Ctaeth

Too much faith is put in UPL based on one portion of a good season. Aside from one portion of one year (a contract year at that).. he's been pretty bad. Letting UPL continue as a number one is a hope based strategy. You hope that he plays better than he historically has...

Mystery solved: the amerks were behind the switch to this 2-3 format. https://x.com/GeneBattaglia/status/1920660048226685004?t=XJLKYus6Y_H-7AJNNSuAKA&s=19

With the last 3 games being in laval, they really need to jump on them during those first two home games. Long break might make that hard to do

If we keep reimer, maybe they can form a club?

Going to be tough to find a former GM to play the "Kevyn Adams support role". Anyone accepting that position... I immediately question their thought process

What happens if the sabres make the playoffs this coming year? We will likely be talking about a kevyn adams extension 😆

So Jack Quinn got the strength and conditioning guy fired?

Good luck Jake Vernon and Pete Guelli

kind of disappointed about this. He has had two good seasons in liiga and I thought we might see him on the amerks next year. Hopefully it doesn't come back to bite them. Or maybe hopefully it does for the players sake?

feels pretty bad to have the sabres picking only ninth after how poorly this past season went. they were in last place in the conference for what felt like an eternity.

If Laval wins vs Cleveland, Amerks are going to have a tough matchup. One of the few teams that Amerks have struggled against. They were 2-6 vs Laval during the regular season (wins vs losses only, idk what their record is with OT/shootouts etc... but that doesn't really matter in the playoffs anyway)

I didn't realize they scratched Brannstrom. Wild to be scratching an NHL caliber player in the AHL... but I suppose I can't argue with the results

really enjoyed the game on Sunday. it wasn't a full house. there was a crowd there, but maybe 2/3 capacity? those that did go definitely got treated to a pretty good game (if you're rooting for the amerks). summary of what i saw: the amerks came out buzzing at the start. initially, they were all over the crunch. the first goal (helenius) was partially a result of luck. the puck was knocked up into the air and landed right in front of helenius, who happened to be in front of the net. two things lead to this goal imo: they were initially controlling play and helenius went to the goal. good things happen when you go to the goal! after the goal was scored, the team seemed to settle down and the crunch started controlling the flow of play more. with that being said, the crunch didn't really threaten levi much despite the number of shots they took. the amount of high danger chances was pretty minimal. the crunch were controlling the flow of the game until the komarov fight. even though komarov got caved in, the fight did two things imo. he stopped the crunch's momentum and gave the amerks motivation (i forget who, but i saw an interview on twitter/x that said that they had to do it for komarov). was great timing for the fight (if the timing was intentional, good on him). honestly, i'm not sure if they win this without the fight. komarov definitely held his own, but i think he got too aggressive and left the other guy an opening. all it takes is one bad one getting through. hopefully this doesn't discourage him from fighting in the future. it got really chippy really quickly after that. the refs quickly called another penalty to try to retake control of the game, putting the amerks on the powerplay and kulich cashed it in. they needed that goal really badly and it set them up to win nicely. clague had a really nice day. great shot for the third goal and i think he assisted on one of the earlier goals too. on the empty net goal, it looked like it was going to be icing. i think the ref was about to blow it dead and then saw rosen flying down there. he can really fly. he beat the crunch player to puck cleanly and scored from a funny angle. as far as empty netters go, seemed like a pretty good one. after the eng and the amerks up 4-0, you could just feel the crunch were going to try to pull something. things got physical. my favorite was actually helenius in this situation. even after the game ended, he was surrounded by crunch players and was still barking at them with his helmet off. he's got some spunk for sure All in all, it was nice to see some playoff hockey. It really is just a different beast relative to the regular season. I never was able to experience a live Sabres playoff game when I was younger, so here's hoping that this happens in Buffalo soon

Been really chippy. They needed that kulich goal

nice win, keep it rolling. i'm headed to the game on sunday

talk about being set up to fail. my inner pessimist is wondering if this is guelli putting someone (besides himself) in charge of the sabres sales so that he doesn't have to take full responsibility for the upcoming bloodbath link describing the hire from nhl.com: https://www.nhl.com/sabres/news/buffalo-sabres-name-jake-vernon-chief-commercial-officer

It's going to happen. Some reporter, probably Harrington as mentioned above, will ask those questions because they want to seem like the guy that "asks the hard questions" and is someone that can stick it to an ineffective management group. If they don't, fans will likely take the media to task and that's the last thing the BN wants right now. I agree that the reporter will primarily do it so he "can feel good about himself". It's self-serving when everyone and their mother knows KA is in over his head. However, there are reasons beyond the reporter's own ego. Public embarrassment could be a strong motivating factor for making a change.

Adams is going to get hammered by the press & rightfully so. Get your popcorn ready!

Can Ratzlaff play in one of the Amerks remaining two regular season games? If they are already locked into the two seed, why not?

Pretty interesting that he starts fighting as soon as he leaves Buffalo. I wonder what's the reasoning behind that. Was he coached not to? Was it his choice not to in Buffalo? Was he told by TB that he had to occasionally fight? Was it his decision to start fighting when he changed teams?

I would love to see Columbus make it in and Montreal miss! Need a Montreal regulation loss and a Columbus win Hurricanes vs Canadiens today Blue jackets vs Islanders Thursday

Same, and i think everyone is sick of it. It's a self fulfilling prophecy. The more you talk about why it's hard to get people to move to buffalo... the less they are going to want to come here. Focus on the positives instead of the negatives.

I'm not a betting man, but if I was this one would probably be a Sabres bet. Florida is still favored here despite Bob/Tkachuk/Reinhart all not playing. Vanacek is 4-13 this year (in total). And, as we know, the Sabres are still trying to win.

sam slasherty

I'm happy he is blocking him if he is playing like this