GDT: Ottawa Senators @ Buffalo Sabres 7 PM ESPN+, MSG

[SwampD]

Let’s get this season started already!

Everyone needs to Wake TF up and play hard.

They haven’t won since I got my head cut open and I’m sick of it. 😂

Think I may even be able to have a beer tonight.

LFG!!!

Edited November 5, 2024 by SwampD

[CallawaySabres]

Which train-wreck to watch, election night or Sabres night, ugh 🤣

[LETSTUCHINGO]

18 minutes ago, SwampD said:

Let’s get this season started already!

Everyone needs to Wake TF up and play hard.

They haven’t won since I got my head cut open and I’m sick of it. 😂

Think I may even be able to have a beer tonight.

LFG!!!

Here's to you healing quickly and if you can have 1, you can have 6! Let's go Buffalo!!!

[Sabres Fan in NS]

1 hour ago, SwampD said:

Let’s get this season started already!

Everyone needs to Wake TF up and play hard.

They haven’t won since I got my head cut open and I’m sick of it. 😂

Think I may even be able to have a beer tonight.

LFG!!!

I must have missed this - hope that all is well and wishing you a full and speedy recovery.

With a GDT start like this the Sabres can't miss.

MUST WIN !!

GO SABRES !!

SWORDS !! 

 

 

Edited November 5, 2024 by Sabres Fan in NS
more goodly ...

[Idemo Buffalo]

Will it be Donald Trump or Kamala Harris welcoming the Buffalo Sabres to the White House to celebrate a Stanley Cup win?

Huge game tonight. The road to the White House begins today for the Buffalo Sabres.  

 

[That Aud Smell]

[Pimlach]

19 minutes ago, Idemo Buffalo said:

Will it be Donald Trump or Kamala Harris welcoming the Buffalo Sabres to the White House to celebrate a Stanley Cup win?

Huge game tonight. The road to the White House begins today for the Buffalo Sabres.  

 

Wow.   

I just want to win the game and maybe string a few W's together.  

[Night Train]

2 hours ago, CallawaySabres said:

Which train-wreck to watch, election night or Sabres night, ugh 🤣

Same plan either way.. 

 

[DarthEbriate]

The Sabres need to play with the intensity of a gang of four-year olds playing Hungry Hungry Hippos.

[Demoted]

Just ***** win already!

[Indabuff]

[LGR4GM]

4 hours ago, SwampD said:

Let’s get this season started already!

Everyone needs to Wake TF up and play hard.

They haven’t won since I got my head cut open and I’m sick of it. 😂

Think I may even be able to have a beer tonight.

LFG!!!

Can you add the time to the title?

[Palm Trees And Taxes]

Season is over. NHL Lottery is the focus yet again.

[Porous Five Hole]

7 minutes ago, Ruff Around The Edges said:

Season is over. NHL Lottery is the focus yet again.

This ***** does not belong in a game day thread.  Find somewhere else to piss and moan.  

[LGR4GM]

 

 

[CallawaySabres]

If they lose tonight, that puts them 5 points out of 8th. In Sabres terms, season over. This team never has and still does not have the talent to recover from that kind of a deficit looking up from the bottom. They can always figure out how to lose 4 or more in a row but are totally incapable of winning 4 in a row. 

[Doohicksie]

6 minutes ago, LGR4GM said:

 

 

Well that's depressing.

[That Aud Smell]

7 minutes ago, CallawaySabres said:

If they lose tonight, that puts them 5 points out of 8th. In Sabres terms, season over. This team never has and still does not have the talent to recover from that kind of a deficit looking up from the bottom. They can always figure out how to lose 4 or more in a row but are totally incapable of winning 4 in a row. 

there's a covenant here at the office about people jumping into a nearby body of water (not lake erie) if the sabres manage a 5-game winning streak.

the deal may need to be lowered to 4 to have any meaning at all.

[DarthEbriate]

12 minutes ago, Doohicksie said:

Well that's depressing.

Take no penalties; accept no penalties.

[Idemo Buffalo]

11 minutes ago, CallawaySabres said:

If they lose tonight, that puts them 5 points out of 8th. In Sabres terms, season over. This team never has and still does not have the talent to recover from that kind of a deficit looking up from the bottom. They can always figure out how to lose 4 or more in a row but are totally incapable of winning 4 in a row. 

 5 points out with 138 points still available and the season is over. 🤣

New coach and new system and players getting more experienced means they are capable of going on a run at any time in the season.  The 2018/2019 team went on a ten game winning streak and then lost 18 of 26 games. The Sabres are going to have some big winning streak under Lindy at some point. Whether they can hold it together after that is something we don't know.

[Taro T]

Fork it; they have to win again sometime.  Why not tonight?

Go, go, Buf-fa-lo!!!!

 

PS - hadn't noticed before, but Freddy even has a prehistoric rudimentary Buffalo Sabres logo on his hat!

[SwampD]

1 hour ago, LGR4GM said:

Can you add the time to the title?

Done.

[WhenWillItEnd66]

Will watch until they start blowing it and losing like always. Another night, wash, rinse, repeat.

Sounds like Benson is playing. 

[DarthEbriate]

Intraconference fun

To make the playoffs as a #4/#5 Wild Card you want to get a few a wins vs. the good teams (maybe face some backup goalies or get FLA on a night without Barkov/Tkachuk) and then make some hay and be handily over (DeLuca) .500 against the other WC contenders and the bottom feeders.

Last year the Caps snuck in with 91 points despite being just under .500 (40-42, with 11 OTL. NYI was also sub.500 but had a whopping 16 OTL!) The Caps were 8-8-4 vs. the top teams in the East (NYR, CAR, FLA, BOS, TOR, and TB). 8-12 is good enough against them.

The Caps were 17-10-1 against their competition and weaker Eastern teams (1-2 vs. BUF).

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Sabres

The Sabres are off to an OK start against the top team(s): 1-3 v. FLA & NJD. Would've been nice to get a NJD game to OT....

If the Sabres want to make it, then they need to be a cumulative 5+ games over .500 against their primary Eastern competitors. BOS, OTT, DET, MON & WSH, CBJ, PIT, NYI, and PHI. They have started... poorly... in that regard at 1-3-1.

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November

This month is Western conference-heavy on the schedule, with only 4 games remaining (and those 2 L in hand!) against the primary teams, so we're unlikely to see the Sabres jump them or have significant movement in the standings barring a massive win streak or getting every other game to OT. But each of tonight 11/5 v. OTT, 11/11 v. MON, 11/16 @ PHI, and 11/30 @ NYI is emphatically a must-win game. Anything less than 3-1 or 2-1-1 will have the Sabres all but eliminated because they'll need to jump everyone in the conference.

[Indabuff]

3 hours ago, DarthEbriate said:

The Sabres need to play with the intensity of a gang of four-year olds playing Hungry Hungry Hippos.

When I was a kid I thought it was a good idea to swallow one of those marbles.  Turns out it was not.  Life lesson learned.