darksabre

Yup. We are consistently bad at getting shots on goal from the "dirty areas". We get there, but other teams are doing a good job of preventing any actual scoring opportunities. 3 of our 4 goals last night were basically luck, including Jack's OT winner which was shot from an angle where most goalies have the entire net covered. It was a true seeing-eye shot. Dahlin's goal was tipped by a Calgary player. McCabe's was nice but mostly the product of a good but rare screen. You need to be a little lucky to win games like this. And the Sabres had the luck last night.

If you look at the shot chart from last night vs the game against Edmonton, you can see that Calgary managed nearly as many opportunities from high danger areas as Edmonton did. We just got lucky that half of them didn't go in this time. https://www.hockey-reference.com/boxscores/201901160CGY.html#all_shotchart

The Sabres certainly played a much faster game last night. I thought they were first to the puck quite a bit which made a huge difference. I also thought they had much better luck than in previous games. I think Calgary hit the post like 4-5 times. They also got much better goaltending from Linus than they have been getting from Hutton (lately).

Ullmark deserves Friday against Vancouver. He's earned it.

My only complaint would have been the missed call on Pilut. They had a good effort tonight. And a little luck.

Glad to see Jack get one. He needed that. The team needed it. The fans needed it. ☘️

Why is PP1 so bad?!

Ullmark is a riot ?

That's BS

I thought that might have been tipped but nope! Good shot, great screen by Ok.

Ullmark has lucky posts tonight ☘️

Mmmm deflected by a Calgary player. Dat puck luck

Dahliiiinnnn

*wet fart noise*

I reiterate

It's important to note that Ullmark has been both good and lucky tonight so far.

Great vision and execution by Mittelstadt to spring Erod

I hate PP1 so much.

No way. By the time you have the pond shoveled you're too tired to play.

It was a perfectly good period until the very last second.

Thanks to Hoss for helping me find it. 12-22 pregame before Anaheim. Talking about how Carlyle is big on details and likes to get his matchups. Housley basically waves it off and says they aren't going to do that. 3:00ish https://www.nhl.com/sabres/video/phil-housley-pregame-122218/t-277437090/c-64223703 I think what got me is that Housley acknowledges that Carlyle is studious about details and line matching, but his response is "we're going to roll 4." The line change is super important and this is Housley basically saying he doesn't care.

I caught that!

I'm digging through the podcasts on WGR. It's neither of the two I've posted so far. Still looking.

Possible 12-11 with Howard and Jeremy before the Kings game? https://wgr550.radio.com/media/audio-channel/12-11-sabres-head-coach-phil-housley-howard-and-jeremy Or 12-5 after the Leafs game? https://wgr550.radio.com/media/audio-channel/12-05-sabres-head-coach-phil-housley-howard-and-jeremy

My buddies are saying it was WGR, so it must have been one of his appearances back in either November or December.