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Stripes77
Referee
Buffalo Sabres
Location: Where ever Matt Ellis allows me to be, NY
Joined: 07.30.2012

Nov 8 @ 3:17 PM ET
you actually popped up on my fb feed on where you were 7 years ago
- hubie


My first pro game!


hubie
Buffalo Sabres
Location: Matt Ellis is my patronus, NY
Joined: 06.28.2011

Nov 8 @ 3:18 PM ET
My first pro game!
- Stripes77

ding ding
Stripes77
Referee
Buffalo Sabres
Location: Where ever Matt Ellis allows me to be, NY
Joined: 07.30.2012

Nov 8 @ 3:20 PM ET
ding ding
- hubie


Now I am getting ready to hang them up
hubie
Buffalo Sabres
Location: Matt Ellis is my patronus, NY
Joined: 06.28.2011

Nov 8 @ 3:24 PM ET
Now I am getting ready to hang them up
- Stripes77


was a good ride my friend
Stripes77
Referee
Buffalo Sabres
Location: Where ever Matt Ellis allows me to be, NY
Joined: 07.30.2012

Nov 8 @ 3:29 PM ET
was a good ride my friend
- hubie


My body is breaking down, and the kids are just too busy for me to dedicate enough time to being fully ready for the Pro game
hubie
Buffalo Sabres
Location: Matt Ellis is my patronus, NY
Joined: 06.28.2011

Nov 8 @ 3:34 PM ET
My body is breaking down, and the kids are just too busy for me to dedicate enough time to being fully ready for the Pro game
- Stripes77

thats what happens when you are as old as we are
BeadyEyedDouche
Buffalo Sabres
Location: Rustmine Ramsum most exciting Sabres klugdragger since Taro Tsujimoto
Joined: 07.01.2016

Nov 8 @ 3:35 PM ET
I have better things to do than have better things to do. 🫠
DirtyDan
Buffalo Sabres
Location: Why aren't more people interrigent? Rike Me? , ON
Joined: 02.03.2021

Nov 8 @ 3:46 PM ET
Boosh is expected to play tonight


I wonder who comes out though

- Stripes77



Theres really only one logical choice... Fitzgerald
buffalofan19
Buffalo Sabres
Location: Wonderful things can happen when you sow seeds of distrust in a garden full of (bum)holes
Joined: 07.01.2007

Nov 8 @ 3:50 PM ET
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4Bpoz_ospA

Memories

- Stripes77


Hot Take. No Sabres fan under traditional retirement age lived in an era where this team was better than it was during the goat head era. If you were born during or after it, this team wasn't good at all. The only exception was the '07 Presidents Trophy team, which pretty much underachieved come playoff time, and was the swan song of an era.
DirtyDan
Buffalo Sabres
Location: Why aren't more people interrigent? Rike Me? , ON
Joined: 02.03.2021

Nov 8 @ 4:03 PM ET
Hot Take. No Sabres fan under traditional retirement age lived in an era where this team was better than it was during the goat head era. If you were born during or after it, this team wasn't good at all. The only exception was the '07 Presidents Trophy team, which pretty much underachieved come playoff time, and was the swan song of an era.
- buffalofan19



hehateme
Buffalo Sabres
Joined: 04.11.2017

Nov 8 @ 4:09 PM ET
Hot Take. No Sabres fan under traditional retirement age lived in an era where this team was better than it was during the goat head era. If you were born during or after it, this team wasn't good at all. The only exception was the '07 Presidents Trophy team, which pretty much underachieved come playoff time, and was the swan song of an era.
- buffalofan19


early 90's teams were pretty damn good, if LaFontaine and Mogilny don't both get hurt in 93 I think we go to the cup.
lacaprup
Buffalo Sabres
Location: NY
Joined: 07.23.2006

Nov 8 @ 4:18 PM ET
Hot Take. No Sabres fan under traditional retirement age lived in an era where this team was better than it was during the goat head era. If you were born during or after it, this team wasn't good at all. The only exception was the '07 Presidents Trophy team, which pretty much underachieved come playoff time, and was the swan song of an era.
- buffalofan19


The best chance this team ever had of winning a cup was 92-93 IMO. If Mogilny doesn't break his leg in Game one against Montreal we win the Cup. Damn shame.
But as far as sustained good teams year after year, the Lindy Ruff ugly uniform teams are the best post 1970s Sabres teams.
Stripes77
Referee
Buffalo Sabres
Location: Where ever Matt Ellis allows me to be, NY
Joined: 07.30.2012

Nov 8 @ 4:18 PM ET
Hot Take. No Sabres fan under traditional retirement age lived in an era where this team was better than it was during the goat head era. If you were born during or after it, this team wasn't good at all. The only exception was the '07 Presidents Trophy team, which pretty much underachieved come playoff time, and was the swan song of an era.
- buffalofan19


Yeah that really isn't a hot take

The early 90's teams underperformed come playoff time constantly

99 and 05-06 were the best runs anyone like you said under traditional retirement age has seen.


lacaprup
Buffalo Sabres
Location: NY
Joined: 07.23.2006

Nov 8 @ 4:19 PM ET
early 90's teams were pretty damn good, if LaFontaine and Mogilny don't both get hurt in 93 I think we go to the cup.
- hehateme


Jinx, ditto w/e the kids say.
buffalofan19
Buffalo Sabres
Location: Wonderful things can happen when you sow seeds of distrust in a garden full of (bum)holes
Joined: 07.01.2007

Nov 8 @ 4:29 PM ET
The best chance this team ever had of winning a cup was 92-93 IMO. If Mogilny doesn't break his leg in Game one against Montreal we win the Cup. Damn shame.
But as far as sustained good teams year after year, the Lindy Ruff ugly uniform teams are the best post 1970s Sabres teams.

- lacaprup


Playoff performance is part of the equation though. I've heard a few people make this claim about the 92-93 team. I kind of remember it, but I was still very young. I went to the May Day game.

I went back and looked up the standings. That team finished 16 points behind Montreal for 4th in the Division, and that's with LaFontaine and Mogilny putting up career years and the luxury of beating up on a lousy Hartford team and an expansion Ottawa team multiple times a year. 6 of those 8 playoff teams ended in overtime. I'm not questioning they were good, but I'm not sure how much better they were than the rest of the league with those figures.
lacaprup
Buffalo Sabres
Location: NY
Joined: 07.23.2006

Nov 8 @ 4:47 PM ET
I went to the May Day game.
- buffalofan19


I am eternally jealous. I was at a family friend's party over on Riverside. Best. Game. Ever.
Hank Balling
Buffalo Sabres
Joined: 05.18.2021

Nov 8 @ 5:07 PM ET
Karel Vejmelka in net tonight for the yotes. Comrie at the other end
jdfitz77
Buffalo Sabres
Location: buffalo, NY
Joined: 05.21.2007

Nov 8 @ 5:22 PM ET
No, it sounds to me you only like the eye test and counting stats.

Take some time and read up on various advanced stats rather than dismissing
- IonSabres


Use of advanced stats is generally done incorrectly
All it does for most ppl is gives them more info to misinterpret
lulags
Buffalo Sabres
Location: St Louis
Joined: 02.24.2007

Nov 8 @ 5:25 PM ET
Skimmer. Cozensons. Tuch
Casey Mittelstadt -- Tage Thompson -- JJ Peterka

Rasmus Asplund -- Peyton Krebs -- Victor Olofsson

Jack Quinn -- Zemgus Girgensons -- Kyle Okposo

Interesting
jdfitz77
Buffalo Sabres
Location: buffalo, NY
Joined: 05.21.2007

Nov 8 @ 5:25 PM ET
Would Rodgers have thrown the same picks that Josh threw?
- RichardRoma


Maybe u should go watch the highlights of the GB vs DET game- Rodgers threw some brutal INTs too
lulags
Buffalo Sabres
Location: St Louis
Joined: 02.24.2007

Nov 8 @ 5:27 PM ET
I’ve got Joe Burrow on bye

my waiver options are
Geno
Goff
Stafford
Wilson

It’s between Geno and Goff at the moment.

- ImThatGuy

Geno or Milf Hunter
jdfitz77
Buffalo Sabres
Location: buffalo, NY
Joined: 05.21.2007

Nov 8 @ 5:29 PM ET
Here comes another one I'd bet too.
- TheHank


But we’ll miss all your quality posts about hockey!
Oh wait, u don’t make any….
joshs
Buffalo Sabres
Location: cheektowaga, NY
Joined: 07.07.2012

Nov 8 @ 5:30 PM ET
I think any line combinations are gonna look good tonight.
sammysam13
Buffalo Sabres
Location: Most of these posters stink!, NC
Joined: 02.19.2007

Nov 8 @ 5:33 PM ET
Apparently Boosh out longterm and needs ankle surgery?
Hank Balling
Buffalo Sabres
Joined: 05.18.2021

Nov 8 @ 5:35 PM ET
Apparently Boosh out longterm and needs ankle surgery?
- sammysam13


Wat?

Wat happened to this?

https://twitter.com/Buffa...wkSfbUiHnQxH7AF11jXg&s=19
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