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Shoot. 2-1. Kane.

Damn you Kane

Byram out for the very end of the kill.

Did Mrtka put Bryson on his shoulders and skate around with him?

McLeod and Tuch on the PK. Dahlin and Timmons the D. Followed up with Norris and Benson and Mrkta and Bryson.

I think Mrtka skates as well as power did at 19.

He definitely is more self confident than Power at a same juncture.

A hold without using hands.

Johnson loses his stick in the corner, stays with the play and seems to legally get the puck away from the Wing, but the ref did not agree. 2 minutes for holding. Wings to the PP. Very possible.

He never held there

They just made up for it on a weak holding call

Byram saved a goal. Not sure how he didn't get called for covering it in the crease (didn't look that closely at it, maybe the puck was outside the crease when it was under him) but still 2-0 Sabres.

If I'm Tuch's agent I hold to a ridiculous ask and see how the season plays out. Tuch can keep saying "I love Buffalo" "I want to be in Buffalo" and "I'm not thinking about it. My agent will work all that out." If the season tanks he can walk into that big free agency class, save face, and have all his options available. If I'm the Sabres, I wait to see how the season goes and if I can't get a reasonable deal done I just play out the season. If it is not looking like playoffs I move him for a haul at the deadline and begin the new new re-rebuild. If the Sabres give him a huge overpay they are screwed no matter what happens. They are in a tough spot and a full rebuild might be the only way (potentially) out of it. Nobody wants to hear that but if your only option is to continually overpay or look like a league farm team constantly having players walk you'll never get anywhere.

Well, hopefully should it come to that, and not wishing it on Bobrovsky but should it come to that, am hoping that preseason vs a mix of NHLers and AHLers isn't the same as playing vs NHLers. If it takes FLA falling off due to injuries to sneak the Sabres into the playoffs, so be it. Had Fasching not kicked a goal into the net that counted, FLA might very well have missed the dance the year they lost to Vegas. Would be poetic somehow that their run ends with the Sabres sneaking past them.

It's not impossible; Power will always have the inherent skating and offensive chops though. Mrtka definitely has more bite in his game and the advantage of likely getting whatever amount of time he needs to develop. His rookie season he showed a bit more gusto and had some great defensive positioning

It's early but he looks more at home that Power ever has.

Radim Mrtka will be better than Owen Power

They have Daniil Tarasov as backup. I watched a recap of a preseason game where he played and have to say he looked great.

Mrtka: "this NHL is easy."

Cossa who? 😉

Sweet!

Mrtka from Helenius. Rosen takes the hit to move it up ice. 2-0 Sabres.

Nope. Makes no sense. Two completely different players with different histories.