worst part is the Toronto media being able to continue being dismissive of the Sabres. Whatever. Well except Jeff Marek. He’s got our backs