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3rd death of a friend or sibling of a friend in just over one week. 1 from a battle with cancer. 1 from an illness. And one from complications from a fall. Hopefully that's it for a while.

The AHL.tv freebie was only Saturday and ONLY for watching the games live. (Had not caught that last part as was planning on watching the Amerks after the Sabres and Bandits games. Oops.)

Love Johnson, and he'll likely be a fixture in the top 4 LT. But, can we PLEASE stop projecting 2nd year D into major roles? Let him be 1/2 of the 3rd pairing next year and look like an absolute stud rather than force him higher into the lineup than he's likely ready for. Plus, it would be really a nice change to give Power a partner that can help cover his young D-man mistakes rather than the other way round. These kids have to cover for F mistakes often enough; cut them some slack.

There are. But am curious how good his English is. Being interviewed when upset and in a language that isn't your 1st is a recipe for giving a "good" quote to the reporter.

Whatevs. You responded before the edit took hold.

But on the broadcast they said he DID put weight on it once he got to the tunnel. If a lateral ligament in the knee was injured, he may not have wanted the skate on the ice because any twisting of the knee would've been excruciating but straight ahead movement would've been fine. It also could be the ankle. (Your guesses are also valid at this time, too.)

Always have viewed the green check mark as a "yes" and the red X as a "no." If they are viewed in that light, they are FAR more flexible and useful. Because 'yes' can also be a very brief 'agree with you here' and 'no' can also be a very brief 'nope, we are in disagreement.'

People said that about the Bills too. And it was true for about 18 or 19 years. But it isn't true anymore. Get the team to start winning (making the playoffs and actually winning at least a round) and players will want to be in Buffalo again. Until they start winning again, no, most players will not want to be in Buffalo.

He can. And he will be on the Amerks roster on deadline day (whether he's actually there or it's just a paper transaction remains to be seen). Personally would probably have him taxiing back and forth getting a couple of days in Buffalo each week facing the tougher shooters and having access to better equipment, so he can get a game every 4-5 in Buffalo but having him in Ra-cha-cha the bulk of the time. (Which will have everybody on the board mad. 😜 )

NO. 5 clicks plus scrolling back to the "submit reply" button. (6 counting the period.)

You asked a question. The answer to the question was 'No.' Wtf do you need the answer spelled out in a post, when the reaction allows it to be answered with 2 clicks? Well, to answer your question, NO we do not know how serious the injury is. Truly doubt the Sabres even know yet as you usually don't do MRIs / ultrasounds until a couple of days later after swelling has gone down. Happy?

Without knowing what they're going to do with Mittelstadt's next contract, that'd be a 'no.' Knowing Mitts is locked up LT, the answer becomes 'maybe' but still leaning towards 'no.'

Not QUITE the same as what you're asking, but the Bills hosted the Jints in both teams' 1st preseason games back in '90. (And Jints went 4-0 in the preseason and the Bills went 0-4. Preseason is SO important.)

Give them Savoie and this year's lottery protected 1st. REALLY wanted Jiricek when he came out.

Not suggesting Kulich get called up, but if he is called up, he probably ends up on one of the 3 offensive lines taking a regular shift but then gets 2 shifts tops in the 3rd if the Sabres have a tight lead. So, it likely doesn't affect his linemates' ice time at all.

For the love of all that's good and Holy, PLEASE do not put Thompson and Olofsson on the same PP. You've come up with the best way to ensure the PP is even MORE stationary than it currently is.

Why he went down wasn't PTR's Q. Why he shouldn't be brought back up again at any point this season was the Q.

So THIS is why Adams was looking to get Kane in. It wasn't to cover for Quinn's 1st injury, it was for his next injury. 4D chess indeed.

The ####ing extra skater situations are ####ing killing them. They have only 20 PP goals the entire season. They have all of TWO 6v5 goals for. (And 1 of those PP goals came with the goalie out, and was not included in the 6v5 stat.) They've given up 9 SH goals. So they've netted only ELEVEN PP goals through 47 games. And they've given up 3 6v5 EN goals. (And like w/ the PP goals, 1 of those SH goals came with the opponent's goalie out, and wasn't included in the 6v5 stats.) Why don't they even get to OT (where they're only 2-3-1 and 0-1 in the SO) anymore? Would say that a complete lack of being able to score with the extra attacker is a HUGE part of that. And the PP was an issue last year. Hate that they didn't upgrade the coaching there. Along with ALL the other issues hurting them this year, that is the single biggest in why they aren't legitimately in the hunt at the ASB.

Why? Because he was injured coming into/at the begining of training camp and there have been at least 3 games this year where he's noticiably pulled up at some point in a game and then his skating was a shell of itself from earlier in the game. There have been a handful of games where his skating has looked like it did in most all games last year. And he missed time in December with a LBI. Put it all together ...

Good game. Hopefully Quinn's injury isn't serious. Anybody else notice that for once they weren't sneaking out of their own zone 2 forwards as soon as they got the puck nor were they doing the stupid get the puck over the BL and then curl it back towards the BL looking for a teammate to pass it to? Yes, the Snarks are horrible. But they weren't playing this way against them 2 weeks ago. If UPL hadn't pitched the SO in that last game they'd've been in BIG trouble. This game, his D man set a perfect screen and then a different D man had a perfect tip against him and they were down 2-0 but never really missed a beat. Play THIS system EVERY game. They were coming through the neutral zone with speed and bodies. It was most noticable with the Kid Line, but they all were doing it. They were under more control in their own end, though they still had some scary moments back there. But, more often than not, staying positionally sound in their own zone yields good things.

Would wager he's been dealing with a groin injury or a sport hernia the entire season. Not bad enough to shut him down, but it is noticable when he pulls up and then can't get that extra step he had the past 2 seasons for the rest of a game.

Because sheer chance says they should be able to have 3-4 4 game winning streaks throughout the season. Nearly 50 games in, they're still looking for their 1st 3 game winning streak. Get a couple of 4-0-0 stretches around an 0-2-0 or 0-1-1 stretch and it APPEARS doable.

Article 18 covers supplemental discipline. While it's always been a puzzle why the NHLPA never seems to stick up for the safety of its members rather than sticking up for their wallets, expect a fair amount of it is a distrust of management and an expectation that if they don't hold the line always pushing for less severe punishments that they'd then end up seeing the league fining players excessively like the NFL has been doing this past season. That, plus it always seems the guys that "played on the edge" like Chelios tend to have an oversized voice within the PA. The PA cares about the star players getting huge $ contracts (nominally, because at the end of the day, the players all split the same pool of money and discounting covid reclaws it will always be 50.0% of HRR) which work against the interests of the rank and file (again, because the players split the same 50.0% of HRR and every on paper $ that the players are paid gets put into the denominator of that scaling factor to bring total player salary to 50.0% of HRR) and also keeping the goons from getting suspended out of the league (which also works against the interests of the rank and file, because its the rank and file getting injured by the goons which shortens the careers of those rank and file members). Not sure which union is worse, the NHLPA or the NFLPA. Neither seems to focus on what this observer believes they should be focusing on.

Aren't meh whales natural enemies of sharks? This could work out. 😉