GDT: Sabres @ Canadiens 7PM TV:MSG Radio:WGR550

[HOOats]

It should have happened two months ago but this feels like a great spot for one of our two (?) guys who plays on the edge to push it. I'm not saying go crazy, just lightly assault someone. "Two minutes well worth it," Team Iceland style. Pretend Slaf is some yokel from Cheektowaga who's been booing you over emotional trauma they suffered when you were 9.

The season is shot, you're playing a hated rival in the most passionate building in the NHL, so show us some hate. I want to see who has the heart to back up their supposed best buddies. If we're going to make hockey trades I want to make sure we keep the actual hockey players.

Nothing breaks up a country club party like a smashed beer bottle. "Hey why don't I just go eat some hay. I can lay by the bay, make things out of clay, I just may, what'd ya say?"

 

[Ace]

No tanking. This team loses enough as it is. No reason at all to reinforce "acceptable losses".

Here’s the problem with this black and white thinking

We don’t reinforce shit however we root. The organization has reinforced acceptable losses. They do so every time Ellis grabs a white board and Donnie runs a practice. They do so every time they run back the same lineup. Hell...we got to see what winning all those games down the stretch last year gets you from this organization: NOTHING. No additions. No urgency. No standard.

Fans don't control this narrative that concerns you so much. The Sabres do. And they’ve already shown you how they’ll react to a late season run to nowhere. Is that what you want? Is that what’s best for this team moving forward? Fans want what’s best for this organization. What does the organization want?

Wanting them to win meaningless games so they can minimize meaningful changes? That’s f***ing tanking. A lot more than a season.

 

[Chainshot]

I will say he hasn't looked good the last couple games but so hasn't EJ or Clifton... To your point, must make the kid sit

Didn't even realize they were playing until I checked potential survivor picks for the week lol

Go kid line and UPL I guess

Doesn't Skinner have some insane scoring touch vs. MTL?

Skinner has a non-confirmed portion of the Molson family option on the team. Said another way: he owns them.

 

[Jimmybarndoor2]

Question is -- would RJ be a healthy scratch, or is he battling that bug that's going around the room?

Thank god okposo is still in there. Would not want to take him out of lineup

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[Zman5778]

Thank god okposo is still in there. Would not want to take him out of lineup

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What does RJ being sick or healthy scratched have ANYTHING to do with Okposo??

 

[Willgamesh]

What does RJ being sick or healthy scratched have ANYTHING to do with Okposo??

RJ playing wing would be more beneficial.

 

[Deep Blue Metallic]

I'm fairly certain that an NHL professional, even a rookie, would make a mature assessment.

But if I was R Johnson I couldn't help but think "You're benching me for Kale Clague? Wtaf?"

 

[Zman5778]

I'm fairly certain that an NHL professional, even a rookie, would make a mature assessment.

But if I was R Johnson I couldn't help but think "You're benching me for Kale Clague? Wtaf?"

I totally get that rookies occasionally need to sit down a game and watch from the box. I get that.

This just feels like wrong time for RJ to sit. EJ should be the one sitting tonight

Assuming RJ is healthy though.....and given that there's something going around, that's not a given

 

[Tatanka]

I totally get that rookies occasionally need to sit down a game and watch from the box. I get that.

This just feels like wrong time for RJ to sit. EJ should be the one sitting tonight

Assuming RJ is healthy though.....and given that there's something going around, that's not a given

It can’t hurt to watch from the press box. Or maybe it will be very painful. Nvm.

 

[Beerz]

It should have happened two months ago but this feels like a great spot for one of our two (?) guys who plays on the edge to push it. I'm not saying go crazy, just lightly assault someone. "Two minutes well worth it," Team Iceland style. Pretend Slaf is some yokel from Cheektowaga who's been booing you over emotional trauma they suffered when you were 9.

The season is shot, you're playing a hated rival in the most passionate building in the NHL, so show us some hate. I want to see who has the heart to back up their supposed best buddies. If we're going to make hockey trades I want to make sure we keep the actual hockey players.

Nothing breaks up a country club party like a smashed beer bottle. "Hey why don't I just go eat some hay. I can lay by the bay, make things out of clay, I just may, what'd ya say?"

Who are the two guys?

 

[Jimmybarndoor2]

Question is -- would RJ be a healthy scratch, or is he battling that bug that's going around the room?

Thank god okposo is still in there. Would not want to take him out of lineup

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What does RJ being sick or healthy scratched have ANYTHING to do with Okposo??

it doesn’t.
Did you read the part where forward lines are the same?
That was also part of the message

I would rather see anyone in the line up than ko

 

[BB79]

I've listed myself as a healthy scratch, it's unknown if I'll miss the rest of the season due to hardly giving a flying fk anymore. More to be announced later

 

[ValJamesDuex]

SMOKED MEAT FOR EVERYONE!

 

[Old Navy Goat]

To screw with my caretakers I'm going to watch the game in French to see how long it takes them to realise it's not English. I'll even curse the Sabres in French for shitty play

 

[Chainshot]

Also as a bit of a curse, my daughter just decided to go on a coffee date with one of her classmates who is originally from Quebec. I haven't yet found out what his hometown is. Yet.

 

[Zman5778]

I would rather see anyone in the line up than ko

I'm not sure why. He's one of three forwards that reliably go to the front of the net, and one of the two forwards that actually stay upright in front of the net.

 

[Zman5778]

To screw with my caretakers I'm going to watch the game in French to see how long it takes them to realise it's not English. I'll even curse the Sabres in French for shitty play

Just be careful that they don't commit you for speaking in tounges.

 

[Old Navy Goat]

In my old Angeles City days I'd meet up with the local Habs contingent for the game and Filipino delicacies to munch on. There were several guys that work for an aerospace training company with one of the guy's brother being a professional scout for the hated Leafs

 

[Old Navy Goat]

Just be careful that they don't commit you for speaking in tounges.

The filipina asawa used to get mad when I'd translate her favorite Korean dramas or when I'd make her watch Sabado Gigante and tell her it's the predecessor to her beloved Showtime. She'd swap dialects when talking about me to her friends until I started answering her in Waray

 

[toddkaz]

I gotta say watching Granato's sabres team is almost as boring as the Kreuger team

I still watch because meh, what else to do on a Wednesday night.

 

[Ehran]

The filipina asawa used to get mad when I'd translate her favorite Korean dramas or when I'd make her watch Sabado Gigante and tell her it's the predecessor to her beloved Showtime. She'd swap dialects when talking about me to her friends until I started answering her in Waray

It's official.

ONG's stories are much more entertaining than the Sabres games are.

 

[Zman5778]

Those numbers convinced me.

We should trade Skinner to the Habs for future considerations. As a favor to them.

 

[Ace]

Thank God there was finally some accountability! After that disastrous game (and being terrible all year) i see that Granato benched Johnson for Clague.

I have no reason to assume it isn’t Erik Johnson because even I have more respect for Granato than to think he would pick ANYONE other than Erik Johnson to sit.

I’ll just comfortably sip this water while I slowly move my eyes to the left of the lineup chart to see that E next to…

 

[Old Navy Goat]

The National anthem announcement ruined it when they announced it in both languages, caretaker 1's head about did a Linda Blair, she gave me the why you do

 

[Tatanka]

The National anthem announcement ruined it when they announced it in both languages, caretaker 1's head about did a Linda Blair, she gave me the why you do

You need your own thread