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As good as the pipeline of top draft choices the past few years… the investment by Pegula and Adams in building a top Analytics Dept will prove a difference maker for the Sabres in the draft and free agency for years to come… Comrie is an excellent example… Age 27, 28 NHL games, has learned how to win, good price, fills an immediate need, still developing with upside as the starter or backup to UPL or Levi…

Surprised the seats weren’t filled… Was it free admission??…

Bryson has high compete…

Great game… Great series…

AVs jamming the neutral zone… TB has no rush… Out of gas… AVs better condition… Take a miracle or a fluke for TB to score…

AVs forecheck, stick work, and puck handling is really impressive…

Keep McDonagh off the ice…

AVs are faster… better with the puck… TB is tougher… more grit… with a better goaltender… Just a pleasure to watch these teams compete… We need a goaltender… and a few years for our young kids to grow into men…

Superb hockey played by both teams… I live in Sarasota, so rooting for TB…

TB will have no chance keeping up in the thinner atmosphere… AVs are just a better conditioned team…

AVs offense in the TB zone was relentless… Just too much for TB… Great win for them…

Boom… TB taking to the net…

AVs have som PP… Scored on 7 of last 11… TB can’t afford penalties…

Wow… Didn’t expect Paul back after he limped off after the 1st… to let alone score less the two minutes into the 2nd period… Got the crowd going now…

TB more time in offensive zone… More shots… More goals… Better checking tonight… 2nd period should be interesting after AVs adjust…

AVs are relentless… Get McDonaugh off the ice… Offsides…

Glad the AVs aren’t in our division… They are so fast, such good skaters, constant motion in the offensive zone… Think they also benefit living in the thinner atmosphere… Better respiratory condition…

Another stupid penalty… Bolts show no discipline…

What a stupid penalty. Cooper should sit McDonaugh the rest of the period…

No quit in the Bolts… Wearing the AVs down…

Goaltending aside… Watching the Rangers and TB series, both teams have many more grown men than the Sabres… We are a couple years and a few players away from competing successfully against either team, in my opinion…

Beane and Granato must be pretty impressed with this teams determination… Appert keeping them focused…

What a great win and series… First time Amerks advance to second round since 2004!!… Way to go, Amerks…

Many fond memories drinking 25 cent Genesee Splits at the Idle Hour Bar on Center St in Geneseo as an Undergrad… Rented a house a block away… Rolled home…

Ok… I got the game…