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True. But more important is that Granato didn't have to shorten his F bench for them to do that. He didn't mess w/ the F's until the final 2 minutes & the current whipping boy Peterka had himself a breakaway that could've sealed the game w/ 3 minutes to go.

Which is fine. The Sabres are pretty much done w/ the Western Conference. So, they should as a percentage of remaining "top 3 teams" be playing 11 of their 28 remaining games against them. They play 13 by your count. Big whoop. There are only 2 truly out of it teams in the east & ~5 league wide, so the Sabres should play 3 or 4 against them and by your count they get 5. So they net out with 1 extra "hard" game over what the percentages say they should have. And they should have 13 against teams in the same boat as they're in, but they only get 10. Again, big whoop. They've got essentially the remaining schedule they should. If they can't outplay the other mediocre teams, then they don't deserve to be in the playoffs. If they play NHL 0.600 from here on out, they'll have 94 points. So, they probably need to find a way to convert 2 extra regulation losses into W's and 1 loser point game into a W beyond the 0.600 to guarantee a playoff spot. But everybody else needs to be playing at that rate too, & NONE of them have to date. The Sabres are in better shape than everybody else they're fighting for a WC with because they're closest to an NHL 0.600 at present. Agree w/ @Thorny, these next 4 games won't show us anything 54 games haven't already shown us. (But the bipolarity here that will come with every W & L will likely be worth the price of admission. 😉 )

14 ENG's. Leading the league & a team record.

Not sure if Karlsson had an assist, but Dahlin got the assist on Tuch's tally. Norris!

Tuch!

Skinner not happy about that shot he took.

Durn it, what a great chance for Peterka.

Samuelsson getting a ton of ice this period. Taking his shift & Clague's too.

Thompson to Skinner!

If he could've lifted it a smidge, there was room.

No, no, no, per Dunleavy he's a "calming influence." 😵‍💫

As if you need further proof, would ANYONE w/in the Sabres organization have put the "NY" on the Sabres logo for the 2nd Winter Classic Buffalo got to "host?" Not 1 local soul would've thought THAT was the tweak the logo needed for that event.

Bandits lost Nanticoke in the 2nd Q & Brandon Robinson in the 3rd Q, but managed to overcome a 6-2 2nd Q deficit to win in OT 14-12 over the Wings to stay in at worst a 3 way tie for 1st w/ the Kin-ig- hit Hawks and Rock at 8-2. All 3 were at 7-2 heading into tonight. And, of course the Great Dhane got the winner. 5 goals & 5 assists for the NLL's leading scorer. Ian McKay went out catching a knee to the head in the 4th as well.

According to the Athletic he is injured. But Moe-ray-all is definitely listening to offers for him. No word on whether the injury is the same back injury he was dealing with last year or if this is something else. Also, no data on the severity.

In the 2nd, the Devils are up on the Tokarski backstopped Penguins 2-1.

Does anybody know for certain that the Sabres would in fact burn up a year of Savoie's ELC if he stayed on the roster for the entire season but played 9 or fewer games? The CBA specifies that a contract can't slide if the player plays in a 10th NHL game. But it doesn't specifically address a time limit for just being on the roster. Not sure if it is addressed in the agreement between the NHL & CHL (have never seen that document). Of course, if the Sabres did do that, he'd get an accrued season and would be eligible for FA a year earlier than had he played 10 games then been sent back to junior. So, they wouldn't actually do that, but it seems they theoretically could. Which would make this the exact opposite of a college player playing a handful of games burning a year of their ELC but not getting credit for an accrued NHL season.

Am with @Eleven on most of those.

Wtf should Anderson be getting anything but spot duty at this point? Yes, he played incredible hockey in the 1st period of the Stars game. But he has not been good other than that since the calendar turned to 2023 and he backstopped a couple of inexcusable losses in his 1-4-0 record. They don't know much about what Comrie brings. They need to know if they plan on using him as even the #2 next year. And, again, expected and understand why they're going w/ UPL tonight. Doesn't mean that they don't need to know what they have in Comrie, unless they've already decided to move on from him, which by their actions, statements, & philosophical views of how to treat players they've not done to date.

Shows how tough it is for kids in that league, you don't even get through the top 10 kids before you're down to <0.2 PPG. That's under 16 points through 80 games.

Thing is, the league puts a high value on limiting travel & also promoting "traditional" rivalries. So, while they may at some point go back to 1-8 in conference (wouldn't have money on it, but it could happen) they almost definitely will not go back to 1-16 playoff seeding. Too much travel & too great a chance that they might end up w/ a 1st round matchup of something like Canes-Canucks that they expect wouldn't sell many tickets & would have very low TV ratings. Still personally would like to see them run something similar to what they did in the very early '70's. Start out 1v4 & 2v3 in division, then those 2 winners play the 2 winners of the other division w/in conference, then those 2 winners go cross conference, w p/ the 2 survivors meeting for the Cup. Would allow for Sabres Habs, or Sabres Phlyers in the finals and could also allow a battle if Alberta in the finals or NY-NY or Detroit-Avs or any other combination. Wouldn't having the 2 best teams in the championship regardless of where their home rink happens to be located make for a better product? They'd get the rivalries early and COULD get them again at the end too.

As expected. Still would like to have seen how Comrie would've handled the sort of btb's.

Why would they get an offer? There's still 3 or 4 Sutter brothers that have never coached the Flames. Gotta work through the whole pack before moving on to something else, right? 😉

One thing not mentioned in all this is the picture quality of streamed content is of noticeably lower quality than that from satellite (probably cable too, but haven't compared them directly).

Close. Bandits then Sabres. 😉

Empire folding happened as a result of the Criminals declaring bankruptcy when their fraudulent accounting scheme blew up at the tech bubble's bursting and the subsequent asshattery of the bankruptcy trustee (he liquidated Empire because the future Adelphia MIGHT eventually end up losing money by paying more in rights fees after a going entity sale rather than what they'd get just selling off the equipment & studios by themselves. Completely backwards from what he was supposed to do. And WNSA folded long before all that, with no effect on the Sabres. You have the cause and effects of the events of the early Aughts completely off. 12 teams aren't going bankrupt because Bally's is going to try to renegotiate their broadcast contracts.