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Agreed. But we have to put up with those growing pains because he needs to be developed in the NHL imo. His analytics seem to bear that out, iirc. But I’ll leave that to our resident analytics gurus for confirmation.

Kulich is looking good in the A, especially for an 18 year old.

Glad Cozens got let off the hook there.

50/50 on this challenge.

How many times? How many fluky goals.

Phuck!

Last minute changes dictated I couldn’t get to the game tonight, but my BIL and sister say the atmosphere is jumpin.

😂

Juicy rebound.

Gionta, Gorges, and O’Reilly are as good a leadership group as you can have. It was Eichel’s choice to reject their examples and gravitate towards Kane, Bogo, and Lehner. I’m sure they were much more fun to hang around as the testimony from various downtown haunts suggests.

It’s a defense mechanism.

Heard Duffer on the radio say that Rousek has been cleared by the Amerks and is good to go.

Tongue in cheek.

Can’t teach that.

Not necessarily. If Johnny walks back his remarks, shows appropriate contrition, and apologizes to the great fans of Buffalo for his classless insult, then we might find it in our hearts to forgive him. Maybe.

If I had to guess I’d say it’s because he’s 41 and they’re being ultra conservative in managing his workload. Perhaps they view him as strictly a backup goalie who is only gonna get 25 starts or so, which his four starts in 13 games puts him on pace to do.

I think KA and DG have Anderson on a tight pitch count.

Because they’re talented punks.

Raddysh is a punk. There are several in the Tampa pipeline it seems. I’m beginning to think they’re coached that way deliberately.

While I agree entirely, I’ll have to refrain from further comment because every time I criticize Mitts’s game, I seem to get dragged into a discussion with somebody who insists on bringing Cozens into it. And then Mitts will have his once in every six games good game and the “I told you so” posts start up in his defense. I like Mitts but not so much that he deserves to take development time away from younger players with far more potential.

Maybe the Sabres asked him to work on specific areas of his game like they did with Reinhart when he went back to juniors and put up less points per game after his nine game stint up here.

Looks like DG took him off both PP units, so it will be more of a challenge. Would love to see it though because I think when he does get untracked he’s gonna explode.

Agree he’s not relied on to blitz very often as he’s very effective in coverage as you pointed out. Totally disagree that he isn’t relied on as a run defender in this scheme. He has certain gap responsibilities on every play, as does everyone else in the front seven.

Does he favor curried bear?

Damn that Tortorella. He minces words to the point that you just can’t figure out where he’s coming from half the time.