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Yeesh... did Foster run the wrong route, or did Allen just miss by a mile?

Wow! Mitch Trubizky looks to be having himself an amazing first half against the Bucs. 11/14 for 251 yards and 4 TDs and i think the FitzMagic may be running out - 7/14 for 78 yards.

This team is so bi-polar. First 6 quarter they were awful. Next 6 quarters they were great. I guess now we are back to the “awful” phase...

Well, at least our punter is having a great game, right? lol

They’re not actually going to go for it.

Come on Josh. Not even close kid.

POYER!!!! Now come on Allen, lets do something with it!

Ugly ugly ugly. Yuck.

****. Kneel on it and take th free 25.

It’s strange to me how some crawl out of the woodwork when the Bills are doing bad. Where were these people last week, when the Bills were playing well? Wouldn’t you want to be here to take joy in a great win? If you are truly a Bills fan, then why only show up when they are doing bad? I don’t get it.

Yeah, I don’t like the direction this game is headed.

Guess only the Bills aren’t allowe to hold.

Refs finally decided to call a holding penalty...

I guess we will find out...

Rodgers had all damn day....

Yeah, I was actually happy to see that he is learning to throw the ball away.

Good punt by Corey B. there. Had to be about a 50 yarder...

How was that NOT holding?!

Lets go buffalo!

looks like both bailey and baptiste cleared.

Yeah, I know the 2 options are build new or renovate (obviously...lol). But that wasn’t what I was pointing out. I was saying that Murphy confirmed that it is down to 2 sites - the current location of new era or downtown buffalo.

I don’t think it’ll be too long before Pilut is back up. He showed a lot of promise. He just needs to clean up his d zone play a bit and learn when to take risks and when not to. I do think he will eventually be a full time NHL defenseman though. A bit surprised Guhle made it. I thought he struggled all preseason, outside of the last 2 games. I just hope he’s not sitting in the press box for weeks at a time. I’d much rather have him playing big minutes in Rochester if that’s the case. Love that Nylander and Thompson appear to have made it. They both earned it, although I still could have seen it go either way (since they did struggle at times and have plenty to work on). Glad Tennyson is being sent down. I was not prepared to live through another Tennyson experiment to start this season... lol. And I really hope Bailey and Baptiste make it to Rochester. I actually thought that maybe Bailey did enough to stick on the 4th line for now. I’d be pretty bummed to lose him. Baptiste was basically invisible in the games he did play, so no surprise there. But I’m still hoping he makes it through waivers. He’s definitely better than he’s shown this preseason. I could see a team taking a chance on either one though, with the speed they have. With the way the NHL is trending, speedy wingers are more popular than ever.

There was a good interview with Mark Murphy (Packers CEO and buffalo, NY native) in the Athletic. He briefly touched on the Bills stadium plans. https://theathletic.com/556140/2018/09/29/packers-ceo-mark-murphy-holds-court-on-playing-days-growing-up-a-bills-fan-and-his-front-office-work-in-green-bay/ (sub. required) It’s interesting to hear him kind of confirm that it’s down to 2 options (as many had speculated) - build a new stadium downtown or renovate New Era.

Totally agree. Dahlin is a cornerstone player and likely the best defensive prospect to enter the NHL in years. Maybe even since Potvin. I think he will be our long term #1D and maybe even a generational defenseman. But I just like to temper my expectations for rookies. Especially with how bad the Sabres have been, and how young Dahlin is, and the fact that he’s playing on the smaller North American ice. I have very high expectations for him in the future. I just don’t want to set the bar too high for this season. If he could put up the same 39 point rookie season as Ekblad, I’d be thrilled. But I don’t even expect that because Ekblad was already a man at 18yrs old. He was very physically mature for his age. Dahlin is still a kid. He said himself he just entered puberty within the last year or two. His coach said that last offseason was the first one that Dahlin could implement a proper professional training regime (due to not being physically mautre enough before that). And Dahlin said similar himself - “I have practiced hard all summer before, but I hadn’t really entered puberty so I haven’t been able to build up muscle the way that I have needed. It will be important this summer to build up my muscle mass a bit”. https://www.habseyesontheprize.com/2017/4/25/15337912/rasmus-dahlin-2018-nhl-entry-draft-prospect-development-interview-coach-frolunda-ronnberg-johansson I am always like this with every rookie though. I always like to have lower expectations. I just want want to see Dahlin developing properly. I don’t care about point totals as much as I do his overall game. But if I had to put a number out there, I’d say that I’m expecting at least 20-25pts. Anything more than that is gravy... (assuming his overall development looks on track).

I hope you’re right, but I wouldn’t take that bet. 47 points would put Dahlin 2nd in scoring, in the entire history of the NHL, for an under 19 defenseman. https://www.eliteprospects.com/league/nhl/stats/all-time-season?position=d&age=u19 Housley is #1 with 61 points. The next closest is Bobby Orr at #2 with 41 points.