Anyone know which players are afflicted? News here is reporting it's nine players.

"Sabres coach Lindy Ruff said after Wednesday's 2-0 loss to the Senators that seven players were suffering from food poisoning."

"I knew last night when we got the call at midnight and you've got seven guys with food poisoning you don't have much chance of winning," Ruff said in Scotiabank Place. "I'm not going to make an excuse, but we had guys this morning that couldn't come to the pregame, couldn't come to the pregame meeting, and it showed. There were guys that typically skate a lot better who couldn't skate."

http://www.buffalonews.com/sports/sabre ... 96687.html

It was visible in the game.

It seemed like some guys were flying, and others were dogging.

Get well soon and lets rebound with back to back wins this weekend.

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Wheelhouse

Where the hell did the team eat for so many guys to come down with it? You know half the team lists "chicken parm" as their favorite pregame meal. Maybe a local Ottawa eatery got a little payback for Buffalo native Stempniak dismantling Spezza's knee.

Ham

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Do you believe yet?

It was pretty obvious that it was just a few guys who weren't moving their feet, not the whole team.

The problem is, the system doesn't work unless everyone gets to where they're supposed to be.

When 1 man fails his assignment, it throws off everything that everybody else is supposed to be doing on the ice.

That leads to surrendering odd man rushes and poor break outs.

Lets not get our panties in a bunch because of one loss where half the guys on the team were sick.

Even if they WEREN'T sick, this game wouldn't bother me. It seems to me that some people fail to grasp the fact that their team is going to lose once in a while.

Get over it, and win on Friday.

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Wheelhouse

Only 8 players showed up to the morning skate:

The following Sabres were the only ones on the ice at Wednesday's optional morning skate, which Lindy Ruff did not attend, and therefore unlikely to be stricken by food poisoning before the 2-0 loss to Ottawa:

Tim Kennedy, Paul Gaustad, Nathan Paetsch, Thomas Vanek, Clarke MacArthur, Jason Pominville, Andrej Sekera, Matt Ellis and Ryan Miller.

You could probably exclude Tyler Myers (a whopping 28:32 of ice time), Derek Roy (21:28), Henrik Tallinder (21:33) and Tim Connolly (19:41).

http://blogs.buffalonews.com/sabres/200 ... aters.html

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Suddenly I feel a lot better about last nights game.

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Proud LGBTQQ Individual

I'd bet Grier had it. Usually he goes to the optional skates and he looked a lot less aggressive than usual last night.

Some people just can't comprehend this concept, but it's so true..

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Miller, Myers and Greir are sick, but not Jesus Christ..

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What to bring next time we go to Ottawa:

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Miller, Myers and Greir are sick, but not Jesus Christ..

KILL OTTAWA

...Good one. Touché .

Some Sabres had food poisoning? Funny, so did I

I'm not having a good day - missed a day of work due to illness for the first time in over a year.

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mechaphil

One of our sysadmins has a great talent of coming up with food poisoning 5 or 6 days after eating something, but always on a Friday or Monday.

It's a nifty talent.

when i worked in the palace, i learned food born illness usually takes 24-48 to take effect.. probably something they ate before they flew to ottawa.

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Really? I once ate a sketchy tuna-salad sandwich, on a Friday afternoon - By dinnertime, I was puking and...you know.

I was wishing for death (for about 2 days) it was that awful. I couldn't even keep a sip of water down. Got terribly dehydrated.

Fun stuff.

It depends on what the pathogen is. Some can kick in within 1-6 hours, others take a day or so.

Oh, wow. Eight players showed up to the morning skate? Eight?

I feel better about last night now lol. That's legitimate.

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‎"Love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation."
-Khalil Gibran

you positive? usually, the food you eat afterwards goes right through you, but its not the cause. just part of the effect.

next time you get those 2 am shits where your stomach feels like its going to implode, its probably something you ate a day or two ago.

but, if the food is absolutely wretched, and i mean its fucked up, then it could take only a few hours. but i mean something beyond food posioning.

i should eat old mayonaise and get back to you.

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Yeah I think the range is 4-48 hours. I was feeling kind of crummy last night so I looked it up haha.

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while that stinks to hear, it does make me feel a lot better about last nights game though, because I was pretty upset with how uninspired some of the players were skating. But that is a total legitimate excuse. trying to move period when you're sick like that is hard enough, but to try and play professional hockey?
but of course this would happen for the Ottawa game, a game that fans really wanted to win. but oh well, losses are gonna happen. I just hope the team gets healthy and comes out firing this weekend.

I think it's obvious members of the Sens slipped something sketchy into the player's food.

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