darksabre

It's not a penalty. There's nothing to call there. Just blow the whistle. The ref totally screwed that up.

I'm glad they're taking this ref to task for his stupid command that lead to that goal. He totally screwed with Pilut.

Hey coach, ask them to try harder maybe.

Yeah but he doesn't have to. The ref needs to just blow it dead if neither team wants to touch it.

Why on Earth did we play that puck on the LA high stick?

Dahlin is a big mood

It's just not working like this. I liked what they looked like when Reinhart had his own line. Just make the switch.

Cool offensive zone penalty Kyle. Where's Casey Mittelstadt lately? Put Pommers back with the first line Phil.

I think so too, but sometimes you just gotta play to the whistle. He needed to drop that guy.

Dahlin needed to just hit that guy, interference be damned.

That went basically as I expected.

That pass to Jack was "it". Gotta cash in there.

Great work Zemgus. He's been good in his role this year. Glad to see him get rewarded.

We shouldn't even bother trying to set up on the PP. Just try to score on the rush and then reset and repeat.

Please keep shooting Jack

It was inevitable. LA being so slow already lulled them out of playing the body. I'm sure they talked in their meeting about winning puck battles but the game has been too easy so far.

LA is almost confusingly slow.

Dahlin is something else

I feel like that makes a ton of sense.

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.