2022-2023 Sabres Thread

[YardRat]

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A couple of tipped pucks for the goals tonight so far.

[OpIv37]

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Disappointing game. Levi is the only reason we are still in it.

[POTLAND PSILBYLO]

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Ah crap

[sukie]

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Rumor has it that, despite living only a few miles away, sukie is taking in the game sitting on the crapper.

Still sitting. Feel free to add an ‘h’.

[Crisis]

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Levi is the real deal. He is going to be a monster.

[Novacane]

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Gotta put the puck in the net. Levi should play every game the rest of the way.

[JATMtheJATM]

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That loss hurt. That's pretty much the band playing on the deck for the season.

But the future has so much promise. And Levi, man. Another solid solid game

[Novacane]

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That all but ends any dim playoff hopes.

[OpIv37]

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That all but ends any dim playoff hopes.

I’m having PTSD from the Bills’ playoff drought. Remember every year roughly the week after thanksgiving? “Well if the Bills win out and Team A loses out and team B bears team C but loses to team D, we can make it!”

The Sabres would have to win out and get help, but the help doesn’t matter because they aren’t winning out.

The good news is that Levi is leagues ahead of where anyone expected him to be. I still expect there to be setbacks with him, because he’s young, he’s a goalie, it’s the NHL and that’s the process. But, honestly, if you told me a week ago that he’d do this well in his first two starts, I would have laughed.

[JATMtheJATM]

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I’m having PTSD from the Bills’ playoff drought. Remember every year roughly the week after thanksgiving? “Well if the Bills win out and Team A loses out and team B bears team C but loses to team D, we can make it!”

The Sabres would have to win out and get help, but the help doesn’t matter because they aren’t winning out.

The good news is that Levi is leagues ahead of where anyone expected him to be. I still expect there to be setbacks with him, because he’s young, he’s a goalie, it’s the NHL and that’s the process. But, honestly, if you told me a week ago that he’d do this well in his first two starts, I would have laughed.

Every shot he faces, I get nervous. Not because of the score, but because he's so fresh and impressionable.

I get he's going to have setbacks, and I STILL think he should play in Roch next year, but I just don't want to see him fail and have a set back yet.

I also know how many goalies come in lights out and fade away. Carter hart, Spencer knight, anterio nittymaki come to mind.

And I'm not saying he's going to be them. But I know that's a real possibility too.

[swiper]

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Sabres hold the longest play-off drought in NHL history.

Newer teams like the Panthers, Lightning, Golden Knights and now the Kraken have all build play-off teams. WTF is it with Buffalo?

[Woodman]

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That all but ends any dim playoff hopes.

It does appear so .... Levi held up his end!

[Night Train]

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They improved a lot and kept it interesting into April.

Now to get a playoff slot next season. At least they finally found a Goalie. More work to do this off-season.

[JATMtheJATM]

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Sabres hold the longest play-off drought in NHL history.

Newer teams like the Panthers, Lightning, Golden Knights and now the Kraken have all build play-off teams. WTF is it with Buffalo?

Horrendous GMing and ownership that has finally learned to get out of the way and develop a plan.

[OpIv37]

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They improved a lot and kept it interesting into April.

Now to get a playoff slot next season. At least they finally found a Goalie. More work to do this off-season.

They have improved and this is by far the best season in a long time.

But, I said it before and I'll say it again: It's so frustrating how this team doesn't show up in these big games. This was Florida, not Boston. Talent-wise they are not much better than us, if at all. All they had to do was beat a mediocre team. Instead, they managed just one goal and they got their rookie goalie barraged with shots.