All Activity

Of course, but we go bonkers about everything. Last year was bad. The season before was his first in the AHL (age 21) and he put up .910 in 45 games. He'd had good SHL numbers prior to that. Even now, he's a developing goalie who is years from his prime. But he and Cossa (because either could've been taken depending on preference) were both mid-1st round grades as potential franchise goalies. If you draft one of them, maybe you trade Reinhart for a different package. If you're a real GM, maybe you don't trade Reinhart ;-]

Also Chris Brown reports the Bills have to finish ahead of the Pats to win the AFCE.

Will any current players will be on that playoff team?

I mean... his name is Jordan.

Nice. Now add the line where Adams joins the coaching staff....

I can't believe I never knew about the movie Buffalo 66.

You no longer complete me. I mean, we don't complete each other. Of course your reply was exactly the point of my question, which wasn't really a question. I would still wipe Bison french onion dip from the corner of your mouth and taste it.

What does the Tuch trade look like? peanut butter chocolate ice cream stain on the carpet.

I like the version of it where someone clearly marked the moment on the graph where Pegula bought the Sabres with a yellow line...

Well that's good, Buffalo is such a position right now that using 2-3 games to figure out Greenway on the top line can't work long term won't really change much.

This is inaccurate and also doesn't show an understanding of what is happening in the rest of the league. Some of the advanced models do take into account pre-shot puck movement as well as screens, shot type, nearest defender, you could really add any trackable variable to this formula. The other part is you assume that no other team is allowing a cross ice pass for a shot, or a breakaway, or a backdoor look. Most of these models are looking at shots over a 3 year rolling average. These types of plays happen EVERYWHERE on ALL teams. Buffalo's goalies save less of them than the rest of the league. Go ahead and defend UPL or whatever, the fact remains in all metrics that get tracked for goalies in the modern era, he is anywhere from below average to bad. Sure his numbers would improve with a better defense but some of these tracking numbers would not. If he sees an extra 1xG more a start than an average goalie with a bad defense and only sees .5xG more with a good one, that washes out in numbers. Basically if he sees 10 hard shots and saves 8 versus 5 hard shots and saves 4, it's the same.

Matt MArtin? One of the tougher guys to ever play in the league compared to Greeway? Bad comparison.

tough to rebound against.

I think this site would have gone bonkers mad if we had selected Wallstedt with that pick. He lights out right now but the Wild has for the most part been a defensive oriented team where goaltenders do well. Wallstedt may turn out to be a fine goalie but looking at his AHL stats you have to think he could go bad and any moment. in 27 games last year he had a .879 save percentage. That is bad for an AHL goaltender. Let's wait and see if he holds up before we complain about not going after him.

Saved for posterity. Hurts just looking at it.

I questioned whether it was, but, the Bills were in the Super Bowl this year, the game aired on Hallmark, and like a good massage it had a happy ending, thus proving there is a God.

Oh? You mean this gate key?

When we eventually make the playoffs it’s going to be incredibly fun if I’m alive. But it’s gonna be incredible I imagine this place will also (finally) be opened up to a world of new conversation and posters will really get a chance to shine There are a lot of folks being let down by an in-opportunity to experience a non-historical drought landscape - and the conversations that will come from simply being able to talk about an actual hockey team

I was looking for it last week and couldn’t find it. I think Pete had it scrubbed from the Internet for Mr. Pegula.

There’s a little man that sits inside the goal that you can’t see, right behind the goal line on top of the camera at the back, who makes the call in real time sometimes on the broadcast you can hear a very faint “ow! goal..” when they get hit by the puck but still make the call

Stick salute fiasco put them beyond compare. Personality of their GM

They did in fact count all the berths as official playoff berths “On May 28, the NHL stated that both the round-robin and the qualifying round were to be counted under playoff records, on the same day that the league declared the winners of the stats-based regular season NHL awards.[7]” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_Stanley_Cup_playoffs

I’m taking the Tage Thompson approach to the Sabres: sometimes I’ll be interested and motivated to watch: and sometimes I won’t.

No, the lowest point in franchise history always comes with the turn of your day calendar. Every day is the new lowest point as we are further from the playoffs with no action being taken. Every day the decision is made to make no changes is objectively worse than the one that came before Damn should have read this first. Spot on But it’s not a loss tonight that makes it the new lowest, it comes tomorrow morning regardless of result tonight. It’s a placeholder regime - their narrative is written in stone

Yes, every game is either the final straw or the beginning of the turnaround. No in-betweens. This post should honestly be pinned at the top of every GDT