darksabre

The question is whether or not they can keep it up. I think they're well rested at the moment, but the bumps and bruises are going to start adding up again.

They scored enough goals to bail Hutton out. Dahlin had two assists. Hunwick wasn't the worst defender.

Ugly but good enough

That 4th goal against was soft by Sam. He put that puck right on Atkinson's stick.

His entire right leg was in the crease bud.

That was incredibly weak

It's okay to be wrong. Thompson was in the crease.

Thompson was half in the crease...

Sloppy

That's a good goal.

Noooope

Welp, let's see if Okposo at the point works...

Bar down snipe celly brah

Reinhart sneakily gets himself lost in coverage.

It's gotta have something to do with Phil and the lines he sends out after scoring a goal. His rolling 4 lines nonsense doesn't work when teams are sending their best players out to try to score after giving one up.

Mmmm that's classic Sabres giving up an uncontested goal in the slot.

Glad to see Erod get that goal after getting mugged in the neutral zone

Yup.

That's not what that says.

Apparently sitting in the press box is the best way for Pilut to learn from his mistakes...

If Risto is going to be out there then he has to be the shot guy. Just keep trying to load him up like the Bruins do with Chara. Let him blast away and hope he doesn't kill someone on your team.

Giveaways have to be the thing. But man, I feel like you gotta let him work through it.

I have no idea. Every metric indicates that Pilut is the more useful player. edit: the only thing I'm seeing that would raise a red flag is the takeaway/giveaway ratio. Pilut has 3 giveaways for every 1 takeaway, whereas Hunwick on his career has 1.5 giveaways for every takeaway. I don't feel like that is enough to base roster decisions on, but here we are.

Hunwick in the lineup over Pilut is a disgrace.

I blame Ristolainen for that. He's slow and unpredictable with the puck.