GDT: Sabres at Detroit 7 PM 4-6-2023 MSG

[spndnchz]

“Should be” an easy win

[MattPie]

  On 4/6/2023 at 1:20 PM, spndnchz said:

“Should be” an easy win

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Yeah, that's never backfired before.

MUST WIN

[CallawaySabres]

win them all, so start with tonight...

[Zamboni]

Comrie or UPL? 🤔

[Wyldnwoody44]

Wooo

[Pimlach]

  On 4/6/2023 at 1:20 PM, spndnchz said:

“Should be” an easy win

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Detroit always plays us tough.  Expecting this one to be a battle. 

[French Collection]

  On 4/6/2023 at 1:37 PM, Zamboni said:

Comrie or UPL? 🤔

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Levi.

[nfreeman]

  On 4/6/2023 at 1:31 PM, CallawaySabres said:

win them all, so start with tonight...

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Did the VPN work for you for the Florida game? 

[Weave]

Will be interesting to see if Granato can keep the focus and intensity up with playoff chances barely mathematically possible.

[Flashsabre]

I would like to see Levi get the net. The other two have had all year to show us who they are. 

I wonder if Tage plays or sits. 

[Kristian]

  On 4/6/2023 at 1:37 PM, Zamboni said:

Comrie or UPL? 🤔

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Crushed kneecap or shoulder?

[Night Train]

  On 4/6/2023 at 1:48 PM, Weave said:

Will be interesting to see if Granato can keep the focus and intensity up with playoff chances barely mathematically possible.

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 Check the dressing room for golf clubs. 

[Drag0nDan]

  On 4/6/2023 at 1:48 PM, Flashsabre said:

I would like to see Levi get the net. The other two have had all year to show us who they are. 

I wonder if Tage plays or sits. 

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As ineffective as he was, i still liked watching him play more than olofsson.

[PromoTheRobot]

  On 4/6/2023 at 1:41 PM, French Collection said:

Levi.

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Why not Levi? It's backs-to-the-wall time 

[sabresouth]

Play Levi.  He's the best goalie we got. We are still in it however slight it is. Crazier things have happened.  LET'S GO BUFFALO!!!!

[CallawaySabres]

  On 4/6/2023 at 1:44 PM, nfreeman said:

Did the VPN work for you for the Florida game? 

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I was too much of a wimp to use it

[Pimlach]

Play Levi.  Play Tage if he can go.   Try to win.  They are not eliminated.  Fight to the end! 

[ska-T Palmtown]

Too bad Cincinnati does not have a hockey team to beat a Pittsburgh team in the last game to sneak us in.

[matter2003]

Hopefully they loosen up the grip on their sticks now and take the lumps of coal from out between their butt cheeks that they played with last game. You always know when they are uptight because their offense goes straight down the toilet.  They miss shots they normally don't miss and they don't generate the type of chances they normally generate even when they are pumping out shots, they are mostly of the not great variety.  There is a happy medium between them playing loosey-goosey defensively and them playing so uptight that they can't produce any offense and they still struggle to find it too often in games. Likely will come in time but they need to figure it out for next year.

 

The game for them was perfectly summed up in 2 plays by 2 stars over the last 15 seconds. Tage Thompson completely whiffing on his normal one-timer right in the wheelhouse and Dahlin making a pass so bad back to the point that it went out of the zone to effectively end the game when they had a 6 on 3.  Pretty much a fitting ending to how the other 59+ minutes went for them.

Edited April 6, 2023 by matter2003

[Pimlach]

  On 4/6/2023 at 2:53 PM, ska-T Chitown said:

Too bad Cincinnati does not have a hockey team to beat a Pittsburgh team in the last game to sneak us in.

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Really?   Your third post and you are taking us down the "we broke the drought because of Cincinnati rabbit hole"?  

Let not forgot the Sabres need to pretty much run the table, and if they do they would certainly deserve to make the playoffs.   It won't be because a random team beat a team currently in front of us.   You get the points that you earn.   

[matter2003]

  On 4/6/2023 at 2:53 PM, ska-T Chitown said:

Too bad Cincinnati does not have a hockey team to beat a Pittsburgh team in the last game to sneak us in.

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Too bad Baltimore doesn't either.  You are misremembering...had a chance to take care of our own business with Pittsburgh when they played 2nd and 3rd stringers and puked all over ourselves at home.

[SabresBaltimore]

  On 4/6/2023 at 1:37 PM, Zamboni said:

Comrie or UPL? 🤔

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Levi

 

  On 4/6/2023 at 2:45 PM, Pimlach said:

Play Levi.  Play Tage if he can go.   Try to win.  They are not eliminated.  Fight to the end! 

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Agreed. Until we're officially eliminated I'd play Levi. If we're eliminated then we need to work on building the confidence with UPL or Comrie (or both) depending on the team's plans for next year.

 

Next week we have 2 back to backs, so one or both of them can play next week. Or maybe Anderson if he's healthy by Ottawa.

 

It's not enough to have 1 goalie anymore. We need 2. Ideally that would be UPL since he's younger, but I don't care which. This also assumes Levi can keep up his high level of play and makes the team next year, but it sure looks that way right now.

Edited April 6, 2023 by SabresBaltimore

[Mustache of God]

I've yet to see Levi get beat clean, since the playoffs are a pipe dream it makes sense to start him as much as possible to get him acclimated to the NHL.

[ska-T Palmtown]

  On 4/6/2023 at 3:00 PM, Pimlach said:

Really?   Your third post and you are taking us down the "we broke the drought because of Cincinnati rabbit hole"?  

Let not forgot the Sabres need to pretty much run the table, and if they do they would certainly deserve to make the playoffs.   It won't be because a random team beat a team currently in front of us.   You get the points that you earn.   

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Okay, Okay 🙂 No jokes until 1K posts. I honestly remember being so happy when it happened, I did not care how it happened and it was such a great day - I'd love to have that feeling with the Sabres again.

  On 4/6/2023 at 3:02 PM, matter2003 said:

Too bad Baltimore doesn't either.  You are misremembering...had a chance to take care of our own business with Pittsburgh when they played 2nd and 3rd stringers and puked all over ourselves at home.

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Jeez, you are right of course ... guess I need two monsters this morning.

[Pimlach]

  On 4/6/2023 at 3:37 PM, ska-T Chitown said:

Okay, Okay 🙂 No jokes until 1K posts. I honestly remember being so happy when it happened, I did not care how it happened and it was such a great day - I'd love to have that feeling with the Sabres again.

 

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I was in a Bills Backers Sports Bar watching the Bills win, then the Bengal win.  Grown men were crying with joy.