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While I am at it, I'll let him know my thoughts on 3v3 OT and shootouts.

Flyers backup Samuel Ersson was the first goalie off the ice at the morning skate, indicating we are getting the backup tonight (per Jordan Hall of NBC Sports Phili). He’s 4-2-2 with an .859%. Ripe for the picking!

I think it's more, Terry is getting PO'd about the cash hemorrhaging that his lap dog GM produces, and is forcing certain decisions, ala personnel, which IMO is a TERRIBLE way to manage a squad's "assets." And, around and around we go 😵‍💫

Is it a TNT blackout? edit: just checked, nope, it’s on my menu, no local blackout……. why want to give me a cardio workout so early in the day 😜

You can drink but watching this game will be a problem... "The only place to hear Dan Dunleavy and Rob Ray is on WGR Sports Radio 550 as this is a radio only game." 😠

That’s totally fair. I still think he’s best served in the minors while he gains some weight and feels pressure to lead and produce for his team. I’m glad we got to see at he can hang in the NHL and his future can be bright.

Are you always susceptible to marketing or just from the NHL and Terry Pegula?

That win could put them within 2 points of a crazy log jam for 2nd place. It's such a strange league so far this year.

He had 3 consecutive starts at the end of November. No one else is getting that treatment.

They are ready, They will tonight, I will drink beer watching the game, They will score 6 goals this game, The Flingers roster is filled with brain dead stinky sphincters. Go Sabres!!!

Be prepared for the worst, hope for the best

For all the talk about mediocrity in the East saving us, the final playoff spot if the season ended today would go to a team with 31 points in 25 games. It could be one of THOSE years where you need around 100 points.

Lol. For this very reason, I generally call that value "NHL .500" or "Bettman .500" And IRL, I call the other value "true .500."

lol, well played

For public models you are correct. I believe there are private models that take into account pre-shot movement and if the goalie is being screened. Basically you can categorize a shot as more than simply wrist shot, 21.6' from the net in quadrant B7. You can tag it as other stuff and build a more complex model but again, I don't think most of those are publicly available, although I think Micah McCurdy does incorporate some of that into his model which you can pay to access. The short version. We need to be careful about using xGF as some type of end stat, it's a better version of CF/CA.

Let Gary Bettman know ASAP.

Sadly it's the Flyers. Another bane of the Sabres existence... I don't have optimism for this game.

But it depends on the reason he’s getting low TOI. It would be appropriate for a 3rd line player who only recently came up from the AHL. He’s getting sheltered minutes as he probably should. Now, if you think he would be benefitting from increased playing time against inferior talent, then he should be sent down.

It's likely all moot... Somebody will get injured and placed on IR. It's been a few games, we're overdue

/s 60 points is first line numbers (76 forwards reached that bench mark last year).

Yes the Sabres are just unlucky. Look at who our GM is.

I just picked Colorado randomly. They have a 3rd line of Goaloffson, Drury, and Nichushkin. None of them have eclipsed 60 points in their careers. Carolina: Carrier, Staal, Martinook. None of them have ever reached 60 points. Edit: add Tampa Bay. Girg and Homberg. Speaks for themselves. Hannibal Gourde did have one great year of 64 points in 2017. All other years he’s around 30-40 points.

The Deluca .500 is the only .500 that counts IMO. Excluding OTLs doesn't seem right to me.