darksabre

This team continues to prove that it deserves better goaltending than it has been given by management.

He's definitely putting a lot of faith in his coaching staff to try to rehab the values on some pretty cheap guys. It's really not a bad tactic. Utilize the cap space you have, see if your coaches can get a guy or two going, maybe trade em at the deadline if they dredge up some value? Frankly, I think he should be doing more of it.

Free is good. At the very least he's another body. Not gonna get any butts in the seats though.

Maybe Bales thinks he can goalie-whisper him

Tokarski and the puck's shooter probably staged the injury so he could get some sleep.

I think this team has the ability to make a heroic run to 9th (nostalgic!) if they are simply given some NHL goaltending. They are scoring enough goals to do it, and they're doing it consistently. But it doesn't matter when they're giving up so much at the other end.

Enroth would be very funny. I'd try it lol

I actually have an answer to this thanks to a great Black Friday sale deal from coolhockey.com. I'm a snob so I always buy my jerseys outside of the normal channels so that the customizations are all hand stitched like the pros. So I ordered a Home Blue Okposo. I'm so happy for him getting his game back and he's just so likeable. There's basically no way I'm going to end up not enjoying this jersey. https://www.coolhockey.com/us/kyle-okposo-buffalo-sabres-primegreen-adidas-authentic-home-nhl-hockey-jersey.html

Which is fine. He hasn't been that useful.

Most of these guys would take any sniff at an NHL job they can get

Perfect. Bring any of them in. At worst it doesn't work out and you've lost basically nothing. At best it makes the Sabres better and then you can trade him or Anderson or Tokarski at the deadline. There's really no reason not to do it.

I'm wondering if the Sabres should just do what Edmonton did a few years ago with Koskinen and grab some vet Euro goalie who is dominating in some Euro league and give him a chance?

Cursed GDT

Tokarski didn't get much work last night, he should be fine to go again tonight.

Not that I don't think Murray, with the right coaching, couldn't be better than Dell or Tokarski, but I'd like the Sabres to aim just a little higher if they're really committed to improving the goaltending situation. This team is scoring enough goals to be solidly middle of the pack in the East. They deserve a good goalie, they've earned it.

I don't think I've ever attended a Sabres loss that I was less upset about.

Tokarski might be barely NHL level but he got hung completely out to dry. It might have been one of the worst games I've ever seen from skaters.

I have never watched less of a game I was physically at

I will note that I was a little concerned with like a minute left in the game when Skinner was out there to get it into the garage. Granato basically saying "you're on the team, you're going to play when we need you to" even if it's a terrible idea, is fine with me lol

Spicy. I like it. I think Adams also agrees with you...

It's compelling, though, that Ullmark has been pretty mediocre for Boston so far this season. At the moment Adams' choice to walk away looks shrewd. We'll see how it looks as the season goes on but...

Running the Tokarski-Dell tandem for a few more weeks is going to be dangerous. Tokarski has played well, but he really needed to be splitting time with Anderson. Carrying more of the workload is more likely to end with him injured because he's a cusp NHL talent who's body will break down at this pace and playing behind this roster. We might get to see UPL soon anyway.

I'm always gonna be bummed, btw, that we didn't take Draisaitl in that draft. I didn't have a problem with Sam but I definitely liked Draisaitl more. Bluh.

@SwampD he heard you