Marvin

When I saw that advertisement for "Sabres gear," the thought that popped into my mind was, "reverse?"

And the game started too?

The Sabres record from most shots against in 1 game was at the Bruins. 72, I believe.

Yeah, but 1 July 2007 is a date that will live in Sabres infamy alongside 19 June 1999. No matter how bad, 7 December 2023 will pale be comparison.

We wish. I write poetry like the Azgoths of Kria.

I stand corrected. If they like that, then it is a good idea. Kudos.

Dare I hope that his presence could indicate that Krebs is headed to Rochester once enough forwards are healthy? Don't wake me up. I like this dream.

They love Larsson over there. At the very least, that 2nd has to be a 1st and you need to offer something better than Rosen and maybe Jokiharu as well.

I feel funny about putting too much blame on HCDG because he has yet to be given a full line-up that could not be plausibly be claimed to be in development mode. Teams that go deep in the playoffs tend to have a lot of veterans, even if the kids on ELCs are leading the scoring.

They are certainly not good enough this year. But enough of them are far too young for anyone to draw any conclusions. People here look like they would have given up on Chris Pronger, Zdeno Chara, Tage Thompson, and Alex Tuch, to name 4, because they were done developing at 22.

On the road no less.

The metro population increased from 2000-10 and 2010-20 based on an influx of immigrants and their children. Upstate IT people are trying to turn us into the "silicon ice box."

I see what you see. I think that they often just don't know what they are doing in their own end. You look down, blink, and then look up and it's 2-0 with shots being 7-1. It gets better later, but by then it's too late.

Just the bucket, no wings.

Welcome to the board!

He's not even a Centre who could take face-offs.

Like I said: to make an actual dent in this year's results, GMKA needs to let go of one or more of his prized prospects for lesser talent with grit and more experience. This is a waste of time.

This is a horrible look for the franchise because now they may be in a Catch-22: it might be the best hockey move to move on from GMKA and/or HCDG, but it would be another black eye fof the team's perception. Just peachy keen. For those who have watched the games more closely than I have, please feel free to correct me in the next bit of you disagree and have a better theory. Far too often, the Sabres start the game seemingly completely disorganised --almost as of they had forgotten the basics of their system. They are routinely missing assignments, not giving the defence an outlet, in too deep in the offencive zone, and all those other details they forget to pay attention to. (I am sure that the opposition often has something to do with that.) As the game wears on, they figure out what the heck they are supposed to do while the opposition plays a bit more passively. (Aside: this is the perfect argument against people like me who thought that going offence first last season and learning defence this season would work out.) IMHO, the system HCDG has installed will work once the guys have figured out all of its nuances because when they execute it from the start of a game, they look very good. But that looks like the readiness from the opening whistle will not happen before the All Star Break.

If I hear or read one more time that "face-offs don't matter," I will scream. The unsaid qualifier is, "as long as you are close to 50% like everybody else." When you are as bad as Buffalo is, then they ****ing matter. The Sabres are always on their heels.

If you use logical "or" then you can do both.

With respect to injuries, it looks like GMKA planned on getting lucky with the forwards again, which was monumentally short-sighted because the guys in Rochester are not ready to even fill in for a few games with a regular NHL shift. If I had my druthers, Krebs and the other youngsters would be in Rochester or Juniors, a good veteran would be paired with Power, Okposo would be the 13th forward, and Girgensons and Greenway would be on the 4th line with competent veterans being 4C (also a face-off specialist) and filling in the rest of the top 9. That line-ups can survive slightly worse than ordinary injury luck at forward.

I want to take these ideas further. Are there any teams with a barren prospect pipeline or just loaded with character without talent whom the Sabres could trade with to get the type of veterans we want? At forward, ideally we could get a couple of Mike Grier types, but even an Adam Mair or Paul Gaustad type would be welcome. On defence, is someone like Chris Tanev available to teach Power better? And what do you think is a good offer where you probably trade youth and talent for grit and experience?

True, particularly with the injuries, but it is not their fault that we have a surfeit of those kinds of players.

Greenway and Girgensons are the type of players the Sabres need more of. Maybe more effective versions of them, but still necessary. And every team has players like them whose job is to give useful minutes, pay attention to details, and not embarrass themselves.

He was tired because of consecutive games on the weekend. It is likely that Comrie is the better option.