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It's scheduled to happen. It will be interesting to see whether the COVID list gets any shorter by then.

Ah, the Facebook live feed just kicked in

You got a feed? Mine hasnt started yet

Burger King is to Timmy's as Terry is to the Sabres

Ville was misundersood on the ice and now he's misunderstood off the ice

#SkinneriswhatCarolinathoughthewas

So he's basically a limited NHL hockey player: a streaky goal scorer who works hard in bursts and draws penalties, but cannot produce away from optimal players/situations, elevate the play of his linemates, or be trusted to protect the puck or play responsible defence. It's hard to imagine that people thought he was better than Sam Reinhart, eh? Or that he was worth $9 million.

Can Jeff Skinner be a better, more effective player than what he has been over the past 50-odd games given 14 minutes a night away from Jack Eichel?

Also fair. I’ve never had any trouble with people wanting this, or slamming Krueger for not trying it. Just with giving Jeff a free pass for his ***** production.

He is capable of more than what he has produced away from Jack, and playing him with Jack isn't a magical gaurantee that he will score 40. Skinner's lack of production predates Krueger, and he has produced away from Jack, even in Buffalo With Housley and Eichel first half: GP:41 28/13/41 With Housley and Eichel second half: GP:41 12/10/22 With Krueger and Johannson October: GP: 13 7/3/10 With Krueger and many others since: GP: 56 7/7/14 He didn't produce 1st line numbers with 1st line minutes in the second half of his first season And he did produce with crappy players during Krueger's first month here. You guys need to stop making excuses for him. He needs to be better, regardless of how he's been used.

Yes, Jeff's played really well. Everyone can see it.

Maybe the underlying numbers don't mean as much as actual goals for and against? He has 7 goals and 7 assists in his last 56 games.

No domestic supply. Our main international supplier (Pfizer) has had its supply chain disrupted by a production upgrade and our secondary supplier (Moderna) has not been delivering the amounts promised. Trudeau calling it a blip and promising we are still on track for 3 million vaccinations by March and the entire population by the end of September. We'll see. Astra Zeneca likely to get approval this week and Johnson and Johnson in a month or so, so that will help.

US is vaccinating 1 million people a day, Canada less than 20,000.

What, people can say Ralph doesn't like Skinner, but they can't say Jack doesn't like Skinner? With the same amount of evidence? Remember when Jeff Skinner played on the first line in the spring of 2019 and scored 1 goal in 20 games? How about his current run of 3 goals in 32 games playing against 3rd pairing defencemen? Toby Rieder has 3 goals in his past 10 with similar ice time and linemates and tougher minutes. When are you going to stop blaming everyone else for Jeff's poor play? (For the record, I am not suggesting Jack doesn't like Jeff. I am saying that Jack has enough power and influence that if he went to Ralph and said "maybe we should give it a try" it would happen. I have heard Jack talk about how much he likes playing with Victor. Hmmm...)

LOL at the idea Thompson is somehow a favourite. He played two games on the first line because of a good training camp. He has played a total of 34 minutes since in eight games combined. As if the lines you're seeing in today's practice have any relevance to ice time — prior to today, or a week from now when we might start playing again. Also, Jeff Skinner would be on Jack's line if Jack really wanted him there.

Was there a push from Mario to reset and a reluctance by Rutherford to do that? Hextall is a good hockey man. Not really a fan of what Burke brings in this day and age.

Why? Is the development path Ullmark has taken, or something in the track records of Seamus Kotyk and Mike Bales?

What's really sad is how much better Reinhart, Skinner, Staal and Olofsson — to say nothing of Eichel — are than any of Teddy's forwards were.

A mix of COVID protocols restricting communication, an overzealous intern speaking out of turn, and an NHL that had never before been faced with that specific situation of a challenge being rejected a goal awarded and play resuming, and didn’t know what to do. Great write-up in the Athletic on it.

I'm just thinking slow-footed d-man with heavy D-zone use against good players: usually a recipe for analytics disaster.

If the Sabres fit the Bettman profile of about half the people on the COVID list not actually infected, we theoretically have enough players on the taxi squad to cover, but it would be close.

A Super Bowl with Tom Brady winning featuring a number of phantom penalty calls? Too bad I missed that.

I wonder what his analytics would have looked like

Those put on the list early (Risto, Hall, Montour Reider) may be eligible to play within a week or so of being added to the list (ie Thursday's game) if they didn't actually test positive, correct? And anyone actually testing positive (assuming Dahlin and Casey, as late additions) is a minimum 10 days from that positive test?