GDT: Blue Jackets @ Sabres - Feb. 28, 2023, 7:30pm, ESPN+/Hulu 📺, WGR 📻

[HumanSlinky39]

Olofsson is the most frustrating player on this team. He has to be the streakiest guy in the NHL. He’ll rip off 5-6 goals in 8 games then disappear for 2 months. Worst part is when he isn’t finding the back of the net, he adds basically nothing.

Edited March 1, 2023 by HumanSlinky39

[Quint]

Don't blame Asplund.

[rickshaw]

An 8 game losing streak, and losses to the CBJ of the nhl will be the reason we miss the dance.

Im all for not mortgaging now but it would’ve been swell to add two actual defenders and not have Tuch get injured. 

[Pimlach]

So we wasted our best goalie, losing to the worst team ever in the conference, because the Sabres decided to not play until the 3rd period. 
 

UPL or Comrie against Bahston ? 

[Gatorman0519]

No chance against Boston, who is on fire, with 2 key players out and swiss cheese goaltending backed by a porous defense.

Edited March 1, 2023 by Gatorman0519

[thewookie1]

Just to add salt, FLA won and PIT and NYI at minimum will get 1 point tonight

[Eleven]

  On 3/1/2023 at 3:22 AM, Pimlach said:

So we wasted our best goalie, losing to the worst team ever in the conference, because the Sabres decided to not play until the 3rd period. 

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And without the Sabres' best player.  There's a chance Dahlin could play Thursday.  Anderson tonight made no sense.

[Pimlach]

  On 3/1/2023 at 3:20 AM, PASabreFan said:

I think you're just distracted bc Dodo made Cornish game hens tonight and you know what that means.

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[Stoner]

  On 3/1/2023 at 3:23 AM, Gatorman0519 said:

No chance against Boston, who is one fire, with 2 key players out and swiss cheese goaltending backed by a porous defense.

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Other than that Mama Cass how was the ham sammy?

  On 3/1/2023 at 3:25 AM, Pimlach said:

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Peterborough summer of 36.

[HumanSlinky39]

  On 3/1/2023 at 3:22 AM, Pimlach said:

So we wasted our best goalie, losing to the worst team ever in the conference, because the Sabres decided to not play until the 3rd period. 
 

UPL or Comrie against Bahston ? 

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Ugh. Sophie’s choice. UPL, Sharks aside, has been BRUTAL since the Break. Comrie has been only slightly less offensive. Maybe they have a miracle up their arse, but I don’t have high hopes for that one without Tuch and (I assume) Dahlin.

Edited March 1, 2023 by HumanSlinky39

[CallawaySabres]

Scoreboard around the NHL could not have been any worse tonight. Buffalo is falling out of it again.

[Cheektorado]

I'll check out tonight but just want to say it's the end of February not March.

Until next time Sabres fans.

[SwampD]

  On 3/1/2023 at 3:12 AM, PASabreFan said:

The crowd was going bonkers with 58 to go because the Sabres had control and shot it in and... pod.

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Still don't get it, but a Seinfeld reference means you are definitely a grownup,… well, maybe.

 

I agree that not pulling the goalie a lot earlier was bad, like, weird bad. I, um, think I get your reference, now.

Edited March 1, 2023 by SwampD

[7+6=13]

Now we'll beat Boston. 

[bg17]

  On 3/1/2023 at 3:27 AM, CallawaySabres said:

Scoreboard around the NHL could not have been any worse tonight. Buffalo is falling out of it again.

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By falling out of it do you mean still in it based on points percentage?

[LGR4GM]

Off to bed. If there's one thing I've learned, it's many dire things look different in the morning. 

[Pimlach]

  On 3/1/2023 at 3:27 AM, CallawaySabres said:

Scoreboard around the NHL could not have been any worse tonight. Buffalo is falling out of it again.

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They won’t fall out of it after one game.  But the schedule gets harder now. 

[Stoner]

I gotta say I love pretending that Punch is, ya know, Punch. As for Dodo she is a very intriguing and sympathetic character in Sabres history. What if she was the real brains behind the franchise's meteoric rise?

[CallawaySabres]

  On 3/1/2023 at 3:42 AM, Pimlach said:

They won’t fall out of it after one game.  But the schedule gets harder now. 

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Yup, a gauntlet coming up.

[Stoner]

[Crusader1969]

Wow the remaining schedule looks daunting!

5 games left against teams not in or battling for playoffs 

after tonight’s debacle, maybe not such a bad thing?

[Crusader1969]

I came across this post from a leafs fan on FB  

such a typlcal fan of them

“Ive never seen a man take a team and essentially build a power house. 
Name after name after name, yet when they dont produce come playoff time, its all on Dubas. “

Built a powerhouse that can’t win in the playoffs

not really much of a powerhouse then is it?!!!!  😂😂

[Stoner]

During the late minutes of the game, the Toronto crowd kept chanting, "We want Punch, we want Punch," and Reggie Fleming, one of the Sabres' players, removed Imlach's hat and waved it to the crowd. In the stands, Imlach's wife Dodo was making more noise than the other 16,353 people. "She told me she would cause a commotion if we won," Punch said.

[GASabresIUFAN]

I promised myself I wouldn’t say a word about the defense and goaltending.

[PerreaultForever]

Well you don't make the playoffs with efforts like that. 

Last 15 minutes or so we decided to skate and if we'd played the whole game like that we'd have won easily, but we didn't. Flat, low event garbage for the first 2 periods. hard to believe they could drop off from the Washington game that much at this time of the year. I guess you blame the coaches and/or leadership for not drilling it in to them that you have to show up in this league every night and against everybody. Rubbish. Just plain rubbish. So disappointing. 

They should put Peterka onto the first PP unit instead of VO until Dahlin comes back. 

I'm also really hoping they take Bryson out if they play Stillman but watch, they'll sit Clague instead.