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Nice win by the Sabres tonight. They played a good game. Eichel was unbelievable. The Carolina Hurricanes won tonight and clinched a playoff spot for the first time in 9 years. Happy for them! Oh, and Guess what that means... The Buffalo Sabres now hold the NHL’s longest current playoff drought. Yay buffalo! lol I wonder how many other markets had multiple professional teams that held the longest active playoff drought streak in their sport(s)? Is that another buffalo distinction or have there been other teams? Cleveland maybe? On a on a side note, I really wanted buffalo to sign Justin Williams when he was a free agent in 2017. He’s not Chris Drury but he’s cut from that same cloth. He would have been a heck of a veteran leader. But chances are he would have picked Carolina anyway. He spent most of his career there, so a return home made sense.

I think the main advantage we have in signing Skinner is that it has been reported numerous times that living/playing near his family is something that’s important to him. He supposedly only had Toronto and Buffalo on his trade list, and I read that he may have considered Detroit as a fall back option. So if he really does want to live/play near his family, this is as close as he’s going to get. No possible way Toronto can afford him. He said a while back that he saw himself as a piece of the puzzle here, so I hope that still holds true. I’m still hoping everything works out and Botterill looks smart for slow playing this and letting Skinner cool off. Definitely don’t feel as confident about him signing as I did earlier in the year, though.

Was just coming to post this Yolo. Wow what a story!

I actually think it would have been a much worse look if they hadn’t shown an effort last night.They were playing his old team. I said to some friends before the game that this game would be a good test. If they didn’t show an effort last night I felt that it would be clear they really did quit on him. I saw that too. 22yr old rookie fresh out of college. Shows a lot of respect for the Sabres goal scoring prowess, eh? lol It'll be interesting to see how he does.

Oh, I don’t hold a grudge or anything. And I’m not judging him off a single meeting or implying that I think he’s a bad guy or anything like that. I was just sharing a story with ODB. Im sure plenty of fans have had positive experiences meeting Andre Reed.

Love this signing! He was a force on the field when the Titans were running Moreno of a power run game (or “exotic smash mouth” to use MM’s words) under Mularkey. I think we could see a big season from Spain in Brian Daboll’s offense.

I used to go up to the training camps when they were at fredonia during the Super Bowl era. We used to take a 2 week vacation at Sunset Bay every summer (with my mom’s whole wide of the family. Lots of cousins and aunts/uncles). It happened to coincide with the Bills training camp every year. So my dad/uncle would take all of us up there to watch practices etc. When you are younger, you think that getting your favorite players autographs is about he coolest thing in the world, so I wanted to get all of the main guys. Most were easy to get. Like, Jim and Thurman for ex. would drive a golf cart right out into the middle of a huge crowd of fans and stay to sign autographs. Well, the last one I needed was Andre Reed to complete my collection. I hadn’t been able to get his yet, as he usually never came out into the crowd to sign (at least when I was there anyway) One day, after practice I happen to see Andre Reed sneak out the side door to miss the crowd. So I run over to him with my pad and pen and ask him for an autograph. He did not even acknowledge that I was alive. He just kept quickly walking to his car as I ran along side him begging for an autograph. He just got in his car and left, without ever even as much as making eye contact with me or saying a single word. I was the only person around, too. So he could have easily just signed a single autograph for me and been on his way. That is my lasting memory of Andre Reed.

Boy the Sabres are getting screwed so far tonight. I thought thst first Nashville goal was questionable, and the refs explanation was even more questionable. The refs said it went off his body, but it sure as heck looked like it hit his stick to me. And now that 2nd buffalo goal. No Nashville player ever touched it. That was 100% a good goal.

Eh, as I posted the other day, it’s really not worth rooting for them to lose. The Sabres are pretty much locked in at either the #4 or #5 spot. You’re talking a 1% difference in odds. Iid I’d much rather see them win these last 3 games and go into the offseason with some positivity. Or at least less negativity than ending the season on a 10 game losing streak...

I wonder if Manziel will regret burning those bridges in the CFL now...

Anyone listen to Howard and Jeremy this morning? I missed it but just saw this article posted on WGR. Wow, I think Paul may have broke Howard and Jeremy! lol https://wgr550.radio.com/articles/opinion/way-go-paul

The only reason we thought the leafs were behind us is because we though they were going full scorched earth rebuild like Buffalo did. But that never happened. They landed damn near the best coach in hockey - Babcock - and decided to do a smaller scale retool instead, because Babcock is one of the only coaches out there that could come in and truly, immediately change the culture. In reality, the leafs were “rebuilding” longer (before they finally became a good team) than the Sabres have currently been. They had been drafting (mostly) high since 2007 and been missing the playoffs since 2005. They kept some good players on their team from those drafts (they have current player on the roster dating back to 2008). It took them until 2016/17 to become a consistently good team. For reference, buffalo’s longest tenured player is from the 2012 and 2013 drafts. (Girgensons and Risto)

Ok, now i’m curious... ?

Red Wings won. It makes me want to puke to have to start thinking about another top 5 pick and draft lottery... but that is where we’re at, unfortunately. http://www.tankathon.com/nhl from the looks of tankathon, the Sabres are most likely locked in to either the #4 or #5 spot, pre-lottery. Buffalo has 72pts. NJ sits at #3 and they are 4pts behind us. I don’t see them getting 5 points in their last 3 games. Anaheim sits at #6 with 76 pts and only 2 games to play. Even assuming that Anaheim doesn’t get another point, I don’t see the Sabres picking up 5 out of 6 points. 4pts would tie, but Anaheim has 2 more regulation wins, so buffalo wins (loses...) the tie breaker. Very small chance that buffalo can get to the #3 spot. LA has 67 pts. with 4 games left to play. So there are 8 pts on the table. If buffalo doesn’t get another point and LA picks up 5pts, they would leapfrog us and NJ, pushing us down to #3. There isn’t enough of a difference in possible draft position for me to root for losses. Plus, I really want to see the Sabres end the season with some wins for their morale. They lost 7 straight. Their spirits are crushed enough without ending with 3 more losses. Ugh, Buffalo sports teams have perfected the art of torture.... lol

I am hoping to find a way to watch Rochester in the playoffs. I was looking at AHLtv but I can’t find prices for the playoffs. It says regular season only. I’m sure they have to have some type of package for the playoffs, though. Tage Thompson has been playing really well in his first 2 games back. He has 3 goals and 4pts (2g 1a in his 1st game, 1g in his 2nd). Hope he keeps it up!

Or maybe all the losing is actually your fault for taking the Sabres hat off? ?

Remember that 2 years ago Aaron Kromer had just taken the OL job in LA. It’s quite common for a new OL coach (or any coach, really) to try and bring some of their guys with them to help teach the new guys his philosophies/scheme/technique etc. (see Vlad Ducasse...lol) So that could’ve had something to do with LA’s interest.

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Agreed. In both drafts since McDeemitt and Beane got here one thing is for certain, they have shown they are not afraid to move around. They haven’t picked at their original spot in the 1st round yet, and I think the same might be true of the 2nd and possibly 3rd rounds too? Moved up for Zay, Dion. Back for Tre. Up for Josh and Tremaine. I wouldnt be at all surprised to see them target a player and then move up/down accordingly. Moving up does seem like a real possibility to me. They have holes at DT/DE and there are a couple big time players at those positions in reach of pick #9.

Was just coming to post this. lol

Sounds like he’s heard something.

I just looked up what the Zach Smith podcast was and wow! He is bitter as all hell. And also pretty douchey. Wonder if i’ll make his podcast hitlist for typing this? lol

I’ve been pretty impressed with Olofsson so far, especially considering it’s his first game. Kid looks like an NHL player to me, and looks ready to contribute at the NHL level.

about time! That would be absolutely amazing. Unfortunately, The ONLY place Yzerman is going is Detroit. His family never moved to Tampa. They still lives in Detroit. He’s commuted between Detroit and Tampa all these years he’s worked for the Lightning. Plus, Detroit is where he spent most of his playing career, and it’d where he got his start in management. There is zero doubt in my mind that he is going home.