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Getting smoked by a bottom 5 team in the NHL… 🤮 although the Sabres aren’t that far from the bottom 5 themselves. They currently sit 8th last. So, pretty much same as always. This season clearly wasn’t “all about winning”. They added nothing meaningful to the roster in the offseason and banked on “internal growth” even though pretty much every player on the roster had career years last season. What were the chances of not only repeating that, but bettering it? Eventually Adams is going to have to do something meaningful. His only meaningful trade was Eichel and Reinhart, but both of those he was forced to make. and if these players truly love Granato as much as they say, they better start showing it because their play is going to get him fired.

I was going to say the same thing. McDermott hired Joe Brady for a reason. As soon as he was hired, I said “he was hired to be our next OC after Dorsey”, as it seemed obvious that’s why he was hired. I figured he would be groomed to run the Bills offense then take over if Dorsey moved on. and now I almost wonder if McDermott kind of wanted Brady all along. if this ends up being “one of the best offensive coordinator situations in the NFL” (still TBD) I don’t think it’s fair to say the Bills “stumbled” into it.

From ESPN: In a pool report, referee Carl Cheffers said down judge Mike Carr saw Toney lined up offside. "Ultimately, they are responsible for wherever they line up,'' Cheffers said. "No warning is required, especially if they are lined up so far Offside where they're actually blocking our view of the ball. "We would give them a warning if it was anywhere close, but this particular one is beyond a warning.''

From ESPN: In a pool report, referee Carl Cheffers said down judge Mike Carr saw Toney lined up offside. "Ultimately, they are responsible for wherever they line up,'' Cheffers said. "No warning is required, especially if they are lined up so far Offside where they're actually blocking our view of the ball. "We would give them a warning if it was anywhere close, but this particular one is beyond a warning.''

This may have already been posted. It shows how far Offside Toney was much better than the screenshot with the deceiving blue line. how spoiled are Mahomes + Reid that they think this call should have just been overlooked? offensive Offside has been called a lot more frequently this season (I think this was the 12th time)

I really hope they are able to find a way to bring Floyd back next season.

Holy moly, talk about disfunction… Reich never stood a chance win Tepper meddling. https://theathletic.com/5105215/2023/12/06/carolina-panthers-frank-reich-firing-david-tepper/ There’s a lot more details in the story. Any coach with options would be nuts to take the head coaching job in Carolina. I don’t see anyone having success there with Tepper meddling so much.

Seems like the typical Kevyn Adams trade… low cost, bottom of the roster replacement level acquisitions. lol Hopefully we only gave up future considerations. He was on waivers earlier this season and has played more in the AHL than NHL this season.

Ah, ok. That makes sense.

Well, that rochester stint didn’t last too long… he played a whole 2 games! lol Probably has to do with Comrie looking like dog **** in both his starts. Maybe they felt the competition with Levi was pushing UPL more too? Levi did look good in Rochester but again he only played 2 games. I’m not really understanding the point of sending him down. Unless they felt he just needed a couple good games to get his mojo back?

Yeah, I’ve already kind of lost interest again. Not totally. I’ll flip the game on to check the score, and will maybe watch a bit if they look decent. But I haven’t sat to watch a whole game in a couple weeks now. such a shame. They were finally winning the fans back and now they’re pissing away all that progress they made with the fan base. I don’t know wtf happened to the fun to watch team from last season 🤷‍♂️

I’m glad to see them make this move. It needed to be made. Now we have 2 goalies, like normal teams and they can start getting into a groove playing games instead of trying to rotate 3 goalies. Plus, like you said, playing so infrequently wasn’t helping him. Now he can hopefully play more often (though it looks like he might enter a similar 3 goalie rotation in Rochester). I think this sends the right message to the Sabres players too. This season isn’t about development, it’s about winning.

Detroit Red Wings signed Patrick Kane to a 1 year, $2.5 million deal. Fine by me! I was nervous about Buffalo signing him after the hip procedure he had. I don’t think any NHL player has ever been able to come back from it. Iirc the most games played by someone who had that procedure is 30-something games (?)

It’s great to see him playing so well. I know it feels like he’s been around for quite a while but he’s actually still young for a goalie (24yrs old). Ryan Miller didn’t become a starter for the Sabres until he was 26. I hope he can grab the #1 job and run with it! If he keeps playing like he has been, Granato needs to start using him more like a #1. I know they want to get Levi games but he’s struggling right now and the Sabres can’t afford to develop a goalie at the NHL level. If UPL and Comrie keep consistently out-playing Levi they need to bite the bullet and send him to Rochester, where he can get a #1 workload.

Holy moly, what an amazing first goal for Benson! When I played hockey that was always my favorite move to try on a breakaway. It usually worked better in roller hockey than ice hockey though. lol

what did you do to get it to embed? Just change the x.com to Twitter.com and then hit enter? trying to figure out what I’m doing wrong…

https://twitter.com/danorlovsky7/status/1724488266890534965?s=61&t=mvFwLU5P2NuqNnOmVpYtwg edit- can someone tell me how to embed tweets now? i tried changing the link to Twitter.com then hitting enter with my cursor at the end of the link. What am I doing wrong? it used to work here when Twitter first changed to x.com. But now it doesn’t.

For those who haven’t seen this video yet, it’s a good watch.

Crap.

I would think we’d want the ravens to win?

I think he’s probably been their most consistent player so far this year. I hope they can sign him to a reasonable extension.

thanks! I tried it using the original x.com link (posted it and hit enter) and also tried it when I changed it to Twitter.com is it different on mobile? (I’m using an iPad) it used to work for me then it stopped when it changed to x.com. Then I was able to get that to work for a while by changing it to Twitter.com and hitting enter. But now none of the methods I try seem to work anymore.

https://twitter.com/BuffaloSabres/status/1723013868706783546?s=20 Savoie making his debut tonight! edit - can someone tell me how to embed tweets now? i tried changing the link to Twitter.com before I posted it but it didn’t embed. https://x.com/BuffaloSabres/status/1723013868706783546?s=20 https://twitter.com/BuffaloSabres/status/1723013868706783546?s=20

I am not feeling overly optimistic about getting a win tonight. The Sabres haven’t won an away game against Carolina since 2016! https://mcubed.net/nhl/buf/car.shtml This is one of those teams that gives the Sabres fits. edit - they lost in OT. At least they got a point.

Everyone always talks about Buffalo being at a disadvantage when it comes to recruiting players but I always said that I thought it could be used to our benefit (if they ever built a winning team) and I feel like this regime shares that view. You aren’t going to attract players looking for the nice weather or night life and big party scenes but that’s a good thing. Anyone coming to Buffalo (now) is coming to play football and try to chase a championship. There’s also a lot less off field distractions in Buffalo vs big cities and as Josh Allen said, because of there being less to do off the field it gives teammates a chance to hang out more and become closer.