darksabre

The Sabres will win tonight but only if they don't score first.

I get that. I understand how much Phil Kessel was wrongly targeted. This isn't that though.

People keep confusing my saying he's part of the problem to mean that he's the entire problem. St. Louis clearly has issues. Those issues are not entirely Ryan O'Reilly. But I believe it's foolish to simply hand wave the O'Reilly variable. He's the same player he has always been on yet another team where his stats don't matter. This trend isn't nothing.

Just because you don't like it doesn't mean it's not true.

Here's the thing: O'Reilly was a problem in the locker room. How much his locker room problems hurt the team, it's hard to say. But given the return we got for Ryan, I have to imagine Botterill was motivated to remove him for reasons other than asset management. That the cancer appears to have spread in the Blues room now just lends more credence to the idea. Is it definitive? No. But there's no reason to poo poo it either.

Bumping this because the Tre White Goalie Academy stuff is maybe some of PSE's best work so far.

Credit to PSE where it's due, this is easily their best work yet. Bless Tre White.

My favorite days are when we go from zero GDTs to two GDTs at the exact same time.

I'll be frank: I'm completely indifferent on Die Hard.

Christmas in Connecticut is great. I very much identity with Uncle Felix. Paprika!

Best Christmas movie is Home Alone, fight me.

I think that's the right move. Let us see what Ullmark looks like with some regular work.

Sure. I think Sam is playing good hockey. And I'm advocating that he's more useful elsewhere in the lineup because of it. We have evidence that shows that Sam elevates his linemates. We need to do something with that.

That basically nails it. I just don't think Reinhart is being used effectively on Jack's line. They might produce, but I don't think it's the most useful production. I also felt like the team was playing a more complete game before Reinhart went to Jack's wing. They might have had a nice win streak with Reinhart there, but they don't look particularly good. Frankly, I think moving Sam to Jack's line hurt the team in the long run. It worked for that streak, but I think they're worse for it now.

I really think Pommers needs to go back to the first line.

Getting tired of all this winning.

Who throws their injured kicker out to try a 54 yarder in a meaningless game in a losing season? Why not just, I don't know, try something interesting? I still think they need to fire coach Clappy.

Brothers Karamazov. Quite the tome. But I like Russian literature in winter for some reason.

Zero percent chance I'm turning this on. Coffee and 19th century Russian literature by the Christmas tree is the order of the day.

Alright, I think I'm done. They're playing like trash.

Um...Risto is a Finn.

Do officials not like Jeff Skinner? Like, is it a conspiracy? Because he suffers more no-calls than any player I've ever watched. He's playing against two opponents every night.

Ew