GDT: Boston @ Buffalo 7pm EST

[Thorner]

13 minutes ago, SABRES 0311 said:

They did a good job containing Pastrnak. Laid the body on him a few times. 

TT and Peterka obviously with great offensive production. Wish it was more consistent.

No major defensive complaints other than the late 2 on 0.

Good offensive zone passing. It was accurate and creative. Signs of confidence.

UPL had flashes of brilliance mixed with some difficulties tracking rebounds.

Good win even if it was an uncharacteristic performance by BOS.

I appreciate the optimism, I really do. This team’s playoff hopes are dead though. Nothing in the last five plus years indicates they are reliable enough to pull that off. Especially when everyone else is making a push.

It was a joke 

[Crusader1969]

1 hour ago, Thorner said:

About 23-8-1 should give us a chance. That’ll get us to 90 which is I think the cutoff RN

Ok. So 8 more losses. I'm going guess they hit that in their next 15 games 

[mjd1001]

The last playoff spot is currently .550 point percentage. (90.2 point pace)

If Buffalo wins their next 14 games in a row, they will be right there in 8th in the conference.

Yep, just a 14 game winning streak will get them either to, or in striking distance, of the last playoff spot. (a 90.9 point pace)

Edited yesterday at 04:15 AM by mjd1001

[Stads]

14 minutes ago, mjd1001 said:

The last playoff spot is currently .550 point percentage. (90.2 point pace)

If Buffalo wins their next 14 games in a row, they will be right there in 8th in the conference.

Yep, just a 14 game winning streak will get them either to, or in striking distance, of the last playoff spot. (a 90.9 point pace)

[inkman]

3 hours ago, Carmel Corn said:

Sabres playing too slow…Bruins are anticipating the Buffalo passes …. Just like the KC Chiefs anticipating when the Bills were snapping the ball.

Some of us are using our Stanley Cup contending Sabres to vacate our minds of football. 

[\GoBillsInDallas/]

7 hours ago, mjd1001 said:

The last playoff spot is currently .550 point percentage. (90.2 point pace)

If Buffalo wins their next 14 games in a row, they will be right there in 8th in the conference.

[gilbert11]

10 hours ago, Crusader1969 said:

Enjoy the complete effort.  Bruins didn't bring their A game but so what.  
 

let's get a little win steak going and maybe we can start to dream about a miracle of getting back into wild card race 

BUT.  
 

OMG I just looked at the standings , they are 14 points out of the wild card lol.  
maybe 12 after tonight ?   Wtf. 
 

ok. Let's just play some decent hockey.   Win some , lose some but be competitive 

Yeah, it was fun watching the opponent being disinterested, especially being Boston

[Pimlach]

You see the Sabres play a game like this and it makes you wonder how they could lose 13 straight.  I mean they had a big home stand off of a west coast sweep and were sitting in 3rd in the division.  Fourteen years …
 

Oh well.  I’m having a tough time dealing with another wasted hockey season on top of another AFCCG loss to KC.  
 

 

 

[Mustache of God]

Sabres blow out the Bruins 7-1 and the GDT is at 10 pages the day after. Yikes. 

[JohnC]

8 minutes ago, Pimlach said:

You see the Sabres play a game like this and it makes you wonder how they could lose 13 straight.  I mean they had a big home stand off of a west coast sweep and were sitting in 3rd in the division.  Fourteen years …
 

Oh well.  I’m having a tough time dealing with another wasted hockey season on top of another AFCCG loss to KC.  
 

 

 

I share your exasperation with how this season has unfolded. But I strongly believe that the priority for this team/franchise for the rest of the season is to play as well as possible and finish with a respectable record, even acknowledging that there is little chance that it will make the playoffs. It's important that this team doesn't succumb to the perennial malaise of being couch participants when the playoffs start. It's important to the players on the roster that they are capable of winning and being a relevant team. And it's important to demonstrate to other players in the league that the Sabres are not a lost cause franchise that most players want to avoid. 

From a playoff standpoint, this season is a lost cause. I put the blame on the silent and apparently apathetic owner and sycophantic GM. But it's important to the withering fan base that although it is in the future that there is some hope for better days. The fans deserve that minimal level of respectability. 

[Stoner]

1 minute ago, JohnC said:

I share your exasperation with how this season has unfolded. But I strongly believe that the priority for this team/franchise for the rest of the season is to play as well as possible and finish with a respectable record, even acknowledging that there is little chance that it will make the playoffs. It's important that this team doesn't succumb to the perennial malaise of being couch participants when the playoffs start. It's important to the players on the roster that they are capable of winning and being a relevant team. And it's important to demonstrate to other players in the league that the Sabres are not a lost cause franchise that most players want to avoid. 

From a playoff standpoint, this season is a lost cause. I put the blame on the silent and apparently apathetic owner and sycophantic GM. But it's important to the withering fan base that although it is in the future that there is some hope for better days. The fans deserve that minimal level of respectability. 

Nope. Astute hockey people know it means nothing.

[shrader]

Now that the bills are out of the way they can finally start playing hockey. Here comes the 30 game winning streak. 

[Pimlach]

7 minutes ago, JohnC said:

I share your exasperation with how this season has unfolded. But I strongly believe that the priority for this team/franchise for the rest of the season is to play as well as possible and finish with a respectable record, even acknowledging that there is little chance that it will make the playoffs. It's important that this team doesn't succumb to the perennial malaise of being couch participants when the playoffs start. It's important to the players on the roster that they are capable of winning and being a relevant team. And it's important to demonstrate to other players in the league that the Sabres are not a lost cause franchise that most players want to avoid. 

From a playoff standpoint, this season is a lost cause. I put the blame on the silent and apparently apathetic owner and sycophantic GM. But it's important to the withering fan base that although it is in the future that there is some hope for better days. The fans deserve that minimal level of respectability. 

The season is a lost cause.  Trying to win every night should be a given, and I don't believe in any other way.  Always try to improve the team and win games.  

The fact that this GM could be safe for another season kills all of my urges to play "what if" with trade proposals and roster options.  I don't want him trading big pieces.   I want real change and I want a proven NHL Exec with a winning pedigree running things for a change.  

I have a trip planned to Buffalo, we have a family event and I added Super Bowl weekend to the trip in anticipation of something great happening. 

Cant wait to get down to Florida afterwards.   Time to move on .... 

       

[inkman]

2 minutes ago, shrader said:

Now that the bills are out of the way they can finally start playing hockey. Here comes the 30 game winning streak. 

It’s almost what they need 

[shrader]

25 minutes ago, inkman said:

It’s almost what they need 

Who doesn’t?

[DarthEbriate]

29 minutes ago, shrader said:

Now that the bills are out of the way they can finally start playing hockey. Here comes the 30 game winning streak. 

Just need every future opponent to be missing 3 of its top 4 defensemen and lacking in any top 6-worthy centers and the Sabres will be fine. 

But it was a fun home game for the crowd. 

[mjd1001]

2 hours ago, shrader said:

Now that the bills are out of the way they can finally start playing hockey. Here comes the 30 game winning streak. 

The Funny thing is...imagine they went on a 30 game winning streak.  That would put them at 103 points with 2 games to play in the season.  That would make them the 10th -12th best team in the league (recent history that is where 102 points get you.)

Can you imagine winning 30 in a row and still only barely breaking the top-10 in the league, and likely starting your first round series on the road?

Edited yesterday at 05:07 PM by mjd1001

[Doohicksie]

1 hour ago, Pimlach said:

You see the Sabres play a game like this and it makes you wonder how they could lose 13 straight.

The Bruins were not very good at pass defense.  The Sabres were able to tic-tac-toe around them at will.  Other teams don't allow the Sabres that luxury.

[Stoner]

One game at a time. I'm focused only on the Caps on Saturday afternoon.

[Doohicksie]

9 minutes ago, Stoner said:

One game at a time. I'm focused only on the Caps on Saturday afternoon.

So you don't care about the upcoming Preds game?

[Stoner]

Just now, Doohicksie said:

So you don't care about the upcoming Preds game?

I'm not worried about what teams ahead of us in the standings do, not yet anyway.

[Doohicksie]

"Caps on Saturday afterooon".... the Caps play the WPG Jets Saturday evening.

[Pimlach]

20 minutes ago, Doohicksie said:

The Bruins were not very good at pass defense.  The Sabres were able to tic-tac-toe around them at will.  Other teams don't allow the Sabres that luxury.

I know the Bruins are not good, and they were very bad last night.  Yet they are over .500 and 13 points ahead of Buffalo.  The Sabres are 10 points behind the closest division teams.

13 losses in row is mind boggling.  

[Stoner]

Anyway let's nip this one in the butt... "The Sabres would have made the playoffs but for the losing streak."

They are 8-7-1 since the streak ended.

And their record before the streak was probably not playoff caliber, either.

Hoppe's gonna Hop and Lysowski is gonna Lyso anyway.

Edited yesterday at 04:34 PM by Stoner

[inkman]

16 minutes ago, Stoner said:

Anyway let's nip this one in the butt... 

You are a little too smart to be uttering this so I’ll assume you did it with tongue firmly pressed in cheek.  
 

 
The expression nip it in the bud means to put a quick end to something. This phrase comes from the garden but has branched out. When a leaf or flower is beginning to form, it's just a little bud, and if you nip it — cut it — then it won't grow. You nip it in the bud.