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One other thing that hopefully comes out of this game is Granato remembering who the D pairing was at the end of the 2nd. That play should be a stark reminder why so many of us really dislike that particular combination and why he shouldn't go back to it regardless to how much it seems right to him.

Doesn't Ruff have a job with a team that plays close to where Joisey's 2 football teams play? Wouldn't a plan to bring him in as PoHO be considered to be tampering?

And now Anderson has 3 games left to get the 2 W's he needs for 310.

Think we just did!

Well, dayum!

President of Hockey Operations.

Anybody else have flashbacks to Marty's "heeeey, Liiiiiindeeeeeeeey" when the cameras kept flashing to Ruff after the shorties?

You forget & ONLY on the PP too.

Borrowing a page from @dudacek IIRC, tIat was the Tale of the Tall to the Skinny. The way the ice is,. , they actually needed that to ensure this outcome.

FTFY. 😉

Skinner making falling down work for him on Power's goal. Good for the kid. Selfishly was hoping that 1st career goal would come this Saturday. Maybe Samuelsson gets his 1st then.

Adams is on record saying he wants to get a vet to partner w/ Power (& that's not the only external help he's looking for). Samuelsson-Dahlin is looking extremely good in a small sample. Jokiharju is a fixture, but likely as the 3rd pairing anchor that moves up to cover for injuries. Expecting Adams tries to land 1 bridge GT. Hopefully 3rd time is the charm. Could see no outside F's brought in, but that would be so rare in this league that the expectation is 2 outsiders get brought in. A 4C & somebody else. That somebody else could be the fruit of @Weave's hockey trade.

He might be. Just seem to recall you serious draft guys saying his draft is typically an outlier. Confusing him w/ somebody else?

Wouldn't help him being in Joisey very close to NYC Metro. Game will be blacked out.

All the regional broadcasts are there. (Subject to blackouts.) Pretty sure he meant that it isn't an ESPN+ or TNT exclusive game. (Sorry, hadn't seen somebody else already responded.)

True to the bolded. But isn't Button the guy that's usually got a unique draft board? It's not all that reassuring that he's got him falling to one of Buffalo's very likely slots.

Would've preferred Jiricek hadn't been ready to play already. He's going to play his way to getting picked before Buffalo is on the clock. (Unless they win 1 of the lotteries.)

That, plus, it's taken 4 years FOUR YEARS for ANY of the pieces that came back for O'Reilly to show any signs of being remotely worth what ROR has been/is. How many Sabres fans were lost due to not having O'Reilly level of value in the organization the past 3 years? How many kids now have the Sabres being a joke of a franchise indelibly etched on their psyches? How much money did the Pegulas lose by saving that $7.5MM? Even if Thompson improves from where he's at today & Johnson signs & becomes Power's ideal partner, 3 (and now 4) truly lost years can never be gotten back.

True. But he was picking out several aspects of his game that seemed to be more than just his normal we're even going to pick out something good about Miller's game level of praise. Initially, it sounded like he was talking about the other Rasmus until some specifics were mentioned.

Great listen. Thank you very much for posting this. The other thing that was interesting was when he was asked about the discussions or attachments when trading away draft picks and how he talked about (without mentioning it directly) how painful it was trading away the picks for Lehner & O'Reilly. When that's combined w/ his lamenting not taking MacAvoy, really starting to expect he wouldn't give high marks to Murray's ability to run a hockey department / evaluate players. 😄

Don't know that Asplund is getting pushed out. On the radio pregame before the game in Filly Granato was speaking pretty highly of Asplund's game. Not seeing it to that same level personally, but pretty sure Granato's opinion carries a smidgen more weight. 😉

And, expecting that you knew it was NHL 0.600 as the cutoff rather than NHL 0.58537 because it was easier as well and actually significantly easier than even your NHL 0.590. Since the introduction of the 3 point game and NHL 0.500 no longer being a useful proxy for a good team, NHL 0.600 has always told us if a team was IN the playoffs and a good target goal for whether your team was playoff bound. Get 6 points every 5 games (or 12 every 10) and you'll make the playoffs. Miss that threshold & you might still make it, but you need help from others. Reach the DeLuca 0.500 & you could very well still need help to make the playoffs. Happens pretty much every year. And again, thank you for pointing out the '70 Habs ending what at the time was the longest playoff qualification streak running by still getting to a record that SHOULD have gotten them in the dance. (Knew they were way ahead of the threshold to get in were they in the West, heck, they'd've won the West; didn't realize they'd cleared 0.600) Will be more careful w/ that 0.600 claim in the future.

How is 0.590 a rounder # than 0.600? Going w/ 0.600 hasn't failed in the 3 point game era and, as you mention, is a nice round # which is fairly easy to look at throughout the season. Played 5 games? Yep. Got 6 points? Yep. You're on pace. Nope. Better pick it up. Easy peazy. 😉

Had also heard that he & some of his classmates are working on a startup. Presuming that is correct, probably easier to help w/ that while actually living in Ann Arbor. Lots of reasons to stay besides simply wanting to shaft Buffalo.

Thanks. Will stand corrected. 0.600 has worked every single time except 1 in the entire history of the league. And that 1 time it didn't work came in the last year that every single established team was in the same conference, the sacrificial lamb in the SCFs from the other conference was on its way to bowing out of the Finals w/out a single game won in that round for the 4th time out of 4, & the league decided to put expansion Vancouver in the East with established Chicago swapping conferences to more or less ensure that fluke outcome never happened again. And, the NHL 0.600's predictive power would've held had either the Habs or Rags picked up 1 less point over the 76 game schedule even with all that working against it. 🍺