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The Sabres, 10 Games Deep: 3 Things

Posted by Scott Michalak on February 6, 2013 at 10:02 am

Hey we’re only 2 points out of a playoff spot!

From there, it’s all bad news.

Let’s quickly get the caption puns out of the way, before we go into actual analysis:

planecrash 300x186 The Sabres, 10 Games Deep: 3 Things

“2 points out? The plane has crashed into the Goddamned mountain!!”

alive movie 300x214 The Sabres, 10 Games Deep: 3 Things

But we’re still ALIVE. Now, who gets eaten first?

Drastic times call for drastic measures.

Onto the analysis…

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Tags: Fire Lindy Ruff, sabres analysis, sabres struggles

An Open Letter to the Buffalo Sabres

Posted by Scott Michalak on February 5, 2013 at 12:09 pm

Here’s a dose of levity for you wonderful people, as we all explode the Internet over testing the trade market with Thomas Vanek.

A note to the Buffalo Sabres’ 2nd, 3rd, and 4th lines:

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Sabres GIFs: the #VanekSlapshot Explodes Rask

Posted by Scott Michalak on February 1, 2013 at 8:27 am

Last night was kinda fun.

Last night was really fun for Thomas Vanek, who notched his latest hat trick, continuing his remarkable early season run.

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Tags: rask got sploded, thomas vanek hat trick, tuuka rask, vanek slapshot

#SabresMafia: Stop it, Buffalo.

Posted by Scott Michalak on January 31, 2013 at 12:58 pm

We might just have to make a “Stop it, Buffalo” series.

On the heels of the success of the #BillsMafia, someone decided to copy-paste it into the Sabres game chat and try to make it a hockey thing.

#SabresMafia is going to be a thing? Well, we also get copycat serial killers. Not sure which is worse.

— Scott Michalak (@ScottyMCSS) January 30, 2013

Now breathe in, and do this with me:

GROOOOOOOOAAAAN/scream into pillow

I wasn’t going to write about this Sabres “mafia,” but it’s becoming a Thing, so… here… we… go…

4 Hot Takes:

1. The Sabres Mafia is Gaining Traction

Which is embarrassing.

The hilariously NSFW Bruins blog “Days of Y’Orr” was all too happy to pick up on this copycat effort. Here’s a few gems:

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Tags: hockey mob, sabers merfia, sabres mafia, stop it buffalo, two in the box

Sabres GIFs: “Mikhail YOU doin’?!?”

Posted by Scott Michalak on January 30, 2013 at 11:53 am

…is just one of the many, many better ways Rick Jeanneret could have called Mikhail Grigorenko’s first career goal in the NHL (and ours involves a horrendous “Friends” reference). Instead, we got this:

Shoveled into the net from behind, and the Buffalo Sabres have managed to come back and tie this game, and they wanted the guy to get it, and the guy who got it was the fellow who was just signed into the NHL for a season early in the day confirmed, Mikhail Grigorenko!

We’ll absolutely give the Poet of the Pressbox the benefit of the doubt on his mouth-diarrhea, given his recent illness and general awesomeness. He’ll make up for it, folks.

And frankly, it kinda fits. I think all our brains went a little fizzy when our latest Buffalo Sports Savior notched his first goal. I think we all went a little giddy and goofy, and that’s a good thing.

Oh and speaking of giddy and goofy, this happened, too:

i3l1 Sabres GIFs: Mikhail YOU doin?!?

Foligno just took hockey hugs to a new level. Pretty sure he’s going to have to marry Grigorenko now.

— Scott Michalak (@ScottyMCSS) January 30, 2013

Good thing Mike Weber got in there to spray them with snow and cool them off before things got serious.

Put it all together, and here’s how it all went down after Grig’s first goal:

Awkward, yet somehow fitting call
Awesome hockey hug/dry hump
Spray the rookie down hells yea!

Let’s not forget the goal earned the Sabres a critical point. And again, we give RJ all of the benefits of all of the doubts here. We advise you do the same. Otherwise, you have to go through: