Forecheck

Only 70 more to go

He is now 200+ games into his NHL career and he’s still making the kind of mistakes you’d expect from someone in his first year. It happens continuously.

Donnie will be long gone by then.

The even MORE sad fact is we haven’t been a winning team since the Pegulas took over as owners. What’s it been 10, 11 years so far? Don’t you kind of think that’s even a bigger deal here? Amazing how people are so quick to blame everything on Eichel yet the far bigger problem with this franchise is still here overseeing everything. Is it still going to be Eichel’s fault 3 years or more from now if we haven’t made the playoffs between 2022 and beyond?

Describes half the lineup sadly.

I haven’t watched much of Seattle before tonight so far this year, are they always this physical and feisty or did they save it for us for some reason?

I think the last 2 1/2 games have felt exactly like RK is once again behind the bench. This is already no longer the same Sabres team from the first 4-5 games of the season.

Sabres have been outscored 5-0 in the 3rd period on this west coast trip so far. Not good.

The next 3 are all winnable as well. Have the Sabres ever gone 4-0 on a western road trip and I mean ever? I don’t recall it if so.

Gotta be a big confidence builder. Gotta learn to play 60 minutes but I feel like we’ve been wishing for that for the better part of 11+ years

Beautiful

This west coast trip is definitely set up nicely for 5-6+ points, which would be huge for this young group at this point in time. Gotta find a way to get 2 points now.

Sabres need to win this one in OT/SO. Blowing a 3-0 lead definitely could be a big confidence blow to a young team early this season.

Lots of standing around and watching. Would it hurt to put a hit on someone in front? Apparently too much to ask.

Born and raised in Niagara County from the 60s to the early 90s. Then Arizona for a couple years, Maryland for 20+ years, now North Texas for the past couple years.

I think if all NHL teams had the chance to play a goalie in his first NHL game they would pick the Sabres to do it against.

Rough weekend for predictions

No doubt. And for some reason people mistakenly thought it would be close to a sell out tonight. Although sadly this probably will be one of the biggest crowds of the year.

Dunleavy always has been and always will be horrible. And on radio only he’s 1000x worse. Highly doubt the Sabres will hire anyone to replace him. Most likely we are stuck with Dunleavy for the next 15-20 years. Now that’s depressing.

Eichel and O’Reilly as teammates again. And St Louis can send us whatever castoffs we didn’t get in the last trade with them.

The only time he can do that is when he’s stuffing his face with more food.

Final record somewhere around this: 27-44-11 — 65 points I think current and future injuries will help lead to this record. I also feel like we will play a lot of teams tough, force overtime frequently but that we will lose our fair share of shootouts.

ESPN+ will carry nearly all NHL games this year, not just the ones listed today. They took over for NHL TV.

Alrighty then