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Man, Power should be embarrassed by that. Talent

Should have called timeout. But coaches are stupid and save them for nothing.

Levi saving our assess. Ruff needs to call timeout. They aren't skating

More dumb penalties

Relax. They call the 5 min because it gets reviewed. It's like calling targeting in college.

Penalty removed.

Wtf just happened?

Perfect example of Quinn playing bad. Gets the puck on the wall at center, no one near him. Stops and then just tosses a weak back hand to no where.

he isn't interested in leaving the KHL to play in the AHL. He is going to get better in the KHL before even contemplating the NA jump.

That 2nd round in 2021 looks like trash. Just wasted opportunities.

Happened in a college game, I wanna say 2013 or 2014 where the guy drops it and the refs rule td and pick up the ball. The review showed him short so they put it at the 1 yard line because that's where the receiver lost possession.

Ball is placed at the 1yrd line.

Sabres need to blow this team out.

Assists being completely written off is faulty. There are a ton of assists we have already seen that involve players moving defenders or goalies to them and making great passes.

Looks like they will sit Benson* through the weekend and bring him back in next week. This is smart as they start a stretch of a ton of games in short order versus the 2 they played in the last 11 days. Edit: *Benson

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If you look at Power through the lens of him being a good puck mover and not through "he's 6'6" and should be crushing dudes" then he's pretty solid for a 21yr old defender in the NHL. His positioning is solid, he uses his reach well, he sees the ice well and can make really good passes. His gap control is good if you accept that more agile speedy forwards will have an advantage once they get inside his reach. Is he a #1... no. Is he a #2... probably not at this moment. Is he a strong #3, very much so. He can also grow into a #2 and I hope that happens. I went back and looked, I had a defender ahead of Power in that draft, in fact I ranked Owen 6th in that draft. Looking back, I don't have a reason to move him up. Maybe I should drop Eklund down but I wouldn't drop Beniers, Clarke, McTavish, or Guenther below Power at this point. The issue here is not Owen Power, it is that you can draft Owen Power's (40ish pt, big puck mover) later in the first and sometimes into the 2nd. For example in 2022 we could have taken Mintyukov instead of Savoie (I would have) or even Liam Bischel instead of Östlund. My point is that the Sabres do not seem to possess the ability to look at drafts in terms of what are the next 2 drafts like? For example the 2024 draft was defense heavy, but the 2025 is forward heavy, now Helenius slid so that is a fine pick but they shouldn't turn around and force themselves into drafting a defender in 2025 and frankly I feel like they fell into the trap for 2021 by not looking at it and saying, well 2022 will have more defender as first round grades so we should consider that in rankings. They acted as though this was only way to get this type of defender and truthfully, it isn't. Turthfully if you are drafting in the top 5, unless there is something really really special, you should take the forward and if it is a center, you take the center. It is just more valuable with how defenders develop and how you can get them later in the first. This is not a post to crap on Owen Power. He's probably going to be a top 3-5 defender from his class and I think some of his issues are overblown here. Again, if you accept that he is a puck moving guy with a long reach that isn't overly physical and is a #2 defender, you are good to go. That said, and why Buffalo picked him, there is still the potential of him growing into a legit 1b defender who adds a bit of physicality while playing a bit faster and having 10goals and 45assists. His passing is sometimes really really good. Depends on if Ruff can move him in that direction.

Unsure if they will make changes but we should see something similar. This is the lineup the Islanders had in their last game: Forwards Tsyplakov-Horvat-Holmstrom Barzal-Nelson-Palmieri Lee-Pageau-Fasching Martin-MacLean-Cizikas Defense Reilly-Dobson Pelech-Pulock Cholowski-Mayfield Goalies Varlamov Sorokin

The 3-5-2 Islanders roll into town to take on the Black n Red 4-5-1 Sabres. The Islanders have been shutout, I believe 3 times already this season so hopefully Buffalo get's solid goaltending tonight because, quite frankly, we should beat this team. They have a limited offense, their defense is meh, and really I don't think their goalies are super special. Look for Buffalo to have the lineup from practice yesterday that included this line: Greenway - McLeod - Cozens

Because in the NHL, you can retroactively place players on IR. So they were clearly seeing how he progressed and then with only have 2 games in basically 11 days, they put him on IR to open the roster spot and also give him essentially two weeks to recover. Zach Benson is not going to Rochester. It just isn't going to happen. Krebs doesn't even create space for himself. Quinn is going to have to rely on Quinn to create his space and get back to form.