hopeleslyobvious

Which 20 teams would Marty start for? Anaheim? Nope, they have 2 goalies that are better. Atlanta? No. Boston? Maybe, but I would give Thomas a slight edge. Calgary, Not a chance. Carolina? No. Chicago? No. Colorado? Maybe, but unlikely. Columbus? Maybe, but probably not. Dallas? No. Detroit? No. Edmonton? No. Florida? He could probably start here. L.A.? Maybe, but Garon would probably beat him out. Minnesota? No. Montreal? No, they have 2 goalies that are better. Nashville? No, they have 2 goalies that are better. New Jersey? Nope, Brodeur is better. Islanders? Nope, I'd take DiPietro over Marty. Rangers? Nope, I'd definately start Lundqvist over Marty. Ottawa? No. Philadelphia? He has a good chance, although I'd give Niittymaki a slight edge. Phoenix? Close, but yes. Pittsburgh? No, Fluery has a lot of potential and he needs to play to develop. St. Louis? No, I would take Legace over Marty. San Jose? No, they have 2 goalies that are better. Tampa? Yes. Washington? No, I'd take Kolzig over Marty. Toronto? Maybe. Vancouver? No. EDIT: The team is 29-8-3, nothing needs to be shaken up. They had a bad game and that's it. Don't create problems that don't exist yet.

Unless you want him to start to shake things up, no problems here.

I wasn't arguing with you. You were not the one suggesting that we shake things up. If I were Lindy (which I am not), I originally would have gone with Marty tonight and Ryan tomorrow. However, after the last game, and knowing that most goalies are kind of quirky I would give Ryan the start tonight, to basically show him it's still his job and that the coaching staff still has faith in him. By saying that, didn't you just assure that he won't? :lol:

This weekend was being split no matter how the Ottawa game went. I just hate discussions of a goaltending controversy. Ryan Miller is 21-6-2. It seems after each of the 6 losses, someone thinks we need to start Marty to "shake things up," or start a goaltening controversy. :thumbdown:

:lol: You always want to start Biron to shake things up. I think if Miller gets the nod tonight, he's going to come out mad, and when he comes out mad good things happen. Biron should get one start this weekend, but not tonight.

We played a terrible game tonight. Who cares: 1. Ottawa had our number for most of the regular season last year. 2. The Sabres are still 1st in the conference by 7 points with 2 games at hand on Atlanta. They are leading the division by 10 points, and they've won 4 of their last 5. 3. There will be other bad games this year. It's an 82 game season. It's full of ups and downs. There have been a lot more ups than downs this year.

Quite an optimist.

Emery is not giving them much to shoot at, and when he does, they miss the net!

Could be an interesting goaltending matchup. Miller's 1.00 GAA, and .967 SV% in his last 3 starts is not too shabby either.

Ottawa yes, but we are 3-1-1 against the Habs. Not a bad record against a very strong team.

Not that it was necessarily the case tonight, but because the Sabres play such a wide open style, the other team gets more quality chances than they would against another team. For example, Brodeur has a bunch of shutouts this year, but his team also will sit on a 1 goal lead and not give up quality scoring chances, where the Sabres will keep pressing.

This is a hard team to be a shutout goalie for.

Special thanks to the Vs. announcers for talking about the shutout.

They also listed Gaustad as a 1st year player.

I would like to see a little more patience from the PP. 2nd game in a row where I have seen someone force a shot despite someone clearly being in the shooting lane. An extra pass takes a lot less time than going down the ice to recover the puck and get everyone set up again.

He stopped Park. Basically a shot hit the cross bar hard, came out. Park had what looked like a wide open net. Miller dove across to make the glove save.

Very nice stop by Miller.

I don't have much to say since I missed the last week of games for my wedding and honeymoon, but while losing to St. Louis is no fun, it's not the end of the world. 1. It's an out of conference game. 2. Losing to St. Louis should be a wake up call. 3. Losing before the Christmas break will give them something to think about.

I forgot to mention before...After the third goal I heard a MARRRRTY MAAAARTY chant starting up. I would have preferred a "Miller's better," chant since it annoys me to no end when the Devils fans chant "Marty's better."

To keep goalies on trapping teams from acting like a 3rd defenseman on a dump in.

Went to the game tonight. Had a good time. The place was empty. You guys probably saw me on TV, I was the guy in the stands. Sorry bad joke. Seriously, there were a ton of Sabres fans there. I thought Miller played great tonight. Too bad he didn't get the shutout. From the replay I saw, it looked like the first one was a goal by about an inch. The second one looked like a good shot. I thought it was kind of funny how the 10 Devils fans still at the game acted like they just won the cup when they scored the first one. As for the comments by the Devils announcers, the Devils were able to skate with the Sabres and play their game for 20 minutes....It takes 60 to win the game.

The key to tonight's game. Score first.

Good question.

Campbell wore the A for one game in the preseason. Whoever is not wearing the C for the night gets 1 A, Teppo usually gets the other. Great game tonight. I thought we got a little sloppy at times, but overall I thought it was well played. Miller played great again. The PP wasn't great, but Montreal had a really good PK going. I thought Sekera looked really good for his first game. He made a couple of mistakes, but everyone does from time to time.

Yeah, when you're sick even the most mundane things can be a hassle. I can't imagine someone being able to compete at that level if they had a serious flu bug or whatever he has.