Alaska Darin Posted December 8, 2018 Posted December 8, 2018 Can we please hire someone who can teach our centers how to win more faceoffs? O'Reilly is the only center in recent memory who could dominate the dot. I swear we trade 3 or 4 quality scoring opportunities per game because we can't consistently win a draw at either end of the ice.
Alaska Darin Posted December 8, 2018 Posted December 8, 2018 It would be nice to get a PP chance when you're dominating play. These officials are brutal.
GETTOTHE50 Posted December 8, 2018 Posted December 8, 2018 tired or predictable Erod. all he does is dump the puck and chase after it himself yawnnn and please get okposo off the team
GETTOTHE50 Posted December 8, 2018 Posted December 8, 2018 (edited) alright.. what i would do with the lines after this ***** show of a game.. 1. skinner-eichel-poms 2. sheary-mittelstadt-reinhart 3. erod-tage-okposo 4. girgs-larsson-berglund/sobotka who gives a ***** Edited December 8, 2018 by GETTOTHE50
BillsFan4 Posted December 8, 2018 Posted December 8, 2018 Wtf. They are just falling apart in the 3rd. 6-2 flyers... unreal. 6 straight goals for Philly. They are just embarrassing Buffalo at this point. Looking like this will be loss #5 in a row. Buffalo has to get their **** together pretty quick or that entire cushion of points they built will slip away in the blink of an eye.
BillsFan4 Posted December 8, 2018 Posted December 8, 2018 (edited) Seems appropriate - Edit -lol Joe, you beat me to it. Edited December 8, 2018 by BillsFan4 1
Another Fan Posted December 8, 2018 Posted December 8, 2018 Well we will see what this team is made of now once they faced some adversity here the last few weeks. Will they keep folding up like a cheap tent or come back as winners? 1
ExiledInIllinois Posted December 8, 2018 Posted December 8, 2018 19 minutes ago, BillsFan4 said: Wtf. They are just falling apart in the 3rd. 6-2 flyers... unreal. 6 straight goals for Philly. They are just embarrassing Buffalo at this point. Looking like this will be loss #5 in a row. Buffalo has to get their **** together pretty quick or that entire cushion of points they built will slip away in the blink of an eye. Technically 10-3-2 in last 15 games. Yeah, bad second half of game... 3rd period.
JohnC Posted December 8, 2018 Posted December 8, 2018 51 minutes ago, ExiledInIllinois said: Technically 10-3-2 in last 15 games. Yeah, bad second half of game... 3rd period. The lack of secondary scoring is becoming evident. Mittlestadt seems to be fading. Is this youngster fatiguing because he has never played so many games in such a short time span? Other than Okposo or maybe Sheary I don't know who is going to put it into the net. What's also noticeable is that Pomminstein away from the Jack line has been neutralized. The only other option to compensate for the impotence of the secondary lines is for our defesemen to be more aggressive on offense. 1
CaptnCoke11 Posted December 8, 2018 Posted December 8, 2018 Local media look like fools now for blowing their loads about this team on the radio every day. Flashback to a few Bills seasons where they started out hot then fell off the map.
BillsPride12 Posted December 8, 2018 Posted December 8, 2018 Even though they looked really bad today, they also looked really good in just their last game they played against Toronto which is one of the top teams in the NHL. From what I have been reading on social media etc. they is way too much over analyzing going on right now. We are still a super young team and we knew there were going to be some bumps in the road but we are still heading in a great direction. Not worried at all. 1
26CornerBlitz Posted December 8, 2018 Author Posted December 8, 2018 Post-Game Report: 12/8 vs. Philadelphia Final Score 1st 2nd 3rd OT SO Final SOG Flyers (12-12-3) 1 1 4 – – 6 41 Sabres (17-9-4) 2 0 0 – – 2 30 Game Summary Event Summary Top Notes With today’s loss, the Sabres fell to 9-3-2 at home this season and 12-1-3 when scoring first this season. Jack Eichel’s two goals today give him a two-point effort in four of his last five games. He ranks third in the NHL with 14 multi-point games this season, one game behind Mikko Rantanen and Nathan MacKinnon for the league lead. With the primary assist on Eichel’s first goal, Sam Reinhart has pushed his point streak to a career-high six games (5+4). Reinhart now has 22 points (8+14) in his last 22 games. Jeff Skinner’s assist on Eichel‘s first goal gives him at least a point in each of his last eight home games (8+3). With his assist on Eichel’s second goal, Lawrence Pilut recorded his first career NHL point. Today’s Goaltenders Today’s Stats Team Goaltender Decision SV% GAA Flyers Stolarz W .933 2.00 Sabres Ullmark L .854 6.00 Updated Season Stats Team Goaltender Record SV% GAA Flyers Stolarz 2-1-1 .907 2.94 Sabres Ullmark 5-1-3 .913 3.04 Post-Game Audio Sabres head coach Phil Housley Sabres forward Jack Eichel Sabres defenseman Lawrence Pilut Sabres goaltender Linus Ullmark Flyers head coach Dave Hakstol Flyers forward Claude Giroux Flyers forward James van Riemsdyk Flyers defenseman Ivan Provorov Flyers goaltender Anthony Stolarz FINAL: Flyers 6 - Sabres 2 Philadelphia rides a 4-goal third period to victory over Buffalo. LEXUS POSTGAME REPORT Game Summary Event Summary Full Play By Play Sabres Ice Time
plenzmd1 Posted December 9, 2018 Posted December 9, 2018 Paul Hamilton has talked about this as well, but I thiink Sabres have had a lead in 7 games now of 8( Nashville excluded$ and spit it every time. They win 2 of those , but a disturbing trend to be sure. Housley on the hot seat!
PromoTheRobot Posted December 9, 2018 Posted December 9, 2018 15 hours ago, CaptnCoke11 said: Local media look like fools now for blowing their loads about this team on the radio every day. Flashback to a few Bills seasons where they started out hot then fell off the map. It's an 84-game season. 5 game losing streak is not falling off the map.
JohnC Posted December 9, 2018 Posted December 9, 2018 3 hours ago, plenzmd1 said: Paul Hamilton has talked about this as well, but I thiink Sabres have had a lead in 7 games now of 8( Nashville excluded$ and spit it every time. They win 2 of those , but a disturbing trend to be sure. Housley on the hot seat! I'm not sure if you are being sarcastic or expressing your opinion. But if this season ended now in a short-circuited season Housley would be under serious consideration for coach of the year. Botterilll has done a tremendous job in upgrading the roster from last year. The team has gone from being the worst in the NHL to being the biggest surprise story in the league. Yet, the reality is that this roster still needs requires patience for its young players to mature and develop. And it has to be acknowledged that this is still not a complete roster. As it currently stands there is not enough secondary scorers outside of the first line. (That's obvious.) That puts a lot of pressure on that primary line. Will the GM go outside for scoring help or will he be patient and hope that internal growth from this roster and its Rochester farm club be enough to sustain the team for now? My sense is that for the most part Botterill is going to rely on his in-house assets within the organization rather than deal off assets to get different assets to balance out the roster. Sometimes when the team is undergoing some struggles under the fog of the immediate situation we lose sight of the optimistic picture of the big picture. Let's stay the course. 1
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