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The fecklometer says there was a normal amount of feck.

@steveoath come join us on this thread: Here we go again…….Kevyn

Agree Coach (we tend to be on same page). That said, Muel should but won’t fight (next game is 12/21 @NJ). Dunne or bring up Gerrt for the game. Sabres seen as a soft team & no respect. Someone needed to kick his butt on the spot or next shift. Nothing.

Motivation Waning.

They know what it takes to watch this team. I had the game on during dinner (we did Thanksgiving on Friday due to son's work schedule). It looked like Sabres were dominating at times but every time I looked up, NJ had another goal. Bah.

Sadly, you are correct.

I know the rule, and situations like this SHOULD be reviewed. Hell, they check for a toe pick over the line on offside challenge. Why not review when an obvious injury happened (oh, wait there I go using logic). Instead, no penalty called. Obviously,Sammy just spontaneously blew a leak in his nose & concussed himself.

Wow they struck gold with the beer sword

If you call Adams President of Hockey Operations, and Jarmo is the General Manager of the same, then Adams outranks Jarmo. What is unclear is who will Jarmo report to? Unless he reports directly to Terry he likely works for KA. I expect that Jarmo would want all the autonomy that he had in Columbus. What is also unclear is how Adams will define his role as POHO. I don't want this to happen, but it is a possibility.

$27; no STH discount. They seem to hold 24 oz. The line about 5 minutes into the 1st period still stretched to the main concourse (nearly 1/4 of the rink long). So at least 200 people still in the line, maybe even 3-400.

this is my fake surprised face. I actually feel bad for him this time only because he was probably the best Dman so far this season. Also I don’t necessarily believe it was intentional and I’m guessing the refs felt it was just a bad outcome of a hockey play. As soon as I saw him go down, I knew he would be out for a bit. Probably a bad idea since Muel will probably be out a month with a concussion if he fights him

Every replay I’ve seen has the actual contact edited out. Is that some grand design by the NHL? Does anyone have a link to the actual hit?

Tone and Volume.

I think this is exactly what makes him 3rd pair material. If you can limit his minutes, you'll get good effort -- he kills penalties and unlike some of our folks, he does battle in front of the net. The issue lately is that Byram has brought out the worst in him. He was solid, if unspectacular, with Power earlier in the year. He's now played almost the exact amount of 5-on-5 time with Byram as he had with Power. 148:50 w/ Byram, 147:16 w/Power. Timmins-Power 7 GF / 7 GA Timmins-Bryam 7 GF / 13 GA Unfortunately, losing their best defender in Samuelsson could be a killer -- but put Byram-Dahlin back together where Dahlin can elevate him. Re-pair Power-Timmins. And do something like Novikov-Bryson for sheltered minutes/game. (I know, I know, we're likely getting the Bryson-Metsa show instead.) And... is canned by Pegula for not being heard. Pegula/Adams are a dyad in the Dark Side of the Force #####.

What the discourse between us illustrates is that the Pegula organization isn’t a normally functioning hockey operation. The question as to which position is higher than another position isn’t necessarily clearly defined. It seems that whoever is more receptive to the owner’s whims is the one he will be more inclined to listen to. A third rate owner who has created a third rate operation with unsurprisingly third rate results. It’s so frustrating and sad.

How feckless did Ras look talking to the ref after the hit and no call?

Imagine if the Bills had foresight and fired McDermott last season (as he should have) and hired Ben Johnson?! Can we get one these type of motivators instead of the "praise Jesus" types ?

Not good enough. We need top 3

As I said in the GDT, Muel will fight him next year. BTW, a bit of irony. It was Sigenthaler who backed Muel down against retaliation on Noesom last year. Now he elbows him in the face and concusses him. Ref should have called it a 5 first, and then reviewed it. Remember back in the day with teams like the Flyers and Islanders, these player feuds went on for years.

Casually watching tonight. Think it could get ugly. Maybe we can be the bad team on a back to back who beats a decent opponent

The combined IQ of our owner, GM and scouts?