darksabre

I agree. But you can criticise his linemates for the same stuff. They're not getting anything done either. The lack of NHL players in general is a problem.

I think ice time is part of it. He was getting a lot more in NY which means he was probably playing with better players. He's on the 4th line here and his numbers seem to reflect that. If they want to get him going they might need to put him on the second line or something.

I really like Mittelstadt's raw talent, but I accept now that he should probably be in the AHL rounding out his game. He's just not an NHL player yet. Botterill made some comments on Schopp and the Bulldog yesterday about Tage being ready to join the team again "at some point" and it made me wonder "well why was he here all last season then if he needs to be in the A right now?" Seems like player development is going a little strangely for this team...

If Eichel can put up over a point per game every season for the foreseeable future, and Dahlin can get himself close to that same pace next year, this whole mess will have been worth it, although getting Dahlin wasn't by design. The rebuild has been terribly executed. But it could/should still work out, although on a longer timeline than we'd all like. I wouldn't be as optimistic if we hadn't lucked into Dahlin though. Dahlin takes the edge off of tanking for Eichel.

I'm gonna have to watch this tonight. Exciting!

Yerdon implying on Twitter that Larsson might be hurt. I guess he wasn't available to the media after the game.

Oh!

The Sweden trip probably hurt the goalies more than anyone. It's tough to get into a rhythm playing one game in 10 days. I was watching Hutton a lot last night (trying to find things to work on in my own game) and what I noticed was he was cheating the initial shot a bit in some situations in order to cover up the second opportunities that were inevitably arriving on his doorstep. Carolina was playing a game that had him constantly trying to re-square to the puck and it was clear he was struggling with this. I wouldn't be surprised if Ullmark looks rough if he gets tomorrow's game, he'll have played one game in the last 15 days.

The only goal I really had a problem with Hutton on last night was that blocker side PP goal he gave up late. He could see it the whole way, he just whiffed on it.

Satisfied to get a point out of this one.

Haula was so distracted by Larsson that he let Larsson screen Mrazek

Existing

Joki on the spot!

Please just get a point out of this one. Let's go.

Dolemite is My Name was excellent. Highly recommended. Have you ever seen the movie it's based on? Worth a watch too, mostly because it's terrible lol

Mrazek is getting a rough ride tonight

Lol who had "Lazar breakaway goal" on their bingo card?

Mittelstadt was slapping his stick on the ice for the pass.

Carolina looks disinterested so far.

Great backhand sauce from Sheary

I'll pass if the price is high. He had a great year last year but it's not looking like he'll repeat that success. Who knows how good he actually is.

Soccer lists the home team first. [Home team] hosting [away team]

It's not bad enough to keep them from beating a Sabres team that has no depth scoring though. I'm picturing the Sabres dicking around with the puck in the Ottawa end and somehow failing to actually generate scoring opportunities. We've seen this movie before.

Rob Blake

Oddly enough, I disagree with you about Ottawa. They might be worse on the back end but they're a better team offensively than the Sabres and they could beat us with Johansson out.