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I swear that the NHL points system was designed by the global elites to cause strife and division between those of the metric/imperial measurement systems grappling with new vs old math.

I hope this is a good sign that upl is done here. If you were going to play him, I would think it would be this game.

Savoie for McLeod I make 100 times out of 100. Savoie might be the 3rd best pick the Sabres made in the first round that year.

It’s not just the production. Doan brings everything this team desperately needed. It’s too bad Kesselring can’t stay healthy this season.

Fair.. I think Peterka will outscore him overall, but I don't care.

Greenway and Beck can stay for now in large part to the fact that they are a regular on the best PK in the league. Peyton Krebs tho…WOOF. It’s time to pull the plug on his spot in the lineup. He brings nothing to the table.

To the 1st bolded. Almost everybody's reaction to the signing was "well, we know nothing at all about him, but he has to be better than Georgiev" and "guess this means UPL is going to be out a while." Most people said they thought the guy might turn out to be good but really didn't know. There were several "goalies are voodoo" posts. About 2 people said it was a horrible pickup, so yes, "people" hated it, but the naysayers were in the VAST minority on this one. And about 3 people really liked the pick. An opinion that was also in the minority. Which brings us to the 2nd bolded ...

One of these is not like the others

good grief. thompson is a bad center. OK for a shift or two here and there but get eventually it becomes too much.

Don't know that it's his energy so much as giving up really bad goals at really inopportune times that drags the team down. Or more accurately, the expectation of his teammates due to past history that he's "due" for a bad goal; so they find themselves trying to keep avoid all shots against (which will never happen) so they end up giving up even better chances against than they'd give up if they were playing the way they were supposed to and end up giving up even more goals and the cycle just feeds on itself. If you don't trust the goalie, you don't play the way you should. And if you don't play the way you should, you'll lose a lot of games you could've won.

Put money on it. Lemons into lemonade. Perception vs reality.

Ha ha, any deal for UPL will be derided so does it matter? People hated the waiver pickup of Ellis! My point is the Sabres should try to get the most for UPL or any player they move. Of course a clock is ticking when they will need the roster spot a third goalie is taking up, so there's that. But that deadline isn't upon them yet. We don't know what is going on or what calls have been made or taken. But our favorite pastime is creating our own stories.

Colten Ellis: 4gp, .914sv% Alex Lyon: 12gp, .907sv% Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen: 4gp, .883sv%

Personally, expect he will look a BIT better on another roster. Both he and the Sabres seem to be at the point that everyone needs him to get a fresh start and the change of scenery combined with somebody really WANTING him will give him a bit of a bounce. But also am ok with that. Just personally don't see him ever fully getting out of his own head regardless of where he's at. If he ever does, look out, he could be truly elite; but that's a huge if and really doubt that'd ever happen while he's a Sabre. Heck, it isn't likely he'd do it elsewhere either, but it's not 100% out of the question. And even if he does get out of his own head, doubt it'd be totally trajectory changing like when Roloson switched from a stand up/ reaction goalie to a butterflier. Expect it'd more likely be catching lightning in a bottle for a season or 2 and then he'd go back to being what he is. An extremely frustrating goalie that lives up to expectations in only drabs and drips. Hope for his sake he figures out how to figure it out, but not expecting that.

UPL should not see the inside of a crease again unless one of the other two are injured Nowadays it doesn't matter cause they can just turn in homework whenever and get full credit usually.

Funny I juat looked at the standings and I thought Boston and Ottawa were playing so good yet we are not far behond and have games in hand on everybody. Just hope that the team we saw against the Oilers and not the team that showed up againwt St. Louis (trying to forget that game).

Depends entirely on your perspective. Back in the early 1970's the home weekday games started at 8:05 and the Sunday games were 7:05. The 8:05 start gave me plenty of time and motivation to get my homework done, and the better the grades the more games I got to attend.

UPL should never start again for this team.

They are literally 4 points out of a playoff spot right now. If they win tonight they will be no more than 4 points out of a playoff spot. If all the other teams lose, they could be as few as 2 points (although might not be possible if some of the teams ahead of us play each other tonight. But yeah. If they win tonight, they stay no more than 4 points behind a playoff spot.

I was expecting UPL to help get Lyon more rest. Hmmm. Lindy likes to ride the hot goalie.

Yes some people in Geneva NY have to get up and go to work in the morning. Overtime game for certain.

2-4 points out? Nah. Tonight gets them to a point a game pace. Not nearly enough. But, yes, they will have weathered two storms. The optimism at roughly the quarter pole is they have a chance. After two 10 pt. segments, they need a 14 or a 16.

Yep, this is where they crap the bed when they finally look briefly decent. 6-1 Calgary.

7:30 local start times (ESPECIALLY ON WEEKDAYS) should be outlawed by the Geneva Convention.

Being benched for a game seems like a tough lesson to me.