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lulags
Buffalo Sabres
Location: St Louis
Joined: 02.24.2007

Feb 8 @ 10:11 AM ET
How big of a decision?

Getting Levi some AHL games was a good idea
Signing RyJo would be the last big win IMO

- QuinnFan

I’d give Levi all next year in Rochester. Look how long UPL took to develop. Just throwing Levi back out there as a back up to UPL next year is a mistake.
Buff36
Buffalo Sabres
Joined: 10.13.2019

Feb 8 @ 10:14 AM ET
When is the virtue parade?
- Buffalo--Sabres

Way it's going 2030
Buff36
Buffalo Sabres
Joined: 10.13.2019

Feb 8 @ 10:14 AM ET
I’d give Levi all next year in Rochester. Look how long UPL took to develop. Just throwing Levi back out there as a back up to UPL next year is a mistake.
- lulags

Sabres are good at making mistakes
Buffalo--Sabres
Buffalo Sabres
Location: 2 15/16, NY
Joined: 07.07.2010

Feb 8 @ 10:17 AM ET
Sadly, this is the only answer.
- lulags



I went to 2 games this year. 1 because my kid played at intermission and 1 because my other kid did the floor hockey program at school. Both times the kid gets a free ticket code and you can purchase the others. They designate what sections the code and subsequent tickets are dedicated too. This year it was all 100 level. Years past it was 300. They basically stopped families from using this to buy 300 level seats cheap and move down. The Sabres are so pathetic they're using children to con families into paying for tickets and going to games they otherwise wouldn't go to. Yeah we lost both games. I have no plans to attend a Sabres game ever again.
Buff36
Buffalo Sabres
Joined: 10.13.2019

Feb 8 @ 10:20 AM ET
I went to 2 games this year. 1 because my kid played at intermission and 1 because my other kid did the floor hockey program at school. Both times the kid gets a free ticket code and you can purchase the others. They designate what sections the code and subsequent tickets are dedicated too. This year it was all 100 level. Years past it was 300. They basically stopped families from using this to buy 300 level seats cheap and move down. The Sabres are so pathetic they're using children to con families into paying for tickets and going to games they otherwise wouldn't go to. Yeah we lost both games. I have no plans to attend a Sabres game ever again.
- Buffalo--Sabres

Did you have the Nachos though ?
Frizzlefry
Buffalo Sabres
Location: Don't get so high and mighty about your superiority over Lockport, NY
Joined: 10.10.2015

Feb 8 @ 10:28 AM ET
it's always the other teams goalie having "their best game of the year"


maybe the sabres just suck at shooting

- homiedclown


Hot goalie
Bad bounces
Puck luck
Refs suck
Snake bitten

Anything other than we're just not very good
Buffalo--Sabres
Buffalo Sabres
Location: 2 15/16, NY
Joined: 07.07.2010

Feb 8 @ 10:33 AM ET
Did you have the Nachos though ?
- Buff36



First game yes. And I managed not to get any on my Stu Barnes jersey
DirtyDan
Buffalo Sabres
Location: Why aren't more people interrigent? Rike Me? , ON
Joined: 02.03.2021

Feb 8 @ 10:40 AM ET
it's always the other teams goalie having "their best game of the year"


maybe the sabres just suck at shooting

- homiedclown


Can confirm after last game. Dahlin tried to break his stick over his own head 3-4 times
Jet Jaguar BD
Seattle Kraken
Location: BD look 👀 at you pic and you look like a burned out short order cook hiding in mommy basement!!
Joined: 07.17.2021

Feb 8 @ 10:52 AM ET
What do you think was the last correct move he's made?
- washedup20

He literally hasn’t made one
QuinnFan
Buffalo Sabres
Location: Formerly Visionville, Now Purgatory
Joined: 07.29.2021

Feb 8 @ 10:54 AM ET
I’d give Levi all next year in Rochester. Look how long UPL took to develop. Just throwing Levi back out there as a back up to UPL next year is a mistake.
- lulags


Couldn't disagree more, personally. (No offense meant, you're likely in the majority on this).

Goalies develop at different speeds, UPL slowed due to the hip surgery, something Levi doesn't need. I'd bet my bottom dollar that he will beat out UPL for the starting job next year tbh.

Either way, they're going to be a great tandem, I'm just hoping they're both signed before they get expensive and it's not in the cards.
Buff36
Buffalo Sabres
Joined: 10.13.2019

Feb 8 @ 10:55 AM ET
First game yes. And I managed not to get any on my Stu Barnes jersey
- Buffalo--Sabres

Wish we had a Stu Barnes right know. We got a bunch of Pussies now.
Buff36
Buffalo Sabres
Joined: 10.13.2019

Feb 8 @ 10:56 AM ET
Can confirm after last game. Dahlin tried to break his stick over his own head 3-4 times

- DirtyDan

Couldn't even do that right!
Lunaion
Joined: 05.23.2016

Feb 8 @ 10:57 AM ET
I’d give Levi all next year in Rochester. Look how long UPL took to develop. Just throwing Levi back out there as a back up to UPL next year is a mistake.
- lulags


Important finish for UPL and Levi. Still not sure what they have going in to next year.
Buff36
Buffalo Sabres
Joined: 10.13.2019

Feb 8 @ 10:58 AM ET
Important finish for UPL and Levi. Still not sure what they have going in to next year.
- Lunaion

Same sh!t they've had for the last 4 years! Questions
Buffalo--Sabres
Buffalo Sabres
Location: 2 15/16, NY
Joined: 07.07.2010

Feb 8 @ 11:09 AM ET
Wish we had a Stu Barnes right know. We got a bunch of Pussies now.
- Buff36



You aren't kidding. I watched some of the Stars/Leafs game last night just for comparisons sake against the Sabres. It didn't even look like the same league.
washedup20
Location: the little apple
Joined: 08.19.2014

Feb 8 @ 11:11 AM ET
You aren't kidding. I watched some of the Stars/Leafs game last night just for comparisons sake against the Sabres. It didn't even look like the same league.
- Buffalo--Sabres


There is a high probability that Terry saw how well the Jr. Sabres were doing and just copied that for his NHL team....it looks more and more like this is the case. The Sabres under Adams, have turned into a full blown development team for the league.
Buffalo--Sabres
Buffalo Sabres
Location: 2 15/16, NY
Joined: 07.07.2010

Feb 8 @ 11:18 AM ET
There is a high probability that Terry saw how well the Jr. Sabres were doing and just copied that for his NHL team....it looks more and more like this is the case. The Sabres under Adams, have turned into a full blown development team for the league.
- washedup20



This is so sad but true. I was just thinking about which productive players are about to be set free to go win big time this trade deadline season?
homiedclown
Buffalo Sabres
Location: We want 1, FL
Joined: 02.24.2008

Feb 8 @ 11:21 AM ET
Can someone please edit this to say Nachos instead of Egg Role?


- QuinnFan

IonSabres
Buffalo Sabres
Location: I said that months ago, keep up!, FL
Joined: 03.10.2013

Feb 8 @ 11:51 AM ET
Sounds like Fun, don't know how much time I will spend protesting. Hopefully someone can show Me around to enjoy some Drinking activities.
- Buff36


I got you,
Spent a bit of time at night in Boca when I was working a little south of that for 6 months, about 7 years ago. Bring lots of cash, lol.
Buff36
Buffalo Sabres
Joined: 10.13.2019

Feb 8 @ 11:53 AM ET
I got you,
Spent a bit of time at night in Boca when I was working a little south of that for 6 months, about 7 years ago. Bring lots of cash, lol.

- IonSabres

Sounds like a plan
Boss34
Buffalo Sabres
Location: BUFFALO , NY
Joined: 12.03.2015

Feb 8 @ 12:13 PM ET
Everyone needs to stop going to the games to protest this crap or it will be the same broken record year after year. Stop buying tickets to see misled players lose. It is that easy. Pegula will have to do something if no one comes to a game. Phuk Pegula, he will always be remembered as the dum rich guy who destroyed Buffalo's professional sports teams. The teams that choke because their owner will never put the right leadership in place to get them the right resources to win it all. Who the F puts their waitress wife in charge of million dollar sports franchises unless they want them to lose. Really, think about it. This bs has gone on for far too long, and if anyone still buys tickets then they need to get their head examined because they must enjoy pain and sorrow.
- FireRuff


Ok, easier said then done

About 16 home games left , as a season ticket holder you already paid for games in advance.

I sold 6 or 7 of the games….

You’re basically asking for the franchise to move out of Buffalo …

Brilliant
Cory1
Buffalo Sabres
Location: Boston, MA
Joined: 11.13.2016

Feb 8 @ 12:27 PM ET
Sabres are good at making mistakes
- Buff36


Adams getting the details finished on a 6 year $6 million per for Levi… will fit in perfectly with the other boat anchor contracts he has doled out 😂
DirtyDan
Buffalo Sabres
Location: Why aren't more people interrigent? Rike Me? , ON
Joined: 02.03.2021

Feb 8 @ 12:36 PM ET
Adams getting the details finished on a 6 year $6 million per for Levi… will fit in perfectly with the other boat anchor contracts he has doled out 😂
- Cory1


Only contract I have a hard time with is the Samuelsson one. He didnt deserve it and wasnt a sure thing. He had some promise for sure but I think everyone was caught off gaurd there.

The other 4 I have no problems with. Maybe Power as it was a bit early. But I get getting him signed long term.
QuinnFan
Buffalo Sabres
Location: Formerly Visionville, Now Purgatory
Joined: 07.29.2021

Feb 8 @ 12:45 PM ET

- homiedclown


Thank youuuuuu!
IonSabres
Buffalo Sabres
Location: I said that months ago, keep up!, FL
Joined: 03.10.2013

Feb 8 @ 12:53 PM ET
who would have thought this with all those first round picks playing D


"4. Buffalo Sabres
Low-danger shots allowed: 603
High-danger shots allowed: 423
Ratio: 1.43

Things have not gone as planned in Buffalo this season, and the team defense hasn’t made things easy on the goalies. Rookie Devon Levi has faced shots from an average distance of 32.35 feet, the second-closest of any goalie in the NHL.

The Sabres don’t allow a particularly high number of shots. They rank 10th with only 29.1 against per 60 minutes. However, they give up the sixth-most high-danger shots per game, making it very tough for Levi and Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen to put up solid statistics. That Luukkonen has managed an above-average save percentage of .910 is a testament to how well he’s played."

https://theathletic.com/5...alies-stats-danger-shots/

- homiedclown


This article should be read by every Sabres fan...all 5 of them remaining.

To put that into proper Context, a High Danger shot has a average SV% of .806 across the league, while conversely an Low Damager shot has .961.

Allow that to sink in and consider UPL, playing on the 4th worst team is terms of High Danger shot to Low Danger shots allowed. Then add to your consideration the fact that his Avg SV% of .910 against the league average of .904.
It all simply points to the fact that UPL is having a very, very successful season so far with a defensive system (or lack thereof) which allows the opposition to walk right in with point blank shots and shots across the crease with an opposing player wide open in the slot.

This isn't hard guys. UPL has found his NHL game and Granato's thumb up at Advanced Analytics is significantly contributing to his workload being very difficult.
Can we all just retain from the ill-informed "make a stop UPL comments".

Hey Kevy, get some friggin Defensive help you asswipe. Take your head out of your ass and go acquire Chris Tanev to start. Maybe even make a deal (I know, right) for Jiricek.

Then, fire every single one in the Coaching Staff. How much more absolutely Mind Numbing coaching do you need to see?
Idiot!
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