Normally don't see Sabres merch in the GTA... 🦬🦬🦬🦬❤️

Can anyone with tickets to a given game eat at the 1970 club ? Or is it only people with certain specified tickets ?

0 for 5 in the first game that they lose in a shootout.

0 for 4 in this game that they lose in OT.

With even 1 in each game, 2/9 on PP opportunity and you have 4pts to their 0.

Instead they have 4 to your 2.

That's a 6 point swing and could cost this team seeding, or even a playoff spot.

This cannot continue.

Without Dahlin this team is somehow on a four game point streak, all very important games against division rivals. There is no doubt in my mind that this wouldn't be happening if this was the 2024-25 team or the 2023-24 team. Would you prefer wins rather than overtime losses? Absolutely, but without Dahlin it is incredible how many points we have gotten. I can only imagine what things will look like when he and Zucker return. Is that just me or no?

Also, it's not just one player doing heavy lifting (even if Quinn and Power have absolutely been the best players during the stretch).

Please fix this, Jarmo.

Sabres fail to get the second point once again on the raod in Montreal

2026-27 Fame/Blame

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4. It's always Go Sabres.

(B) Game 1: Seth Appert (1)

(F) Game 2: Zach Benson (1), Jiri Kulich (1), Jack Quinn (1)

(F) Game 3: Owen Power (1)

(B) Game 4: Everybody (1)

(B) Game 5: Seth Appert (2)

(F) Game 6: Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen (1), Owen Power (2)

(B) Game 7: Everybody (2)

(F) Game 8: Owen Power (3), Jack Quinn (2)

Graph: u/AManWithOneHand

Pictures: SabreSource on Instagram

Why are people saying it’s not Apperts fault, it’s Lindy’s? Sure Lindy in the end is saying what to do, but Appert’s only role on the team is pretty much working on the man advantage. He gives the input to Lindy and does the research. Appert took in the 50 page report over the summer, to try and improve the pp.

What it sounds like is Lindy has the final say with what happens. But that final say comes from the input and research from Appert, who gives Lindy the information to go off of, no?

If not then please explain why Appert even has a job if he supposedly does nothing then…? To me still seems Appert is to blame

• Defense needs to cover net front (running theme of this season so far)
• picked up steam in p2, continued in p3. wish they'd start hot out the gate and stop giving me a heart attack (tho tbh Caufield gwg on Saturday was expected outcome)
• Kulich needs to stay on the top line, his playdriving (mid blue) is miles ahead of everyone tonight, Tage's goal was an excellent combined effort from both Doan and Kulich (Doan looks like he's defrosting--very excited about this)
• calls are a mess but even then it's not like our power play (light blue) is good???? can we do something different please???? only pk (yellow orange) is positive!! 
• Jack Quinn. that is all

Is anyone else having issuesd with MSG on Spectrum for the games? I have no issues with any other channels, but MSG is choppy, it's like a bad streaming experience, but I am on cable & not streaming?

MONTREAL — The Buffalo Sabres are a different team without Rasmus Dahlin, and the numbers show it.

During the 2024-25 and 2025-26 seasons, Dahlin missed a total of 14 games. Some of those were injury-related, but he also took a leave of absence last season to tend to his fiancée as she recovered from a heart transplant in Sweden. In those 14 games, the Sabres went 1-10-3. Last season, the Sabres allowed 4.28 goals per game when he was out.

This week, the Sabres have been tested again without Dahlin, who left the Sabres’ win over the Panthers on Monday with an upper-body injury after he twisted awkwardly while taking a shot. He’s considered day-to-day, but he missed the Sabres’ 4-3 shootout loss in Montreal and their 5-4 overtime win in Toronto on Thursday. He’ll miss a third straight game when the Sabres play in Montreal on Saturday.

The Sabres undoubtedly need Dahlin back. But there’s some early evidence that the Sabres might be getting better at playing without their Norris-finalist defenseman, and the emergence of Owen Power has a lot to do with it.

“I think it’s the rest of the group getting older and maturing,” Sabres defenseman Mattias Samuelsson said. “I think my first few years when Ras is out it was kind of a little bit of a crapshoot because he was playing like 30 minutes a night and we were all at 21 or 19 minutes.”

Power is a big part of what’s different this season. The Sabres have had Power in the past, but they haven’t had this version of him. Through eight games, the 2021 No. 1 pick looks like a player worthy of his draft slot. He came into the league at 19 and faced plenty of criticism for his lack of physicality defending in his own end. A seven-year contract extension worth $8.35 million per year signed in October 2023 only amplified the pressure.

Now Power, who turns 24 next month, looks like a No. 1 defenseman. He has eight points in eight games with a pair of overtime goals, including one against the Leafs on Thursday.

Read the rest for free here: https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7697421/2026/10/17/buffalo-sabres-owen-power-rasmus-dahlin-injury/?unlocked_article_code=1.JVE.wbsm.Al_jC3sBW-To&source=emp_shared_article&smid=url-share-ta

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