GDT: #79 - Blue Jackets vs. Sabres at 6 PM ET on MSG-B and WGR

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Game Preview: 3/31/19 vs. Columbus

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LAST GAME
Saturday, March 30
Buffalo 1 at NY Islanders 5
Goals: Olofsson
Goalie: Hutton (33 saves/38 shots)
PP: 1/2; PK: 1/1; Shots: NY Islanders 38 – Buffalo 32

CURRENT INJURIES – (Man Games Lost: 234)
Player (injury, first game missed) – total games missed
Jake McCabe (upper body, March 4) – 13 games
Matt Hunwick (upper body, March 23) – 5 games
Zach Bogosian (lower body, March 25) – 4 games
Rasmus Ristolainen (illness, March 26) – 3 games
Evan Rodrigues (upper body, March 28) – 2 games
Vladimir Sobotka (upper body, March 30) – 1 game

TRANSACTIONS IN PAST 7 DAYS
3/26: Signed D Casey Fitzgerald to a two-year, entry-level contract with an AAV of $925,000; Recalled D William Borgen from Rochester (AHL)
3/27: Recalled F Victor Olofsson from Rochester (AHL)
3/28: Recalled D Matt Tennyson from Rochester (AHL); Assigned F Tage Thompson to Rochester (AHL)

REMAINING GAMES
Tuesday, April 2: Nashville at Buffalo, 7 p.m.
Thursday, April 4: Ottawa at Buffalo, 7 p.m.
Saturday, April 6: Buffalo at Detroit, 7 p.m.

TONIGHT’S GAME
BLUE JACKETS at SABRES

• This is the third and final meeting between the Sabres and Blue Jackets this season.
• Last meeting: Buffalo defeated Columbus 5-4 in Columbus on Jan. 29
• The Sabres are 4-5-1 in their last 10 games vs. Blue Jackets; 5-4-1 at home.
• This is the 32nd game all-time between Buffalo and Columbus; Buffalo has an 12-16-3 series record.
• The Sabres are 7-8-1 at home against the Blue Jackets all-time.

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[Sabresfansince1980]

Have to push the Blue Jackets above StL. I'm very confident the team can accomplish this mission.

 

[Der Jaeger]

Not watching. Going to play hockey instead.

 

[Willgamesh]

I have no idea how House Fly has survived this long if another blow out doesn't get him fired he will probably be here next year boys . Keep losing maintain our draft position or improve it and Phil please just dont show up today, oh wait apparently you have been doing that the whole season you slow to adapt dinosaur.

 

[Tatre]

I'm all for CBJ making it in at this point. Make it a game sabres

 

[Chainshot]

I wouldn't be surprised if the Jackets run them out of the rink by the end of the first period.

 

[Buffaloed]

The game day chant is "Ten in a row again!". I know the team can do it without our help but it's good to feel like we're part of the solution. There's no way Phil stays if they lose 1o in a row.

 

[kirby11]

We're gonna get wrecked. Hope the crowd boos loudly and/or starts a fire housley chant

 

[Zip15]

Bob played last night, so we might get Korpisalo. My only concerns is that he could lay an egg. But this is a game that a checked-out Sabres team should absolutely lose to a hungry CBJ club.

 

[SundherDome]

We're gonna get wrecked. Hope the crowd boos loudly and/or starts a fire.

I'm fine with the latter

 

[La Cosa Nostra]

I wouldn't be surprised if the Jackets run them out of the rink by the end of the first period.

You clearly haven't been watching the games. Thats the 2nd period when it happens.

 

[GellMann]

I'd much rather Columbus be in than Montreal.

 

[debaser66]

I'd much rather Columbus be in than Montreal.

That could be us..their roster is weaker then ours..but without a coach is just people skating aimlessly around.

 

[OkimLom]

True or False; Columbus fans will out number Buffalo Fans in the lower bowls (what is shown on TV)

 

[tsujimoto74]

Panarin's been slumping a bit since the deadline, hasn't he? Probably due to score a hatty against us.

 

[Der Jaeger]

Panarin's been slumping a bit since the deadline, hasn't he? Probably due to score a hatty against us.

He just ripped Nashville last night.

 

[MagnumForce2]

Columbus and St Louis are currently tied for 20th place overall in the standings.

 

[Buffaloed]

Housley brought in a guest speaker to give a pregame pep talk.

 

[5 Minute Major]

We're gonna get wrecked. Hope the crowd boos loudly and/or starts a fire

I left off a few words to make your post more entertaining.

Why not? NY Jets fans did it on MNF when the Bills beat on tbem.

But, could Sabres fans build a fire that rivals the one raging inside of the Sabres locker room?

 

[MagnumForce2]

Housley brought in a guest speaker to give a pregame pep talk.

Where do you come up with this stuff? Awesome lol

 

[GellMann]

Columbus and St Louis are currently tied for 20th place overall in the standings.

I assume you mean the backwards-standings?

 

[MrMaster]

Housley brought in a guest speaker to give a pregame pep talk.

Who is this guy anyway?

 

[MagnumForce2]

I assume you mean the backwards-standings?

Yeah... as it pertains to the draft pick

 

[sufferer]

Who is this guy anyway?

Saddam Hussein's spokesperson, Muhammad Saeed al-Sahhaf

 

[Buffaloed]

Mohammed Saeed al-Sahhaf, better known as 'Comical Ali' was the Iraqi Information Minister under Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein. He is remembered for his ridiculous televised broadcasts in which he would repeatedly declare that Iraq was winning the 2003 US lead war, and that American troops were committing mass suicide.