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On the plus side, there's a real good chance Power will be back & Comrie & Jokiharju will be all that much closer to healthy whenever they get to play again. Heck, Lyubushkin could be fully healthy too. We may never see Pilut in a Sabres uni again. 😉

Really hoping that one gets played. Somebody bought our tix & really don't care to find out how the refunding process works.

We couldn't do our normal trip in to hang w/ family tonight, but the kids are home & we did a turkey dinner tonight & the tradional steak dinner is set for dinner on the day of days. Not sure what is on the itinerary except watching the Fish try to miss the playoffs. Hard to believe the whole division was above 0.500 about 4 weeks ago. Loo,ing forward to the Sabres getting back to it.

Merry ####ing Christmas.

Our outage had 8,000 affected. If 8,000 took 7 hours, 1k should be 1 hour tops, right?

Here's to hoping it's just for a few minutes.

Seeing as Santa doesn't seem to be coming here tonight, Merry Christmas to all. And to those that celebrate other holidays, please have a safe, prosperous, and wonderful celebration. Happy holidays to all.

True, but the Fishies getting their bippies rocked is always appreciated.

Finally made it into one of these! It's a true Christmas miracle! God bless us, everyone.

We "know" J-bot never inquired about anyone that couldn't be had without an overpay of a 3rd rounder 😉, but we have evidence that Adams has tried to do better. Would be shocked if he didn't ask about both.

When it mattered they did so against the Fishies too. Oh, yeah, nevermind. 😉

Friggin' *****. (Had to be said. 😉) Really, a kitty cat gets blocked? It"s sad, so sad, it's a sad sad situation ...

Lazy Mo- fo. 😉

Good post. Still expect there's a good chance Comrie turns it around when he gets back. If he doesn't and UPL can't continue his unlikely play of the last 2 games fully expect Adams to be in the goalie market this offseason regardless of Levi & Portillo's decisions. And fully expect whomever they bring in to be a bit of a head scratcher (like targeting Murray was) but between Bales & the analytics team am hopeful they get it right even though the track record under Adams to date leaves a lot to be desired.

Ristolainen is strong as an ox and almost as bright.

We lost power for about 7 hours. Not a major issue, can heat the house w/ wood & did, but took forever (well, literally hours) to get the generator started because it was so cold. One thing those pushing for all electric power generation/usage don't think about is when the power goes out you aren't heating your house nor are you recharging your car's battery.

He isn't setting out to go w/ the cheapest option. Murray wasn't particularly cheap. Fully expect that if neither Comrie nor UPL show they can backstop a contending team that a new starter will be brought in this summer. But unless he gets a deal he simply can't walk away from it isn't happening during this season.

Thanks for the updates. Tried to DVR the game but lost power for 7 hours and had issues firing up the generator for a few of those. (So cold, the pull starter rewind spring wouldn't rewind it. Took a LONG time to rewind it poking a couple of screw drivers through the guard & then took several pulls to get it to actually fire.)

You all have pretty much covered it. IMHO, out of those items cited there are 2 main drivers towards that & 1 item that hasn't been mentioned. The 2 that have is 1, Thompson gets himself basically a tap in before he shoots if it isn't a 1 timer. That moving the puck around the goalie to an open net has a crazy high shooting percentage. The other is the puck movement they get before shooting. How many times has Peterka sent a rocket into an open side of a net before the goalie can get there. That was the way Cozens got the goal that got his goal scoring rolling & there have been several others who've scored those types of goals. The one that wasn't mentioned (or missed it if it was said earlier) is they're leading the league in EN goals. By definition, if they get a shot off on an empty net, it is a goal. It doesn't count as a shot if it goes wide or is blocked by a defender. So, on 11 (IIRC) shots they were guaranteed a goal as soon as it was officially on net. If they've had 900 shots (likely 30 shots/game over 30 games give or take), then 1.2% of them were automatic.

Had never heard that but maybe that was part of why they had to use snow throwers rather than plows. The big issue was the slow was so deep the plows couldn't plow through. Snow throwers didn't have any issue w/ the "concrete."

Nah, 6'. Those 2 people are midgets. 😉

Had a bad feeling about tonight's game. They'll be way more ready for the Bolts in March. And the Phlyers'll be trash all season long. January, March, whatever. Pfth. You're welcome. 😉

It wasn't "drifted" as per typical snow drifting. Those of us in the snow belt had an entire lake's worth of snow picked up & then dumped as individual flakes accumulating to several feet deep. Have a really cool picture from a few days later of the dog jumping from the driveway onto the 6'+ snow bank the driveway had been cut through. The snowbank was taller than my mother standing next to it.

The Nordiques have a team page? TIL. Good to see the Yotes are popular somewhere. Too bad it isn't where they play.

Such a tragic loss especially during the holidays. So very saddened at your loss. You & she will be in our prayers.