2022-2023 Sabres Thread

[JATMtheJATM]

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Was lechter giving you the, you know, the “eye”?

I don't kiss and tell, sukie.

[Skooby]

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I don't kiss and tell, sukie.

Lecter likes to drop his tickets and watch you pick them up, watch out.

[swiper]

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Ducks @ Sabres today - 12:30 pm

[Novacane]

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Off to a good start. They need to bury these bad teams.

[Novacane]

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And just like that they've blow the lead. This team irritates the hell out of me.

[Novacane]

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They're like your child that does something to make you proud one minute then turns around and embarrasses you throwing a temper tantrum in public the next minute.

[Novacane]

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Nice 3rd period. Put a bad team away. We just have to put up with the up and down play for now. The kids will grow up soon enough. Six goals with only 1 point from Tage. Nice to see other guys contributing.

[Night Train]

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Glad to win at home, where they struggle. Up 2-0 with lots of energy, then rookie mistakes by Quinn, Power and a couple soft goals by UPL has it tied at 3-3. Then a great 3rd period. Lyubushkin had a fantastic game, in addition to the obvious 2 goal games by both Victor O and Krebs.

Victor O has improved immensely the last several weeks after looking like a big D liability and PP player only. Someone got into his head. Love Krebs. He always hustles and dropped the gloves to fight when the game was tied, waking up the crowd and the team.

Now comes a 4 game road trip.

[Novacane]

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A very tough 4 game road trip. 2-2 would be great.

[swiper]

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Nice 3rd period. Put a bad team away. We just have to put up with the up and down play for now. The kids will grow up soon enough. Six goals with only 1 point from Tage. Nice to see other guys contributing.

Agreed, but the kids growing up won't fix the obvious missing link in the defense. Lyubushkin played better today, but they need a veteran, stay-at-home defenseman ala Jay McKee. They need a face-off guy. They need a vet goaltender. While this is great Sabres hockey compared to the past 5 seasons, look at what the NJ Devils have done with their young core. They got a veteran goaltender and Palat. And play Lindy Ruff hockey. They are one of the top 5 teams in the league, their turnaround in about the same time as the Sabres.

Not complaining, just saying there are things Kevyn Adams can do at this trade deadline to jettison this team into the play-offs. I don't expect he will. He does have chips to use in Portillo and Ryan Johnson though.

#Sabres may be able to use Erik Portillo and/or Ryan Johnson as trade bait this year at the NHL Trade Deadline.

It's a similar to Jack McBain, who was traded by the Wild to Arizona with the looming thought of losing him as a college free agent after being drafted in 2018. https://t.co/x83UeBMvgt

— Brayton J. Wilson (@BraytonJWilson) January 19, 2023

[OpIv37]

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Glad to win at home, where they struggle. Up 2-0 with lots of energy, then rookie mistakes by Quinn, Power and a couple soft goals by UPL has it tied at 3-3. Then a great 3rd period. Lyubushkin had a fantastic game, in addition to the obvious 2 goal games by both Victor O and Krebs.

Victor O has improved immensely the last several weeks after looking like a big D liability and PP player only. Someone got into his head. Love Krebs. He always hustles and dropped the gloves to fight when the game was tied, waking up the crowd and the team.

Now comes a 4 game road trip.

I forgot it was an early game so I only caught the 3rd period. The team looked great, although it fit look like the Ducks gave up after the 6th goal.

It was on NHLN so I was stuck with with their announcers. They were boring as hell but they said Olaffson has 22 goals on the season and 17 were even strength, so he’s definitely shedding that “PP specialist” label.

[YardRat]

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6 goals with the Goathead again. Uncanny.

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[swiper]

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In other games pertinent to the Sabres striving for the play-offs. Yesterday:

Islanders lost again.
Panthers won.
Red Wings lost.

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Those back-to-back losses to the Penguins making the difference.