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Okposo instead of Grier.

Doubt Biron played in 500 games, though would be very surprised if he weren't there for at least that many if his time on the bench counts. Would go with Girgensons instead of Biron.

Doubt Reinhart was in Buffalo long enough to get to 500 games. McKee has to be on the list.

And that's why it's so tough to find complete games from past Olympics. The folks running them simply don't release that footage for public broadcast. And the Olympics seem to hold the rights, rather than the companies that broadcasted them in their paritcular countries. Yes, occassionally you can find some of the games because somebody VCR's the games back in the day and they started playing around with Youtube, but it's way tougher to find stuff like that than it should be.

No data. Afaict, the details of the plan aren't out nor have they even officially decided to implement the plan. Hopefully they don't implement it; because not only is it bush league, it's solving a problem that they're already on the road to solving organically.

So what Sabre played the same # of regular season games as Mike Ramsey played?

Please see my edit of the post you responded to. Misinterpreted your question. Sorry about that.

Duh, but the cooler question is what player played the exact same # of regular season NHL games as Ramsey did. EDIT: and looking up to verify how many #1 played, it's 121 more games, not just 29. Double EDIT: Late on a Friday afternoon after a long week. Thought you'd been referring to the Sabres not the US 80 Olympic team. Sorry. D'oh!

Historically, (post-70's sellout streak, but pre-waiting list post-lockout teams), the team would play to ~65-80% full barns on weeknights and 85-100% full barns on weekends prior to the Christmas break and 85-100% full barns on weeknights and 95-100% full barns on weekends by the time February rolled around and the NFL was in the rear view mirror. And then the next year, regardless of how successful they were the previous year, they'd be in more or less the same place as they were the previous year and the cycle repeated typically. The wildcard in whether that will be the way things go again moving forward now that the Sabres have apparently rejoined the NHL is how does the 2ndary ticket market affect these cycles. It more or less didn't exist prior to that; at least not relative to what exists now.

Though both have only played in the NHL for the Sabres, they both have played many games in the AH. Thought he was stating that he didn't know off-hand which goalie had a better AHL squad in front of him. (The numbers for both were presented for both AHL and NHL performance.)

You were VERY understated with the bolded. 👍

Maybe. Don't forget, they'd actually SEEN Georgiev play 1st hand by the time they grabbed Ellis. So, they had a broken UPL, a expected to be the backup in Lyon, and a guy they wanted to give the lion's share of the Amerks net in Levi. They weren't going to bump any of the younger guys ahead of Levi and they'd decided the best course for Levi was to just play him in the A rather than jerking him back and forth. It's possible that they consider Ellis to be ahead of Levi at present. Not convinced of that. We'll find out this off-season as they are NOT going to go into next season with a 4 headed goalie monster, none of which are waivers exempt. At least 1, if not 2 of the goalies will get traded this off-season or by the end of camp. The only 1 that is almost guaranteed to be back next year IMHO is Lyon because he'll be the steadying vet presence with whomever his battery mate is.

The PP succeeds in spite of the coaching, not because of it. That unit has Dahlin, Thompson, and at least 1 of Zucker, Doan, and/or Benson out there at pretty much all times and they also sometimes have Norris &/or Östlund available too. They have too much talent for Appert to totally Appert the unit. But he does try. And is usually pretty effective at it.

USA will rebroadcast it tonight at 11PM if you're either a night owl or have DVR'ing capabilities. 😉 (Will be DVR'ing it, because also forgot about the game and missed the 1st period.)

Why, yes, yes it is. And Larry Quinn brought it to Buffalo sports back in the 00's. Doesn't change the fact that it compounds the "issues" regarding too many Loafs fans showing up in the MMArena. But, thank you for the suggestion about securing ST's. Might have to look into that. Season tickets, you say. Cool. 😉