🏒 Buffalo @ Columbus, 7 December 2022 7:30 PM ET, TNT TV, WGR Radio

[Broken Ankles]

2 hours ago, Thorny said:

The guy left his hairline back in Winnipeg. We’ll be ok. 
 

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Are we in line for another back-up? 

In my best Arnold….”You’re Finnish-ed”

[Thwomp!]

Gonna be a lot of empty seats.  Tickets are going for less than $10.  Club and 100s at less than $30 all in.  I have plans tonight and too much apathy towards this franchise, but still tempting.

 

[steveoath]

1 hour ago, Broken Ankles said:

Magnificent Wordsmith. 

Underrated comment

Edited December 7, 2022 by steveoath

[Marvin]

More wins.

[WhenWillItEnd66]

5 hours ago, nfreeman said:

Does anyone have an injury update on Lyubushkin?

He was not at practice this morning according to Paul Hamilton

[Sidc3000]

4 hours ago, Brawndo said:

UPL in net.

[Sabres Fan in NS]

5 hours ago, Thorny said:

The guy left his hairline back in Winnipeg. We’ll be ok. 
 

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Are we in line for another back-up? 

He's kinda cross-eyed too, eh !!

[Sabres Fan in NS]

I am not witty or clever or very goodly with my words ...

MUST WIN !!

GO SABRES !!

[Mustache of God]

2 hours ago, pi2000 said:

Maybe white milkmen will make magical wine mustard when many walruses marry wet mermaids.

Sounds like a fun bachelor party to attend.

[Stads]

I have a feeling that the Ultimate Puck Languisher gives up 3 or less tonight. 

[Norcal]

These guys had alot of fun at the Sabres expense last year. 

Hoping the boys have some fun at their expense this time around. 

Lets GO Boys!!!

[Thorner]

 Jeff Marek today mentioned Dahlin as one of the league’s best hitters, and skaters 

[Thorner]

It’s interesting. Wyshynski on the show mentioned that the Devils were much the same last season in many ways but were undone by atrocious GT. It really does sound like we COULD be that team. They found a G though - imperative we do the same 

[Sabres Fan in NS]

10 minutes ago, Thorny said:

 Jeff Marek today mentioned Dahlin as one of the league’s best hitters, and skaters 

What about the scoring, man.  What about the scoring !!

Marek is a good guy, but sort of a homer.  Not as bad as some, but still.  SN tries to limit the ball washing of The Great Satan to a minimum.

[Zamboni]

Another win. C’mon guys!

 

Sabres … 4

Blue Jackets … 3

 

Cozens, Skinner, or Joker with a goal 

[Brawndo]

UPL has a .911 Save Percentage 5v5 

On the PK it’s a whopping .688

Stay out of the box or bring Craig Anderson in for PK with His .905 Save Percentage. 

[Thorner]

3 minutes ago, Brawndo said:

UPL has a .911 Save Percentage 5v5 

On the PK it’s a whopping .688

Stay out of the box or bring Craig Anderson in for PK with His .905 Save Percentage. 

I still don’t understand why they refused to go to Ullmark in shootouts over Lehner 

I don’t care if he was coming in cold. Lehner could simply not stop them 

[PerreaultForever]

These are the sort of games the team simply should win. There is no reason not to be better than them. 

[thewookie1]

21 minutes ago, Thorny said:

I still don’t understand why they refused to go to Ullmark in shootouts over Lehner 

I don’t care if he was coming in cold. Lehner could simply not stop them 

Typically cold goalies are awful in shoot outs. Additionally the visual of putting in the younger backup to play in shoot outs over your supposed long term starter has very bad connotations.

[Thorner]

14 minutes ago, thewookie1 said:

Typically cold goalies are awful in shoot outs. Additionally the visual of putting in the younger backup to play in shoot outs over your supposed long term starter has very bad connotations.

It must be the visual because Lehner wasn’t just bad in shootouts, it was literally impossible to do a worse job 

Edited December 7, 2022 by Thorny

[Zamboni]

17 minutes ago, thewookie1 said:

Typically cold goalies are awful in shoot outs. Additionally the visual of putting in the younger backup to play in shoot outs over your supposed long term starter has very bad connotations.

Why do I remember this being a topic of conversation years ago? And I thought it was determined that teams absolutely cannot put in a new fresh goalie for just shoot outs. Unless the goalie was injured in the dying minutes of the OT. Maybe I am remembering it wrong. But I thought there was some kind of rule that prevented goalies from just doing the shoot outs.

[Taro T]

16 minutes ago, Thorny said:

It must be the visual because Lehner wasn’t just bad in shootouts, it was literally impossible to do a worse job 

Not true.  The one puck that hit the post & harmlessly bounced away from the twine could've been an inch to the right & would've been in the net too.  It was luck that he wasn't perfect, but Glenn Hall used to say he'd rather be lucky than good any day. 😉

[grinreaper]

1 hour ago, Thorny said:

It must be the visual because Lehner wasn’t just bad in shootouts, it was literally impossible to do a worse job 

I remember the game that went to the shootout when Don Cherry was the honorary coach for Ottawa against the Sabre's with Lehner in net and he offered to pull the goalie to even things up. Ottawa won in the 6th round. Future Sabre's coach Don Granato commented after the game that it was a good learning experience for the young Sabre team. -)

Edited December 8, 2022 by grinreaper

[Pimlach]

Not at all surprised that UPL is getting a chance to show what he can do.  That is why they kept him around. 

I would like to see the team rise up and play better defense in front of him.  

[Pimlach]

4 hours ago, Thwomp! said:

Gonna be a lot of empty seats.  Tickets are going for less than $10.  Club and 100s at less than $30 all in.  I have plans tonight and too much apathy towards this franchise, but still tempting.

 

You are going to miss a win.   We have some players worth watching.  I would be sitting in the 100's tonight.