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Faack!

Jack you s*ck!

Tage w/ his 2nd. C'mon boys. Make it happen!

Not sure why Lyubushkin was so far off to the left on Eichel's goal. Would normally expect him over near where Eichel was.

Jokiharju is a legit 5. And he's still young, so he might get better. But the problem is Granato loves him some Joki and insists on using him as the 4 (or the 2).

Was just about to post essentially this.

It would be great to have one more top 4 guy, but just don't see Adams going out to get another. But Samuelsson-Dahlin Power-Lyubushkin Jokiharju-Bryson/ whomever is a legit NHL D and should really help them play around a playoff pace.

And their names are Samuelsson & Jokiharju.

And it's usually a local beer leaguer. In the playoffs a lot of the time the team's AHL goalie will be with the team as the emergency goalie. Friend of mine used to be the Amerks emergency goalie on occassion. Never got in a game, but did get on the bench a couple of times.

Totally understand that rule. But if the attacking team has the puck, they should have control of it when play is restarted. Do it the way they do to start a PP in box lax.

Glad you didn't kill the priest. The paperwork on that can be overwhelming. Also, glad your wife didn't have a stroke. Hope it was just one of those really flukey 1 time things and nothing serious. Agree w/ you, it probably is better placed in the awesome thread.

Our neighbor ALWAYS has vote for x signs in their yard every election season. Voting for their chosen candidate's opponent has been 100% the right choice for roughly 1/4 of a century. Unfortunately, they only had 1 sign up this year, so had to make a judgment call in a lot of races. ;)

Yeah right. Fans will see that contrition as a sign of weakness and pile on even more. He might as well embrace the role of heel at this point and pour it on. Is what it is at this point.

The plan had to be Comrie getting 2 or 3 starts to every one of Anderson's to have any prayer of getting a full year out of Anderson. They also, smartly, are giving Anderson the easier games (either due to opponent, travel, or both) relative to Comrie when he does play.

That trade is the ONLY example of "FAs" moving from that era that comes to mind.

Well, considering that technically it wasn't even a trade. They were both somehow FAs and just happened to sign w/ the other guy's former team on the same day. Had really liked McNab when he was a Sabre and was really sad he got traded away. One of many head scratches through the years.

How sad that it took him more than half a year to come back with that response. At least it's better than the old 'I'm rubber and you're glue ...' schoolyard comeback.

Seems fair.

Pretty sure that pairing becomes Power - Jokiharju if Henri is ready to go and then we see Pilut - Lyubushkin as the 3rd pairing.

W/ the exception of Hinostroza, those lines are what Granato has been leaning towards the past 2 weeks. He loves the Mittelstadt line, has gone to that Krebs lines several times, & has been kind of mix & matching the RW on the 1st line but has been having Tuch w/ Cozens quite a bit lately. Will be interesting to see who comes out against Vancouver when Quinn's 2 game press box pass expires. Will also be interested to see who ends up w/ Power: Lyubushkin or Jokiharju when both are healthy enough to play. Also interesting that Granato seems to be seeing if Clague can keep from getting blown up playing with another bottom of the lineup guy. Either that, or they're the 7-8 until Samuelsson comes back.

Since the last time the Sabres were in the post-season tourney, ZERO teams at an NHL 0.600 missed the playoffs. The # of teams missing the dance w/ a DeLuca 0.500 over that same period: 2, 0, 3, 1, 2, 3, 1, 4*, 0, & 1. And the number of teams making the dance but not reaching the DeLuca 0.500: 1, 0, 2, 0, 1, 1, 0, 1, 0, 1, 0. So, 13 teams in 10 years made the DeLuca 0.500 and were on the outside looking in and 7 teams missed the cut but still were good enough to be there. (Ignoring the 70ish game season. It bolsters the case when included.) Well in each season having 1.3 teams reaching that threshold and not getting in & 0.7 missing it but getting in doesn't sound like a lot. Isn't that close enough? No. Because that averages out to essentially 1 of the 4 most mediocre teams by record getting in the playoffs but missing the threshold and 1 of those 4 flipping that script. That's lousy as a predictive indicator amongst the teams that are actually fighting for a playoff spot IMHO. (But it gets it right for 1/2 of them. And that's good. Huh, huh, huh. /s) But EVERY SINGLE TEAM since the Habs missed the dance in '70 that has reached an NHL 0.600 has gotten in. No exceptions (to date), no rationalizations. It just works. As for 0.600 being too hard to calculate, go to NHL.com & the winning %age is right next to the Pts column. Easy peazy. And, every time you've played 10 games multiply the 10's column by 12 to see what the pace you need is: 12, 24, 36, etc. Again, easy. W/ DeLuca's arbitrary target, you need to either divide games played by 2 and compare it to wins or add up the other 2-3 columns (depending upon whether OTL's & SOL's are separate or combined) and compare that to the W column. No easier, & probably tougher than figuring out the NHL 0.600. * - the number of teams below 8th place in each conference when the season was interrupted that had a DeLuca 0.500 or better pace. (Aka, the teams on the outside looking in in a normal year.)

Nor did he get into a game with it. During his brief time in R&B & 00 he was essentially Vinz.

Define close. 300's are at least 90% sold. 100's still only ~75% sold.

So Jokiharju coming off IR?

Very good call. Without that fluke to start the game there's a very good chance this doesn't become that trap you predicted. But that goal happened & it did. So frustrating. They needed to be better. Hoping you're right about Thursday as well. Because of the history of the past 4 seasons, Thursday really feels like a must win.