Randall Flagg

I read on hf that just before the benching, Dahlin had just a minute of rest sandwiched by two shifts of ~1:40. I'm sure his legs were indeed dead.

Tre is a blessing he's also the best cornerback in the NFL don't @ me

Chicago is capable of scoring a looooooot of goals and making defenses look awful because of it. They also give up a ton of chances and goals. So it'll probably be an exciting game

Joker is playing lights out and is one half of our best defense pairing. He's smooth, steady, and smart. Nylander is still playing hockey that gets him healthy scratched. Nylander could score 35 goals on that Chicago team and I wouldn't care because of what Joker is doing here. That Chicago team sells out for offense and can do strange things to stats because of it

Interested to see how Tage looks compared to last year in real games for the first time.

Babcock does need to go. The team is incapable of playing the grinding, defensive hockey he wants out of them, and he's neutered the only thing they do well in trying to coach them that way. You have to coach to the parts you have. Toronto's defense is capable of being as good as Pittsburgh's in 2016-17. Their offense is capable of being better. Coach with that in mind. It will be ironic that all of the emotion that came with the Babcock and Bylsma saga will end five years later with zero playoff series wins combined

Interesting developments re Dahlin and Jason and maybe icing. I don't think I remember the play.

This is your best bet, Sabres twitter is awful

I'd like to say that we should start to ride Ullmark a bit more, but I'm kinda scared, because as soon as we switched to him for an extended stretch as starter last season he fell off the map

Surely the buzz of a first ever NHL game

Ullmark was strong tonight

I love this sh*t as much as I hate the Caps' color guy

Eichel has flaws, and they're worth talking about and debating on message boards. But nights like tonight are why we spent a decade dreaming about having a forward like Eichel. It feels good

He had a hatty against Carolina 2 seasons ago

Jack has 12 goals and 11 assists now. The last time he had more goals than assists past game 7 in the season was when it took him a stupid long time to get his first ever assist, because Sabres players had no idea what to do with open nets

And when the team loses because they can't generate offense and he can't score 4 goals per game himself we can run him out of town!!!! This game reminded me of that awesome weekend versus Boston and Washington last season just before Christmas

Jack has 23 points in 12 games vs Ottawa. That's Heatley/Spezza/Alfredsson versus us level stuff. Serves them right

That's my captain

Lmao Eichel roofed it from center ice

Come on fellas put Ottawa away

That was the best pass I've ever seen from Skinner. Therefore I'm skeptical it was intentional

Come on Victor!

Sam has also done it at least twice, and he's very sure-handed. So I doubt that's why Ralph did it.

He fanned on a few pucks, but I didn't think he was having a bad game. I distinctly remember a couple of very nice defensive plays, a pass breakup in the slot that would have been a goal otherwise, and a gorgeous theft of a Senator forward. But Ralph must have seen something he didn't like