GDT: Running Preseason GDT | Game 1 | CBJ @ BUF | 5 PM EST

[NotWendell]

3 word game summary: This is us.

 

[CBJ goalie]

NHL vs AHL squad, 1st pre-season game.
Expected result.

 

[Youngguns1380]

Let me start by saying I didn’t think they would win but see some players play structurely better.

BTW - Sillinger, Ceulemans, multiple bad players

Sillinger puck watching multiple times in front of his own net, missed clearing attempts, misses the net from a slot shot

Ceulemans multiple penalties and not good on defense. Shouldn’t make the big club

Few bright spots other than Olivier.

Even the announcers said “Columbus always wants to play a fast in your face hockey but where will the scoring come from?? They don’t have any of that talent and hoping a lot of young guys hit. Same Team different head coach”

 

[PlushMinus]

That hardly seems like a fair matchup - Sabres icing most of their NHL lineup.

The Columbus kids didn't really stand a chance.

Looks like Buffalo want to win the pre-season President's trophy

 

[Fred Glover]

Good guys lose 6-1 in the first of a handful of meaningless games
Countdown to overreactions in 3,2,1,,,,
Go!

3 word game summary: This is us.

Time to overreact

 

[VT]

Sabres Chainsaw Massacre

 

[Mattilaus]

That hardly seems like a fair matchup - Sabres icing most of their NHL lineup.

The Columbus kids didn't really stand a chance.

Looks like Buffalo want to win the pre-season President's trophy

We only have 3 pre-season games total for our main guys before they head to Prague. So we don't really have enough time to mess around with our AHL players. Don't worry, on the 28th you guys will essentially be playing against a team with 0 NHL players on it.

 

[KJ Dangler]

Fantilli, Svozil looked pretty good . Sure hope Evason challenges Vronkov to play with some snarl this year

 

[PlushMinus]

We only have 3 pre-season games total for our main guys before they head to Prague. So we don't really have enough time to mess around with our AHL players. Don't worry, on the 28th you guys will essentially be playing against a team with 0 NHL players on it.

I'm not a Blue Jackets fan - just a busybody who was checking the preseason games and saw the mismatch!

Caps fan so I wanted to see if Malenstyn and Aube-Kubel were on the Sabres roster tonight and how they played.

(I do wish good things for the Blue Jackets though - they've had a lot of shitty things happen to the franchise)

 

[CBJWerenski8]

I’ve learned not to take anything at all from preseason after 2015 (?) when Saad-Johansen-Foligno led the entire NHL in preseason scoring only for them to get broken up in game 4 in the regular season.

I don’t need the preseason to know we’re going suck.

 

[Mattilaus]

I'm not a Blue Jackets fan - just a busybody who was checking the preseason games and saw the mismatch!

Caps fan so I wanted to see if Malenstyn and Aube-Kubel were on the Sabres roster tonight and how they played.

(I do wish good things for the Blue Jackets though - they've had a lot of shitty things happen to the franchise)

in the admittedly small sample size of two pre-season games so far, the fan base loves these guys.

 

[Seedtype]

Preseason's just a warmup and for young/fringe players work hard to maybe make the team.