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He did bring Bobrovsky from Filly. So, he actually understands you need a top guy. Of course, Bob wanted nothing to do with reupping. But he did land him once.

Started 0-3 last year too, but it was a totally different vibe. They were playing well, but just getting OK GTing and taking badly timed penalties. This time they were playing awful hockey in front of excellent GTing. Getting better effort starting in game 4 plus putting 3 guys that will buzz the net on the PP that game too while still getting the GTing have resulted in them looking night & day better. Expect they can keep up the effort. No data on if the GTing can stay great. If they can, well the division is very middling. Tonight would be a great night to get the 1st road win. REALLY hope Ellis gets the start.

TO fans oblivious to hockey history? That'd NEEEVVVVER happen. 😉

Would be perfectly fine w/ UPL watching tonight's game from the bench. Not thrilled with the possibility he'll watch from between the pipes. Let him have Tuesday's game if you feel you must.

If he's still playing beer league, there's a 50-50 chance @darksabre gets the callup before Georgiev. Georgiev will never see a regular season game in a Sabre uniform.

Agree that Levi isn't going to get called up anytime soon barring emergency. That was kind of the point of them grabbing Georgiev and Ellis. But, if they do hit a situation where they are forced to call another up; he should be able to step up.

So, the Sabres might have 3 goalies. They look like they do. Do they have 4? (And yes, not even being out of October is way to early to be making any final pronouncements on the GTing.)

Hard to believe, considering as bad as Erik Johnson was as a Sabre, he's even worse as a Color Commentator. Didn't expect he'd be able to find a profession that doesn't need professional degrees such as Engineer or Doctor that he'd've been worse at than Sabre defenseman; but he managed to find one.

Well, glad I didn't look for the sportsbook at that monstrous casino (probably ain't that big, but seems huge to this kid) if you've got your own bookie right at the end of the Thankgiving dinner table.

Fairly certain Byram ain't the brightest bulb on the tree. But, Jim Kelly isn't either and he's a Hall of Fame QB. Expect better coaching could get more out of him. He has serious talent. As for the focus of this thread, Power, wouldn't be heart broken if he were to be traded for the right haul. But personally expect trading him away before we see how he can mesh with Kesselring is premature. IMHO, paired with Timmons a few shifts, he's looked better than he has in the past. Have not liked him in his few shifts with Dahlin. And getting away from the thread topic again, have been happy with Samuelsson's play since he's come back from the most recent boo-boo. (Of course have been drinking pretty much all week, so maybe he just seems to be playing better. Had heard of these "vacations" but didn't really know much about them. They are forking awesome (especially when the wife's company is picking up a big chunk of the dime).)

Back in the day, pretty sure LaFontaine had to be out 40 games before insurance would start paying out. And for someone injury prone, the policies aren't cheap. (If you want to know how likely an event is, price out an insurance policy on it and figure the insurance company plans to net out across all its policies about 12% profit. So, look at the policy value, the policy cost, and that profit factor and you get a rough likelihood of what a pro considers the likelihood of that event happening.) Any policy on Norris would have at least 30 games missed as being the expectation. So, he must be EXPENSIVE to insure. Don't know if they'd have him insured against single season injury or not.

That's fine. Glad they took a look at him in Ra-cha-cha before sending him down. Gives him and the Sabres a better idea of what he has to work on to take his game to the next level.

Last day of vacation. Stayed in 2 different hotels just down the street from each other. A Ceasars is across the road from both. Pretty friggin' huge casino. Never bothered to go. Too bad wasn't aware of how desperate you were to place a bet. Might've been able to find a guy. ;)

Yeah, all 3 sports are very complementary, but hockey and lax just scream proficiency at both sports.

There is more to be seen on Ellis. Hope he gets a game this weekend. But, have little to no faith in UPL as a backup. He might be able to get his head around being a starter, but have no faith at all that he can be productive getting a game every 3 or so. Georgiev is NOT good. They are committed to Levi playing in Ra-cha-cha this full year. Which, with Lyon the current starter leaves Ellis as a realistic option at being the backup. Most 2 game in 2 night stints aren't going to have teams with TO's firepower on both ends. They need someone to claim the starter's role. That appears to be Lyon, but the jury is still out. But they also need a backup; and for now, would like to see what Ellis can do there.

Yep. And they need to get this right. They don't NEED to have 2 spare D nor 2 spare F's right now (though that's what NHL teams run); run with the 3 headed monster for a month or 2 until it sorts itself out. Not convinced UPL can mentally take a backups role, so unless he outplays Lyon would be the expected odd-man out. Lyon-Ellis is the expected pairing; but not convinced Lyon can do it more than a month or 2. Adams has been ridiculously patient in the past. No need to rush this call. And getting this right could literally be the difference between him getting an extension or not. (Though personally hope he's not getting an extension in any case.)

Good. They can't get Metsa out of the lineup fast enough. MHO.

Agree. But USA Hockey, at least through the end of the 20-teens (haven't checked their stuff more recently) was pushing for youth and early teens to NOT specialize in just hockey year round. Know a lot of families that ignored that advice and went hockey year round (and some others that did baseball, soccer, and lax that way too), but the guidance was to stay more rounded until well into post-puberty.

When was given the opportunity for a free sweater, chose the only name that will never leave the Sabres family (have they TM'd Sabres Mafia yet?) - Jeanneret. Have since enhanced it with an RJ to the rafters patch. That one now only comes out on special occassions.

That rare trade that BOTH teams lost.

Of course they had Metsa with Geersen today, so we can hope but not too much.

Pretty sure Peter Dinklage is taller than Danforth. 😉

Johnson's better than Clague. Shame he's the one getting taken out of the lineup for Metsa to get his shot.

Lyon was a 50-50 shot. They'd either get the Swamp Cats version or the Wings. For once the coin landed heads. (At least for now.) Seems all you have to do to get this version of him is keep the guy he's backing up out of the lineup for a month or 2. 😉

Wonder just how hard Ron Francis is laughing every time he gets done having a conversation with his buddy Kevyn on the phone or facetime or zoom or whatever?