LastPommerFan

Or it's biased low if...

injured is one thing, concussion is another, and if the sabres med staff saw a violent head collision, and a reaction similar to BR's, and let the guy back on the ice without the standard evaluation, they were wrong.

My money is on Flynn, Porter, and Brennan if he doesn't make hay in the next game or 2.

You'll never guess who the First Star of that game was!!!

the415 translates LPF-ish very well. I completely agree with the first bold, but I don't want my guy to be the first one a "message" get sent to. Next year if they want to announce that dangerous play suspensions are going to be suspended triple what they have been in the past, I'm all for it. The 5 games in this case is in line with other similar plays that did not result in injury. as to the second bold. I think you're lying to yourself. You strongly dislike, maybe even hate these guys, and what the do on the ice, but none of it amounts to anything that would cause you to stop following your Buffalo Sabres. The game would be better without them, but the game is still great despite the occasional knucklehead move.

This is the exact reason he got 5.

Sometimes I trip myself walking through my kids playroom. They think it's hilarious. I love making them laugh. Every once in a while, I hit the ground wrong, or travel a little further than I thought. It usually ends up hurting significantly more than anticipated. I didn't mean to hit my head on the corner of the coffee table, but it happened anyway, and the stitches are still just as real.

There'd be no story because Vanek just gets back up and makes the face skating to the bench.

Which is worse for Hockey? Kaleta's boneheaded hit, clearly from behind, clearly into the boards -or- B. Richards' Soccer Style injury embellishment

I don't think he was even embellishing after the hit. I think he's just a ###### when it comes to pain. He was off balance, got just enough from Patty to go down, hit the ice before the boards, and smacked his face. He's just a ######.

So it's a phone hearing = five or fewer games.

Ennis took notes.

Somebody needs to dog up the "Sabres power play needs to go" thread.

I'll take Enroth and a point.

I'm not proud. Three Stars: Pommer, Miller, Ennis. ###### You Hodgson.

I heard they're gonna make Pegula Pope because he's good at dealing with these kinds of scandals... :ph34r:

Pommer wants me to believe again. That's nice.

No way he works with the center. RWs and 90% of the cap on Defense.

http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/174742

You don't read enough.

This is why I sponsor a PETA Member. I eat three times as much meat as I would otherwise. This means more animals die because they are in PETA than would otherwise.

Pommer- No points, but the SO winner, we'll call it a push < 2 GA- Fail. 3 GF - Win! (with a PPG to boot) 4 or Fewer PKs - Win! (despite Pardy's best efforts) All in all, another step in the right direction.

I need to see Pominville get some points tonight. he had 14 in the first 10, but only 1 in the last 10. I need to see a followup to the 1 GA outing against the best scoring team in the East (League?). We've only been able to hold opponents to 2 or fewer goals in consecutive games twice (the opening two games and the 2-0 loss to OTT followed by the 4-2 win against BOS). This will only be possible if we keep the puck outside like we did tuesday. I need to see at least 3 goals for, which we haven't done since the loss to PIT. This will only be possible if the PP gets it together. I need to see 4 or fewer PKs. Can't score if you play a third of the game man down. These are the things that will tell me if the Sabres are looking better, or headed for a good lottery chance.

Miller said it, it's in Vogl's blog.

I crunched some numbers. I took the last 4 seasons and removed all points earned in western conference games. Then I took the points per game and multiplied by 48 to get how many points that team likely would have earned against an eastern conference only schedule of 48 games. The 8th place teams earned as follows: 2009 playoffs: 54.75 pts 2010 playoffs: 54.00 pts 2011 playoffs: 53.25 pts 2012 playoffs: 57.00 pts So the average of these numbers is 54.75 points. So that would be the target...EXCEPT: I noticed a huge anomaly in this years games. There has been a huge reduction in 3 point games. The previous 4 seasons were very consistant as far as eastern conference 3 point games: 08-09: 118 of 480 conference games (24.6%) 09-10: 119 of 480 conference games (24.8%) 10-11: 115 of 480 conference games (24.0%) 11-12: 113 of 480 conference games (23.5%) But this year, through 145 conference games, only 24 have gone to overtime which is just 16.6% which is a reduction by nearly a third. The we could speculate as to the cause, but the effect of this anomaly will surely be to reduce the total number of points earned by teams, lowering the bar to 8th place. Assuming the trend continues, and half way through the season, I think that's a reasonable assumption, the net effect will be to reduce the points earned in losses by 32%. Over the past 4 seasons, teams have averaged 7.75 points over 64 conference games. adjusting for 48 games we can expect a 2 point reduction in points earned in losses. So 8th place will probably land right around 52-53 points. Right now, the pace for 8th is at 48 points, but there is a huge variation in games played, so I expect 8th place will move toward the mean as things even out, possible landing just shy at 50 or 51. To get to 51 we'd need a record similar to 17-9-2 over the last 28. 17 wins, 11 losses.