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Any word on whether the lineup stays the same or if Lyubushkin &/or Hinostroza get back in?

Would agree that the majority don't but surely some do. Should a person's entire life be defined by what they did at 12 or 13? Keep him on a short leash and make sure he realizes he burned through pretty much all his mulligans w/ that one act so he will not get the benefit of the doubt in any future action remotely sociopathic. That said, glad he isn't the Sabres issue.

Considering it appears you were the one to lock it, ...

Puck retrieval is definitely important as the 1st goal last night proved. But winning faceoffs CLEANLY in the offensive or defensive zone is more important than that IMHO. That's where defenders get forced into chasing and set plays can actually kind of work because the puck carrier has space and time and new holes almost automatically open up as the defenders chase & react. Thing is, the public faceoff stats don't seem to track that because clean wins happen so infrequently. Probably an issue w/ defining a clean win too, though if you've watched hockey, even if you can't define it, you know it when you see one.

And Dahlin with the meaningless goal.

Amerks up 4-3 off a blast by Weisbach. Biro w/ a nice drop pass to him. Less than 5 minutes left. And now 5-3 Prow from Sheahan & Murray. Just under 4 to go.

Amerks tie it on the PP off a great rush by Rousek. Getting outshot 26-14, but tied 4 minutes into the 3rd.

Bjork w/ a snipe in the last minute of the 2nd. 3-2 bad guys through 2.

3-1 in the 2nd. Walsh w/ a PP goal for the bad guys.

2 - Zip Utica. Make that 2-1 Jobst with the answer.

Utica up 1 zip off a turnover. 24 scored. (Can't make out his name P-i-P. Amerks getting outshot 9-2 1/2 way through the 1st. (Asuming the graphic is correct. Not always a good assumption.)

Amerks have 1st game of a home & home vs Uterus tonight. Sheahan's 1st game as an Amerk this year & the kid that was playing in Iowa in the ECHL also getting his 1st Amerks game on a PTO. Daws in net for the Comets. Tage's kid brother also playing for them. Just started watching it on tape delay. No score 4 minutes in.

The audio feed being about 0.25 sec ahead of the video is distracting. It was annoying when the Sabres were doing it in covid seasons & it still is. Though knowing the puck was in took the drama out of whether it would trickle in. Wonder if VO's 2nd goal will be an empty netter again.

To the bolded, yes. And one of these years he'll get his wish and Girgensons will be gone. But until it actually happens, won't expect it.

Rotation went: Hinostroza Krebs Quinn Asplund Hinostroza each for 2 games.

Found out the reason why it took 2 hours to get from Batavia to Pembroke last week was also the reason most all on ramps have Check Your Vehicle's Height signs recently. Apparently the truck w/ the top sheared off was a Ryder rental that turned out to be a bit too tall to get under all the bridges. Grrrrr.

To the 1st thought, with the exception of Lyubushkin (& Tischke) the Sabres definitely had a type they were bringing in. Clague, unlike most of them actually had some NHL experience. He has looked decent after his 1st game. So, their 9 can actually be counted on for a game or 2 if they lose 3 D again. Wouldn't want to count on him for much more than that. Remember, Butcher actually was adequate for about 4 games before he turned back into Will Butcher last year. To the 2nd thought, absolutely.

Pretty sure only Granato fully gets it. But through the 1st 10 games, any F that sat, sat for 2 games then was back in the lineup. If Engel is correct & Vinny is again the odd man out tomorrow, the rotation is getting scrapped or at a minimum adjusted. Maybe it just means Granato doesn't think any of the young players are at a point where watching is better than doing right now. But, from a growth perspective, Hinostroza is the guy to have sitting. The Q the fans are interested in is that also the same guy to have sitting from a win games perspective. Through 8 games it didn't look that way. Through 10 games, it kind of does.

Really had absolutely no interest in him, BUT two of the biggest character/process guys on the Bills do want him (Von Miller & Tre White). If they think he'd make the team better, then there may be something to the thought that he'd be a good piece to add.

Don't know that people will ever believe the Sabres aren't the Habs in terms of size. And, even in the Briere - Drury days the Sabres had pretty good team size overall. It's just their game when they were on was always speed & skill and except for 2 glaring exceptions never about size and hitting. (The original Nolan squads were singularly about hitting and Murray attempted to build LA East. Other than that, it's always been about speed.) Considering how the game is evolving into a quicker less blatently obviously violent game, don't know that the Sabres will ever be viewed as large. (Reputations remain long past their expiration date.) And with guys like Savoie and Östlund in the wings, this is likely the biggest they'll be for the foreseeable future.

Well, yes and no. When everybody is playing to their potential, he is the 13th F. But, at least according to his coach, 60% of the time this year to date he has been made the 12th (or even up to the 9th) F. And it wasn't even a week ago that his coach was explaining his philosophy on playing & sitting young players; in order to sit someone, Hinostroza rolls into the top 12. He could easily have dressed in 9 of the 10 games without anybody batting an eye provided the player sitting wasn't their best young defensive F.

Comrie.

It was brought up in IIRC Adams end of the season press conference that they were going to look hard at why they've been suffering so many injuries the past few years and what they could do differently to reduce them & their severity. So far this year, through 10 games only 3 players have missed time with injuries and 2 of those injuries couldn't have been avoided without equipment modifications (puck into the lower leg & into the face). Even the 3rd seemed a bit flukish as it occurred when the player threw what is typically a routine check but ended up twisting awkwardly. So, is the reduction in injuries due to better training/ recovery protocols, due to having so many guys under the age of 25 when soft tissue injuries simply don't happen nearly as often as when guys are older, having better players that don't have to push their bodies beyond their limits to have success on the ice, simple luck, a combination, or something entirely different? Absolutely did not expect them to get this far into the year as healthy as they are. Thoughts?

For 10 games we saw a different player sit a pair of games and then rotate back into the lineup. By the rotation, it's Hinostroza's turn to get back onto a line, but according g to Heather Engel he was still the odd man out. Does this mean Vinny is officially the 13th man? If so, presuming they continue to stay healthy up front, does that remain the case and he needs to wait for an injury to dress again or does it just mean his stay in the pressbox will extend to say 4 games rather than 2 and a kid will still sit but only for 1 game rather than 2 u til somebody eventually does miss a game with an injury?

Their legs won't be dragging for a while. Now, they may still have the occasional game where they're simply overmatched. But don't know that it'll get them a trip to the pressbox again. It's funny. 2 games ago, was sure Krebs would be odd man out on the 2 game road trip, but now that's highly unlikely. The kids seem closer than all but the most optimistic of optimists were expecting back in training camp & earlier. Sweet.