GDT: 12/31/2022, 1:00 PM ET: 🏒 Buffalo Sabres @ Boston Bruins; MSG, WGR

[matter2003]

Have to say that I have been really impressed at how UPL has turned his game up the last 3 or 4 games...he was God Awful for the first several games, taking bad angles and letting in soft goals but it seems he has really worked hard on that and has been much better lately 

[inkman]

If you are going to take a penalty against Marchand, can you make sure he leaves the ice on a stretcher?  

[Sabres Fan in NS]

NS reporting for duty !!

When's puck drop ??

[Norcal]

1 minute ago, matter2003 said:

I've said it before...Marchand is probably the one person in this world that if I saw him walking down the street I would just walk up to him, not say a word and just punch him in the face, consequences be damned.

I love this attitude! 

[TheAud]

Just now, Norcal said:

Muel looks pensive today.

They need him to take control in games like this. 

‘Pensive’

Nice!

[matter2003]

Is there a team in the league that has more "almost clears" than the Sabres do? It's like they are right there to clear the puck within 2 or 3 feet of the blueline and almost inexplicably don't clear it many times.

[inkman]

4 minutes ago, Pimlach said:

Naw.  The teams in this league see what’s happening in Buffalo.  The Sabres have a ways to go but they are getting attention around the league because they have some legitimate stars in 26 and 72.  

Kinda hard to get excited about that right now. We continue to be the Bruins bitch. 

[FanaticSense06]

2 minutes ago, Pimlach said:

Completely different players.  
 

Krebs can pass and create but he has to work on his shot.  He ought to do whatever Tage does in the offseason to improve his shot.  

Not completely different, both get quite a bit of high danger chances and both can't finish.

[Doohicksie]

I'll take that period.

[sweetlou]

So I've counted 3-4 hooks, or cross checks that have not been called on Boston.  Refs not calling penalties is what kept Boston pressure on Buffalo D.  

[steveoath]

UPL having a day

[SwampD]

13 minutes ago, Crusader1969 said:

So you want a guy who can fight qb’ing the power play instead of Dahlin?

There are four other guys on the ice who could be that guy. But nice ridiculous option to make your point.

13 minutes ago, erickompositör72 said:

No, it would have been Sabres shorthanded: 2 for instigating, and 2 for roughing, with Boston just 2 for interference 

 

Edit: And then being down 1-0 during the Boston PP. I don't think that would have taught them not to run our goalie

Not necessarily. He would have been better off not cross checking.

 

Good period.

[French Collection]

1 minute ago, Doohickie said:

I'll take that period.

Decent road period.

Boston does not look invincible.

[Gatorman0519]

Cannot complain. Anybodys game. 

[matter2003]

Not a bad period overall. They gave up some chances but Boston is too good to think you are going to shut them down completely. Thought they did a fairly good job in the Bruins zone and neutral zone of really pestering the Bruins and not letting them get easy chances to break out.

[PromoTheRobot]

4 minutes ago, matter2003 said:

Have to say that I have been really impressed at how UPL has turned his game up the last 3 or 4 games...he was God Awful for the first several games, taking bad angles and letting in soft goals but it seems he has really worked hard on that and has been much better lately 

How do you demote him now? 

[Spoonman]

2 minutes ago, Sabres Fan in NS said:

NS reporting for duty !!

When's puck drop ??

 Yo Nova…. 50 min late. ‘Course maybe you are really early in AT?! 👀

[DarthEbriate]

8 minutes ago, French Collection said:

Bruins announcers saying it should be 2-0 but all of a sudden it is tied.

Suck it!

Sure, it could have been 2-0, but their ***** *****-***** rat-***** ***** ***** can't shoot worth *****-***** the ***** *****. And Krebs could've scored and it'd now be 2-1 Buffalo.

Next, the Sabres get the long change, a chance to stretch their legs, and engage their 2nd period speed. It's 11 AM, grab a beer, and lock S-foils in attack position.

[Pimlach]

6 minutes ago, FanaticSense06 said:

Not completely different, both get quite a bit of high danger chances and both can't finish.

Yes,  Completely different players.  The fact that they don’t finish does not mean the play the same game.  
 

Krebs is still finding his game in the NHL.  Girgensons is a veteran of 9 seasons, we know what he is.  

[Sabres Fan in NS]

3 minutes ago, Spoonman said:

 Yo Nova…. 50 min late. ‘Course maybe you are really early in AT?! 👀

Damn !!

It's almost 15:00 here now.  I see the the main page says puck drop was at 14:00(ish).

Anyway ... I'll take the 1 - 1 after the first.

[DarthEbriate]

4 minutes ago, French Collection said:

Decent road period.

Boston does not look invincible.

They're vincible.

[Sidc3000]

1 minute ago, Sabres Fan in NS said:

Damn !!

It's almost 15:00 here now.  I see the the main page says puck drop was at 14:00(ish).

Anyway ... I'll take the 1 - 1 after the first.

I’d say the Bruins controlled the first 10 and not as much the second 10. 

[North Buffalo]

1 minute ago, Sabres Fan in NS said:

Damn !!

It's almost 15:00 here now.  I see the the main page says puck drop was at 14:00(ish).

Anyway ... I'll take the 1 - 1 after the first.

NS little late to the party or just being fashionable?

[French Collection]

1 minute ago, Sabres Fan in NS said:

Damn !!

It's almost 15:00 here now.  I see the the main page says puck drop was at 14:00(ish).

Anyway ... I'll take the 1 - 1 after the first.

Not sure if you understand French but, ALLUME!

LOL.

[grinreaper]

13 minutes ago, matter2003 said:

Tage making people look silly in close again...it's unreal how good he is at using his long reach in close to deke people down to the ground and then go around them to get a near empty net

In the 1/4 second I had to realize who had the puck I knew the move that TNT was to put on Swayman. It's easy to say that the GT should expect that move but there really is no defense for that with TNT's reach.