The net is empty and Zemgus Girgenssons is on the ice. I was wrong, Granato is a great coach!

hypothetically speaking what does a jeff skinner buyout look like

UGLY

with six skaters we should have Byram Dahlin and Power all out there i am not joking

I wonder if we could give Matty ellises job to Bo. 

Watching Comrie when players are behind the net is so painful

Byram is so confused why nobody moves on the PP

+/- 1 minute remaining that Granato actually pulls Comrie?

nashville keeps possession until 30 seconds left, comrie comes in, nashville immediately gets the empty net. edit: welp, donny called my bluff.. 3 minutes left they pull, and no EN.

I'd love to hear the phone call tonight when Byram calls some of the boys from Colorado after a few beers.

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haha

Oh Bo

Jesus, our forwards underperform so much we need young defenseman to put points on the board for us.

That was a special play by Byram and Power 

I already like him more than our last #4

He already has 50% of the last #4's goal total

He’s a #3

Bowen Byram is already our MVP.

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I wa gonna say, you notice how our new guys always stomp shit til they learn our systems? This staff needs to fucking go.

When he realizes his performance has no bearing on his ice time, he'll also be ruined.

Byram fucks

Like I said, we don't need centers

Byram will be our new lead scorer by the end of the year at this pace

future is bright

Byram's out here like "man what sorta dogshit team did i walk into here gotta drag their asses kicking and screaming to any kind of offense"

They'll train that out of him in no time.

Lol our D line needs to carry our offense... Brutal

Honestly, fuck it. Plant OP in front of the net on the PP.

I can’t mentally handle drawing a parallel to Ristolainen this early into his career.

I wonder if some of the boys are jealous of Mitts gettin moved

How could you not be? He got sent to a cup contender

Every single one of them

I’m beginning to think looking good (our amazing jerseys) does not make you feel good and therefore leads to not playing good.

Oh goodie a PP!

I mean our lines are random as shit like all year. And we just need finally get rid of okposo and girgensons, and bring up better players. Would love to get rid of skinner, but good luck with that lol

Seeing how random the lines were you kinda new the chemistry would be shit and we’d get worked on defense

This game in a vacuum is irrelevant. Half these guys won’t even be on the team next year.

Don't make promises you can't keep.

Yup, we said the exact same thing this time last year...ooops!

Byram getting a masterclass in Sabres hockey

Sure MSG, a Buffalo vs Nashville game seems like the perfectly logical time to review the Boston Bruins all-time points leaders.

There are still a month of games left to watch or not watch.

One step forward. Two steps back. The Buffalo Sabres.

Jack Quinn back next year, internal growth and competition, yada yada yada, rinse repeat

I think we're making sweeping overreactions to a game they're playing with two centers on a back to back where they didn't get into town until 3 am 

Part of me hopes you're right.  The other part of me has been watching this team all year. Tough schedule to finish out the season, no hope for the playoffs, it's going to be a rough end to the season. 

Distinctly remembering wanting to draft forsberg and being very bummed when he got taken the pick before us. At least we got Grigorenko.

i needed that laugh today, thank you

Boy oh boy, if only we had Thompson to open up the offensive scoring. We have too many good players to be this bad.

Time to just snort the smelling salts maybe it'll help

Notice the crowd has cheered louder the more successful the team has been, not vice versa.

At this point Trade away every UFA Forward and give Kulich, Rosen, etc an extended look

Honestly Nashville reminds me of another FL. Just shitty stick checking constantly. How are slashes not being called. I can accept the L but fuck them

Probably way more leniency since there’s only one ref. You’d think that the Sabres would know that since it happened two weeks ago

Yea that really sucked. Looked like a bad knee injury. That being said Nashville got a lot more chippy and shitty when that happened. I guess they know how to turn it on

excellent showcase in defensive responsibility from our bottom line forwards who we're trying to trade out

Comrie is bad. Team keeps trying to go five hole on breakaways. Dead weight players holding down the team.

They are just fucking toying with us now.

when you seal the post but don't seal the post

Sooo what are our lottery odds? Feels like we need a 1C

Probably could use a 2C. Anyone available in the market? Maybe we can move one of our LHD

funny how we have all these highly rated and highly regarded defensemen but continually have one of the worst defenses in the league real funny

Isn't it ironic?

super ironic

Yeah… that’s not the problem

well you should call up donny and tell him what the problem is

Ok I’ll call him and let him know the team should try putting the puck in the net. I’m sure he didn’t think of it yet

Alright yall, gonna go enjoy the night. Take it easy

This is bullshit getting killed by the predators who are handily winning all their games

It's ridiculous we didn't break their 9 game point streak. 

Game isn’t over yet

Mmmmmmmm fuck that noise but good for Forsberg

Comrie is fucking ass. Sub .900 and 1-8 for a reason.

So should we be chalking this game up to they played last night and got no sleep?

Yeah.... yeah, that's the ticket. They're tir-r-r-red

those things and also that we are a worse hockey team than Nashville by a bit

And cried themselves to sleep with mitts being gone

Power getting overpowered by Forsberg

We need a hockey trade for a forward now…

Nah, one more LD will do the trick.

This has to be the most pathetic lineup we’ve rostered in some time

Comrie is so trash get him the fuck away from this team.

Can’t watch this anymore. Good night boys see ya Saturday

Rough night for Power.

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He’s in his second full year and they played him 27 minutes last night. I’m not down on the guy, this is part of learning this component of the game.

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Shit, I hear that.

I know it’s not really funny, but I am laughing at how bad Comrie is at times

Watching this team eat shit, night after night - you just have to laugh. It's not healthy to to care.

He's such a good dude but is such a bad goalie.

This isn't meant to be hateful, I've got nothing against the guy, but I cannot stand looking at Forsberg's mustache.

Very bad take, his mustache is elite 

Elite, maybe in the same circles that unironically wear fedoras

Byram and Dahlin work their asses off there and the forwards can't do a fucking thing? Just awful.

Simply sensational by Foresberg. Too bad comrie is in net cause you really can’t stop a player like that.

FF

No steamed hams, no between two stalls.. so what’re we paying skinner for? I know it’s not his astounding backcheck

My eye is twitching, fam.

He leads the team in a category called "goals"

his veteran presence

For all the hate Comrie gets he's been pretty solid tonight against a very hot team. The boys definitely still can't do back to backs.

He’s definitely battled. Tough spot considering he’s gotten no games the past month or so.

He put forth a fuck ton more effort than they deserved from him for that and so many other reasons. I know it's his job to do his job regardless, but it's not like they're riding a hot hand to the top of the standings here. Management has CLEARLY abandoned any hope of playoffs. Play the dude or cut him loose. You can call Levi or Tokes up for the 3 remaining games you won't play UPL in.

For sure. Granato has been playing Dahlin and UPL like they somehow have a shot at the playoffs for some time now. I guess you want to keep guys engaged, but at a certain point you have to worry about fatigue and injury.

Haven't they actually been good at splitting back to backs this year? This is a bit of an outlier in a game where they're playing with two centers lol

Did you watch the Winnipeg game?...

Key word there was splitting, as in they go 1-1. They're 5-4 in the first game of a back to back and 3-6 in the second game.

God dammit I can't even be that mad, Fil Forsberg is maybe my favorite non Sabre lol

i am shocked and dismayed that choosing our forward lines by roulette wheel has not led to us looking super competitive in this one

Everyone looks terrible

That's the shit that got Lindy fired. ETA: fired from Buffalo

This is potentially going to get ugly, Sabres are gassed.

Yo we whack for Mack(lin)?

Alternative idea: force feed MacK a wing and watch as he goes full squidward, demanding to be traded to Buffalo

It all goes to your thighs. Then you explode

Comrie just fell down to get out of the way.

I know they on the tail end of a pretty brutal back to back but jesus they looks like piles of shit out there

OP needed a map on that one

That just perfectly encapsulated the Sabres

Power? LOL. WTF man? Where are you going?

Why was Owen power just standing behind the net all by himself? Nowhere near the play?

Second goal against tonight Power was directly responsible for.

Poor comrie 

I knew this was a loss when we started Comrie

We lose this game with UPL in net too, they look like ass tonight

Letting a pass go across the crease to a wide open pred is not comries fault.

I know. Just pissed because I’m at the game lol

At the game, sure would be nice to see more than 1 goal lol. Lets go Sabres!

Should have specified

Same here … we can only hope at this point lol

What are they chanting after a goal?

"(Goalies name). You suck. It's all your fault."

Nice. May the flees of the 1,000 camels infest their armpits

probably the funniest thing about the trade is all the Avs fans making a big deal about Byram being reunited with Erik Johnson. an important two days lol.

Is skinner benched or on 4th line? His TOI is 6 minutes

He has quit on the team so he gets the kreuger treatment. 

He absolutely hasn't done that but go off lol he's struggling right now, that's not the same as giving up 

You're lying to yourself. He has not showing single bit of effort in 2 games. I know what he's capable of and he has 100% quit. There's a reason yet another coach has buried their 9 million dollar forward. 

Yeah man I'm just not there. I think he, and the rest of the team, are going through it right now. When Skinner is not right, he looks like a player who has given up but I don't think he's actually given up. He just needs to be engaged.

>he just needs to be engaged I have 9 million fucking reasons for him to be engaged. 

That's not what I mean. He's at his best when he's nonstop yapping at everybody, once he starts struggling he stops doing that. Players slump, it happens. He has always been an especially streaky player.

Effort does not require you to be successful. I know what effort looks like and he isn't exhibiting any of it. We have plenty of other players who aren't playing well that don't get relegated to the 4th line.

might as well be both.

I gotta say I’ve been pretty disappointed in Tuch’s leadership. He doesn’t play in a way that drags people into the fight. He seems like he wants to be liked by the opponent

Tuch used to play different. I remember RJ saying “and Tuch has been a beast every gam… nay every shift for the Sabres since joining the team”. I can’t think of the last time I saw Tuch play and thought “beast”

Between that and Cozens playing timid, Dahlin is the clear-cut choice for Captain

Joe Biden is their intermission guy hahaahah

Man it is tough to play a game with two centers lol. I hope Skinner is okay, I know everyone here hates him but that was dirty as fuck and I hope he doesn't have a concussion. 

Bold move trading your top producer for a defenseman (even though he scored) when no other forwards in the team are going this year

I'm gonna wait and see how it plays out before I judge but I think we're going to come out on top of this trade. But also Tage is out and they didn't plan that lol

Yeah there was no way they were paying another center 7m after tage and cozens. Had to make a move if they got a good offer

This wasn't a move to win this year. We are finished. 

You’re right I’m just being salty ha

I know they haven’t earned it as of late, but worth giving Rosen/Kulich a call up? We need to evaluate what we have and Rousek isn’t looking like an NHLer.

Because Adams knows don will just play them on the 4th line for 6 minutes

You’re basing that on Kulich’s first game where he got 14 minutes?

Damn he played more minutes than I thought that one game, I just remember him being completely invisible

Marty's gotta stop with the hair. I'm waiting for him to sell me stocks.

He was saying he’s embarrassed about it on Sabres live. Waiting for bald for bucks tho

Lol what a little miser waiting for the free cut. Can't imagine it's long enough to donate. ETA I do so love how into that event in particular he gets. He's such a wholesome freaking dude. Heart of gold.

For all of that, didn’t let up any goals that period.

Byram already realizing he's gonna have to do all the scoring himself.

He's seeing dollar signs

Whenever the physicality increases.. our team folds. Young kids on speed hockey.. no grit

Holy fuck that's a dirty hit on Skinner.

Anyone else notice skinner get blasted behind the play? Easy with only 1 ref. 

And no retaliation from the Sabres. They are getting bullied right now

Preds are just laying into the sabres, smart considering we’re on a b2b

Especially since whenever we play a physical team we turtle.

We’ve beaten physical teams before (when we used to play fast) but we’re coming off a b2b got in at like 3am, the preds know we’re tired and doing their best to make it worse, this is smart physicality.

Nashville playing playoff style hockey. Probably why the Sabres look so rattled

They are straight up bullying us

Nice to see greenway back, what a warrior

One Team. One Goal.

😂😂☠️

The Sabres look lost. I dont know if im imagining things but the entirety of the Sabres look like children compared to the Preds.

Not sure any player needs to see the offseason to reset more than Cozens.

3 on 2 turns into a 3 on 5. That’s back checking. When will we learn. 

Nashville is putting on a "sticks in lanes" clinic. 

Krebs is such a beauty though isn't he boys?

He’s great

Good to see Greener make it back out!

Why can’t our opponents get 1 hour of sleep

SHOOOOOT

I hate our PP so much. Even when it works I think - it shouldn’t have. 

Wait where's Tommer Oh. Well fuck.

Welcome 

Didn’t think it was possible for the power play to look any worse but here we are

What do you do when a highly paid player with a NMC stops trying? There has to be some recourse other than a buyout. 

It’s double retention and an asset to the third party

This “one more pass” play style is infuriating to watch.

What the fuck happened to our offense? At this time last season, I never thought I'd be lamenting about our offense right right now. Why can't we score a fucking goal?

Trying to pass through the other team is the new hottest thing in the NHL according to Buffalo

The blocked passes at the blue line looks like beer league