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The biggest concern for a guy like Tokarski is that there's just no way his body is going to hold up to getting this much work every game. He's playing very well, but playing at the top of his game every night when he's a fringe NHL goalie is just going to wear him out. It feels like an injury is inevitable.

There is just no where near enough talent on this roster. Which is, of course, not news lol

Donny been reading my posts

Anderson is day to day with an upper body injury of some kind

I gotta be honest, I'd try Dahlin with Pysyk or Hagg. They've both been doing pretty good work getting HEAVY D-zone starts. So maybe split that pair up and divide the grit across two pairs instead of one. It could fail horribly, but it's not like we have any reason not to try it.

Sports fans are fickle. They need a new fixation.

They were right about Risto and now they're going to be insufferable.

The whole thing feels like a weird dream.

Right. I'm not going to sit here and defend Dahlin till I'm blue in the face. He's got his issues. But he's good. This isn't a Ristolainen situation as much as the self-congratulating stats nerds on twitter want it to be... But man, just look at this roster. They weren't expected to have a winning record at any point this season. And the road trip exposed them. They can't get the matchups they desperately need to win on the road and they're getting blown up because of it. It just...is what it is. I'll worry a lot more next season if a bunch of these much-anticipated prospects make the jump and improve the forward corps dramatically and Dahlin's game doesn't become more consistent along with it.

It's really tough to suss out what is Dahlin's fault and what is the fault of the fact that other teams are now taking the Sabres seriously and exploiting the HUGE dearth of talent in the forward ranks in order to press the defense. For as good as guys like Tage, Okposo, Asplund, etc., are playing, they're still not very dangerous. Losing Mitts and Joker hasn't helped an already depleted roster. This team is just not built to make life very easy on the defense or goalies.

Tokarski is gonna be seeing double after this one, he's had to make a lot of big saves.

The Jordan Eberle Game I suppose

Love it

This is very bad hockey lol

Lol

This is some grade A speculation and I like it

Yeah, I'm never going to get to "they had to."

Just because Jack didn't want to be here for a rebuild doesn't mean KA was obligated to care. They traded him because they wanted to.

Yup

Looks like it's both to me

Neat

I would bet most hockey fans don't even think about Bergeron. He's one of the best players in the game and he gets zero attention. I like that.

I envy the Bruins for what they've had with Bergeron, Marchand, Chara, Krejci, etc. You can hate these guys all you want but, minus Chara finally moving on, the Bruins have been the model of stability for a very impressive term.

If we're lucky we end up with a collection of players similar to what the Bruins have had for the last decade. No obvious number one star but just a bunch of good to really good hard working guys with a good leadership core that knows how to play a team game.