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Game #67 – Sabres vs. Hawks Preview/Arm Balance Workshop: Even The Yahoos Don’t Care

By Sam Fels March 7, 2019 0

vs. RECORDS: Sabres 30-28-8   Hawks 27-30-9 PUCK DROP: 7:30 TV: NBCSN Chicago IN A BARREL: Die By The Blade I’ll give you the perspective as a season ticket holder. Normally, the Sabres game is one you can count on unloading for a profit. It usually doesn’t matter what state the Sabres are in, because Buffalo […]

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Game #67 – Sabres vs. Hawks Q&A: Melissa Burgess

By Sam Fels March 7, 2019 0

Melissa Burgess has been a longtime contributor to DieByTheBlade.com, a leading Sabres site. You can follow her on Twitter @_MelissaBurgess. This is the Q&A we did with her a month ago when the Hawks were in Buffalo, and things were a bit rosier for all of us.  The Sabres had an incredible hot streak in […]

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Game #52 – Hawks vs. Sabres Preview/Re-Pantsing: One Vortex To The Next

By Sam Fels February 1, 2019 0

 vs.  RECORDS: Hawks 18-24-9   Sabres 25-19-6 PUCK DROP: 6pm TV: NBCSN Chicago WEARING THE KELSO HELMET: Die By The Blade The Hawks escape the Polar Vortex, and their bye-week, only to arrive in the constant vortex of misery and ice that is Buffalo, New York. As Harry T. Stone once said, “Why don’t you just sleep […]

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Game #52 – Hawks vs. Sabres Spotlight: He’s On Dahlin

By Sam Fels February 1, 2019 0

It shouldn’t come as much of a surprise that Rasmus Dahlin is ahead of his class of rookie defensemen. That should happen when you’re the #1 pick overall, and you’ve been touted as a generational talent since basically your balls dropped. It’s especially so when it’s something of a weak class of weak, neophyte d-men, […]

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Game #52 – Hawks vs. Sabres Q&A: Melissa Burgess

By Sam Fels February 1, 2019 0

Melissa Burgess has been a longtime contributor to DieByTheBlade.com, a leading Sabres site. You can follow her on Twitter @_MelissaBurgess.  The Sabres had an incredible hot streak in the fall, but have been pretty poor since. What was going so right then that’s going so wrong now? They did have an incredible hot streak, but […]

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Game #52 – Hawks vs. Sabres Douchebag Du Jour: It’s Not Easy To Get Replaced By Another Rasmus

By Sam Fels February 1, 2019 0

If you didn’t realize this was Rasmus Ristolainen’s sixth season in the NHL, we’d forgive you. The Sabres have been an afterthought for so long now, if you keep up-to-date on their roster besides Jack Eichel and like, two other dudes, you’ll be making statements about yourself you’re not going to want to revisit. And […]

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You Share The Same Fate As The People You Hate – ’18-’19 Team Previews: Buffalo Sabres

By Matt McClure September 5, 2018 0

Next stop on the Preview Tour in the Flortheast Division are the Buffalo Sabres, who after years of tanking both intentionally and unintentionally, finally landed the top overall pick in a year where it was almost impossible for them to screw it up. The Sabres were dead last in the league in almost any conceivable […]

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Game #72 – Hawks vs. Sabres Preview/Leather Tanning: Lonely Afternoon

By Sam Fels March 17, 2018 0

 vs.  RECORDS: Hawks 30-33-8   Sabres 22-36-12 PUCK DROP: High Noon TV: WGN, NHL Network outside the 606 FIGHTING ON ARRIVAL: Die By The Blade I’ll start this one with a story about what this one feels like. Many years ago, I was sitting in an OTB with my father and Freddie The Beard, something of […]