GDT:The Season Opener! Montreal at Buffalo 10/14/21 7pm MSG, WGR550

[woods-racer]

1 hour ago, Digger said:

0.892 career save percentage, 0.890 last season so he's not an established goalie.  Let's hope we get some shots through to him and have a great game.  Sabres win and Montreal starts the season with 2 losses.

To have a goalie like that on the team and not trade for one must mean that MONTREAL IS ALL IN ON THE TANK! 

Can't be they couldn't find one without giving up way more than they thought reasonable, incompetent Montreal FO.

[Norcal]

 

[Pimlach]

27 minutes ago, K-9 said:

Were you really expecting this team to look better with their top players from last year no longer here? 

Here’s one area I guarantee they will be better at: giving a crap and actually giving maximum effort for 60 minutes ona regular basis. 

That’s a BIG guarantee.   Is a regular basis every game?  

[LabattBlue]

You know what would be great? If the Sabres score a goal, and I don’t have to hear “Here we go now, here we go now, here we go now…”. 

[dudacek]

41 minutes ago, Norcal said:

 

I don't care if it is a marketing program.

It means something to me.

Make it real.

[Buffalonill]

45 minutes ago, Norcal said:

 

Yet you tank such bull *****.

[K-9]

25 minutes ago, Pimlach said:

That’s a BIG guarantee.   Is a regular basis every game?  

Yes, every game. There are gonna be games like the second half of a back to back in a 3 game in 4 night stretch where they just won’t have their legs, but I won’t confuse fatigue with lack of effort. In recent seasons, particularly last season when they were out of it early and they just went thru the motions it was plain as day that several players just didn’t give a crap. 

[Cheektorado]

Like most I don't expect a lot of winning this year but for me I want to see some good coaching (something we have not seen for a long while) and some players playing for the crest on their chest.  Work hard playing and work hard on improving the best you can.  If they can do that game in game out I can give them my time in watching.  If I see signs of a tank (I know others already believe that but I don't) I will stop watching.

The team as a whole has to show me that last year (and this off season) was the bottom.  Make this the first year of the Sabres "process" and stick with it.

 

[Thorner]

1 hour ago, Norcal said:

 

If anyone doubts Cozens is their new Face...

[Weave]

1 hour ago, K-9 said:

Were you really expecting this team to look better with their top players from last year no longer here? 

Here’s one area I guarantee they will be better at: giving a crap and actually giving maximum effort for 60 minutes ona regular basis. 

Until the losses start piling up.

[French Collection]

Good opportunity to get the season going with a W.

Habs didn’t look sharp last night and they are starting their #2.

I can’t watch this one but will check scores often. My son just got called up to junior and is playing his first game tonight. Hockey is still on the menu.

Go Sabres!

[K-9]

39 minutes ago, Buffalonill said:

Yet you tank such bull *****.

2 minutes ago, Weave said:

Until the losses start piling up.

That’s the challenge. So we shall see. 

[PromoTheRobot]

6 minutes ago, French Collection said:

Good opportunity to get the season going with a W.

Habs didn’t look sharp last night and they are starting their #2.

I can’t watch this one but will check scores often. My son just got called up to junior and is playing his first game tonight. Hockey is still on the menu.

Go Sabres!

Nothing would get tongues wagging back in MTL like a loss to the lowly Sabres.,

Edited October 14, 2021 by PromoTheRobot

[Thorner]

One thing I'm excited for is the uniforms. They still look swell and are new enough that the type of team I associate them with is still up for grabs. Not off to a good start with the skid mark Hall left in them, but they are still bright shiny and new, to me. 

[French Collection]

1 minute ago, PromoTheRobot said:

Nothing would get tongues wagging back in MTL like a loss to the lowly Sabres.,

Cup finals to an 0-2 start.

[Thorner]

1 minute ago, French Collection said:

Cup finals to an 0-2 start.

I suspect fear of this very thing, from them, offsets the advantage we'd normally get from a team on a back to back

[darksabre]

1 hour ago, LabattBlue said:

You know what would be great? If the Sabres score a goal, and I don’t have to hear “Here we go now, here we go now, here we go now…”. 

You won't have to. They changed it.

[LabattBlue]

Just now, darksabre said:

You won't have to. They changed it.

Did not know.  Thx. 👍
 
What is the new goal song?

Edited October 14, 2021 by LabattBlue

[Huckleberry]

3 minutes ago, darksabre said:

You won't have to. They changed it.

Oh god I hope so, that song is forever tied with the losing decade.

[Thorner]

4 minutes ago, LabattBlue said:

Did not know.  Thx. 👍
 
What is the new goal song?

It's not Buddy Holly is it?

[Buffalonill]

18 minutes ago, darksabre said:

You won't have to. They changed it.

Thank god 

[darksabre]

They were using All the Small Things by Blink-182 during the preseason. 

[Huckleberry]

Just now, darksabre said:

They were using All the Small Things by Blink-182 during the preseason. 

at least its better.

[LabattBlue]

11 minutes ago, darksabre said:

They were using All the Small Things by Blink-182 during the preseason. 

What is the tie in?  Number of wins this year?  Goals scored each game? Return on John trade?

[thewookie1]

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