Great interview by Blake Wheeler. Likeable guy who respects his opposition.

dude, shut up. There are plenty of games left and we're actually in the playoff picture.

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"...they came down into the stands and asked if I knew how to do play by play. I said...No. But. I'll take a shot at it if you want".- Rick Jeanneret

Ok, they were due for a loss but they usually lose the games they NEED to win. I understand that the Jets have been home for a week and had four days off before this game. The cards were definitely stacked against the Sabres

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Again, my stance is this was equal to a playoff game, and sometimes you gotta play a team that swept the other team, and you just played a 7 game series. That's hockey. It's reaching down, and grabbing a must win when you have to. Other than Miller this team has been reaching down, and getting a handful of shit. I'm not "excited" by any means.

Plenty of games left but several of those are teams that are much better than the Jets. A few of those, Boston, Philly and the Rangers the sabres have a losing record against.

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or what is called giving 110%

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To be fair, I expected maybe 4 out of 8 points if we played balls to the wall. To have 6 out of 8 is huge for what it is.

All that aside, if I see Roy gliding back once he hits the redline on the back check one more fucking time; I'm going to kick a someone in the face and piss on them in public. I wonder if Lindy will bench him or move him off the top line now for that stupid call late in the game when we needed a big goal? Was it embellished? Likely, but you know the refs will call anything and everything that looks questionable. We've beaten the Bruins, gone the distance with the Rangers, I still think we can make a go of it if we take this game and learn from it.

Going into this road trip, and be honest folks.... Who here honestly thought we'd sweep it? I’m not saying it is ok to lose a game, especially one like tonight and I’m hella pissed right now at the effort, just the same as the next person, but really, who here thought we would sweep this road trip?

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If it's a tight squeeze, spit on it! - NyI

He's a middling AHL player who had the good fortune of a drunk arbitrator. - The Squanto re: Tim Kennedy

I expected more than 3 points in 6 games from our top line, which includes a whopping 1 goal and 0 pts from our captain.

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#1 Hockey Nation.

No one. Normally you could pat them on the butt and say "good job" if it was in the middle of the season. Its not, it's the last month of games and they NEEDED this win. This very well could go down as the game that finished them.

The ONLY REASON why this team was in the position to get back in the playoff race was because of Miller. He stood on his head for most of this trip while the rest of the team DIDN'T DO THEIR JOB! Last night Miller just couldn't do it anymore. Hell, in back to back games he faced 82 shots, WTF!!! This team has nothing without Miller, this season proved it.

Don't get me wrong, I enjoyed this road trip. it reminded me of the seasons of the past when Miller was in his prime and stopped just about everything. They actually had me fooled there for a little bit. Last night brought me back to reality....

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I'm just going to come out and say it. I haven't been impressed with this team lately. Miller has been beyond great, which is the only reason we have squeaked out wins in the west. Any other kind of effort in net and we would be at the tail end of a losing road trip....and a bad one.

Winning makes it easier to gloss over the lost battles, the turnovers, the low goal production and lazy penalties. In the end though the Sabres as a whole have been playing like a team who deserves to be out of the playoffs. I'm dreading Miller stealing an eighth spot for us only to watch this team lose in the first round, ushering in the same "we're on the right tract" rhetoric this summer. We need changes to our offensive lines in a big way and I don't see it happening with a middle of the pack finish.

Sorry to be negative, just calling it like I see it.

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we might have just squaked out wins, but that doesnt change the fact that, in our past 9 games, we are 6-1-2. pretty damn good.

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PSA: I am an overly sarcastic person. If you take me at my word, then i will most likely anger and offend you.

Miller is great. Our team is Miller. Our team should not be the Sabres. It should be the Millers. and Miller's face should be the logo.

If only our guys would show some fucking energy. We damn well know they can; they just don't want to. I never really see any other team in the league perform so lazily as this team does, and even when we bring in new guys... They're lazy too. I don't know what it is, Lindy's system, the city itself, whatever. I just want our guys to be energetic and actually play, and not spend half their shift standing around or fucking turning the puck over because they don't know how to pass.

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"Counting all the assholes in the room, I'm definitely not alone!" ~ Michael Poulsen, Volbeat, Still Standing.

Other than Tropp and Ellis, of course. Those two know how to battle for that puck.

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"Counting all the assholes in the room, I'm definitely not alone!" ~ Michael Poulsen, Volbeat, Still Standing.