Around the NHL: Panthers win. Onto the business season!

[Zman5778]

He did but he wasn’t a vezina level goalie - and he probably won’t be there. Don’t underestimate the effectiveness of Boston’s system in making goalies look great

Ullmark is still orders of magnitude better than anything they've had for years.

 

[Ralonzo]

Florida hanging on like

 

[Weltschmerz]

5th round pick here we go

 

[joshjull]

Nice!

 

[Ace]

Alright Kyle…now tell everyone who will listen that if you pay the price and come to Buffalo…amazing things will happen. Eventually

 

[Ace]

My favorite thing about Florida winning today is listening to all the Canadian media convince themselves Canada was definitely breaking the drought tonight.

My second favorite is that both lottery losses we had during the tank got their names on the cup in back to back years. And yet some people will still tell you that the tank was the problem and not everything that came after it where no one in ten years has bothered to build a full NHL team around their top players.

 

[Dingo44]

Very happy for Okposo. Can't understand feeling any other way.

Sammy with the Cup winner. Erod clutch. Kulivov playing big minutes. Montour helping them get there. What could have been.

 

[SabresFan26]

Wild that ROR, then Eichel, now 5 more Sabres with Reinhart scoring the GWG. Just crazy that all these former Sabres leave and

Very happy for Okposo. Can't understand feeling any other way.

Sammy with the Cup winner. Erod clutch. Kulivov playing big minutes. Montour helping them get there. What could have been.

 

[KiwiGriff]

Love watching the winning, feel bad for McDavid.

It's so cool watching the excitement build and what it to means to the individuals.

 

[TehDoak]

Tim Murray is sitting in a dark room, watching this, and being like "god damnit i was right again"

 

[littletonhockeycoach]

Very happy for Okposo. Can't understand feeling any other way.

Sammy with the Cup winner. Erod clutch. Kulivov playing big minutes. Montour helping them get there. What could have been.

THIS!

I may never see the Sabres win the Cup but this Florida team with so many ex-Sabres on it ALMOST brought a tear to my eye.

Plus the Lorentz kid! (My wife's maiden name is Lorentz... from Lancaster.)

 

[Chainshot]

Tim Murray is sitting in a dark room, watching this, and being like "god damnit i was right again"

Isn't he living in Florida now?

 

[Sabre the Win]

Not thrilled Ullmark went to Ottawa.

Me neither, Ottawa just got a whole lot better and Ullmark is a wall against us.

The cards cant be more stacked against us. Florida are now defending Stanley Cup champions, the old ass Lightning as better than us, the Leafs have had more success than us, Montreal will probably come out of the rebuild sooner than us. Ottawa now has the Sabres killer in net.

 

[Der Jaeger]

Yay for the 5th round pick!

 

[kirby11]

Super cool that Kyle got a ring before he retired and Sam and ERod played such big roles in this win.

**** Jason Botterill and his giant, dumbass noggin for failing everyone so badly when they were here

 

[Beerz]

Isn't he living in Florida now?

Florida man arrested for riding a unicorn under a rainbow while eating jujubees and slapping PP's

 

[Ehran]

Yay for the 5th round pick!

And the $500k hit to Florida's salary cap next season !

 

[KrakenSabresMike]

My favorite thing about Florida winning today is listening to all the Canadian media convince themselves Canada was definitely breaking the drought tonight.

My second favorite is that both lottery losses we had during the tank got their names on the cup in back to back years. And yet some people will still tell you that the tank was the problem and not everything that came after it where no one in ten years has bothered to build a full NHL team around their top players.

It is a little messed up that warm weather places have won the cups a lot recently ( Vegas, Florida, Tampa…) - these are all tax-free warm places at the players like but the majority of the fans and diehards are living up north where the cup has hardly come. Just a very weird dichotomy…

 

[joshjull]

Same

 

[Gras]

It is a little messed up that warm weather places have won the cups a lot recently ( Vegas, Florida, Tampa…) - these are all tax-free warm places at the players like but the majority of the fans and diehards are living up north where the cup has hardly come. Just a very weird dichotomy…

Not much other teams can do about the weather but they can lobby to become tax-free.

 

[GellMann]

My favorite thing about Florida winning today is listening to all the Canadian media convince themselves Canada was definitely breaking the drought tonight.

My second favorite is that both lottery losses we had during the tank got their names on the cup in back to back years. And yet some people will still tell you that the tank was the problem and not everything that came after it where no one in ten years has bothered to build a full NHL team around their top players.

As always, the two players were never the problem with the tank, it was what they did to the roster to make sure they could be the worst team in the league for 730 consecutive days

Doing that on purpose is beyond Pejorative Slured, they had the best net offseason a team could ever put together in the real world in 2015 and it made them an 81 point team, and their depth has literally never stopped lagging the rest of the NHL

It makes everything else ten times more difficult and important to nail exactly right

By now, of course, competence would have us competing, but the tank was never going to be a smooth trajectory to winning. At least Toronto's tank team was damn near a positive possession team, they were building a foundation of real hockey while losing for exactly 82 games, the Sabres purposefully put on a 30% every stat clinic every night and traded away anyone that might impede on that effort

 

[HOOats]

Me neither, Ottawa just got a whole lot better and Ullmark is a wall against us.

The cards cant be more stacked against us. Florida are now defending Stanley Cup champions, the old ass Lightning as better than us, the Leafs have had more success than us, Montreal will probably come out of the rebuild sooner than us. Ottawa now has the Sabres killer in net.

Very cool. Can't wait to check in with you in June 2025 when you pop your head back out of the bunker.

In the meantime, I'm going to enjoy the development of our envy-of-the-league u25 core under our new HOF coach who bleeds blue and gold (like me and many others here).

 

[DolanPlsGoSabres]

All this and I remember that even Zach Bogosian won the cup after leaving Buffalo

 

[WhereAreTheCookies]

So RoR, then Eichel, now Reinhart. Does Mitts win a cup next year? Sabres centers are good luck.... for other teams.

 

[Dingo44]

Me neither, Ottawa just got a whole lot better and Ullmark is a wall against us.

The cards cant be more stacked against us. Florida are now defending Stanley Cup champions, the old ass Lightning as better than us, the Leafs have had more success than us, Montreal will probably come out of the rebuild sooner than us. Ottawa now has the Sabres killer in net.