GDT: Sabres @ Bruins - Thurs. 7pm, Dec 7, 2023, MSG/ESPN+ 📺 WGR 📻

[Taro T]

  On 12/8/2023 at 3:07 AM, Thorny said:

I think you have to go back to UPL if he’s healthy. They intimated to him he’s the starter/earned more games, I’d give him a shot to continue seizing that 

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Give him the start vs Moe-ray-all.  And he's won consecutive starts this year (as has Levi).  But he has not won consecutive Sabres starts in a long time.  Make him the every other night starter and give him the tougher games - aka treat him like the 1A.  And treat Levi like either a 1B or a legit 2.  And run with that, as long as it is working.  When it stops working, THEN adjust it. 

Give Comrie a start every so often, but 1st get him back to 100%.  Once he's 100%, then reconsider how to deploy them.

[Norcal]

Levi pantsed em

[LGR4GM]

We won. It was a complete game. It only matters if the Sabres make it matter. 

[lowsabre]

VINDICATION

[Mango]

  On 12/8/2023 at 3:08 AM, SDS said:

Did you check your pockets?

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@PromoTheRobot

I am sorry but I can’t help myself. Decades have passed since my 15th birthday and I am not sure I have grown up…like at all. 
 

 

[zow2]

If UPL has an illness that kept him away for the last 2 games, would he even be ready on Saturday?  i say ya gotta go with Levi. 

[Taro T]

  On 12/8/2023 at 3:18 AM, zow2 said:

If UPL has an illness that kept him away for the last 2 games, would he even be ready on Saturday?  i say ya gotta go with Levi. 

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IF UPL isn't ready on Saturday, then, yes, go with Levi.  But IF he's ready, give him the game.

[...]

Where are we:

                 gp    w    l      ot

dec '23    27    11    14    2    24pts
dec '22    27    12    13    2     26pts

[Doohicksie]

  On 12/8/2023 at 3:02 AM, Thorny said:

Trash talking? I didn’t realize we were on opposite sides lol 

w/e moving on 

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I was trash talking against Ully and you chomped on in his defense like a dog on a bone.  But yeah... move on.

Before you start looking up all the facts and figures again, look at who you are talking to.  If it's me you should know by now I blow words outta my ass.

😛

Edited December 8, 2023 by Doohickie

[thewookie1]

  On 12/8/2023 at 3:19 AM, Taro T said:

IF UPL isn't ready on Saturday, then, yes, go with Levi.  But IF he's ready, give him the game.

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I’d say if he’s healthy tomorrow morning give him the game Saturday, otherwise Levi. If you’ve been sick 3 or more days it tends to take some time to get back to normal. 
 

 

Great game by the Sabres tonight

While it does pain me, their youth being a legitimate excuse has very serious evidence from games like these. They lack the consistency of a veteran team. Instead they are wildly inconsistent 

Robinson is very similar to Girgensons with a tiny bit more size and a bit more average speed. (Girgensons has lost a bit of speed overtime but still has a good burst here and there)

[Doohicksie]

  On 12/8/2023 at 3:18 AM, zow2 said:

If UPL has an illness that kept him away for the last 2 games, would he even be ready on Saturday?  i say ya gotta go with Levi. 

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I wonder if he has the same bug Duffer has.

[Pimlach]

  On 12/8/2023 at 2:57 AM, Slack_in_MA said:

That’s not Mrs Robinson….

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Don’t spin him up anymore. 

[Slack_in_MA]

  On 12/8/2023 at 3:08 AM, Spoonman said:

Since when did facts become so important on this site?  

@Slack_in_MA you seem just a wee bit full of yourself tonight with that win in your backyard @ Tha Gaaaden!  

 

OK, can we just do this? 

Let's just agree that this IS Mr Robinson from my favorite childhood TV show, Mr Robinson's Neighborhood.

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You have no idea how good a win against the B’s is for me. I’m on cloud nine!

[K-9]

  On 12/8/2023 at 2:57 AM, Slack_in_MA said:

That’s not Mrs Robinson….

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No, but it is Ms. Robinson.

[Crusader1969]

  On 12/8/2023 at 3:15 AM, Norcal said:

Levi pantsed em

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Winner ! 

[K-9]

  On 12/8/2023 at 3:05 AM, Carmel Corn said:

I say play Levi again in Montreal...big game tonight in his collegiate area home....now maybe he can back it up with another win in his French Canadian stomping grounds.

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Game is in Buffalo.

[OverPowerYou]

So Eric Robinson is winning the Conn Smythe this year?

[Thorner]

  On 12/8/2023 at 3:15 AM, Taro T said:

Give him the start vs Moe-ray-all.  And he's won consecutive starts this year (as has Levi).  But he has not won consecutive Sabres starts in a long time.  Make him the every other night starter and give him the tougher games - aka treat him like the 1A.  And treat Levi like either a 1B or a legit 2.  And run with that, as long as it is working.  When it stops working, THEN adjust it. 

Give Comrie a start every so often, but 1st get him back to 100%.  Once he's 100%, then reconsider how to deploy them.

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Don’t really like the idea of going back to 3

[Crusader1969]

Power and Samuelson deserve credit today.    Stepped up 

now they have to continue this play when Dahlin returns 

[SDS]

The one weak spot in an unexpectedly joyous evening, was the amount of panic we had in our defensive zone in the third period.

So many guys had complete control of the puck and then decided to ring it around the boards on the glass or failed to get out of his own like Tage did the one time and there was one prior to that too by JJ I think.

Those pucks need to get out.

[Pimlach]

  On 12/8/2023 at 3:45 AM, Crusader1969 said:

Power and Samuelson deserve credit today.    Stepped up 

now they have to continue this play when Dahlin returns 

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I thought they had a few brutal shifts and were bailed by Levi, but overall they played a ton of minutes and held up.  

[Taro T]

  On 12/8/2023 at 3:41 AM, Thorny said:

Don’t really like the idea of going back to 3

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Absolutely HATE the idea of going to 2 if Comrie as he's playing right now is one of the 2.

You, of all people, should be on board with the Sabres doing what it takes to win games.

[Pimlach]

  On 12/8/2023 at 3:49 AM, SDS said:

The one weak spot in an unexpectedly joyous evening, was the amount of panic we had in our defensive zone in the third period.

So many guys had complete control of the puck and then decided to ring it around the boards on the glass or failed to get out of his own like Tage did the one time and there was one prior to that too by JJ I think.

Those pucks need to get out.

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Agree.  They were not pressuring the puck enough, too much waiting.  
 

Missing Greenway and Tuch and the long sticks they bring.  

[Big Guava]

  On 12/7/2023 at 2:00 PM, GASabresIUFAN said:

The Sabres have almost no chance to win this game.  It would take a miracle performance from either goalie and Comrie has zero chance of giving such a performance.  If Dahlin’s doesn’t play the team’s chances of winning fall ever further.

5 - 2 Bruins as the Sabres fracture further under the weight of Adams’ incompetence.

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They ended up having a pretty good chance and actually kicked the crap out of the Bruins on their home ice.

Shockingly.

[Brawndo]