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Jets take the dreaded offensive zone penalty.

Signing in! 4 shots, 1 goal? Here we go again.

They are averaging more than one goal against per game per Matt Fairburn

Glad you told me. I was going to ask if we had 2 D on the ice. I only saw forwards. WTF.

This is just what I mentioned in another thread befor where the Defense takes too much blame. The puck went into the corner down low and then up the side, Byram went after it. Timmons was left alone in front of the net. When Byram is on the near boards it is the job of a FORWARD (probably the center or the near side winger) to cover for him. Its perfectly fine for the D-mean to go to the boards, I'd RATHER have a D-man down there than a center, but it is the forwards job to cover for them. Timmons didn't do much wrong, he had to cover 2 guys in front of the net because of lack of support. Byram did nothing wrong, he went to the boards under the dots to chase a puck that is on the FORWARDS, not Byram or Timmons. Watching the replay, that looked to be on Benson, everyone's 2-way hero. Bendon was the closest guy to the front of the net, as a matter of fact about 2 seconds before the goal was scored Byram was already on the boards and Benson was right near Connor. For some reason he 'floated' away from him and no one covered him.

Byram was up by the blue line.

Not giving your goalie a chance. Giving up two point blank shots. Someone blew an assignment.

The Timmons and Byram pairing strikes again

That went south quickly.

1-0

Ok, just 2 minutes later and Krebs, Greenway, and Malenstyn are out there again already, this time for a longer shift. Maybe Lindy DOES anticipate this is the line he wants the use the most tonight?

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A minor gripe, but I don't understan starting with Krebs, Greenway, and Malenstyn. Yeah, there is 'setting the tone' I guess, but their shift lasted a total a 19 seconds and nothing happened. You are on the road, so the Jets are going to match your lines not the other way around. Whatever line you envision getting the most ice time for you, your 'best' line, is going to get matched by the Jets anyway, so just put them out to start the game.

He played well earlier this week. Hopefully he's starting a heater.

OK, UPL in net. I still don't trust him. Last year his play probably turned me on him more than any other player I can think. I would rather they moved in for spare parts a week ago. But, they didn't and he's in net now. So...play a good game. Maybe steal a game for a win. Those of us that don't trust you, win that trust back. If Ruff and the front office want him as the starter, then be a starter. no softies tonight.

*NEARLY* headless?!

Got the first fireplace fire of winter going. LaChouffe Belgian Blonde chilling, and I jinxed the Jets with a small wager. Worked with Carolina.

No idea what to expect. Will miss the first period and wouldn't be surprised to see them winning 3-0 or losing 5-0 when I get home around the start of the second. No consistency with these guys, a sign of a poorly coached team.

Personally, wouldn't like to see teams get an extra timeout, but do agree a coach should be able to have 1 challenge when nothing too onerous happens should the challenge be wrong. Would go with, you can lose 1 challenge without getting a bench minor. IF you still have your TO, you lose it for a failed challenge. If you don't, then no harm no foul. Yeah, it might seem unfair, but unless a team has been REALLY bad early on, everybody is going to have their TO until at most 5 minutes are left in the game. So, a 1st failed challenge will typically result in a lost TO, but not always. Who cares that all 1st failed challenges aren't identically onerous. Hockey GAMES aren't equally valuable - some games are worth 2 points and some are worth 3. A 2nd failed (and any subsequent) failed challenge is still a bench minor. And would have the league or an off-ice official review all plays that are close in the last 2-5 minutes in a game (not sure just how long). Personally would also like to see something to keep teams from calling a timeout and THEN challenging a call. That seems to be outside the spirit of the challenge.

Yea but Allen and the Bills are off today so

I see the point about the D not hitting they don't do that a lot. But in terms of the Sabres defense overall play that he ripped, was he referring to just the D-men, or the entire group of skaters?

pivotal game for Ukko-Pekka Let-one-in

It varies but about 14 min

Actually, in the last 8 games between Buffalo and the Flyers, its 4 wins, 4 losses. In the last 12 games, its 6 wins, 6 losses. Go back to 2021-2022, the Sabres had a 5 game win streak over Philly. And that was much the same Sabres team as now (Thompson, Tuch, Dahlin, Krebs, Quinn, Power, Samuelsson, Bryson, and UPL were on those teams...Tage with 5 goals across those 6 games and the Sabres leading goal scorer)