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Agreed. No data on if he's been practicing since then, but he has not dressed for a game since then. Ruff does continue to say he's willing to play all 3 and will play whichever one on any given night he thinks will give them the best chance of winning. (And with that said, we haven't seen Ellis dress in about 2 weeks.)

A $15 million player would cost half that, since the season is half over. Obviously still more than $3 million, but the point is that the cap is prorated.

If you aren't going to give him St. Louis and the motivation of "You shouldn't have a waived me. Look at your crap goaltending now" then I don't know when he will play with the 3-headed monster. Goalie Hydra! Question: Has Ellis been practicing since he twinged his back?

Aw, did I hurt your widdle feewings? Do you need mommy to kiss the boo boo?

Samuelsson and Greenway have both been significantly more physical than they've been in past seasons. Don't know if it's due to Ruff harping on physicality ordue to guys like Doan, Dunne, Timmons, and Benson setting the example and shaming the others into playing more physical. Probably a bit of both.

Well, when you actually send pressure, there almost always is SOMEBODY open. The key is, to have that breakdown happen to the side of the field you're chasing the QB away from or at a minimum far down his progressions so that you get to him before he can look to that receiver. Would MUCH prefer they step up the pressure on Mahomes than play like they did on 4th and 17. 2 guys actually getting pressure and a 3rd doing jack gave Mahomes a week and a half back there and enough time for Rice to finally get open. They usually don't pressure Mahomes in the playoffs and they usually get 2 stops the entire game whether they needed those stops or not. They have Josh Allen. Pressure Mahomes and the couple of times that he makes you pay for not getting there, let Josh Allen go clean up the mess and get the score differential back to where it had just been.

Toronto and Montreal also achieved this in the Stanley Cup Final in 1951 with all 5 games going to OT, with Toronto winning the series and Cup 4-1

No Sabres had 5 in 2022 as well...see above...not sure if there are more than this

Yep. Granato was all about puck possession in OT and trying everything you could to get the other guys tired and then, and only then, taking a shot at actually scoring in OT. And it was a pretty successful concept. Ruff doesn't seem to care about possession as much as he has the skaters be more aggressive and go for the win when they can. So far, it's backfired in 4 of the past 5 games, and the only reason it didn't fail in the other game is the exhausted OTers did a good job of not allowing anything in close and UPL was lights out in OT. Take either of those away and we're likely looking at 5 points in the last 5 rather than 6 out of the last 5. And the skaters were more aggressive tha they'd been under Granato last year too.

That's not true, we TIED the team record. This also occurred in 2022 from March 10th-March 23rd.

Well, per UPL, YOUR expectation ain't happening, as HE expects to get the start tomorrow.

Here you go The NHL record for the most consecutive regular season overtime games is five, achieved by the Montreal Canadiens from October 27 to November 8, 1999. This is a team record, and since this is a relatively recent record, it is likely that there is no definitive individual record for most consecutive overtime games in a row. It's worth noting that the record for most playoff overtime games in a single season is 14, set by the Los Angeles Kings in 2013-14. We have tied the record... 1 more to take it.

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As expected. But it would've been nice for them to give Ellis that start against his old organization.

@tom webster, we'll likely have 3 for Union.

Improving the coaching would help in that regard. The same guy drawing up schemes for the PP and late in the game seems to be the same one drawing up the schemes for very late in the game (aka OT) as well. You (usually) can't fix stupid, but you can fire it and put someone better in its place. 😉

Actually a little scary that there were plays to be made by the Chiefs with guys wide open but Mahomes made the wrong decisions.

Well a lot of us here talked about needing to learn how to play together 5 on 5 with better goal tending, so far they are checking that box. Now they need to learn how to do it 3 on 3.

Just wanted to point out that Quinn had just come on the ice so that's why he looks to be in no mans land. He did get to his spot but did little once he was there. Ruff can bitch about the play but he was the guy who threw him over the wall in a defensive situation.

I just want to show some more love for Dunne. I do not want him out of the line up if/when injury guys return. He has added a more physical dynamic and brought out physicality in others since being added. This has been missing for years. Utah game was the first time in I can't remember how long that the Sabres were the physically dominant team. Maybe they play bigger with Geertson around too and maybe Greenway and Doan have changed things. Samuelsson clearly plays bigger this year. All positive signs, but I see Dunne as a catalyst and he has earned his spot.

No Tuch gets criticism but my original post looks at the last man who could stop the play and that was Quinn. You want to dig deeper I laid it out including Tuch. Now I'm not going to say the goal is Tuch's fault because he missed a scoring chance, it doesn't work that way, but he did miss his man in the D zone. BUT, I'm going to add this. If you look closely Tuch is the victim of a near pic by Utah. I'm wondering if this is a designed play for them in OT. They cross on purpose and the other Utah player coming across leads to Tuch taking a step back. Is that just a congestion thing or is it on purpose? I'd have to watch Utah more to see if they try that a lot or not but it's a good play if it's intentional. So yes, Tuch misses his guy but Quinn is still in position to stop the charge to the net. You want to blame both of them I'm fine with that, but it most definitely could have been stopped by Quinn if he plays the man and not the puck (which is what I assume the stick waive was for).

I found this game to be really boring.

UPL has said he'll be starting tomorrow.

These pictures add a lot of color to the discussion. After seeing these, I would agree that Tuch was effectively picked when Keller circled back and that Quinn was in a position to see this develop and should have had the sense to step up and take Keller. Kudos to the UT coaching staff for putting together a nice play - looks like a pick and roll in basketball (except that there was no pass - the "rolling" player kept the puck) - and the opposite to the Sabres coaching staff who did not have their guys ready for such a scenario. Yet another thing for the Sabres to work on in film study and practice.

Kozak practiced and Ruff is hopeful he'll play tomorrow. Norris has begun skating on his own.