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I'm definitely calling him dishes

I would assume they just don't care to see them on the ice against easier competition in these early games. They want to see them against more veteran lineups later on.

I liked his post-game. He was very clear in his explanation of what his process is. He talked a lot about teaching situations and how he needs to figure out when his players respond best to learning and how they learn as individuals. Mentioned that during games he's not planning to do too much teaching, that teaching is for between games. He wants guys to focus on the concepts he's championing and to just go out and play so that he can start getting tape of them in game situations (rather than practice) to see where those concepts need work. If people wanted a mean coach, Ralph ain't it. We're going to be hearing about how he's a players coach soon. One thing that was interesting is that he mentioned how much more technology is available on the bench than there was the last time he was a coach. He said he needs to play with these tools to see how they can be effectively deployed.

I think I like Krueger

And not a moment too soon.

It's really not great that these pens randos have made this so difficult.

Johansson has made the saves in OT.

The score doesn't mean anything to me since it's a preseason game and goalies are whatever but I would have liked a little more offense from the Sabres in this period. They're not getting to the puck fast enough and they're losing too many battles.

Cozens looks pretty serviceable for an 18 year old

That was Dahlin's fault

The one thing I'm noticing in this game is that Buffalo isn't hesitating. They're focused on driving the puck up the ice and if they screw up they're hustling to cover up the mistake.

Tage with some speed

I just want to note that the game stream looks a lot better in Firefox than chrome for some reason.

I'm going to have to watch him more in this game. I don't think he looks much stronger so far...

The thing I noticed was him getting back up the ice a lot quicker to catch up to a pass that missed him and went out into the neutral zone.

Is it me or does Dahlin look faster?

Yeah, it's quite poor. I thought maybe it was just my computer installing Windows updates but I guess not.

Ope, there's the audio now.

Same

Waiting for the stream to start like

I really hope Pat Lafontaine breaks his silence someday about the huge mess that was the GMTM era. Edit: and Nolan. Both cited tension with GMTM/"the front office" as their reasons for resigning/being fired, and I'd love to know if Pegula was a part of that too.

Watch them be the team to finally sign Kaep and totally muck up our wild card hopes.

The Leafs are in such a strange spot with their roster. They have all of their cap tied up in forwards and basically no one signed up to play defense for them after this season.

It probably is. I mostly don't care for NFL football and the Bills are a team I root for because I am obligated to do so because I'm not going to be one of those dorks who jumps on some other bandwagon. But as long as the Bills exist I will be forever miffed that anyone even takes anything they do in the first 5-6 weeks seriously. The successes always find a way to melt away into nothing. And that's not even hyperbole, it's a fact. The Sabres, even when they're bad, will always more interesting than the Bills. But that's just probably because hockey is the better sport anyway. Fun. Sure. I've wasted too many nice fall Sundays to fall for that again.

The Sabres are a different animal entirely and aren't even relevant to this. These last few years have been exhausting, sure, but at least they were relevant as near as 2011. The Bills "blowing them out of the water" is the absolute lowest of bars and is a laughable comment to make. The Bills have been ***** for decades and they have been suckering people into believing in them in September for decades. It's like a revivalist church every year in this dumb town. I just don't see the point. You can scream at me until you have a stroke that this year is somehow different but as far as I'm concerned it's just the same old song and dance. You can tell me I was wrong in January.