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The camera work there was horrible. Never saw a clear picture of how Wallman was disrobing Mittelstadt. Expecting the Sabres will remember.

Which is what both governments approved to pay for. But the local idiots ran out the clock on making anything happen.

4 year deal seems likely if he's in their future. Buys 2 UFA years and leaves flexibility for both sides when the plethora of young forwards in the pipeline are ready to start making their marks. And could see all 4 of Mittelstadt, Krebs, Dahlin, and Power getting deals this summer. Jokiharju too on a short deal just buying 1 or 2 years of UFA. Expect UPL won't get signed until the following summer.

Expect he'll be a 60 point guy and that when healthy we won't see him under 50 points again. Also expect for him to be a longer term fixture on the team he'll take low end 2nd line W (or top end 3rd line) money. Which works when your top 2 centers are making 2nd line money and your soon to be starting goalie (if not next year, the year after) is on an ELC.

Mittelstadt is their 5th best forward at present. Quinn MIGHT pass him next year but it isn't a given. Don't expect anybody else on the team or the pipeline currently passing him next year. His versatility and contract make him quite valuable. He's pretty much turning into a Hecht for them (with better offense and lesser defense. Like Jochen, Mitts likely will struggle to get into the 20's on goal scoring, but that part of his game could still come around if he gets the Cozens like epiphany that he has a reasonable shot and doesn't need to wait for either the perfect chance or the there's no other option but shooting chance). It'll be interesting to see if they extend him this off-season and for how much & for how long if they do. If he doesn't have a need to break the bank, he could be here a long time in a bunch of different roles. If he wants to be paid like a high end 2nd liner he could be gone in 2-3 seasons, but if he's reasonable on what he's asking he could stay a Sabre into his late 20's. He's a 2nd line talent driving the 3rd line primarily. And agree that unless he's part of a package for a stud D-man or a Selke candidate, he doesn't get moved.

Levi was fruit of the Reinhart trade, not the Ristolainen trade.

6-2. Without all the deflected goals, the Wings aren't pressing to get that faceoff and shot at the end. Score effects.

The D will learn to take the passes away and let Levi take the shooter. Just like the Sabres D used to play when Miller was here. It's a tough mental change to go from, we must try to block every high danger chance or it'll be in the net to we must take away the shooter's options because the goalie has this.

Barasso would've had that record had he not been 25 years too young for the shootout to be a thing.

Realize Granato is going to put UPL or possibly Comrie in net Saturday afternoon. He needs to go back to Levi for them to have a chance.

And the winner for Levi.

Tuch it home.

Thank you. Quinn should always be the 2nd shooter.

Have Quinn one of the 1st 3 this time please.

What a move by Levi to keep from having that hit the back of his leg.

Fudge.

Can people please not post the scores of the other 3 games in this thread. Some people actually are planning on watching at least parts of them. There is a perfectly good Around the NHL thread that they can go into or perhaps somebody could staro a playoff watch thread. Thanks.

Can somebody on the coaching staff PLEASE tell the team to stop deflecting the mother blanking puck. Just let Levi stop it. You don't have to try to stop it for him. That's Power's 4th point of the night. 3A's for the good guys and 1G for the bad guys.

Nice to finally be on the receiving end of that instead of the giving for a change.

Actually the 3rd and 4th goals were both by Luke Mittelstadt. Oops. And Cooley just made it 5-2 with an empty netter with about 3 minutes left. And Cooley with another empty netter. 6-2. 103 seconds away from the championship game Saturday.

And the other brother just made it 4-2. Guessing we don't have Johnson in the lineup against the Canes.

Minnesota just went up 3-2 early in the 3rd over BU on the PP. Mittelstadt's little brother.

Expecting a fun one tonight. Sabres scoring 5 or 6 and only giving up 1 or 2. The dream doesn't die tonight.

Close to Webster's but with less new blood. Skinner - Thompson - Tuch Quinn - Cozens - Peterka Mittelstadt - Krebs - Savoie Greenway - stepan - Girgensons Jost If they go 14, Rousek. Samuelsson - Dahlin Power - Hannifan Jokiharju - Lyubushkin Stillman, Clague If they only go 7 Clague joins Johnson and Bryson in Ra-cha-cha. Varlamov Levi

Know it was up from last year. Would guess that this year it was around 8k. And that was probably split out as 6k full seasons, and the other 2k in partial season equivalents. Basing those estimates on in buliding attendance.