X2 i cant stand when people hate on our players because they’re not our top scorers so they think they’re useless.
Mair is useless. For every goal he scores, he helps set up two opponents goals. There is a reason why he plays for 10 minutes on the 4th line.
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now, go get that Rocket Richard Sid!!!
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now, go get that Rocket Richard Sid!!!
word ^^ hes taken stupid fucking penalties at the end of numerous crucial games this season sometimes costing us those games. Hes a good guy but not good enough for the nhl I dont think. I d take ennis or gerbe any day
Two things…
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My MSG keeps cutting in and out. The commercials are fine yet the game keeps going black for a few seconds every couple of minutes!
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We better beat Ottawa today! I’m sick of watching the Sabres lose to them over and over!!!
On Sabres.com it shows the game being played on NHL-HD channel! Sure enough in my guide, there’s the game! I think “SWEET!!!” click “Sabres @ Senators is blacked out on this channel. It has been found on channel 638 but is not in HD. Do you wish to tune there?”
SERIOUSLY!?! WTF! I am so sick of this crap. Anyone else around the country is watching MY team in HD whereas I’m stuck watching it on a channel in SD that also keeps cutting in and out?!?!
/rant
It’s a uplink issue with MSG
I’m glad Ruff pulled Pat today so we didn’t go into OT and just waste that time for nothing. Time to start the playoff beard. It should be a great series against Boston and all the other ones as well. Go Sabres!!!
I shaved this morning.
Think I would have liked to play Philly in the first round, we’re 2 of 6 against Beantown this year. Thanks go to Steve Montador for the last minute penalty, honorable mention, Mike Grier :mad:
Lalime stood on his head for that game.
Grier was playing? I thought he was just their to coast around the ice.
On directv I see that the Sabres game will be on Channel 628. Will that channel change tomorrow like the MSG did?
What? Sabres games are on 638 and 638-1 (HD feed) on DirecTV. Did something change?
With four of six games between the Buffalo Sabres and Boston Bruins decided by just one goal in the 2009-10 season, the consensus around the League is to expect more of the same come playoff time.
Stellar goaltending from both Tuukka Rask and Ryan Miller – who are ranked second and third in the League for save percentage – do little to shake the notion. Add that to the fact that Buffalo (86.6) and Boston’s (86.4) penalty killing are second only to the St. Louis Blues (86.8) in the NHL, and it seems fairly certain that goals will be hard to come by.
But whether or not the sentiment holds true, as Game 1 approaches one thing is clear as far as the Sabres are concerned: there is little room for error.
“I would probably agree with that,” Craig Rivet said. “They were one of the best defensive teams in the League this year… I know that, playing for Claude Julien before, he stresses that. He stresses good, solid, defensive hockey. But at the same time, we were one of the best in the League too… once we’re in that offensive zone we are going to have to work to get our goals.”
“We’ve got to stick to our system,” Tim Connolly agreed. “It’s based on patience, it’s based on getting pucks deep and playing in their end… They don’t give up a lot of chances and they’ve got great goaltending so it could be a low scoring affair.”
Head Coach Lindy Ruff disagrees.
While he admits the teams are closely matched, he is of the mindset that eventually, something will give.
“I don’t picture it staying as tight as everybody seems [to think] because at some point, somebody will be down and somebody will have to get after it more. Somebody may break through on special teams,” he said. “You look at the numbers and you would have to agree with everybody [right now]. I would like to as a coach get by it, but I don’t think I can. Proof has to be when you go out and play to see whether we can break through.”
He is counting on his young players to make a difference.
There are seven players on the Sabres roster that have yet to play an NHL game in the postseason; namely Tyler Myers, Pat Kaleta, Tim Kennedy, Chris Butler, Andrej Sekera, Tyler Ennis and Nathan Gerbe.
It’s likely that at least four of those players (Myers, Kennedy, Sekera and Ennis) could see some time with the man advantage.
“You would hope you just can reach another level, that you can grab another gear. But there are always one or two players that surprise you in the playoffs; players that seem like a third line guy, or a guy that maybe has had a bit of a tough year can break though.”
“If you’ve been in the playoffs before, it doesn’t matter at what level,” argued Rivet. “You know you have to up your game. You know that power plays and penalty killing are keys in the playoffs. It’s a process… you have to play consistent hockey and I think these young players realize that.
“We feel if we can take care of our own end, it will lead to chances in the offensive zone. We feel that we have the skill to do that. It’s basically putting in the work at both ends of the ice.”
I don’t think this will be the “piss-off round” everyone seems to think it is.
Series will probably go at least 6 games, and should be fairly low scoring. So expect 2-1, 3-2 games. Hopefully the Sabres can play consistent and win the series.
Never mind. It changed today on channel 638. We are all set to go. Lets Go Sabres!!!
hecht out for playoffs… bucky gleason just mentioned it on Shredd and Ragan
that asshole…deport him… We got Gerbe and Ennis though who IMO played their ass off.
Home game isn’t in HD tonight? Looks like CBC is the only network carrying it and its blacked out on 700 for TimeWarner
What a game so far. Can only imagine what the 2nd and 3rd period will hold.
That was a great game to go to. On the shift where Kaleta lost his helmet and got cut, who was he in the boards with? Whoever it was knew Kaleta’s face was on the divider between the glass and boards and kept forcing his face into it; causing the cut. It was so dirty and so subtle.
woohoo, great way to start off the playoffs!