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It’s been so long since we last talked

I'm leaning towards Calgary in this one. Little deflation after big win, nice home and home with Toronto. I like this sportsbucks wagering thing they let you do here.

I think this'll be a close one, probably going to OT again. Rittich is on fire, so it wouldn't shock me if he steals a point or two for them.

Calgary is hitting. Buffalo better start responding or I fear they’ll wither up.

Opening Cliche Salvo

Sabres Keys to the Game

Bring their A game
Take it one shift at a time
Pay the price
Get pucks to the net
Play for the full 60 minute
Play with good jump
Keep it simple
Trust the system
Manage the game, don't let the game manage you
Play a great road game
Give the broadcasters the opportunity to say 2 of the following 3:
1) Donnybrook
2) Firehouse hockey
3) Katie Bar the Door​

At least it's not:
1.) Score
2.) Score
3.) Put the puck in the net


Like it was a few years ago.

You missed one.

Score

Lets do that hockey!

LET'S GOOOOOO

Special Troubles

Why is Steve Smith still coaching our PP (at this point)?

Powerplay needs to wake up just a little bit...

U G L Y
You ain't got no alibi for that pp

This PP is so incredibly bad lol

Flames PK is the most aggressive I've seen, considering the amount of penalties they take.

This second unit is a dog's dinner. What a mess.

Powerplay can't deal with a single for-checker, impressive.

This team needs to practice the power-play A LOT more on this road trip.

Oh great, another power play for buffalo...

Can we decline the penalty?

Who is running our powerplay? Sam Reinhart is the main one time option on the 5 on 3? Why?????????????????????

not exactly the shot you want to take up two men

Reinhart my god, it's a 5 on 4 you're under no pressure and you just try a backhand prayer between two defenders.....

Why are they setting up reinhart on these 5v3s?

It's cool that they tried having two guys behind the goal

The powerplay needs major overhaul. They cost us this game. Could easily be 4-4, we have had 2 5v3s and gave up a shorty. BRUTALLLLLLLLLLLL

yeah I can't watch this any more the Sabres are just stupid beyond belief with another ****ing guy on the ice yet somehow can't find the open man.

Johnny Hockey Moment

This is not good hockey tonight

Scandella and his partner both on Ullmark's left in that sequence. That was why Gaudreau was so wide open. What a **** show.

Great PK strategy of giving Johnny all that space right in front of the net.

Might wanna close him down there Bogo you absolute trash bag

You let him walk straight to Ullmark?

Ah, there is the pk let down, love Bogo getting walked back

hey Calgary can you teach us how to do that

Casey standing flat-footed then gets beaten to the puck is highly frustrating.

That was a ridiculous shot. Shows you why we need to score on the Power Play. Can't keep being garbage on the PP and expect to win. Still a lot of game left but that's frustrating with how well the goalies are playing.

Heightened Special Troubles

5 on 3.

Dont pass the entire 24 seconds.

What are these 5 on 3 set ups with two guys working the puck below the goal line??

5 on 3 is worse than 5 on 4

5 on 3 and...that's the shot we get?

How does the guy running our PP and PK still have a job? Dead last in both throughout November and it still looks awful on both sides.

Montour and Bogosian playing "I don't want it, you can have it".

Yep. He's ****ing terrible. Let him go. Find and develop smarter rugged players. Stop recycling this guy, no matter how hard someone shines it, a turd is still a turd.

The PP is a coaching issue at this point. There's really no plan out there.

Even the one-timers don't look dangerous at all.

I don't think we've scored a single goal from a cross crease pass all year - don't know why that's even attempted at this point.

And don't even get me started on wtf Unit 2 is doing

https://twitter.com/user/status/1202798897548025856

5 to 1 PP advantage. losing by 2 and allowed a SHG. this pp is awful. Don't know why it took more then a game for the opposing teams to realize it you pressure our PP we have zero chance to score.

Reider to the Rescue

Pshhh!!!

and we are back to getting outscored on the PP again what the ****

Hahahahahaha **** this team

Calgary is completely outplaying buffalo in the 2nd.

Time to decline the penalties.

five hole? more like a 10 hole.

Our second PP is Middelstadt - Johansen - Sheary

Holy ****

What a **** power play unit.
And Ullmark, could you have left a bigger 5 hole opening? Good Christ.

We got a lot of help tonight in the standings and we’re gonna blow it because our special teams play is garbage.

Mony Rips It

They have no space and they have no clue how to counter it.

Did Dunleavy just say this game was close? Looks to me like Calgary is about to blow this one wide open and the Sabres are barely hanging on.

The Buffalo sabres backed right the **** up and let calgary have all the space


WTF???????????????/

Pathetic. Wake the **** up guys. For ****'s sake.

Back in.... back in some more.... keep backing up.... don't challenge anyone... give Calgary all the time and space - and shooting lanes and angles you can....

Yep... sound defense, eh??

I wouldn’t mind if we left a few select players in Calgary during this road trip. Not because of any trade deals, but just... leave them there.

Lmao that would be hilarious. "My bad..you guys didn't show up for the game so we forgot you guys were even there."

Big Scary Looch

Lucic scored.

Fold the franchise.

You mean to tell me that the team with Lucic and Tkachuk is the most penalized team? I am shocked, SHOCKED I TELL YOU!

When is mitts going to fight lucic

There's lots of things to hate about Lucic, but the thing that annoys me the most is how his skating posture reminds me of a ****ing turtle.

What the **** is Lucic doing out in a 4 on 4

Good thing lucic stinks

Every Calgary player is WIDE open

Yeah... so bad. This is just bad hockey.

wtf was that? nobody backchecked at all, it was a 4 on 2 for no reason other than the players just being lazy.

This will sound stupid but I hate the games after a blow out Sabres win. It’s like they think it will be as easy as the game prior and the effort just isn’t there.

****in lucic **** this ****

of course why do the ****tiest ****ing players always score...

Even the ****ing hunchback scored on us.

You know you're getting clowned when a strategically shaved ape scores against you.

Lucic got his first goal last year on us too.

FML

idk why anyone is surprised he scored 2x against us last year in one game with the ****ing Oilers bad depth.

Glad we could be a slumpbuster for that turtle

The Old Familiar Feeling

Gaudreau looking confident out there now that he’s accepted the fact that he can’t play against a teams top defensive unit.

**** you, Tobi Rieder.
Sincerely,
TB12

Reider scores?

Rieder only scores short handed
Plug

Buffalo is TERRRRRRRIBLE. ABSOLUTELY TERRIBLE

You know you have hit rock bottom when you let a SH goal in by TOBIAS REIDER LOL

Feels like some kind of Evil arose from Calgary over the last 2 weeks and engulfed the league. Starting with coaches and now all evil teams are winning and all good teams are losing.

When’s the last time the Flames have had to deal with an injury to one of their good players ?

They seem to have amazing luck with injuries.

Lmao lucic.

Lucic scored.

Rock bottom for Buffalo.

I change the channel to Thursday night football and Lucic scores .

Man this is so bad.

- We lose 1st place in the division
- Unfriendly OOT Scoreboard
- Tobias Rieder scores
- Milan Lucic scores

The only thing that would've made this worse is if we had an injury.

I can also see CGY going on one of their winning streak runs. Oilers better have a good homestand overall.

Thank god the Flames didn’t start Talbot tonight eh .

That would be the trifecta of embarrassment for us.

Lucic with the GWG, lol.