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Did Lyubushkin sleep with the ref's wife? These calls are ridiculous.

Bull ####ing *****.

Not sure how they aren't at least stepping Lyubushkin through the steps to check for a concussion. At least his head didn't twist into the boards, but not sure it didn't hit again on the ice. Viscious hit.

He was right about the 1st icing.

Agreed w/ you that extra points/ 2 point ties should automatically be reviewed. And, yes, your hypothetical would've caused the play to be reviewed.

Said it upthread, really expecting after the 1st period to see Granato rotating having Dahlin & Damuelsson together 1 shift & then split time w/ a 3rd pairing guy & then back out together. Top pairing just under 30 minutes. Lyubushkin 20-22. Clague ~14. Fitz & Pilut 8-12 each.

Well, they DID get a 4th for Scandella and he was waaaay better than Thompson was in the Botterill era, so ... 😉 Facetious, but that gets back to a point made in the discussion w/ Perreault about whether another more active GM would've been better ST & LT than Adams. A more active GM who wasn't giving ALL the prospects a full length of rope could EASILY have wanted to bail on Tage. And it would've set the current team back tremendously. Really believe Adams deserves credit for not trying to convert ANY of the prospects into a handful of magic beans.

Those SHOULD be reviewed regardless. But see the league's point for not automatically reviewing close plays during regular action. It adds a #### ton of time to how long a game runs and also stops the momentum the team that nearly scored had going for it. Instead of playing the next down against a tired D, they have to go against a rested D & possibly 1 that had a chance to get their heavy personnel onto the field.

Need to speed it up to do Yakkety Sax justice. 😉

Wouldn't be surprised if we see a fair amount of mixing and matching of the 1st & 3rd pairs tonight when the 3rd pair actually sees the ice after the 1st period.

2 comments more or less directly from Power's mouth. 1. He prefers getting more minutes as it keeps him focused in the game. He wants 25+ every night. 2. The toughest part of playing on the NHL is trying to get fully rested between the games. Playing every other night is a huge transition from 2 games every weekend. Expect he will hit that "rookie wall" but not convinced we'll notice.

The uni itself w/ no logo was sharp. (Especially the blue. ) But that logo put it on the same plane as the Turdburger & the Gorton's Fisherman Clown unis.

Sweet. Gives him a pretty good edge on being #1 when player of the month gets chosen.

Am still hoping that w/ Power & Dahlin we end up w/ both Robinson AND Potvin. Dahlin was billed as generational and, though it took a while to show more than just glimpses of it, he might actually be. Power was never billed THAT highly. He merely steps in & dominates after a short acclimation period. He's the defenseman version of Quinn. And totally off on a tangent, when's the last time a team had a F & a D that were that young that ramped up their play that quickly? Honestly don't have an example immediately springing to mind. (Maybe Bourque & Pederson before the wrist surgery?)

The justification is & always has been that they don't know what the crazy bastage running onto the field is capable of doing so they try to subdue him with all due prejudice ASAP. (That they get a kick out of jacking some random schmuck is just a bonus. 😉)

Agree that it would be good to spend more draft capital on D. Not sure that the prospects/ extra F's will be moved to bolster the D. They have the top 3 slots nailed long term & there are prospects that are ~3 years out. Really expect we'll see a couple more Lyubushkin pickups to round out the bottom 3 slots & 7&8. Would leave them with Jokiharju, new guy, & Lyubushkin as the bottom 3 (in no particular order) and other new guy & Bryson as the 7 & 8. Expect it would take a lot of prospect capital to fill those 2 slots; probably more than Adams wants to part with. If he can find a deal or 2 to do so, would be great w/ it. Just not expecting it.

Was actually referring to the earlier version of Edmonton's we'll run w/ kids & pretty much just kids here, there, & everywhere (well, except for Ryan Smyth) after Pronger's wife decided she couldn't handle the Albertan prairie any longer. The big issue there was pretty much none of the non-1st round kids were worth anything & even some of the 1st rounders were either busts (Yakopov) or VERY slow to develop (Gagner). Throw in Adams-level goaltending, few highly priced D prospects, along w/ Krueger arguably being the best coach of that era & it was a recipe to get another crack at 1st overall, & another, & another, &, well you get the picture.

Theoretically, the Sabres approach should be more sustainable because the kids should reach their peak performance sooner as they're learning to play at the NHL level in the roles they'll fill LT sooner and they should have more years at that level before eventually tailing off. Again, theoretically it should work, but the only real example of putting that into practice (Edmonton) has failed at it spectacularly for well over a decade & only in the last 3 or so years have they finally been relevant. And even then, they aren't true leading contenders to be champions. Of course, Adams seems to have brighter people working for him. And it might not be the concept that's flawed but rather the execution. We'd better hope that's the case, because Adams isn't going anywhere any time soon.

When they made the 1st pitch back to a teammate started to say to the wife "it would be so cool if they fumble & the Raiders score" and only had a chance to say "it would be so" before the Raider had the ball & was on his way.

He has seemed to play well. Wonder if he really is playing well or if it's just the expectations for what you get out of a waiver pickup are so low he seems better than he is. Not a surprise the Avs moved on from him. 1st rounders aren't often allowed to be 4th liners for the team that drafted them because even though they can be productive there they're viewed as "busts." Not sure why Minny gave up on him. Anybody here watch their games?

Was just coming here to post this. What a fabulous ending. So happy to see that the greatest cheating coach ever wasn't smart enough to have his players realize they did NOT absolutely need to score on that play. And, the Raiders had tied the game on a catch that very likely was out of bounds. Awesome.

Good for them. Pretty sure they get a cookie to go along w/ the L they also get for that.

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True. But that complaint is an awful lot like when people were complaining about the Bills not winning close games. They're not going to intentionally stop scoring so they can say they won a game 3-2.

You sure about that? Rewatch the portion of the game it actually snowed.