Pimlach

I thought they were outplayed for all 6 periods. We won one game with good goaltending and a lot of luck. Several shots got past UPL, and were saved by other defenders. You get outshot 40-15 and win, you are lucky. The only period we almost won was the 6th, but even then the Flyers scored and choked the life out of us. The new focus on defense is apparently under way and will take time to learn. I prefer building from the back, defense first, but whatever. We shall see how this goes. We are better defensively by the addition of E Johnson and the use of Tage and Tuch on the PK. Other than that we have a lot of work to do. My biggest issue after 11 games is the home record. Once again they have a big home game, they get 16k+ in the building, and they get slammed 3-0 in the first. The Boo’s are painful to hear but deserved. The national exposure is back to very negative right now. Who really thinks they did enough in the off season? I’ll still be posting by the Holidays and hopefully we are in the race.

Sure, replace one of our few players with any physical presence with a 5’9” rookie coming off an injury.

I am on record as saying I will wait to Christmas to make a full judgement. Right now I have every right to vent about this “2034 going for the playoffs “ version of the Sabres. What the hell is the different focus? I’d love to hear about it. Do tell me what the tone should be after getting beat by Philly for 6 periods. If they just play and do nothing for 20 more games we will know we’re they stand at year end, and it won’t be good.

Swords of a thousand men or just The Kinghts who say Ni ? Bring me the shrubbery, uh er Cup! One that is not a blocker, and not too expensive.

Konecney leads the league in goals with 9. He and Farabee could make the Sabres much better, and play in the top 6. The Flyers have more team GF than the Sabres. They are playing as good as they can. Credit Torts for getting a lot out of not much.

Agree with this. The 5D was rough on their minutes. Power and Clifton playing 25 mins, and Joker playing 22 is not a good recipe. Bryson will play tonight, at least he should be rested because we need more than the 8 minutes we has getting with Clifton out To be honest Philly slowed us down so much, as they did last year, that we can’t even tell how everyone graded with another video review (painful). Tage had numerous chances to score but most of our other scorers were invisible. The team’s reluctance to get to the dirty places is making them easier to defend. They can perimeter pass all day, it’s not working, it’s just allowing odd man rushes on our goalie. I know this might be premature, but Biro and Rousek are not bringing any of what we lack - energy and aggression.

He will be up soon.

What is a real move? Not a call up from Rochester. Not bringing up the next rookie for a tryout.

Best decade was the very first one. No doubt. It took 3 years to get “good “. We are working on 12 or 13 now, just to get mediocre and make the playoffs. It’s sickening. I am sick of it.

Most likely, he will be traded whenever we get our next GM. He will end up a journeyman #2, that occasionally helps his team with spurts of good play along with mostly mediocre play

Sure, not good enough on defense but that is not all due to defenseman. Forwards are part of that statement. Look at the high number of odd man rushes against. Right now both Power and Joker are looking bad. Clifton played 25 mins because Muel was out. EJ was the only + player until the 5th Flyer goal. That is when even he failed to shoot with a wide open shot. The Flyers came down and scored after we overpassed again.

Kevyn, Don, and the boys. No Terry at this time, we are 11 games in.

I thinks it’s more than goaltending and defense. The forward are not helping, especially the bottom 6. We can’t roll 4 lines with tryouts still happening. This looks more like a development year than last year.

They look slow because they seem afraid to touch or be touched by another player. I said this last year. When they play Philly (or teams like them) they slow down and play guarded. If they look slow it is because they are playing that way. This team is going to get their coach fired. It tells me what I don’t want to believe about DG, Mattie and the gang.

With all that, what about having the final change at home? That should be an advantage but it never is.

The Boo’s were so loud after the first period that the clowns on the TNT intermission called our town “Booffalo”. They had very pointed remarks about the soft play and the lack of effort from this team for two games.

Yup. We needed our goalie to bail us out early due to careless play in our zone, it didn’t happen. Didn’t matter. We never got going anyway. We played good against the Avs. Yet, another poor game versus a physical team. There was no effort or energy, only this time at home. No pride in getting booed at home. They deserved it too. I am thinking our FO is so enamored with their own prospects that they fell short in improving the team for the playoffs.

Not sure what any of this means. Maybe you should send it to who I was responding to?

What do you call this after losing 6 straight periods of hockey to the Philadelphia Flyers?

Cozens just stood up for himself. No one on this team can take Hathaway. Maybe Greenway, but he doesn’t fight. We have no match.

Hathaway is a complete monster. An old fashioned fourth line bum. We lose a top 6. We can’t have Cozens and Tuch taking on these kinds of guys.

The second version had Jeff ”Skunk” Baxter on guitar, who was also amazing. But it was a different band with Michael McDonald singing. Totally different band with these two guys in it. Both very good.

I really like them. Especially the first version with Tom Johnson. Some very nice guitar work.

Oh no. Even EJ overpassed. And then a goal. He was our only + player until #5.

Dud of a power play. One shot