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Thanks. Still have the ticket? I might also see if my son wants to attend at which point I'd just grab two seats elsewhere. I think my schedule is well enough known now that I can do it. So you can't go to the Pub before the game because you have a lot of stuff to do the day after the game? 🙂 Joking.. but if I make it.. would be great to see you again.

The increasing trend of society to focus on the 1% of negativity versus the 99% of neutral to positive. Every GD meeting at work is this way. It happens here too. Hell it happens everywhere. I wouldn't be surprised if someone submitted a paper title "Time Travle: Now a Reality" and it was rejected during peer review because of the typo. "Did you read it?" "Yeah" "What feedback do you have?" "Well clearly you spelled travel wrong, so you're an idiot." I can't wait for the day when society finally understands that just because you can comment it doesn't mean you should.

Yeah, sorry I missed an edit to go back and update Quinn to 3 times. You use the word funny, but not sure why. Even if I didn't single out the others Quinn is the only player who has been on the ice for 3 of the goals. So yes, I focused on the player with the 75% failure rate versus 50%. Did you know who was on the ice and how many times before I posted that? If so, great, then you knew Quinn was on the ice 3 times and that I got it right in my details but missed in the summary. If not, then maybe not complain about a mistake that was made. I could go on about the others. I blamed Tuch in one of the games because he left the slot guy open, which then opened the center of the ice. Power lost his guy on the boards who eventually scored. Thompson pinched on a play when they were changing the third player and he should have made a better decision. All in all Tuch is not good at man coverage, Thompson and Quinn are not good at any coverage. Power is not good and Dahlin, while good, needs to cover for the rest of the defensively inept players who are put on the ice. Were you aware of the goal visualizer? I also added that value. I suppose if you knew then great, but I tried to point out something cool about how we all could watch the players on the ice and clearly see where they made mistakes. I'm glad your point was to focus on a simple mistake though. That really raises the conversation bar doesn't it? Why did you use the word funny and then not bother to explain how that word fit in your post? I mean, if we're being pedantic.

Interesting choice given that he's part of the goaltending problem of the Blues right now. He has his moments but more often than not he doesn't.

What game is it again? Can the thread title be updated with it?

Meh.. the Sabres need to try something different in OT. Ray made a comment last night about 5 straight let's you learn. He's not wrong. The problem is they are not learning. Quinn is a 3 v 3 nightmare. Players on the ice for the last 4 OTL games when the game was decided, Quinn has been on for 2 of those Utah: Tuch, Quinn, Dahlin Boston: Thompson, Quinn, Dahlin Columbus: Power, Tuch, Kulich Toronto: Thompson, Quinn, Power It might be time to NOT put Quinn out there. It's not working. Overall as I was reviewing this, if you've not reviewed the NHL goal visualizer yet, you should. Here's last nights game center - https://www.nhl.com/gamecenter/buf-vs-uta/2025/11/04/2025020203 I find it funny when they show all the players jumping over the boards and the puck being shot down the ice. It's also a good way to see where players were at when things happened from a top down view. Good enough to get to OT, but they are not skilled at 3 v3 which requires even better man to man coverage on defense. And of course, you don't allow a goalie to play the puck to his own team.. kids are taught go to the net to get the whistle... why Tuch did not is beyond me.

Seriously. Tired of hearing <Buffalo Sports team Player> injured.

The answer to this is unequivocally yes. You can easily google official shortage and read the horror stories. I work with someone who is also a D1 college football referee. I've asked him about it and he absolutely indicated that it's a major problem.

I didn't change the discussion I simply asked a question. I appreciate your follow up, so here's mine. If both teams improve, would you say the team that improved less lost the trade even though they improved? If there are two winners in the lottery and one person won more than the other person it doesn't make the other person a loser does it? It just means they did not win as much. Win/Lose is a finite discussion. But, if both teams can improve, then are we moving out of a finite discussion? In the end, it's subjective so mostly it's just not a conversation worth having especially as the difference between outcomes gets closer.

Oprah, is that you? 🙂

Sweet lord... how does this move impact the 20 players that will dress for the Sabres tonight? At worst it limits their flexibility with the roster should someone get injured in the pre-skate warm-up (if they have one). If Zucker or Bryson go on IR then it frees up another move if need be. They can waive Geertsen, is anyone crying about that? It's not about tomorrow or the day after, they can bring UPL up now. At some point they will have to make a decision, but it's unlikely they will need to do so within the next week and at that point UPL would need to be back anyway. There have been lots of issues with this team, but is this really an issue? Right now, today?

So, using your logic, if both teams got better, then who won the trade? Both of them? Can you have two winners in such a finite contest? So, if the Sabres won, who did they win over? Utah? But, if Utah got better who did they win over? Buffalo? And if one says both teams improved, is that not a positive statement... about two teams in fact? I'm confused.

Regression to the mean... And Ellis, I'm not sure why people are high on him. He won but he didn't look all that good. He over committed on many plays and left a lot of rebounds. There is a lot more that needs to be seen. The issue remains that the Sabres don't have a top goaltender. They also haven't fixed a lot of their defensive problems but it hasn't completely bitten them in the ass yet. I wouldn't worry about 3 goaltenders on the roster right now. It's not like the players being scratched are all that valuable to the team.

The players need to realize that in order to get energy from the crowd they need to feed them first. Then the fans can reciprocate into an upward climb where both reinforce each other. The in arena experience will only go so far, especially when most people who show up are rooting for the other team or expecting a loss.

There's only one answer to this and it applies to everyone, regardless of playing hockey or not. We are only accountable to ourselves. We cannot control the actions of others. As far as hockey goes, any player who decides they don't want to play at their best cannot point the finger at anyone else. At the very best that player becomes equally as culpable as all the others who have "given up". Not trying because the team "sucks" and has "sucked" is a self-fulfilling prophecy. Only by actually putting in the effort could anything change. if I am a GM on another team do I want to trade for a player who is willing to "give up" because of the situation? I'm not saying players don't do it. I just won't ever excuse it and I wouldn't want those players on my team or coming to my team.