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Thought it was they've gone 25 games w/out losing the turnover battle. Not that they've won the last 25 times they didn't lose the turnover battle. Did autocucumber get you, or is that the actual stat?

Without Parent between the pipes, the Phlyers likely are still looking for their 1st SC victory and the Sabres go down as the 1st expansion era team to win a SC. The man was extremely proficient at getting his angle right. Interestingly & sadly, both primary starters in that '75 final had their careers significantly impacted by a puck to the eye. One of the 1st WHA guys to come back to the NHL. May he RIP.

RIP Bernie: https://apnews.com/article/flyers-bernie-parent-dead-adf9fa9d4eba56c4b0f1485b757fae4d

Partially quoting a post I made upthread, but I'll add some more numbers to it this time. 2024-25 Kesselring 5-on-5 This was a disciplined (well-coached) Utah squad and Kesseling was typically paired with an extremely experienced and competent defender Cole 701 minutes xGF% 52.8 GF% 56.3 Sergachev 206 min xGF% 52.8 GF% 56.3 Valimaki 121 min xGF% 85.7 GF% 47.9 Maatta 114 min xGF% 50 GF% 51.1 Another 7 players with less than 200 minutes combined, too small of samples sizes to include Who are they? (I'm using their current games played, including last season's GP totals, for simplicity): Maatta 761 GP, 82 playoff GP. 6'2", smooth, savvy 2x Cup winner. Age 31. 2nd pairing guy Cole 908 GP, 129 playoff GP 6'1" 235# Will get beat by speed, 2x Cup winner. Age 36, career 3rd pair PK Valimaki 271 GP, 2 playoff GP 6'2" 201, 201# fewer NHL games played, but basically a bigger Jokiharju, solid defender Sergachev 552 GP, 100 playoff GP 6'3, 212#, legitimate #1D, 2x Cup winner, not Dahlin-level but makes his partner better. Age 27 All 1st round picks, and Valimaki is far and away the least-experienced or "worst" defender and he would've easily been a top-4 on the Sabres last year. Kesselring has a bunch of potential. There's reason to be hopeful he can make the Kessel Run up the lineup like he did last season and meet his full potential. But... there's also a chance he's Clifton, who couldn't make that jump up to a 2nd pair guy, particularly because Power and the forwards did the team no services defensively. Adams should've had a Maatta or a Cole for Power and company the last 3 seasons... instead of the husk of Erik Johnson (good player, way past even Cole-level of workload) and a reach in Clifton to try and be more than he is. Aside: If Kesselring ends up playing next to Dahlin for an extended amount of time, I think he'll end up looking fantastic. But... if injuries lead to him being asked to play top-4 minutes with Bryson or Jones, I don't know that he's going to make either of them look like top-6 defenders. It's a big pipe of hopium being smoked. It could work really well. It might not. He's not a can't miss top-10 defender prospect who just needs time. He's being asked to be the veteran.

Love the fake belief in God while you spread hate and violence. Its exactly what they want from you, remember the new Pope said Trump is an evil man so I don't think you are allowed to pray anymore.

So sad. I'll pray for you.

There was pretty much consensus among Sabre fans that getting a partner for Power was a critically important off-season objective. That partner appears to be Kesselring, who is 25 years old, has played 156 NHL games, was 6th in average ice time among d-men in Utah last year, and received almost no PK time (25 seconds per game, 9th among Utah d-men). Yes, there is context that should be considered when looking at his limited average ice-time over the course of the larger season. But, until he shows he can be an effective defender for 19-21 minutes a game in a Lindy Ruff system, it’s not unreasonable to have some skepticism.

The GM's comments about the blueline unit being elite is certainly hyperbolic. Who cares what the GM says? How much credibility does he have? Taking a more objective assessment it seems to me that with the addition of Kesserling, the additional year of experience for Power, having Samuelsson play a lower third pairing role, which he is better suited, and pairing Byrum with Dahlin does create a unit that has the makings to be good. Making an argument that this unit won't be elite, which is correct, doesn't mean that it is going to be a mediocre unit. Entering the season, it appears that the players are slotted where they should be. I see this group as a solid to good unit. And that in itself is a positive step.

It has since the Republicans numbers are in the garbage and they are so afraid to lose the next election they are doing illegal things to try and stop it. Pedophile loving Republicans. Keep being scared of us. Too easy to get you to be hateful and violent and it's fun watching you blame everyone else except yourself.

ICE ARE TERRORISTS!!! ARRRGH!! Laughable. It's the so called peacefully bought and paid for libnut activist protesters causing violence and obstructing agents from doing thier jobs, all in the name of democratic delegates. Shameful. Keep screaming fascist and nazi, it's been working so well for you 🤣🤣🤣

Update. We now have 6 paid tickets and 2 available.

Once again, our authoritarian in chief making 1930s Europe look like a day at the beach. https://www.politico.com/news/2025/09/20/trump-bondi-truth-social-00574380

I liked Doan’s description of being a locker room presence. He described it as it’s better to be a fountain than a drain. I’d not heard that one before. I think he’s gonna become a fan favorite very quickly.

The same thing over and over for years on end with nothing new to add? There must be more to professional sports fandom. Yikes.

Doan sounds like a coach here

Ruff has a quick presser here, talks about Tuck and UPL's injuries and other stuff https://www.nhl.com/sabres/news/buffalo-sabres-training-camp-scrimmage-josh-doan-jiri-kulich

You don’t know that for sure although the odds obviously are on your side

We are fans of the team for crissake, not strategists for it. By all means, be as cynical as you’d like as is your every right to be and there is certainly good reason for it. But there’s no need to begrudge the hope of others, especially at the dawn of a new season. Don’t look now, but the Sabres are tied for first overall in the league standings.

You've done this before and it is deliberately deceiving. Kesselring was on the 1st pair for Utah for half the season. The reason his toi isn't higher is because he was sparingly used on their pp. Utah has 2 rhd they are paying a bunch of money too, so when they came back, Kesselring slid. It would be like arguing that Power isn't X because toi but ignoring we have Dahlin. John Marino 21:10 Sean Durzi 20:39 Kesselring 17:30 My point is you keep making this toi argument and it makes no sense especially when he's gonna see it go up what? 2-3 min here? He's not gonna be on the pp. He'll be on the pk. When they need to score late, they'll run Dahlin with Byram or Power. Power toi last year was 21:09. That's 3 or 4 more shifts. Kesserling is also older than Samuelsson, Byram, Power.

We know exactly how our goaltending will hold up. It won't.

Adams is seriously delusional about his D group. He has 1 proven elite all around D in Dahlin He has two O skilled young D who are allergic to playing defense in Power and Byram. He has a large injury prone defender named Samuelsson who was hoped to become a defensive stalwart but also can’t play consistently in zone defense. He is like Risto but without the scoring. He has a young possibly solid all around D who may or may not be able to jump from being a 3rd pair guy to a 2nd pair guy in Kesselring. Remember, despite filling in at times on the 2nd pair for Utah, he only average 17:30 a night. And then there is Timmins. He is not some defensive stalwart. In fact he has basically been an injury replacement 7th D most of his career. Last season was his first “full time” NHL season; he played 68 games. His previous career high was 31. His Fenwick and Corsi were negative last year and when Tor needed D help for the playoffs Timmins was traded to Pittsburgh. The only elite aspect of this D is Dahlin and his ability to elevate his playing partner. That gives us one good pair. After that we are asking Power and Samuelson to finally play defense or a least not be a liability defensively like they have been for the last 2 seasons. We are asking Kesselring to jump to 22-23 minutes a night and cover up Power inept defense. We also asking Timmins to build on his full time season, help hold down the 3rd pair and to try to be at least average defensively. This is too tall an order for this group. I have hope for Kesselring, but worry Power’s inept play will hurt Kesselring’s play at both ends. I have zero faith in Ssmuelsson staying healthy enough to play a full season and the depth behind him of Timmins, Bryson and Jones doesn’t exactly inspire confidence. I’d rather see one of big Russians come up instead of crappy depth.

I wouldn’t allow yourself to be gaslighted, I’m sorry. There’s nothing wrong with being reflective of the team. You put more effort into it than they do - why shouldn’t you call them out for what they actually are. The actual detrimental fear is him getting an extension cause he made it once in 6 years

I agree - it’s only been 6 seasons re: goaltending. What could Kevyn Adams have even done It’s all teams Thanks. And it’s accurately reflective - not spin It’s not even negativity. People are quite very far down the rabbit hole of how unusual this team and its results have been We finished with 79 points after sitting near last most of year, trending down 2 years in a row, after failing to make it 5 straight on top of a full decade before that, and after last offseason the narrative was “heads will roll!” if we miss and we missed by a ton and every single management and coaching piece was brought back and we didn’t spend to the cap again and it’s like…”what, you dont like Danforth?” just save it, like seriously did they do enough? No. Did they do right by the fans? Hell no. Will we make the playoffs? Maybe. It’s not hard to make the playoffs

Don’t disagree with your take on Adams at all but you know as well as anyone on this board that after the top three to five goalies, no one can predict from year to year what’s going to happen. It’s the state of goaltending in the NHL. Since we brought up gambling, I’ll bet if you read the message board of every team in the league, twenty five have no idea how their goaltending is going to hold up,