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Sign the Italian goalie up as our future franchise goalie!!!

Glad I have peacock.

Now 41 shots to 5. This is not entertaining.

Broten was my third guess. Dave Christian second. I really thought Morrow had a longer career.

The US vs Latvia game was so tough on Elvis Merzlikins that the US team wore him out after two periods. There was a shot of him struggling for breath after one prolonged period of US possession in the Latvia zone.

Mens league is almost just as bad.

I think they tried just that a few years ago. And the scenario you present is so rare you might have one person a game in the plight, maybe. And that poor schmuck wouldn't have one local family member to get a ticket for him?

I was watching at a restaurant and USA hadnt scored yet. I thought the goalie was saving everything. Must started scoring when i left

USA women vs. Italy is almost unfair. 29-2 shot advantage nearly half way thru and USA up 4 zip. Italian goalie will need to be treated for shell shock when this is over.

That was going to be my guess too.

I was thinking Neal Broten? Got me by mere moments

My first thought was Brock Nelson's uncle, but I'll go with Neal Broten. He, Ramsey and Christian were the only 3 1980 US team members to play 1000 NHL games.

Please see my edit of the post you responded to. Misinterpreted your question. Sorry about that.

Are we thinking of same players and just have different numbers?? Good guess, but no.

Without thinking about it, first name in my head, Ken Morrow

Duh, but the cooler question is what player played the exact same # of regular season NHL games as Ramsey did. EDIT: and looking up to verify how many #1 played, it's 121 more games, not just 29. Double EDIT: Late on a Friday afternoon after a long week. Thought you'd been referring to the Sabres not the US 80 Olympic team. Sorry. D'oh!

Its as if JohnC and JimC were stat lines.

46 years ago the miracle on ice took place. The great Mike Ramsey went on from there to play in 1070 regular season games in the NHL, which was the second most by a member of that team. One player played exactly 29 more games than Ramsey. Who was that player?

I would not read into like that. Both were brought in by the previous GM.

Having unsold tickets is an argument to sell tickets to whoever wants to go to a Sabre home game. What do you think the Bills Mafia response would be if they were told that they couldn't buy tickets to a Dolphins game in Miami? And that is a game in which thousands of Bills fans from western NY make the trip for the game and sunshine. What you do to others can be done to you!

Historically, (post-70's sellout streak, but pre-waiting list post-lockout teams), the team would play to ~65-80% full barns on weeknights and 85-100% full barns on weekends prior to the Christmas break and 85-100% full barns on weeknights and 95-100% full barns on weekends by the time February rolled around and the NFL was in the rear view mirror. And then the next year, regardless of how successful they were the previous year, they'd be in more or less the same place as they were the previous year and the cycle repeated typically. The wildcard in whether that will be the way things go again moving forward now that the Sabres have apparently rejoined the NHL is how does the 2ndary ticket market affect these cycles. It more or less didn't exist prior to that; at least not relative to what exists now.

Though both have only played in the NHL for the Sabres, they both have played many games in the AH. Thought he was stating that he didn't know off-hand which goalie had a better AHL squad in front of him. (The numbers for both were presented for both AHL and NHL performance.)

Not taken personally. But I have to ask how many years of winning does it take for the fans to return? They are winning now and sit in a playoff position.

Hopefully Appert was watching.

Maybe both Ellis and Levi are viewed as our future tandem? UPL could potentially be trade bait and Lyon is only signed through the 26-27 season. I’m not saying I would agree with that strategy.