GDT: Bruins (booooo) visit keybank center. 6pm FO. MSG-B, NESN.

[steveoath]

Sitting out in my garden on a scorching day here, martini in hand. Turns out there’s a hockey game today. 
 

The return of Casey. Does he get a tribute video. Stay tuned. Joker also makes a return as a top pair Dman. 
 

Bruins are dog dirt. My crystal ball tells me that Sabres will win in a game with 8 goals.
 

hope ostland plays And gets a point or two before he heads back to Roc for the playoffs. 

 

Bruins projected lineup

Morgan Geekie -- Elias Lindholm -- David Pastrnak

Pavel Zacha -- Casey Mittelstadt -- Fabian Lysell

Marat Khusnutdinov -- Fraser Minten -- Vinni Lettieri

Jakub Lauko -- John Beecher -- Cole Koepke

Nikita Zadorov -- Henri Jokiharju

Parker Wotherspoon -- Andrew Peeke

Mason Lohrei -- Ian Mitchell

Joonas Korpisalo

Jeremy Swayman

Scratched: Michael Callahan, Patrick Brown

Injured: Charlie McAvoy (shoulder), Hampus Lindholm (knee), Mark Kastelic (upper body)

Sabres projected lineup

Zach Benson -- Jiri Kulich -- Tage Thompson

JJ Peterka -- Ryan McLeod -- Jack Quinn

Jason Zucker -- Peyton Krebs -- Alex Tuch

Beck Malenstyn – Noah Östlund -- Sam Lafferty

Mattias Samuelsson -- Rasmus Dahlin

Owen Power -- Jacob Bernard-Docker

Bowen Byram -- Connor Clifton

Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen

James Reimer

Scratched: Jacob Bryson

Injured: Tyson Kozak (hip strain), Jordan Greenway (lower body), Josh Norris (middle body)

 

Edited 22 hours ago by steveoath

[Doohickie]

Oh, I see- Kozak nursing an injury.  I'd still like to see bumping Peyton down to 4C and giving Östlund some top 9 time.

[bob_sauve28]

I’m guessing UPL in net? 

[Doohickie]

10 minutes ago, bob_sauve28 said:

I’m guessing UPL in net? 

[bob_sauve28]

3 minutes ago, Doohickie said:

Maybe this Bruin team can’t hit the net, lol 

[JohnC]

1 hour ago, Doohickie said:

Oh, I see- Kozak nursing an injury.  I'd still like to see bumping Peyton down to 4C and giving Östlund some top 9 time.

It's likely that he is going to miss the rest of the season. 

[Sidc3000]

Dahlin is playing so they should play well in front of UPL. 

[Broken Ankles]

Watching the Yankees vs Pirates this morning and Michael Kay spent a half inning on fan frustrations in Pittsburg. Before their home opener on Friday vs NYY there was a plane circling the stadium with a banner reading “sell the team bob” and players and the manager were bood soundly. Kay went on the say it’s unacceptable to not put great talent around Skemes and some of the younger stars.  Citing decisions by their GM to not sign a UFA to a multi year deal since 2016.  Then goes on to talk about the success of the other franchise's in Pittsburgh (Steelers, the Penguins -albeit not the last few years) and then makes a parallel to similar city (I assume equally absent of palm trees and relative in taxes) with success in the  American League in the Guardians.  So reminiscent of the Sabres dilemma.  The success of the Bills, Bandits and Winnipeg.  The similar lack of spending and caliber of supporting cast as a supplement to the home grown talent.  The Pittsburgh fan base seems to be done with it after missing the playoffs for only the last 10 years.  (Very few can lay claim to describing a 10 year playoff drought as “only”).  Kay didn’t call out the owner, GM and Management staff by name but did lay blame indirectly. It just further confirms what we all feel about our ownership and GM.  I’ll be following the Pirates attendance throughout the year to see how it correlates to this seasons w/l record and previous years attendance. 

  Regardless of the fact the Bruins make be in a soft tank, let’s put the screws to that city/team. Hate the Bruins.   How about an 8 spot? Östlund gets his first goal.  

 

1 hour ago, sabremike said:

I mean, it can't get wor... WHAAAAAAAAAAT?????:

 

Exactly!  It’s what bad organizations do. Good thing we don’t see thoughtless decisions from the Sabres cracker jack staff. 


 

[sabremike]

40 minutes ago, Broken Ankles said:

Watching the Yankees vs Pirates this morning and Michael Kay spent a half inning on fan frustrations in Pittsburg. Before their home opener on Friday vs NYY there was a plane circling the stadium with a banner reading “sell the team bob” and players and the manager were bood soundly. Kay went on the say it’s unacceptable to not put great talent around Skemes and some of the younger stars.  Citing decisions by their GM to not sign a UFA to a multi year deal since 2016.  Then goes on to talk about the success of the other franchise's in Pittsburgh (Steelers, the Penguins -albeit not the last few years) and then makes a parallel to similar city (I assume equally absent of palm trees and relative in taxes) with success in the  American League in the Guardians.  So reminiscent of the Sabres dilemma.  The success of the Bills, Bandits and Winnipeg.  The similar lack of spending and caliber of supporting cast as a supplement to the home grown talent.  The Pittsburgh fan base seems to be done with it after missing the playoffs for only the last 10 years.  (Very few can lay claim to describing a 10 year playoff drought as “only”).  Kay didn’t call out the owner, GM and Management staff by name but did lay blame indirectly. It just further confirms what we all feel about our ownership and GM.  I’ll be following the Pirates attendance throughout the year to see how it correlates to this seasons w/l record and previous years attendance. 

  Regardless of the fact the Bruins make be in a soft tank, let’s put the screws to that city/team. Hate the Bruins.   How about an 8 spot? Östlund gets his first goal.  

I mean, it can't get wor... WHAAAAAAAAAAT?????:

 

[Doohickie]

5 hours ago, bob_sauve28 said:

Maybe this Bruin team can’t hit the net, lol 

4 hours ago, JohnC said:

It's likely that he is going to miss the rest of the season. 

It's not like there's that much left.

[HOUSE]

5 hours ago, bob_sauve28 said:

I’m guessing UPL in net? 

[Thorner]

Can pull within 9 points with a win 

[Brawndo]

1-0

All six Sabres were responsible for that one 

[bob_sauve28]

Go Sabres! 🏒

[North Buffalo]

How UPL cant read a play

[Sidc3000]

Wow

[CallawaySabres]

UPL 🤣

[Bangarang]

UPL was in his own world 

[Crusader1969]

Nice pass by Clifton.   Showing off his silky mitts once again. 🤦‍♂️

[Pimlach]

Well.  UPL over-commits and no help in front. 

[Carmel Corn]

Did somebody tell UPL there is a hockey game going on right now?

[Sidc3000]

2 minutes ago, Brawndo said:

1-0

All six Sabres were responsible for that one 

100% agree. Every Sabres player on the ice gets an assist on that one 

[Believer]

Damn.

UPL way out of position.

Geez.

[caseydean]

UPL is just effing awful.

[SABRES 0311]

Just turned it on and already down.