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Interesting that Johnson is still rated higher than Samuelsson.

You go Annie get your gun. When you're done maybe you can start pulling mussels from the shell.

Put in Tokarski & get the 2nd W of the 3 game winning streak.

You do have the best ballets.

Nor CI for those out of town viewers watching on Cable &/or Satellite. That @Brawndo is slipping. 😉 (Not really. 🍺 )

And adding the wrister to his repertoire was a very good development. With his length he doesn't need to wind up to generate torque. He very well could keep up the goal scoring pace unless D start essentially doubling him up which would create space for Olofsson. Let them pick their poison- darned if you do, darned if you don't.

Yep. He's always had that in tight stickhanding when absolutely nothing was on the line. He was doing that in his1st Sabres training camp. He'd almost never done it in games & it is awesome to see him do that now when it does matter. But the Briere development comparable isn't really apt IMHO. Briere was excellent on the PP from day 1 for the Desert Dogs. But in the clutch & grab era, he couldn't create enough space to score much 5v5 and due to his small stature the Yotes coaches never forgave his defensive shortcomings and he bounced up & down. He was good in Buffalo but didn't explode on the scene until the rules changes that came with the end of the lockout allowed him to use his speed 5v5. There is a similarity in that his game has been completely different since getting moved to C & maybe he could've been this guy the whole time but his actual play & not just the results has been night & day. Briere was the same guy the whole time, just once he couldn't legally get tackled what he could do became blatantly noticable.

That 8,000 or so is paid tix. My estimates have been of actual in seat attendance. There were about 6,500 ST's sold. So, there have been about 500-1,500 single ticket sales each game. Which is where the 7-8,000-ish attendance #'s come from. Pretty sure actual attendance hasn't topped 5,000 this year. (Would put (a very small amount of) money on them not having exceeded 6,000 to date (w/ the possible exception of TO that I didn't go to).

Would say probably ~4,500. Second most of the ones yours truly was at. Except for some of the 200's everything seemed nearly 1/4 full.

If you buy a 5 pack between now and Monday they won't charge the "convenience" fees. So, it'll be something like a 5-10% discount.

That would be Boychuk.

That. And the fact that it's working (so far).

Fantastic. Pretty sure will be there w/ my out of town kid as well. 🍺

The easy call is that Girgensons goes back to W and Cozens takes his spot. An less obvious choice is putting the Eakin checking line back together and having Cozens center Asplund & one of R2 Rou2, Quinn, Caggiula, or Hinestroza (preference in that order). As to Quinn being that choice, remember Tuch isn't expected until after the February shutdown. Quinn or Peterka should be ready by then if management wants to give one a taste.

Any chance this follows the Olofsson yellow sweater timeline?

Why not both?

It does kinda make the term "Comets" a double entendre and help explain the moniker.

Pretty sure he's referring to O'Reilly during Housley's 1st season.

That was a large part of it. His being on the ice along w/ Eichel and their being a train wreck when on the ice at the same time through much of Eichel's tenure when the other team was cycling was another major component.

For the love of all that is good & Holy, Mr. Granato, please do not put Dahlin & Jokiharju back together as a regular pairing. They are in many ways similar players but with opposite handedness & Ras is far better at the offensive side of the game than Joki is. Because their sets of strengths & particularly their weaknesses are similar, those weaknesses get amplified when they're paired up.

Yes. But the team needs to be significantly better throughout the lineup than the team that has a line that can pretty much guarantee a GPG from that top line. And they definitely can't have more money tied up in bad contracts than this one already does.

Agree that 4 young C's/ prospects are too few, but why discount Krebs as a legit prospect when he was obtained for the #2 OA #1 C? Thompson was obtained for a 1st line C as well. PS - Zubrov also walked in '07. People always forget that because he was only brought in to be a rental, but he could've been brought back when the other 2 guys walked. He was still available at least a week after 7/1/7. Bring him back & that team likely squeezes into the playoffs and then Roy & Connolly likely aren't viewed in the same negative light they ended being viewed.

Disagree. Bales has gotten far more out of the guys he's been given to work with than anybody had a reasonable expectation to achieve.

6th game being in the crowd, and IMHO, of those, this was his best game. He had a confidence with the puck on his stick and seemed to do a good job of choosing when to dipsy doodle and also when to make the pass or try the shot. He played fairly physically and really only seemed to be out of place in his own end 1 time. Right after Domi made Cozens look silly, he seemed flat footed as the puck went to Roslovic and decided to try to avoid screening Tokarski when the better play was probably risking the screen to keep from letting him walk in for a clean shot from the slot. Surprisingly only noticed him on the right side once at 5v5 which was down significantly from the 1/4 - 1/3 of the time the past 2 or 3 games. Also, for a 1st game back was very pleased w/ Jokiharju's game. Didn't seem to have much rust & actually had a bit of a snarl.

True. And it is so difficult to reconcile that this kid that's leading the team in scoring at C is the same one that while playing W ####ed up his shoulder bracing for a check into the boards by lifting his arm to brace for the impact. His sense for playing C is light years ahead of his sense for playing W. Good on Granato for giving him that shot, whether out of necessity, seeing something in his game that sparked that idea, or a little of both.