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Got it. NP. My biggest concerns going into this seasons are: 1. Can our goaltending give us a repeat performance of last season? 2. How will we replace Tuch, and I mean more than replacing his 33 goals and 66 points. Byram will be missed but adding Zellweger and Crevier is a decent and cost effective attempt to help.

Sorry if I wasn't clear: Greenway might be a better PKer than Tuch, Tuch is a much better hockey player overall and will be missed far more in that context. My posts were strictly in the context of the PK.

Offensive production aside, I think Tuch gives more than Greenway. Tuch is reliable and played in 79 games, 1500 minutes, ATOI = 19:00 , Greenway is not reliable and played 40 games, 497 minutes, ATOI = 12:27. No doubt Greenway is a good PK guy, probably better at the PK than Tuch, but look at how many PK minutes he played versus Tuch? As you pointed out, Greenway had a much better SH GA/60 than Tuch. Yet Lindy had Tuch out on the PK a lot more. SH TOI: Tuch 2.27, Greenway 1:47. Other stats were you might expect a 4th liner to outperform a top 6. Shots Blk Hits Takeaways +/- Tuch 90 82 34 +24 Greenway 22 57 6 -10 I liked a healthy Greenway on the PK and on the 4th line, but he will not be a bigger loss than Tuch.

He’s one of the scariest goalies to watch we’ve had in a while: he seems all effort and I prefer goalies who look effortless. I don’t trust him at all but management clearly does. If he shows anything in camp, I won’t be surprised to see Lyon moved. If they really believe in him as the heir apparent, he needs to play.

This is why the Power/Crevier combo intrigues me. Has to be the longest D pair in the league. Power’s 4.76 PPGA/60 ranked 6th among NHL D with over 100 PK minutes. Crevier was 8th at 4.82. It has to be taken into account that - unlike Tuch - most of Power’s time was against 2nd units.

My Father In Law was an improved HAWK Battery Company Commander in the late 70s and early 80s stationed at Fort Bliss, his battalion traveled to White Sands to do live fire exercises once or twice a year

PK effectiveness can be hard to quantify, but this is how the Sabres most-used forwards ranked in PP goals against/60: Greenway 2.43 Malenstyn 4.12 Benson 5.90 Kozak 6.43 Tuch 8.12 McLeod 8.22 Greenway’s number is from limited minutes due to injury, but is elite compared to regular killers league-wide. Tuch may have been great at scoring shorties, but his effectiveness at preventing PP goals was pedestrian: 59th in the league out of the 108 forwards who played 100 minutes SH.

There's also the issue that Benson takes up less room on the pk. The pk is a place were space matters more.

People in the organization like him and were willing to let Levi go to keep him. I like his focus and anticipation, he looks like he can read the play that is coming. I am a little concerned about some of his mechanics, especially when he is down, he has trouble covering loose pucks. He gave up too many goals by failing to cover loose pucks, sometimes after multiple attempts to do so. This should be something he can work on and correct.

I caught this on a second read of this thread. Greenway missed more than Tuch? I seriously doubt that, but the healthy version of Greenway will be missed. Putting big PK miles on Benson and then expecting him to drive a top 2 line is a bit much. I am concerned about the PK, and having a healthy Danforth is not alleviating them at all.

Calendar reports two: 1996-97 & 2009-10. I guess the year the Sabres won the President’s Trophy does not count? The crazy thing is I knew this was wrong so I asked CoPilot how many times the Sabres won the Northeast Division (easy to do as I am at work and have a license). And it told me four (erroneously including 1998-99)! I even said doublecheck 98-99 because I didn’t remember that, and it doubled down and confirmed the hallucination! Chat—we are cooked. Anyway, the answer is 3. Sept 8: FACT Don Edwards set a Sabres team goaltender record with a 13-game point streak in the 1979-80 season. It took me a long time to understand the calendar was referencing team-earned points and not a goaltender scoring point streak. A goalie who had an assist in 13 straight games would have been cray cray.

They see something in him. Waiver pickup, carry 3 goalies all year so they don’t lose him, let Levi go. He could have a more prominent role with injuries or a trade. We know what Lyon is, Ellis is still a potential good goalie.

Curious to see Ellis this year. Ik he seems like a whatever add on, but he intrigues me.

Oh we've reached batshit crazy. If Obama had posted AI slop of him attacking the Canadian PM with a hockey stick, Republicans would have impeached him immediately. We're totally cooked as a country. Lake Ontario is now a natural boundary protecting Canada from US aggression.

Benson----Norris----Thompson Östlund----Kulich----Doan Zucker-----McLeod---Quinn Krebs-----Carrick-----Malenstyn Sandersson/Dahlin Power/Crevier Zellweger/Timmons UPL A trade for a Winnipeg Goaltender will screw everything up for me and everyone else.

I went last spring. Food culture is strong. Details to follow when I have more time.

I’ve always wanted to go to Taos. Probably one of the only places of note in NM I haven’t been to. Maybe one of these years. Were you skiing while you were there?

Ok thanks. I learned something today.

You are correct in that Congress passes laws (assuming the court says the proposed laws are constitutional). Executive Orders are not laws and they can be changed (or removed) by the next President. The Supreme Court has found some of the Trumps tariff related executive orders to be executive branch overreach and therefore over turned them. Trump has found other ways to get some of them in.

Within weeks of graduating college, I moved out to Taos New Mexico for a year, and it was one of the best years of my life. Me and some friends lived in a converted Buddhist meditation temple right in the town and had the time of our lives. Most people who didn’t live their permanently lived in the ski valley, but since one of our friends grew up in the town, we felt, and we treated like one the locals. three of our girlfriends from college lived in Santa Fe for the year so that was fun to go back-and-forth on the weekends. It certainly isn’t the same now as it was back in the early 90s.

For the most part you are correct - the biggest thing is that normally the president is not a man-child and focuses on things that they at least think really matter. Every president signs executive orders for things they think will take too long to pass congress, or perhaps not pass at all. They tend to be unpopular with "the other side", but are generally supported as part of the platform that the president thought got them elected. Since I have stayed mostly factual, I will stop there.

Sorry to hear this. I hate hearing this and what is happening. I did some work at White Sands Missile Range. Had a tour of Trinity. Weird things happen there. New Mexico overall is weird in a good way. Land of enhancement? To me fun to visit but can’t do that geography and weather for very long. I like the food, chiles in just about anything if that is your thing. Been to Albuquerque a few times. Santa Fe as interesting to visit

That is fair. I was trying to be lighthearted but your point is correct. Thanks for your explanation. Our best hope is it starts with the mid terms coming up and things flip Dems and it neuters his ability to do things until he is done. It’s been a decade of hearing about this guy every single day and the stupid and illegal stuff he does and says. I just need him to disappear out of social discourse for good at this point. He has threatened and hurt too many people at this point.

Good info. Maybe we should turn this into a series. Pick a random state every month and ask "what's the fun stuff to do?"

Norris has played only 40 something games for Buffalo. I don't think we can rely on him filling that role.