Buffalo Sabres vs. Florida Panthers [Game Threads]
by David Oleksy on Nov 18, 2009 6:00 PM EST
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PrintFlorida Panthers at Buffalo Sabres, Nov 18, 2009 7:00 PM EST
| Buffalo Sabres (12-4-1, 25pts) |
Game # 18 |
Florida Panthers (7-9-2, 16pts) |
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| Date: | November 18, 2009 |
Location: | Buffalo, NY |
| Time: | 7:00 p.m. ET |
Arena: | HSBC Arena |
| TV: | MSG |
SBN Affiliate/ Blogs | Litter Box Cats |
| Radio: |
WGR (550AM) |
Season Series | BUF 1-0-0, FLA 0-1-0 |
| Final Score | |||
| Buffalo Sabres | Category | Florida Panthers |
| 46 (2.7) | Goals For | 45 (2.5) |
| 37 (2.2) | Goals Against | 61 (3.4) |
| 573 (33.7) | Shots For | 516 (28.7) |
| 507 (29.8) | Shots Against | 640 (35.6) |
| 16/85 - 18.8% (T-17) | Power Play | 10/72 - 13.9% (T-26) |
| 11/62 - 82.3% (9) | Penalty Kill | 19/72 - 73.6% (29) |
Game Notes
- The Sabres begin this game with a three game winning streak that included wins against the Calgary Flames and the Philadelphia Flyers.
- The Sabres are third in the league with a 1.35 5-on-5 differential, ironically they are behind the Philadelphia Flyers (1.42) and Calgary Flames (1.37) the two teams they have beaten most recently.
- Thomas Vanek is on a three game point streak with a goal and two assists in his last three games.
- Cory Stillman has two goals and an assist in his last two games.
- The Sabres beat the Florida Panthers 5-2 on October 21. Five different Sabres scored goals in the game.
- Drew Stafford will return to the lineup tonight. Toni Lydman is healthy enough to return but might be a healthy scratch because of the good defensive play of the team.
Projected Starting Goalies
Expected Lines
SPG Game
I quickly put up a post before the first game that explained the SPG Game. Unfortunately I did not do a very good job of explaining it. I will try to do a better job of explaining the game and the objective in this post. As always , if there are any questions send me an e-mail or ask in the comments.
What is the SPG Game?
"SPG" is an acronym for "Shot", "Penalty" and "Goal". The object of the game is to predict which Buffalo Sabres player will have the first shot, penalty and goal for each period.
How Does it Work?
You receive one point for every correct prediction you make. This gives you a potential for nine points in a regulation game, 12 points in an overtime game and 14 points in a shootout.
How Do I Sign Up?
The SPG Game is free to play with a special thanks to Gary Perez for building the platform that drives these statistics. You can sign up by visiting this page and creating account. After creating account you will have to visit the game page to make your selections.
Prizes?
There will be prizes available for the winner of each month as well as a grand prize winner at the conclusion of the regular season. The winner of the grand prize at the end of the season will win a Buffalo Sabres jersey. We will start out small by giving away a Buffalo Sabres poster to the winner of the October SPG Game.
Congrats to zaniac75 on winning the October prize of a Buffalo Sabres poster. I will be sending that out shortly.
Mobile Site
Remember that you can visit http://mobile.diebytheblade.com to visit the mobile site and you can comment from wherever you watch the game. Hope to see you here.
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Pretty dead around here.
Good guys, 3-1. Sabres get their second empty-netter of the year after going 472 years without one.
by HarryNeale'sGarden on Nov 18, 2009 6:27 PM EST reply actions
It's still early
people usually pop in after the game has already started.
D.O.
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by David Oleksy on Nov 18, 2009 6:31 PM EST up reply actions
Id like to see a vanek pp goal tonight. And of course a win haha.
"I don't know how to explain it but we seem to find eachother on the ice and make things happen... Yeah. Pass, shoot, score... Yeah. Pass.. Shoot.. And score."
by bflo on Nov 18, 2009 6:38 PM EST via mobile reply actions
I smell a hat trick for someone tonight. Idk why but ive had that feeling all day.
"I don't know how to explain it but we seem to find eachother on the ice and make things happen... Yeah. Pass, shoot, score... Yeah. Pass.. Shoot.. And score."
by bflo on Nov 18, 2009 6:44 PM EST via mobile reply actions
Ennis?
Does anyone know if Ennis is still with the team? I know Stafford is expected to return tonight….
No
he was sent back to Portland
D.O.
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by David Oleksy on Nov 18, 2009 7:01 PM EST up reply actions
Evening all. This should be an entertaining game if nothing else.
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by Zachary Zielonka on Nov 18, 2009 7:01 PM EST reply actions
let's hope
it’s games like this one that scare me.
D.O.
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by David Oleksy on Nov 18, 2009 7:03 PM EST up reply actions
I know its early, but do the stands look really dead?
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by Zachary Zielonka on Nov 18, 2009 7:04 PM EST reply actions
Wednesday night against Florida isn’t going to fill the seats.
Is tonight a “value” game though? That might stick a few extra butts in the seats, but not expecting a sellout.
Yeah, thats the thing, most of the value games sell out. Usually they are a hard ticket to find.
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by Zachary Zielonka on Nov 18, 2009 7:05 PM EST up reply actions
I know there are tickets left
they were pumping it on Sabres.com
D.O.
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by David Oleksy on Nov 18, 2009 7:06 PM EST up reply actions
did you try here: atdhe.net?
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by Zachary Zielonka on Nov 18, 2009 7:08 PM EST up reply actions
Yeah, the stream there isn’t working. Channelsurfing as well, and there’s nothing on justin.tv.
Bills fan? In Colorado? It's more likely than you think.
by UZ on Nov 18, 2009 7:11 PM EST up reply actions
mee too
D.O.
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by David Oleksy on Nov 18, 2009 7:10 PM EST up reply actions
I can’t find one for the life of me.
Bills fan? In Colorado? It's more likely than you think.
by UZ on Nov 18, 2009 7:14 PM EST up reply actions
All right, ATDHE is up now!
Bills fan? In Colorado? It's more likely than you think.
by UZ on Nov 18, 2009 7:20 PM EST up reply actions
Anyone else not get the game in MSG HD?
I went to MSG HD and it told me to “tune to channel 1028 to watch the game in HD.” I did, the channel was labeled “SABRE.” Its fine, but I found it strange. This happen to anyone else? Do the Sabre’s have their own channel?
yes channel 700
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by Zachary Zielonka on Nov 18, 2009 7:17 PM EST up reply actions
that was buffalo time warner as a heads up
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by Zachary Zielonka on Nov 18, 2009 7:19 PM EST up reply actions
HE'S GOT IT! HE'S GOT IT! I SWEAR TO YA HE'S GOT IT!
Bills fan? In Colorado? It's more likely than you think.
I know, I switched over from the stream to look at a site and suddenly I hear RJ screaming HE’S GOT IT
Bills fan? In Colorado? It's more likely than you think.
by UZ on Nov 18, 2009 7:27 PM EST up reply actions
Daaaaamn.
"I don't know how to explain it but we seem to find eachother on the ice and make things happen... Yeah. Pass, shoot, score... Yeah. Pass.. Shoot.. And score."
by bflo on Nov 18, 2009 7:22 PM EST via mobile reply actions
So close
nice pass and shot by Staff and Van.
D.O.
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Score
how did that get in?
D.O.
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Beautiful
it wasn’t pretty but that is a great goal. Nice hard play in front of the net.
D.O.
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by David Oleksy on Nov 18, 2009 7:34 PM EST up reply actions
Good things happen when you score goals!
Sabres looking good tonight.
You are correct sir
D.O.
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by David Oleksy on Nov 18, 2009 7:39 PM EST up reply actions
Didn’t Vokoun just step in front of him to slow him down? Didn’t look like much to me.
"We want to win immediately. To say you're building is an incomplete sentence. ... You're building for a future coach and general manager."
-Marv Levy
he may have but he was in the blue paint for sure.
D.O.
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by David Oleksy on Nov 18, 2009 7:41 PM EST up reply actions
um, yes
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by Zachary Zielonka on Nov 18, 2009 7:39 PM EST up reply actions
Well, it’s only the first period…
Bills fan? In Colorado? It's more likely than you think.
by UZ on Nov 18, 2009 7:40 PM EST up reply actions
I'm guessing jinx
D.O.
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by David Oleksy on Nov 18, 2009 7:40 PM EST up reply actions
the funny thing is during the Philly game I mentioned shutout and they got a shorthanded goal.
…So ummm… lets try this- I declare the Panthers will win by 10. There we go.
Lets try this
Would it be jinxing to say a Derek Roy goal is next??
by destinsabresfan on Nov 18, 2009 7:43 PM EST reply actions
Really not a great period
PP seemed to shift the momentum a bit. They had us running around in our own zone for a significant portion of the last 10 minutes.
Teams are really forechecking our defense hard as of late. Forwards need to stop lounging around in the neutral zone and get back to carry the puck a bit. I don’t ever want to see Monty trying to leg it out again for a long time.
by HarryNeale'sGarden on Nov 18, 2009 7:48 PM EST reply actions
Roby really gets on my nerves sometimes.
If he didn’y buy me a beer at the last game I went to, I might not like him.
by HarryNeale'sGarden on Nov 18, 2009 7:50 PM EST reply actions
You mean Mike has been known to down a beer or two? Never would have guessed that…
by destinsabresfan on Nov 18, 2009 7:53 PM EST up reply actions
I left the sound on and flipped over to watch some basketball.
He sounds exactly like Grapes when you’re not looking at him. EXACTLY.
by HarryNeale'sGarden on Nov 18, 2009 7:56 PM EST up reply actions
Except for all that euro bashing and everything.
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by Zachary Zielonka on Nov 18, 2009 7:57 PM EST up reply actions
If I had to look at those jackets for 82 games, I might have burnt retinas by the end of the season.
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by Zachary Zielonka on Nov 18, 2009 7:59 PM EST up reply actions
Wow
a terrible play by Sekera and a brain fart by Miller.
D.O.
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Talk about a goal that he is going to want back
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by Zachary Zielonka on Nov 18, 2009 8:03 PM EST up reply actions
If you insist, we’ll blame you :P
Bills fan? In Colorado? It's more likely than you think.
by UZ on Nov 18, 2009 8:03 PM EST up reply actions
Maybe you should sit the next few plays out…
"We want to win immediately. To say you're building is an incomplete sentence. ... You're building for a future coach and general manager."
-Marv Levy
More likely than you think? I used to live in Oneida.
Bills fan? In Colorado? It's more likely than you think.
by UZ on Nov 18, 2009 8:06 PM EST up reply actions
Wow what a fluke.
See what I mean about our defense having issues carrying the puck tonight? That whole sequence was set up by an awful giveaway by Monty. Again.
by HarryNeale'sGarden on Nov 18, 2009 8:03 PM EST reply actions
The guy on the dump button isn’t doing his job
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by Zachary Zielonka on Nov 18, 2009 8:05 PM EST up reply actions
Lindy is not pleased
With extremely good reason. Our forwards are fucking cherry-picking.
by HarryNeale'sGarden on Nov 18, 2009 8:05 PM EST up reply actions
Hey, it works in NHL 10…
Bills fan? In Colorado? It's more likely than you think.
by UZ on Nov 18, 2009 8:07 PM EST up reply actions
Kaleta must have said something rude about Allen’s mother
by HarryNeale'sGarden on Nov 18, 2009 8:06 PM EST reply actions
I was completely unaware it was a Power Play for the first 1:30
That’s how bad it was.
Bills fan? In Colorado? It's more likely than you think.
Pitiful
is the first thing that comes to mind
D.O.
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by David Oleksy on Nov 18, 2009 8:10 PM EST up reply actions
AUGH, they need to stop doing those pretty behind the back passes, they almost get intercepted every time.
Bills fan? In Colorado? It's more likely than you think.
Passing in general
they are trying to make the perfect pass instead of shooting the puck.
D.O.
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by David Oleksy on Nov 18, 2009 8:13 PM EST up reply actions
We are really not a very good play-from-behind team.
I feel like we’re the Hasek-Sabres reincarnated. Unbeatable when we get a lead. Anything but when we don’t. We still panic too easily.
Maybe we were just spoiled by the lockout teams.
by HarryNeale'sGarden on Nov 18, 2009 8:14 PM EST reply actions
but we DID get a lead…
Bills fan? In Colorado? It's more likely than you think.
by UZ on Nov 18, 2009 8:22 PM EST up reply actions
There is a telling stat for the night, 14-6 in giveaways
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by Zachary Zielonka on Nov 18, 2009 8:17 PM EST reply actions
The Sabres always have more giveaways at home. Maybe it is the stat guy trying to be fair…I think it has more to do with arbitration hearings but that is just my opinion.
D.O.
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by David Oleksy on Nov 18, 2009 8:19 PM EST up reply actions
Now there’s a worthwhile consipracy theory
by HarryNeale'sGarden on Nov 18, 2009 8:26 PM EST up reply actions
I thought about doing a post about it
but the Sabres already hate me and I’m not really sure why so I figured I better not do it. I have no problem criticizing the team but that might cross the line.
D.O.
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by David Oleksy on Nov 18, 2009 8:29 PM EST up reply actions
Maybe I will anyway
I’ll have to think about it.
D.O.
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by David Oleksy on Nov 18, 2009 8:30 PM EST up reply actions
I'm not really sure
I had press credentials to the draft through the NHL. When I came back I contacted them and tried to thank them for their help and see what I could do to build a relationship. I never heard back so I contacted them again and I got an e-mail that said they don’t work with independent sites and I should not contact them again. They said if they changed their mind they would contact me.
I could see if I was asking for game credentials but I wasn’t. I was hoping to be put on a mailing list or possibly have an opportunity to interview someone in the organization and they were pretty blunt when they declined.
D.O.
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by David Oleksy on Nov 18, 2009 8:34 PM EST up reply actions
Maybe they don't hate me
they just don’t want anything to do with the site, even though SB Nation has a working relationship with the NHL.
D.O.
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by David Oleksy on Nov 18, 2009 8:36 PM EST up reply actions
Yeah, the Sabres react when they have to. They aren’t the most progressive of teams.
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by Zachary Zielonka on Nov 18, 2009 8:37 PM EST up reply actions
Better kill this off
D.O.
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They're forechecking like madmen
And there’s not a damn thing we can do about it. Our zone breakouts are putrid.
by HarryNeale'sGarden on Nov 18, 2009 8:18 PM EST reply actions
Well if we’re going to lose, you know they’re going to pot one here on us.
6-0-1 in one-goal games.
by HarryNeale'sGarden on Nov 18, 2009 8:20 PM EST reply actions
I just got back as well, I’m assuming we’re still down 2-1?
Bills fan? In Colorado? It's more likely than you think.
by UZ on Nov 18, 2009 8:46 PM EST up reply actions
The Sabres were better that period
If not for the brain fart by Miller this game would be tied.
D.O.
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It wouldn’t be as much of a problem if the offense wasn’t so damn dysfunctional tonight.
Bills fan? In Colorado? It's more likely than you think.
by UZ on Nov 18, 2009 8:55 PM EST up reply actions
I was wondering the same thing. One of the only things I don’t like about Lindy is his propensity to tinker with lines the instant things aren’t going well.
I don’t mind it – when it works. The thing I don’t like about it is that it throws the rolling four lines thing right out the window.
That is wy we are better with the lead
We all say the team doesn’t have it in them to come back but anytime we are losing, Ruff changes all the lines. What about chemistry with your linemates? I always say if the new lines are better than you should probably have started the game with them.
D.O.
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by David Oleksy on Nov 18, 2009 9:08 PM EST up reply actions
Ever since Oct. 21
when we scored five goals in the first period at Florida, we have been pretty much anemic, scoring-wise.
More fancy passes
Shoot the puck and go to the net.
D.O.
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And just like that...
they score and get back in the game.
D.O.
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The general!
"I don't know how to explain it but we seem to find eachother on the ice and make things happen... Yeah. Pass, shoot, score... Yeah. Pass.. Shoot.. And score."
by bflo on Nov 18, 2009 9:13 PM EST via mobile reply actions
The general!
"I don't know how to explain it but we seem to find eachother on the ice and make things happen... Yeah. Pass, shoot, score... Yeah. Pass.. Shoot.. And score."
by bflo on Nov 18, 2009 9:13 PM EST via mobile reply actions
And we have ourselves a game. Hope we don’t see too much of one guy trying to do it by himself.
Just put the puck on net. Good things happen that way…
That was a good chance
D.O.
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by David Oleksy on Nov 18, 2009 9:15 PM EST up reply actions
We see that play all the time
if that wasn’t Kaleta it wouldn’t have been called but it’s a penalty anyway.
D.O.
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by David Oleksy on Nov 18, 2009 9:18 PM EST up reply actions
Ok Afino – you were right. I’m waving the flag for tonite. Sometimes you’re the bug, sometimes you’re the windshield.
Yeah, I was going to have major egg on my face there for a minute, wasn’t I?
At least I can come back and admit it :)
No offense
I wish you would have. I hate losing.
D.O.
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by David Oleksy on Nov 18, 2009 10:25 PM EST up reply actions
Myers
I don’t think he knew the goalie was pulled…where is the communication?
D.O.
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4 goals in the 3rd??
Were the Bills playing for the Sabres?
Delightfully Ignoring The Truth since 1995.
by NeverendingOptimism on Nov 18, 2009 9:53 PM EST via mobile reply actions
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