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Enjoy the Austria game? A literal buzzer beater GWG for Austria.

Laughton is god awful man, he's fallen off a cliff over the past two years

Shocking come back

LGR!!

The character of the team. I swear, all these losing years are karma for the fans cheering losses during the tank.

Are we surprised? I am not surprised.

Carolina… yikes. What a choke. Brindamour might not be as great as everyone thinks.

Unfortunately for Carolina, the Rangers are mostly healthy

Now up one. Canes on a long shift. Kreider with a 9 minute natural hatty

If he were a Sabre he would be a legendary fan favorite. He dishes it out, he takes it.

I spent a week in Prague a few years ago. One day was completely dedicated to beer sampling. What a day, haha. Nightcap was a fancy absinthe in a very creepy underground bar. Can't recommend beautiful Prague enough.

Rangers tie it in the 3rd Trochek turned out to be a fine player, a 3rd round pick.

By going back to playing offensive Hockey

That's one way of looking at it. More succinct, too.

Always enjoyed Dutchy’s take on all things sports. R.I.P.

What you're saying is we really need to look at how centres do in high-danger faceoffs

Think there are still bass and some drop back steelies in the larger tribs. Probably some jacks chasing bait fish schools too. I've been cracking up all day over this.

Haven't been here the past 2 months, but IMHO the disconnect is that while Byram MAY be that guy that can be a top 4 (or maybe even top 2) D-man he's too young right now to do effectively on a bad team that isn't particularly well coached. Byram was available from the Avs because they needed a 2C TODAY and while Bryam can become a top 4 or even top pairing guy, he isn't that on the Avs team that REALLY NEEDED a 2C TODAY because they are in the heart of their window. Byram's window is on the same timeline as a large portion of the rest of this team. Which, while IF the team is good enough to get into the playoffs this coming season would be a great thing because the team SHOULD continue to get better simply flipping the calendar over for the next 2-3 years. But if they miss again, how many of the guys that actually are in their prime are going to "lose their love of the game." Didn't like the trade for 2 reasons: 1. Really like Mittelstadt and his finally reaching a level that he teased he could reach for at least a couple of seasons so that now that we've watched him go through the growing pains but he's now actually a good hockey player he's gone; and 2. rather than bringing in a D-man that's in his prime, which is what we should've hoped would come back for him we got a D-man that's 4 years shy of his prime. He flashes some very good play, but he's still only 22. It's not the fast, puck-moving D-men that the Sabres have too much of; it's the barely in their 20's D-men that the Sabres have too much of. Clifton is the elder statesman and Jokiharju is the only regular older than the still very young Rasmus Dahlin.

Maybe it went bad. I've had that happen to me before. One time I emailed the brewery and got 2 free cases.

Carolina wants a game 7.

Wish I could agree, but I’ve had beers so bad that drinking urine strained thru Fat Bastard’s soiled underwear would have been preferable.

No. Again, that 55% that O'Reilly has (if that is in fact his win %age; for sake of argument, will agree it is) is the aggregate of how he does on ALL face offs. He doesn't give a rat's bippy whether he wins the game's opening faceoff or some random faceoff outside a blue line. He is going to lose more of those than he's going to lose when he actually gives a care. Can we at least agree that the poor faceo off guy going up against O'Reilly is going to try hard EVERY faceoff, so that he doesn't look stupid losing even more often than O'Reilly is going to try on one that doesn't matter? Let's say there are 20 faceoffs total that O'Reilly takes. (So we can easily get to that 55% - 11 out of 20) He doesn't care about the 8 in the neutral zone and only wins 3 of those but loses the other 5. (Though he doesn't care, he still comes close to winning 50% even though probably only 1 of those wins is clean.) Well, of those other 12 faceoffs that ARE important, he's won 8 of them and only lost 4. So, the next time he takes a key FO, we expect him to win 2 of of 3 of them rather than only 11 out of 20. Also, of those 8 he wins, he's probably going to win more of them cleanly than he'd win cleanly on ones he doesn't care about. Not sure how to explain the concept any clearer without writing a dissertation. (And YES, ALL of these #'s are hypothetical. But would wager that he's better on ones that matter than ones that don't.)

Okposo was a feckless Captain. He should have turned in his C when the team turned its back on the fans for a couple weeks. If he wasn’t part of the boycott, and spoke out against it instead as you would expect a Captain to do, he sure had no respect in the locker room. Feckless.

Right, but Detroit has done exactly what you wanted the Sabres to do: acquire veterans to teach and "block" and "win now" and "play the right way", and pick bigger 2-way guys instead smaller, skilled types. The Wallinders and Kaspers and Velenos and Cossas and Edvissons and Berggrens have been playing in the minors or down the lineup while the Perrons and the Kanes and Sprongs and Petrys played in Detroit. Over the past 2 years, each team has missed the playoffs by a single win, and the Sabres have outproduced the Wings by a measly 4 points. Basically, there has been no meaningful short-term difference from either philosophy, so the difference will be measured in the long-term. Will Detroit regret some of the long-term veteran contracts they've signed? Will the Sabres regret the contracts they've given some unproven kids? Will the prospects develop better being shielded and slow cooked, or force-fed NHL minutes? I mean you're right, future moves might muddy the waters, but having the mirror image plan unfold at the same time in the same division will be fascinating.

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