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That was definitely their best game of the season so far. Good in all phases - PK, PP and 5v5 for all 3 periods. They played with energy, forechecked hard and stuck up for each other. Good team D too. Like Dahlin said, that’s how they need to play every game moving forward. If they do they will win more often than they lose. Really loving what Josh Doan is bringing to this team. I feel like Doan and Benson both raise the compete level of the entire team. They both look like very important players to the Sabres future right now. Hopefully that holds true. lol Timmins has been a welcome addition so far too. He’s been great on the PK and holding his own 5v5. He looks better than Clifton for sure. Once Kesselring is back he should be a really solid 3rd pair D for the Sabres. I can’t wait to see what Kesselring adds to the team. If he has an impact similar to or better than Doan, that could end up being a really nice trade for Buffalo. 🤞🤞 These last 2 games have me getting a bit excited about Sabres hockey again. I sure hope they can keep playing like this and banking some wins.

That was a fun win. I actually enjoyed watching the game and didn’t change the channel all night (for once)! lol More games like that, please.

Yeah, neither has been good. lol we obviously need them to be our best players to have any chance at a better season. Hopefully they start playing better soon. I really thought we may see Thompson take a step forward (again) this season after playing such an important role for the USA winning gold in that tournament and with the Olympics on the horizon. I mean, it’s only been 3 games so there’s still plenty of time. But the overall morale of the team 3 games in is definitely concerning.

good thing Adams went all in on improving the roster this offseason! 😂😢

This is after one ******* game, mind you. They’re already packing it in after one game. This has to be the most mentally soft team ever constructed.

and watch this instead be used as an excuse to give Adams another year… 😂😢🤦‍♂️

Sabres called up Josh Dunne (4th line enforcer type) for today’s game. So that means the center spine looks to be Kulich, McLeod, Krebs and Danforth. Yikes. And it sounds like Norris will miss a few weeks minimum, best case scenario, with the potential to miss a lot more time. This is where we are at in year 6 under Kevyn Adams. One injury to a very often injured center and they now have a group of centers that look like what you’d see on a team in the first year or two of a full rebuild. I think the most annoying part of this all is that we are in what? year 10(+) of the never ending rebuild and they don’t have an elite C prospect anywhere in the system. The entire reason they decided to tank was to get the type of elite top line center you can only usually get at the top of the draft and now they don’t even have that anymore.

https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6707261/2025/10/10/josh-norris-injury-sabres-zach-benson/ F****** Wonderful. lol Even with Norris, their centers were easily bottom half of the league. Without him, it’s really ugly. They’re probably in trouble if he misses significant time.

I sure hope it’s not serious. This guy just can’t seem to stay healthy though.

lol. This made me think back to Rex having all the Buffalo players wear wrist bands to remind them not to commit penalties 😂 I think they still ended up being one of the most penalized teams in the NFL.

I am pleasantly surprised. I thought they might try to carry 3 goalies for a while. But I’m glad they’re giving Ellis a legit shot.

I like this waiver pick up. He is a good prospect with potential and a handful of years of pro experience (ECHL and AHL). They couldn’t enter the season with Georgiev as their only other option to Lyon. Georgiev looked bad in the preseason, and the last # of seasons too for that matter. I’d definitely rather see them take a chance on someone like Ellis who has a chance to be a good, long term solution vs. Georgiev who has already shown that he’s not. I wonder if they keep Lyon, Georgiev and Ellis on the NHL roster, or if Georgiev gets released? I don’t know if he’s fallen out of favor. I think Kevyn still loves him. But I do think they have at least stopped treating him as the anointed one (lol) and realized he needs to be properly developed, not forced into the NHL. And that legit competition for him is a good thing. I suspect Lindy has a lot to do with the new approach.

McDavid just signed with Edmonton. 2 years, $12.5M AAV. https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6474073/2025/10/06/connor-mcdavid-contract-oilers-extension/ It looks like he’s giving Edmonton 2 more years (beyond this season) to win a cup and took a huge discount in AAV to help them do it.

From everything that’s been reported I don’t think McDavid is looking for a max deal. If he wanted max term+AAV from the oilers, he could easily get it. He doesn’t need any other player to set the market for him. He doesn’t seem willing to commit to Edmonton long term right now. He wants to win Stanley cups. That seems to be his only true motivation. rumors are he may sign short term with Edmonton, and at a slight discount like he took with his last contract (where he actually approached his agent and told him to take $1M off per year because he didn’t feel comfortable making over $13M/yr at the time). I do think this raised the price of signing Tuch though.

He seems to let criticism get to him. It makes me think back to EJ Manuel press conferences (lol). I remember after one particularly terrible game by EJM, he was asked by a reporter about his poor play and said “coach said I’m playing well”. 🤦‍♂️😂