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Wow! I’ve been too busy to update after each game, but the truth is this has been a great series. From my point of view, I agree with the general consensus that the Flyers  have more “talent” on their team, but we should have known that going in.  Clearly the difference right now is the [...]

I am not sure I have anything insightful to say on this game, as anyone watching it would pretty much have the same opinion. The Flyers took the game to the Sabres for most of the first period, and the Sabres held them off. The second was a little more even, though the Sabres got [...]

So, I already talked about my thoughts on Philly vs Buffalo and why I gave the pick to Buffalo. Here’s my brief comments on the other 7 match-ups, and how I think they stack up. Washington (1) vs NY Rangers (8) – Washington was bounced two years in a row early, and they re-vamped their [...]

Gosh, I got the match-up I wanted…and I’m still not sure it’s a good fit. Let’s face it, the Sabres are playing some great hockey right now. They finished the season on their longest winning streak of the year, and were 13-4-3 in their last 20. Every season, there’s one team in the bottom tier [...]

Again, I continue with poor / intermittent updates of this blog. As the season wrapped up over the weekend, it’s been a great few months for Sabres fans. I am going to try and get a few quick posts in this week. The Sabres finished solid with 4 wins – 2 of them in overtime. [...]

OK – this may be an obvious question…but why does the west have more points?  The Buffalo Sabres are sitting on the eighth spot in the east with 81 points and fans are excited. If they were in the Western conference with the same record…they’d be in 11th place and be 4 points out of [...]

Not only have I been a bad blogger of late, I’ve been a bad Sabre fan…I haven’t been watching a lot of games, or at least a lot of the whole games. Of the last 4 games, I’ve only seen one, and that was Ottawa last Sunday because I was there.  (My daughter got on [...]

OK, I’m just going to say it…this was the Sabres best game of the season. Yeah, they’ve blown out a few teams over the year, but they took on a top team that did NOT in anyway give them an easy ride, and they managed to not only come back from an early 2-0 deficit, [...]

Man, there’s been so much going on lately, and I have been so poor at commenting, i wonder if I still have ANY readers. I was away on vacation from February 18th through the 28th, and while I was in touch with the Sabres world, I didn’t have the ability to really comment on it. [...]

I went to the game against the NY Islanders on Friday. I haven’t been so frustrated at a hockey game in a long, long, time. A lot of people just look at “their” team when they watch a game and will say “Oh, they’re playing terrible” when in fact they are just being outplayed. This was not [...]

OK, so the season is just pass the half-way mark, and where do the Sabres (and other Eastern Conference teams) sit. To me, the best way to compare the teams is to look at there stats at exactly the half-way point of the season, when each team had played 41 games. This way, there is no bias if a team [...]

I admit I continue to be very bad at updating this blog, mostly because life has become very hectic of late. A big part of that is an uninspired team playing uninspiring hockey. However, I PROMISE there is one thing that will get me writing again has been the talk of the last month or [...]

Man, I have been bad this year!  I can’t seem to find the time to post this year, and as such, I’m sure all three of my readers have deserted me. But here I go, trying to get the posts going again. Part of this avoidance was the discouragement of the early part of the [...]

Hmmmm – an interesting start to the season so far. Game 1 vs Ottawa: The first thing I saw from that game is that Ottawa doesn’t look very good. Disorganized play, the Sabres should’ve won that game 5-1 instead of 2-1.  Overall well played – but then tendencies of last year still appeared – lack of [...]

It starts tonight for the Sabres. The season gets underway with their first of 22 back-to-backs, @ Ottawa and the home opener against the Rangers. A few thoughts: – I think they’ll come out and win tonight, even though they have not played well in Ottawa for a very long time.  This may be the [...]

It’s a meaningless game that no-one outside HSBC arena saw. In fact, the Flyers appeared to put out their AHL squad, at least from the 10 minute mark of the first period to the end of the second. The Sabres were all over the Flyers, bombing third stringer Johan Backlund. What can you take from a pre-season [...]

OK, I haven’t been posting much in the off-season. I hope to post a bit more, though I don’t know if anyone actually reads this. I thought I would kick off the season with a discussion of how the Sabres should stack up this season. They are coming into the season as (A) the Northeast [...]

Ho hum – another boring draft. Unless you have a top 10 pick, or your team makes a trade, the draft to me is pretty boring…the Sabres drafted some guys…we might get a look at Mark Pysik in 3 years if we’re lucky. (Tyler Myers is the exception to the rule here as to how [...]