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Lehner has done a good job holding the post all night until then.

Derek Grant, waived by Sabres, picked up by Nashville. He's a scoring machine. The next Chris Hogan, I believe.

Michael Peca...only a mere 7 years ago!

I was almost 10 years old and playing on the hill behind our back yard. My younger sister and I were sledding after school. The hill seemed huge in my memories but when I see it today it's really quite tame. At some point I noticed we could no longer see the house. Then, we couldn't see 20 feet in front of us. Even at age 10 I knew it was time to grab the sister and head indoors. My birthday party was scheduled for the next day or the day after. That was postponed and I think it actually happened two weeks later. My Dad worked a couple miles from our home so he was able to make it back and brought a co-worker with him who lived farther away and couldn't make it back. He stayed with us for 2 days I think. We lived on a dead end street off a main road. They didn't even attempt to plow us after the first couple hours until days later. At that point they needed earth moving equipment to come in as there was no way normal plows on trucks were going to open up the street anytime soon. Snow covered the lower part of my bedroom window, drifting up from the ground. My room was on the 2nd floor of our raised ranch house. Playing with my friends in that snow was truly awesome and even intimidating at times the quantity was so massive.

Radulov made an all world offensive play to make the pass back and Sabres defense had over committed. Not sure what Lehner is supposed to do there. Kane was standing right in front of him in front of the net instead of picking up the trailing forward.

It looks like that

Great third period...now please start Eichel in the OT

I'd like to see Carrier get more ice time...great speed and physical play with some skill too. But I think he gets like 9 minutes per night

And he doesn't even get two minutes

Nice of Disco Dan to wear the home team's colors tonight

This up and down the ice action must be driving Blysma nuts

Emelin is so cheap

Nice break out leading to great shot by KO

I like how they've come out tonight so far

Outstanding

Brad May not speak English good

Is a Nelson call-up confirmed? I was hoping for Burgdoerfer.

No Eichel but Blysma is drawing up plays with Falk and Franson!

This is awful

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From today's BN, speaking about his groin: “It’s a complex area. There’s a lot going on down there,” Ennis said. “Optimistically I wanted to play every game here on out but you know, like I said it’s complex down there." Not related to firing Bylsma but a noteworthy quote nonetheless.

Tweaked his hip and sat out two games earlier this season. The flu cost him three. I agree with the OP that it made no sense to start Lehner on the second half of the back to back given how well Nilsson has played...and the fact the guy just got over the flu. Given how many back to backs the team has coming up I hope Bylsma gets a clue on this topic. Also, I don't think the flu qualifies as part of an 'injury prone' label on Lehner...

Been getting into Howlin' Wolf lately...not sure how I went my whole life without really doing so up until now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRi273CRTdg Then there's this too: I could listen to the Allman Brothers/Clapton show every day of my life I think.

I'm always bewildered by the split discussion of whether he's a starter (of course he is, he's starting! I just saw it yesterday!), whether he's any good (15th in save % would indicate 'OK' with lots of opinions as to the quality of that performance) and whether the Sabres overpaid for him. As to the latter discussion...it's irrelevant in terms of assessing how good he is now or will be in the future. It's highly relevant in terms of assessing Tim Murray's performance. Both are fair topics of discussion but let's view his performance and future potential vs. other goaltenders real or imagined and not vs. whether he was traded along with Legwand for a late 1st round pick 1.5 years ago. At the time I felt like Murray slightly overpaid for Lehner but it wasn't outrageous. The guy had a great pedigree, size, had won a Calder Cup, and was only 24 years old. He was originally a 2nd round pick and had been progressing in his career so it's not like a late 1st rounder at that point was crazy. All goalies give up bad goals at times. I can't tell if his are any more frequent than other goalies. But if his overall save % is competitive, then so what? That would infer he makes a lot of tough saves as well to compensate. I'd rather bet on a guy reducing his soft goals through increased consistency and maturity than a guy who doesn't have top end skill. Nilsson played well last night but the 4th goal was somewhat soft too. Anderson won the game for the Leafs but completely blew the 1st goal to Okposo. It happens. The Sabres biggest problem is getting outshot and outchanced on a consistent basis, with one of the poorest goal scoring offenses in the league. In that environment every soft goal is doubly painful and emotionally stressful for fans as we know the team can't usually overcome it.

They're finally putting pucks on net instead of dicking around for the highlight play