Because if we can't win against division/confererence then we will lose in the playoffs (if we can even make it). Yes, the defense is better than the last few years but they are still struggling. They are showing the same inconsistent play as in the past. The first several games they would come out hit hard and skate fast. Have short tape to tape passes and shot the friggin puck on the net. No fancy passes that usually never hits the mark. They need to stay with their game plan and things will improve.

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i wanted to give lalime a few games before i said it, but. if the sabres want to get deep, im jumping on the band wagon, they NEED a backup.

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Welcome aboard.

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just call me Brad

Twitter @BUrbanowicz13

The problem with our top 6 is we have Drew Stafford, possibly a decent 3rd line player, playing first line minutes, and Tim Connolly no able to find Thomas Vanek at all, Pommers accuracy problems continue and we have Derek Roy turning the puck over, and trying for the "extra" pass instead of keeping his game simple, and firing the puck on net.

I mean, our top 6 has guys that are tying to play beyond their means. Thus far the only guy in the top 6 that has blown me away with his efforts thus far this season is MacArthur.

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"She's like plan C after an 18 pack"

Squanto 7/27/2010

we need grier, simple as that

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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.

the air in the balloon is starting to deflate for me....i also can see the same inconsistencies popping up from the last two years....i'm starting to get nervous....like i think we could be out of a playoff spot (point wise) in the next few weeks....
before the season started one of the columnists for the buffalo news wrote that he thought the sabres were at least 2/3 years from being a contender.....
i am starting to agree with him now.....though i think we could be a contender if darcy could pull a few moves....like acquiring a couple of goal scorers....another d-man, and a new back up goalie....that's all...

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"It is more about them than it is about the team...Cannot play with them, cannot win with them, cannot coach with them. Can't do it. I want winners. I want people that want to win." - Mike Singletary

Tyler Myers - Future captain of the Buffalo Sabres, and future Norris Trophy Winner

Manning the machine gun on the Tyler Myers Bandwagon - just in case any teams have an idea of prying him away from us (3 GM's shot already)

Connolly/Roy - 2 goals in the last 47 playoff games

Add Dumont, Liles and Biron and subtract Hecht, Lalime and Sekera.

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Twitter @BUrbanowicz13

a new d-man and winger can wait till the deadline. a backup is needed within a month.

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This.

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just call me Brad

Twitter @BUrbanowicz13

Definitely.

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mechaphil

It would be nice to see the team win a game without Ryan Miller. We're 0-3 so far without him.

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"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Hockey Night in Buffalo

Any backup the team gets isn't going to help much if the team continues to not play in front of anyone but Miller.

Pretty much says it all about our top six guys. Except one thing: McArthur is a -9, worst on the team.
But, all 6 players are in the negative on the top 2 lines. I have said it all along, a trade needs to happen. They would'nt be in the negative if they kept anything resembling a decent forecheck and offensive zone attack going. Oh yea, it helps to score some goals too.

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Lord Stanley's Cup is what its all about.
Mr. Pegula, your destiny awaits you sir.

I am still of the opinion that in order to stay in the top five or six teams in the Eastern Conference we can have one of our top two centers be a (allegedly) highly skilled, soft type center, but not both. I would try to trade Roy or Connolly, and try to pick up a more physical top two line center - easier said than done, but roy and Connolly both can be made ineffective by physical play.

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"I don't feel like Satan, but I am to them"
Neil Young

Hm if i didnt know any better the Sabres have the third best record in the east. Fuckin scrubs.
We have some people out.. our back up cant get the job done and we have had some slip ups.
Settle down.

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The Board Drunk.

don't want to settle down....remember what happened last year ? this team doesn't have "it"...yeah we are 3rd in the east.....i'm hardly excited about that....in fact i tuned in late to the last 2 games or so.....

again.....now in the 3rd year....darcy needs to something.....

i'm betting that in the next few weeks or so, this team will be out of the playoff race point wise...i hope i'm wrong, but i think this is the way the team is heading

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"It is more about them than it is about the team...Cannot play with them, cannot win with them, cannot coach with them. Can't do it. I want winners. I want people that want to win." - Mike Singletary

Tyler Myers - Future captain of the Buffalo Sabres, and future Norris Trophy Winner

Manning the machine gun on the Tyler Myers Bandwagon - just in case any teams have an idea of prying him away from us (3 GM's shot already)

Connolly/Roy - 2 goals in the last 47 playoff games

This is the exact thing that happened the last two seasons!!!! It's the same ole shit. This team will never be serious contenders until they learn to play the same game, EVERY GAME!!! If they played the same as they did in October, no one would be complaining. Oh, BTW the sabres have gone from 1st in the division to 3rd and from 3rd in the conference to 8th. In the matter of a few days......

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Ahhh, that would be wonderful...at least Dumont and Biron

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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

we're in trouble boys and girls......we need some changes in this line up , AND NOW ! just like the last 2 years around this time of the season.....and what did darcy do then ? nothing

i'm not a betting man, but if i was i would be betting that darcy won't pull off any big moves to improve this club in the next month or so....

but don't worry he could always make a corkum deal at the deadline.....

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"It is more about them than it is about the team...Cannot play with them, cannot win with them, cannot coach with them. Can't do it. I want winners. I want people that want to win." - Mike Singletary

Tyler Myers - Future captain of the Buffalo Sabres, and future Norris Trophy Winner

Manning the machine gun on the Tyler Myers Bandwagon - just in case any teams have an idea of prying him away from us (3 GM's shot already)

Connolly/Roy - 2 goals in the last 47 playoff games