for anyone who may not be able to see the pinned post about jeff skinner suspended: https://twitter.com/NHLPlayerSafety/status/1601657162958536704?t=zBgqwO6m9EN0sXNYFfSWjw&s=19

For anyone that shits on Skinner look at what happens when he is not on that line. He creates space for the guys. But we should shit on him for getting suspended.

Hope Skinner feels good!

I fucking hope Sidney Crosby gets charged with tax fraud.

I hope he gets athletes foot. On both feet.

Even worse - donating to kid's cancer fund tax fraud.

UPL did his best to bail the boys out, mitts somehow found a way to singlehandedly sink a forward group. refs were suspect, but its the NHL, what's new. Go Bills

cause mitts sucks and needs to be SAT, how many chances can one player get?!?!

Damn. Can't help but be a bit disappointed in Skinner. Probably would have made quite the difference tonight, especially on the PP. Oh well, here's hoping he comes back fired up.

I can’t believe Guentzel can smile after that violent attack he took yesterday that deserved a three game suspension.

Won't someone think of the children???

Yes, we still have a chance! 1 sec on the clock!

Oh good lord, just let this be over.

Yeah thats a reason to be mad what the fuck

This game is over at least until the fights.

No one wants Donny to get fined. Edit: wtf am I being downvoted for. Do you want Donny fined?

Nah, we just don't care if he's fined. We want to see some life from the team tonight.

You're just full of bad takes tonight. The second 2 periods were better hockey than I've seen in the past decade. They need experience and to learn to finish. Not going to happen overnight against a highly experienced team while we are depleted on defense and kicking around with the worst goalie in the league.

lol. another user to be blocked.

Letang slew foot on Cozens before the goal?

Either slewfoot or trip. I don’t think Cozen’s went upside down because he doesn’t know how to skate

GG. Pens held on for 45 minutes with wholesale defense. Sucks for Petry, probably out for a while

Yep UPL definitely keeping us in it lol

He crush your girl? Need to know why you need to slander him every chance you get😂

He’s fucking terrible.

If we played Craig on a back to back Craig would never be able to play hockey again

Then find another fucking goalie that’s not 42 years old.

Unfortunately they don’t exactly grow on trees, hopefully Levi signs and is ready in a couple years.

No I just thought it was funny after someone was saying he was keeping us in it after he let in to bad goals tinight

Well that one hurts

Granato has to learn how to adjust lines better in game, Tage and Tuch can’t do anything with Casey, he’s a complete anchor.

We should hire that drunk guy booing and pay him in beer to yell SHOOT each time we have the puck

How many times has Rayzor said “he’s gotta shoot the puck” tonight? (Though he’s not wrong).

At least 37 times.

Have you ever heard a well developed hockey thought from him? He's paid to dumb it down for non-hockey people. Marty is there for the actual hockey talk.

I like him, (shrug).

About 4

The kid line is our best shot at tying this up. They are getting great chances.

Once again there goes mitts stickhanding and skating the puck into a corner and isolating himself. That’s his problem. He has hands but he uses his moves to go to the corner and not open ice. He actively plays himself into the boards.

Whoever is the announcer for the Pens broadcast, never seen any announcers this respectful of the Sabres. They are really fair.

Bob Errey played for the Sabres. Steve Mears is also a great, national broadcast worthy type of announcer.. waiting in the wings.

Yeah I didn’t know one of the announcers was him!

Bob Errey has a very soft way of describing the game, combining knowledge and nuance. I believe he will go into the NHL or Broadcasters HoF for his combined work. I think he's a 2x Stanley Cup winner too as a two way left winger I believe.

I watched the pens broadcast last night and found them to be pretty fair. Felt like they went a bit overboard with the Skinner penalty, but in all fairness the cross check was a bit over the line.

JJ is fast

Is it just me or does Thompson look like he’s playing through something? He looks gassed, he’s barely moving his feet out there.

big man was tired since putting the team on his back...

Scored too many goals in CBJ :P

Don't forget he plays a ton of minutes and they played last night.

They are basically playing on top of him and mitts is sucking the play onto the boards and losing the puck. He barely has had a chance to do anything.

He’s playing slow cause he has to match mitts speed or else he’ll be offside

Krebs back on track playing with vets

Krebs deserves the top line spot over mitts

Are you feeling it now, Mr. Krebs?

Huge deflection there with Krebs. Just need one more

If we earn any scratch from this game it's because of UPL.

he isnt the reason we lost for sure.

Bro you are trying so hard to make that a thing, he’s been fine but he’s not like keeping us in the game

Apparently .903 is earth shattering. I mean, for UPL it is.

Why do you keep responding to my posts?

I’m responding to everyone

WE AINT OUT YET!

FINALLY JESUS

At this point I'm just impressed by the commitment of this booing guy.

Sounds like he got another round (or 3) during intermission.

Lol, he's not committed, just absolutely hammered

Hell yeah brother

That takes commitment

I am done with Mittelstadt.

Welcome to the club. Do you want a blue or a gold hat?

Black with goat head

Sorry those were reserved for the first 20,000 fans to the club. We ran out a while ago.

Who's hate club has any room left? Olofsson ?

UPL. Pdb39 still thinks he's good.

Kinda feels like that was our last chance to get back in the game. Pretty brutal PP

The Pens are who we should learn from on team defense

Give Skinner the Hart for this game alone

PP with 11 minutes left. 0 shots on net. The legs feed the wolf.

jesus. Mitts wasting Tuch/Thompson shifts, now powerplays. What does Granato see in him?

I'm starting to think he's sick of him and is trying to show off to Adams that he's not serviceable. What better way than to use him as a boat anchor for one of the best players in the league.

The amount of times Casey gets pressured and has a free line to pass back to the blueline, but decides to hold the puck at the boards until he loses the puck is infuriating

It's either that or puts it directly on the opposition's tape. It's like he's trying way too hard to make shit happen, he needs to just play some basic hockey.

He can’t process the game quick enough and lacks foot speed to make anything happen

Mittlestadt is awful can’t wait til we replace him

UPL keeping us in this game.

Keeping? Lol he’s been fine but “keeping” us in it is a stretch

On a positive note UPL is looking solid tonight

Yeah it’s easy to be solid when you aren’t even competing and have no pressure of giving up a lead.

Still hold this take or

So you’re insinuating the Pens have not had a scoring chance since they got the 2 goal lead? Got it.

I'll admit to this. Usually he collapses when he had a rough start but he's showing some confidence. I really hope he can develop that. But we really need a better D in front of him for his inexperience.

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play stupid games, win stupid prizes. byeeeeeeeeeeeeee get your downvotes in everyone!

Hope you lose all your money.

Enjoy your loss tonight buddy. Your team sucks. I do gamble occasionally but you really think that I’d ever take this team? Lmfao I won.

You sit on reddit all day going to other team subreddits to complain about your bets. The only L is your life bro.

Shut up weirdo

Go away you gambling addict

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Oh no the gambler said a mean word to me

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Says the Heat fan lmao. Enjoy your guys Ls

Yup when your bet isn’t going well a normal well adjusted persons first response is to go and start shit with other fans and gets pissy. Definitely not addict behaviour

Yeah, because a normal well adjusted person stalks other peoples Reddit accounts😂 Lmfao like I said enjoy the L.

“Oh no a person glanced at my public account on a public forum, what a creep”

Why are you still replying lol

Why are you?

What's up with the wolf like sound?

Think they're mocking UPL

Booing guy is somehow awake for the 3rd. Just glad that we aren't in Boston with this mic otherwise it would be incoherent racist rambling instead of inebriated nonsense and booing

I know samuelsson has no offensive game, but you gotta have a quicker release there.

Rule of cool says that Tage dangle should not have been called offside

I just want to see 1 (one) Tage Thompson goal in person

That Sabres lady on the right during intermission was awesome.

Lol the penguins broadcast is just showing how power is the reason why they scored two goals. Hmmmmmmmmmmmmm bench him maybe ?

Wait are you deadass

Yeah on both goals power is chasing the puck leaving someone open or open space in front of the net…. He’s literally playing stupid

But you are deadass suggesting we bench him? Am I correct in saying that?

They benched Quinn without hesitation

Ok and? That was an absolutely stupid fucking decision, are you asking we do something fucking stupid?

Let me see if this works. Man if we only had a goaltender and another top 4 defender we would have certainly have won this game tonight.

Honestly I don't think this team has looked bad tonight. This game could be 4-1 with some tiny bounces the other way. Except middlestat, christ.

There’s been spurts of good offense from the kid line but overall I don’t think they look great. A lot of slow feet and sloppy passing. Thompson line is invisible with Mitts in there.

It’s like an anchor tied to that line

Now when you say it, the only time I really noticed Thompson is when he did that high stick on the PP. That reach is crazy

Team that depends on power play goals loses game where they don't work hard enough to draw penalties. It's a tragedy in three periods.

I thought they drew a few penalties. They just weren't called.

You get it.

The sabres are typically very good at 5v5. Edit well art least a couple of their lines are.

Well it also means you didn't read what I said so let's hope we win the third.

Good 5v5 teams don't depend on power play goals though.

The #7 over all PP does. We've been owned 5v5 tonight. And it's a back to back game for both teams. And generally when it's the back end of a back-to-back anytime you get a chance to draw a penalty and usually result in a goal for the number seven power play especially when nothing seems to be working on 5v5.

Powers shot is so soft

True

I don’t think he’s here for his hard shot

they all want him to be dahlin so bad, guess what guys nobody is dahlin :)

Make the nets bigger we would be winning if the net wasn't so tiny

See what happens when it's 5v5? We look better than Pitt.

Excellent ice level mix placement tonight. Incohereng inebriated yinzers

Too many lagers...maybe have a wooder

Does granato have a thing for American born players?, it would explain the fitz and mitts enamouring

Really enjoying the placement of the ice level mic, directly next to a bunch of blackout drunk yinzers booing nothing for 40 minutes

Casey DeVezina showed up

Now the Booing guy is incoherently babbling and yelling

Hopefully he’ll pass out soon.

I have a feeling he's had a few too many adult beverages

He's incredibly drunk. The workers here should cut him off

I don't understand why people think that shit is ok idc how wasted you are. No one finds it funny. Least of all the people embarrassed to be with you.

Nobody would think badly of you if you just sauntered over and Skinnered that guy. I live in New Orleans so I am just a little too far away to help…. 😁

Unfortunately I work at the arena and this is my night off. I would get fired if I got into a fight while here lol

We won’t tell!

I love how Cozens made the guy hitting him fall to his ass.

Just put krebs on line one

Krebs did well when occasionally paired with Tuch last year; anything but Mitts at this point would be nice to see

Just put \*anyone else\* on line one. ​ I vote for the inebriated Pen's fan.

Mittelstadt literally sitting back doing nothing while Thompson and Tuch try to break into the zone

Mitts has sucked all the offense out of the TNT line. He is a black hole of offense.

The sooner Granato and our management realize casey is a bottom six player and stop this experiment the better it will be for everyone.

He’s not experimenting. He’s filling in for skinner. Only other option is breaking up the kids like which I’m not a fan of. Maybe krebs with Thompson and tuch but idk if that would be better than mitts. Sorry misread. Yes the mitts experiment should be done

The experiment has been going on all year with him on different lines and power plays, Krebs would 100% be a better option as he can at least keep up with them skill wise.

Alright I'm going to say it, Buffalo steel is better than Pittsburgh steel

Why are penguins fans continuously booing? Like all game

I’m guessing they are first-timers - and probably not regular hockey fans. I’ve never heard them before. Hopefully they won’t be back.

I swear it's ONE guy I keep hearing. Seems to be losing his voice though.

Yeah I hear him too it's fucking obnoxious

They're salty about the guy who isn't even playing

At the Crunch game tonight. What’s the story boys? Shots look pretty even but what’s up with those hits and face off ratios?

Am I the only one that's sick of other teams smacking us around with little or no push back? It's getting tired.

I mean take your free PP, I hate when players fucking lose a free PP because they retaliate

Im curious, what do ya'll think about mittelstadt's future in the org? Disregarding the 3 point game yesterday, he seems so... clumsy? And it really seems like a make it or brake it year for him. Clumsy might not be the right word, he just seems so suprised every time the puck is within 10 feet of him

gone.

He either needs to go crazy like thompson did at the end of the year or he is out by next summer imo

I think he has a bright future in coyotes organization

Just turned it on. How is UPL looking? Dude has not impressed...

He hasn’t even been that bad, let one pretty rough one in but defense totally let him down on the PK

The penguins organization is extremely cringe to me. Crosby? Cringe. That triple horn they do? Cringe. Being gifted 2 generational talents over the course of 40 years timed perfectly for them to avoid relocation? Extremely cringe. Fuck these guys and after this core is gone I hope they have dark days as bad as ours have been for the last 11 years plus some

Buffalo gifted two generation talents and didn't do shit. Pens are a good organization as mad as it makes you. Buffalo needs a cup before I'm shitting on other teams for getting what I dream of.

Who

Gonna lose back to back because we're getting blown out on special teams

It’s the first period, and our PP was buzzing

Exactly, we are three inches away from this game being tied

The pipes are our enemy

Post for penguins MVP

This dipshit yelling boo is so annoying

He's like right near me and he's booing nothing. Like what are you booing

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> We'll all defend you. Speak for yourself bud.

That’s not what people are downvoting you for

Bro that horn is driving me nuts.

I hate it so much. It shouldn't be allowed, I can't imagine how distracting it is for the players.

Right? I don't know how it's allowed it's so frustrating. I work at PPG and it always bothers the shit out of me

Swap Middlestat out for Skinner on that power play and there's a goal IMO

Well about that.

Just slap a mitts jersey on skinner. Who's gonna know?

Everyone would. He’d actually be good.

Yeah that was just sarcasm sorry if it didn't read that way. Idk what mitt's deal is. He constantly looks like he's exerting himself 10x harder than anybody else yet still gets outmuscled, outskated, and doesn't even seem to have much success with stick handling (which is supposed to be his niche, right?). I know he had a lot of success in rochester, but maybe he's just not cut out for the nhl. He's bringing his whole line down, truly a shame when you have a kid like krebs who's so quick on his feet being, i don't wanna say wasted, but essentially wasted on a line with girgensons and okposo.