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  4. GDT: Buffalo at New York Islanders 3-15-14 at 7:00 PM EDT

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    I didn't realize.... Leino is the 2nd highest paid player on the team and the highest paid offensive player - he makes 50% more than Ennis.

     

    Wouldn't it be demoralizing for the other lesser paid players to see Leino out there so uselessly... making bad decisions, scoreless for the entire season, and getting an apparent pass from Ted Nolan on it? Ted keeps giving him ice-time.

     

     

     

     

    http://www.capgeek.com/sabres/

     

    Nolan is giving him every chance to succeed or fail before he is bought out

  7. 2013 - 2014 Sabres Prospects

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    From Hockey Futures:

    1. Linus Ullmark – 6’3”, 198 lbs. – 2013-14 Season: MODO

    Sixth round (163rd overall) in 2012 by the Buffalo Sabres

    Linus Ullmark came into the season uncertain of what his role would be. But he has been given an excellent opportunity to take the bull by the horns and go as far as possible with it, and he has not disappointed.

    His club, MODO, decided to enter the year putting all its marbles into a very inexperienced basket, letting Ullmark and the slightly older Anton Forsberg (Columbus Blue Jackets draft pick) split the duties. To this point, Ullmark has gained the role of starter in as much as there is one. He’s played 35 of the team’s 55 games and leads the SHL with a .931 saveicon1.png percentage and is seventh overall with a 2.08 goals-against average.

    MODO is currently ranked sixth in the league and looks playoff-bound with just a few games left to play. In the process, Linus has put up a 14-15-4 record, often almost singlehandedly ensuring the team a victory, as was the case in several of his three shutouts to date.

    A large goalie, Ullmark has shown a strong ability to read the oncoming play well. Smart positioning and effectively using his size have been keys to his successicon1.png, and he is also fairly strong on the posts. Ullmark started off the season in strong fashion, but has shown some growing pains as the season has continued, which can be expected of goaltenders his age playing in arguably one of the top five leagues on the planet.

    In light of Ryan Miller’s trade to St. Louis and Jhonas Enroth’s inability to so far show himself as a sure-fire starter option for the future, one has to think that the Sabres are very excited by the season Ullmark is having. He’s definitely established himself as the most interesting NHL goaltending prospect currently playing in Sweden.

  23. Remaining schedule is pretty light -- could result in W's

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    Of Buffalo's 17 remaining games, only 7 are against playoff teams and other than Boston, St. Louis and a distant Montreal, the half of those 7 games are against bubble teams. Some of the teams... Carolina, Islanders, Vancouver, Calgary, Edmonton, ... are playing as bad as Buffalo.

     

    I do not think Buffalo is intentionally tanking, although with Leino playing quality minutes, one might wonder. Just from the quality of the opponent, they could go on a run and finish ahead of a couple teams in the standings. I really don't want to see that. I want to see progress, but not wins. I've suffered all year. To see them play .500 hockey and ruin their chance for the highest lottery odds at the #1 overall pick would be unfortunate.

     

    I remember a site that showed a team's chance of making the playoffs and the statistics of how they should finish out. I wonder if there is a site that shows the team's odds of locking up the #1 pick?

     

    And just curious, I remember a poll at the start of the year that asked everyone for their guess of the number of points earned by the Sabres this year. Did anyone guess fewer than 60?

     

    Same website has the Sabres at 94% chance to finish 30th and 5% to finish 29th.

     

    Calgary and the Oilers are playing better as of late and 12 of the 17 games are on the road.

     

    It should be an interesting race to the finish.

  25. OT: We are going to be nailed by a blizzard Wednesday

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    In celebration of the blizzard, I just watched Frozen for the first time. I'm really excited to have that song stuck in my head for the next 6-8 months. Also, Mark's Pizza is closed. WTF?

     

    Let it go

     

    I don't know what Mark's Pizza is, but the Buffalo places that closed did so out of economic (let's not pay the hourly workers to serve two customers--and that is sensible) or panic reasons. This was a routine snow storm, as far as I'm concerned.

     

    After reading the doughnut thread all week, I was most distressed to stop by Paula's Doughnuts and find it closed at noon because of the weather.

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