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I guess its less that I wanted more powerplays than I feel there was a serious 2 tier rule set the entire game. In the late 1st or early 2nd, Zucker was literally mugged and taken down and yet no call was made. When we had a 4v3 PP, Thompson was hooked almost 180 degrees without a call and soon after they scored following the next faceoff. Dahlin gets blatantly tripped as they enter the zone thus giving them an easy in yet Thompson playing Malkin hard along the boards is immediately called even without it being a scoring chance impact play. The whole game felt like the Sabres were being called for weak penalties to which the broadcast would refuse to show. Lastly the offside goal, the TNT announcers made me want to punch my TV I was so perturbed by how they completely ignored that there was a 2nd view of the puck + stick from the other side which would make it easy to see that it was impossible for the puck to have crossed the line when the other Pen had entered the zone.

As I said earlier, felt scripted or fixed; the amount of missed calls on the Pens in the 3rd only for them to ding Thompson to help Crosby get a shot at his 1st of the year feels far too scripted. Between the offside goal and somehow not calling a blatant trip on Dahlin with 2min left in the game we were screwed royally.

Bs call

Power had his man locked up, Rakell was the extra guy on the back end. How Pittsburgh got away with a literal backward trip at the zone entry though is asinine.

Pretty much because he’s the only guy on the line playing well, but still hobbled

These refs are imbeciles

Cloudy skies!

JJ ***** you Pens

And another incredible save against us

Game was fixed from the start. Give Buffalo a quick lead then let the old stars looking for milestones work their way back on national TV. Meanwhile you allow a rather easy to judge offside goal, let Pens players interfere blatantly twice and the announcers ignore entirely

Refs refusing to call anything on Pitt one free goal

Feels like the game was scripted for TNT frankly

Well I'm working so I forgot lol ***** Sens won in OT

Didn't even know a game was going on

All those names are cool but the newest guy sounds like a villain's civilian name

There is no satisfying you, is there.

Greenway is a player who shows up big for the 1st 20 games by means of being healthy and physically bullying the smaller skilled players that are still rusty; disappears for the next 40 due to a number of reasons like injuries and then reappears for the last 20 when defensive play is of a premium and harder checking is more frequent. Reminds me a tad of Pominville’s 2nd stint here in how the middle 40 is nothing to celebrate but on the ends their a force.

My guess is it’s more to do with his previous injury in combination to some degree of Ruff changing some of his game.

No to ties ever again

They played fine

Vegas and Edmonton deciding to yank a player around for a week

Makes sense, most specifically in the case of Thompson who looked very effective last night including a great 200ft play but couldn't find the net on his shots. Thompson is a slow starter so I don't expect him to get rolling until late October which is when he tends to explode. It seems as if it takes him a handful of games to fully lock-on target with his howitzer

I had thought he was slightly overpaid but would save us a bit on the back end; sadly barring a turn around it looks like a complete failure. I can't remember exactly my original stance on it however.

Frankly he played and looked the part aside from his injuries. Then last year it seemed like he suddenly decided he wanted to be offensively competent and he spiraled rapidly.

I want the Muel from his 1st couple years back; what happened to our calm, steady, big dude?