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Thats the one. The sub .500 section in the beginning, everyone was still in love with the team and was hopeful. The 16 yr falloff is still trending down. Yeah, we are at a lowest point. Unfortunately, LTE and Thorny are also correct as the next game is going to be another lowest point, and the next one after that.

That would be a real shame.

Good. Let them lose 3 of their last 4. 4 of 4 works too. 😉

Yeah. It felt wrong, because it was a qualification round, but they did have to track the stats somewhere. Like, if someone had had the Hasek-Brodeur game and it was the greatest of all time and then you tell your kids about it --- and it didn't happen. So, postseason it is.

Muchas gracias

I feel like people are assuming a Baltimore loss.

IF the Cheats lose to Miami and Buffalo and both win all their other games, why? If the Cheats beat the Fish & or the Bills, yes, Buffalo will need more W's than the Cheats to get the division.

Stand corrected. Danke.

You think a princess and a guy like me.... If Benson and Doan are re-signed and they get a goalie and they don't trade TNT/Dahlin, then I think they make an appearance before the end of Dahlin's current contract. They are then cast aside by Montreal/Ottawa/Tampa/Boston in the opening round. Probably back out the following season and then it's breaking up this core (Dahlin/TNT/Power).

Why? I feel like I’m very in line with your psyche and thoughts on this I’ll hack the account again if I must Girgensons

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.