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And now they unravel

Well it’s supposed to, otherwise the rule makes zero sense. So you can kick at the puck and have it hit your knee and have it count because it’s not the foot or slide your skate to propel the puck in and that’s also somehow good.

That’s a push kick by the Min guy but as per usual why’d anyone against get anything taken away from them. ***** BS

I agree, but at very least it may help the Sabres stay in Buffalo by eliminating potential movement spots

He very well may have been, all Tage has to do is misinterpret his yelling for is asking for the puck. I highly doubt they have code phrase for give the other guys the puck.

Apparently Tage didn't know there was a delayed call. The call was made by the ref who was behind him so that does make some sense; may also explain Dahlin moving towards him. He probably was trying to tell Tage about the delayed call and Thompson played it as a regular 6v5 situation.

Because they are in Buffalo; they may be cursed and incompetent but they are still here.

If there’s a bounce 95% of the time it will be against us If there’s a questionable call, 95% it will be ruled against us If there’s any chance of something going wrong, odds are we’ll suffer through it. It’s always been this way, only we also now can’t seem to find our way out of a wet paper bag

We are cursed, that is all there is to it.

I’m also sick of goalies playing out of their ***** mind against us.

Puck dies, Dahlin tries to shoot it while fading away due to the puck slowing far more than expected and thus fans on it and Utah scores. Feels like we keep getting screwed by inexplicable bounces and misses.

I think Tage was complaining about the draw, it looked like the linesman dropped it into the Utah center

Frankly while there is contact, it’s going for the puck. I don’t see that as goalie interference

As always luck plays for the enemy

What’s up with Benson?

Guess we have to deal with Pegula a bit longer In the end the team being here matter more than anything else

Well in my little mock offseason I brought in Jake Allen for that very reason. I want Levi to cook in Rochester fully while giving UPL another shot with better players to prove last year wasn’t a fluke. If he struggles we’d still have a solid backup without having to touch Levi.

While he likely takes a hit every year, I highly doubt he’s any worse off because of it. The team’s value has inexplicably increased since he bought them and optics wise selling the team without locking it in Buffalo forever more would make for terrible optics for the Bills owner. Another benefit we do have is the NHL’s dislike for moving teams; they kept us around 5 years without an owner and we just saw what it took for Arizona to move. The biggest money grubber in the league is Jeremy Jacobs who happens to be from here and quite literally gave the Knox’s dibs on the team. I highly doubt he’d be a promoter for moving the team. Lastly we do have the advantage of being close to Toronto without being Canadian which means monetary value is higher as a given. Plus it prevents anyone from moving in on the Leafs monopoly since we have a mutual interest in blocking any 2nd Toronto team.

Ceci has been in the East with multiple teams and has been a train wreck

Not sure if its perfect in value but Peterka (if he does seriously want out) for Weegar + ?? maybe (Flames) Quinn for Spence (Kings) Muel for Hathaway (Flyers) Byram for McCann (Kraken) Re-sign McLeod 4x4.25mil Johnson 2x1.25mil JBD 2x1.25mil Brannstrom 2x1mil Levi 2x1.5mil Sign Jake Allen 1x4.5mil Kulich - Thompson - Tuch McCann - Norris - Zucker Benson - McLeod - Greenway Malenstyn - Krebs - Hathaway Dahlin - JBD Power - Weegar Johnson - Spence UPL Allen Clifton Lafferty Brannstrom

Vet Defenseman to play with Power A new defensive assistant coach Power's defense was better when he came up from college than he is now.

We have a few players who are good at neutral and offensive zone defensive play. As in breaking up passes, forechecking and blocking entries. The issue is once they get inside our zone we have a great struggle removing them. Tuch is ok, Greenway and Benson are likely the best position ally and McLeod is a solid chaser. Only frequent talent is shot blocking which is actually alright among our forwards.

Would of loved them too; I had grown tired of Trump after the Biden election.

Trump has utterly fumbled Ukraine but I also see the result as more or less inevitable regardless. Russia will get what they want or we'll have WWIII. Mind you, this isn't for a lack of effort or intelligence but rather the most basic of things; manpower. Ukraine can't hope to out recruit Russia and with North Korean troops joining the fray they are even further behind the 8-ball. However the bigger issue is actually due a specific quirk of Russians; they lack a desire to keep their soldiers alive. If Russia cared about their troops, we could hypothetically funnel supplies into Ukraine with the idea that on defense you will likely kill far more of the enemy than that you yourself lose and that with nigh-WWI style warfare the Russians would be forced to the table after terrible losses. The issue is they don't care, Russia could lose a couple million lives taking over a portion of Ukraine and it would not phase Putin the slightest.