2023-2024 Buffalo Sabres gameday thread !!

[Skooby]

I didn’t get to start it last season & look what happened, we got better.

Go Sabres !!

[Skooby]

Locked & ready !!

[Russia Go BOOM!]

I'm fantastically upbeat about our Jewish Goalie becoming an international sensation in the SCHLOTZKY!

[Skooby]

I'm fantastically upbeat about our Jewish Goalie becoming an international sensation in the SCHLOTZKY!

Yeah I was just thinking this the other day....

https://youtu.be/cxqjsyfbcd4

[ckg927]

Something of interest: The Score recently posted an interesting "what if?" article positing 7 blockbuster offseason trades as proposed by the site's NHL editors.

Buffalo wound up as one of the teams doing the trading.

Kayla Douglas proposed Buffalo trading for Winnipeg GK Connor Hellebuyck, with the Jets getting Ukko Pekka Lukkonen, Noah Ostlund and next year's 1st round pick. Two of the other three NHL staffers said that the Sabres would say no, a third said "good deal".

Pros: A top-notch goalie like Helly could push the Sabres over the hump and get them to the playoffs and Winnipeg would be willing to move him, seeing as he's in the last year of his contract. Cons: Giving up that much for Helly without an extension in place is risky. You almost never see a team go from missing the playoffs to winning the Cup. "This doesn't seem like the time for Buffalo to surrender key assets for a one-year rental."

[Skooby]

RJ is gone, sad start to this season.

[sukie]

“Then let’s win the whole damn thing”.

[OpIv37]

RJ is gone, sad start to this season.

As fans, we get upset about this team’s lack of performance, but that man devoted his life to the Sabres. Over 50 years with the organization and they couldn’t get him one Cup. Even worse, he didn’t even get to call a playoff game for the last decade of his life.

And in one last cruel twist of fate, the Sabres are finally showing some promise and he won’t be around to see what happens.

I’m sure they’ll dedicate the season to him and I hope they break the drought. Just sad that he won’t be here to witness it.

[sukie]

He will be watching.

[OpIv37]

Strangely, the Sabres are playing a preseason game in DC at the same time the Bills are playing at the Commies. I put it on my iPad to watch between plays in the Bills game but gave up. Each team took two stupid penalties in the first 6 or 7 minutes. The Sabres took an offensive zone penalty while on the PP- wtf? It’s unwatchable. I’ll wait a month for the real games.

[Skooby]

Sabres win so it’s not totally unwatchable.

[OpIv37]

Sabres win so it’s not totally unwatchable.

YouTube highlights did the trick.

[ckg927]

Sidebar, but it does tie into the Sabres....

As you're aware, Matt Savoie & Zach Benson were drafted by the Sabres as members of the WHL's Winnipeg Ice. Well, the team was sold to new owners and moved to Wenatchee, Wash. to become the Wild earlier this summer. Lance Lysowski reports that both of them were at Wenatchee before rookie camp; Matt was only there for a few days. Over the summer, Kevin Constantine was hired as the new head coach of the Wild. But NOW....the WHL has announced that Constantine has been suspended pending an investigation into him allegedly violating the league's regulations and policies. Lysowski notes that the Sabres are monitoring the situation.

[ckg927]

Tom Gazzola of EdmontonSportsTalk.com notes that, from what he's hearing, it is not good at all.

[Skooby]

Sabres are 2-0 now & face the Makebillieves tonight, lol.

[Woodman]

I'm loving the goaltending.

[JATMtheJATM]

Sidebar, but it does tie into the Sabres....

As you're aware, Matt Savoie & Zach Benson were drafted by the Sabres as members of the WHL's Winnipeg Ice. Well, the team was sold to new owners and moved to Wenatchee, Wash. to become the Wild earlier this summer. Lance Lysowski reports that both of them were at Wenatchee before rookie camp; Matt was only there for a few days. Over the summer, Kevin Constantine was hired as the new head coach of the Wild. But NOW....the WHL has announced that Constantine has been suspended pending an investigation into him allegedly violating the league's regulations and policies. Lysowski notes that the Sabres are monitoring the situation.

I'm not really sure what the sabres can do. I don't think they can keep them away from their WHL team without adding them to the roster.

[Skooby]

I'm loving the goaltending.

UPL is inferior, we really need to move on from him. Leads up 3-1 - w/ ~6 minutes left in the 2nd.

[JATMtheJATM]

UPL is inferior, we really need to move on from him. Leads up 3-1 - w/ ~6 minutes left in the 2nd.

It's preseason. Let's settle down and let these guys shake off the rust

[Skooby]

Pens tonight !! Lets roll !! The main squad is coming to play.