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Tom Lehrer, song satirist and mathematician, dies at 97 He put all his music into the public domain in 2020. You can download it here.

Kinda how i felt about araiza with the bills tbh. People feel like getting acquitted means you did nothing wrong, or didn't display poor judgement.

Blindly passing it up the boards to no one in particular leads to turnovers? Who knew?!

He's not quite at the level of Stephane Beauregard, but Reinprecht was incredibly valuable to the Sabres.

Running Connor Clifton’s numbers for another thread really pounded home a misplaced Sabres narrative. There is widespread belief that Bowen Byram is not good because of his numbers away from Dahlin. And while it’s true that Dahlin elevates Byram (and everyone else) what nobody talks about is the drag created by the other guys. Clifton, Bryson and Samuelsson were black holes I doubt anyone but Dahlin could survive. xGF% from this unholy trinity: 36.6, 40.4, 38.9 Actual GF: 36.6, 40.3, 39.3 Out of 270 NHL defencemen, they ranked 259, 231 and 247 Hanging on to Samuelsson was a questionable decision at best and re-signing Bryson is incredibly hard to defend. At least they dumped the worst offender. It will be interesting to see how Timmins and Kesselring affect team numbers, and the individual numbers of Byram and Power or whether they get sucked into a Marty Wilford vortex.

Yes - but Hischier played 21 games in 20-21, and hughes was 19 and had 31 points. In 21-22 they used 7 different goaltenders.

Lots of 3rd pairing d-zone defensemen don’t have great stats. But the telling one is that jump from 1:1 turnover ratio to 1:3. Those extra 40 turnovers destroyed whatever chance at fancy possession stats he had.

Except Hughes and Hischier are both high-pick 1C capable players. The Sabres don’t have that player in their lineup or in their prospect pool. (And when they broke out for a season with Ruff, the Devils blue line was a solid veteran crew with a completely healthy season from Dougie Hamilton.)

Connor Clifton’s game under Lindy didn’t actually change much in terms of counting stats and how he was used. Ice time 16:33 -> 16:03 Points 18 -> 16 Hits 204 -> 208 Takeaways 27 -> 26 Giveaways 24 -> 67 Blocked shots 117 -> 116 Possession 44% -> 40% xGF% 41% -> 36.6% GF% 46% -> 36.6% PK GA/60 8.26 -> 8.08 Penalties drawn -7 -> -11 Analytically, he was an absolute mess. He was terrible in his first year and even worse in his second.

Yeah he should go right next to Ben Bishop and Steven Reinprecht.

I don’t know if the steal was attempted. Simply got picked off of first.

Yeah, and now everyones reaching for roslovic who's agent is Claude Lemieux, who's son basically said "i'm not playing for buffalo". He was Olofssons agent when they signed him to those deals, but that was restricted free agency so you have a lot less control - and he still seemed to stress short-term deals to get out of buffalo.

When Ruff got to Jersey, the team was insanely young up-front (Bratt, Hughes, Hischier all under 23 - and a few others) and the blue line was pretty poor. Sabres this year tried to improve the blue line, and they need growth from the young forwards in Quinn, Benson, Kulich.

Effectively, we came to the plate with 2 outs and a man on 1st who after a pitch got caught stealing thus ending the inning.

I feel like the only way they'll try and spend to the cap is approaching the deadline if they're in contention. It's also probably the only time that a player might waive a NTC/NMC to come here so it increases the talent pool, but also usually has increased trade costs. Unrestricted free agency was terrible this year after the majority of players opted to re-up prior, so it was almost like striking out without ever even going up to bat.

When a player falls into Lindy's disfavor the outcome is predictable. The player will see limited ice time or be benched and then sent packing. Both Clifton and Docker fell into this vulnerable category. Lindy seems to be an old school coach who when he makes a judgment on a player, it sticks. There are coaches who try to utilize and maximize talent on hand while there are coaches whose approach leans toward my way or the highway. Taking an overview perspective, from the ownership to the GM's office to the coaching staff in general, everything seems to be third-rate. When your boat is taking on water, how do you stay afloat when the bucket you are using to clear the water out has holes in it? The never-ending cycle of futility.

Taro has it.

The Grigorenko pick would've been outside the 12 year window he's looking at. And, he did state the last batch of players were those that weren't DIRECTLY stemming from any of those picks. So, can see why he didn't include guys that came into the organization a trade later wouldn't be counted as stemming directly from Compher and the pick that went out for O'Reilly.

Isn’t Thompson part of the Compher, Grigorenko - ROR - trade tree? Last I looked Compher (2013)was a 2nd rd pick from the tank era and Grigorenko (2012) was a 1st. Isn’t Johnson, a 1st in 2019, part of the same trade tree?

He costs $1.1M less though.

TBH it just needs a good goalie, doesn't matter if they are a vet or not.

I just don't think this guy is any better than Clifton but we shall see.

Both of last year’s backups, sandstorm and Houser, are without contracts. I doubt Sandstrom returns, but Houser seems to resurface annually as the organizational number 5. The plan seems to be rotating the two young guys between starting in Jacksonville and backing up in Rochester. Their youth is a main reason why I’m pretty sure Levi is pencilled in for Rochester. UPL spent most of the year in the ECHL when he was their age and Ullmark didnt come over until he was 22. Can’t remember the last time the Amerks had a 20 or 21-year-old goalie playing regularly.

That goalie list looks like it could really use a veteran.

Yeah my brewing was early ‘90s and it cost me $40 to make just shy of 2 cases of IPA and about $7 to go to the brewery for a growler. I did miss the aroma and roasting the barley ( I’d snack on some of the barley out of the oven). I didn’t miss waiting for the wort to cool so I could pitch the yeast and obviously sterilizing bottles.