Randall Flagg

Jack, get a PP goal. I think Tampa plays the best and most skilled team hockey I've seen since Detroit post-lockout

Woof! Games in Tampa are so wild

Great bounce back and thank you Louie.

YESSS

Is that a let's go Buffalo chant?? It's so great to have a Larry and Zemgus doing things from line 4. And Elie, on that shift.

Great seeing eye shot from Risto, great quick pass from Elie. Dammit Jack.

Awesome shift from the fourth line!!

Garbage pick from Hedman, no call.

Nice hit by Tage. Hope Dan is okay.

Tampa is flying. Someday soon we'll be Tampa.

Reesto with a gorgeous pass to Kucherov Edit: two gorgeous passes to Kucherov

I'll say it again: I do not like this iteration of the Buffalo Sabres playing in Tampa Good response shift.

Every one of these tampa lines is so good

In a league where McDavid gets an assist for this: I want Dahlin getting assists that graze his shins, especially since he made that play happen.

Lol I guess I need to read closer?

Goaltending is probably key for improvement purposes: give him his career shooting percentage this year and he's still pacing to finish a net plus ~35 over his finish last year.

Hunwick was realbad last year before all these injury complications, and has barely practiced, no? Hope he can surprise us I guess. Not feeling great about this one. I'd love to see Pilut with this whole not-all-defensemen-playing stuff going on. This game is NOT on NBCSN, right?

I recall you being concerned about Jeff's -27 and TRPM of -19 last season. What are your thoughts on the substantial improvement? I think it's a cut and dry combination of the goaltending upgrade he's seen (his goalies were especially bad when he was on the ice, in a fluky way last year) and getting heavily slanted offensive usage with the team's other top offensive player. Or maybe after a career of being relatively disastrous defensively he's now suddenly a Selke winner ?

I think they played stronger full hockey games the ten before the streak than the ten during the streak. Which I think is good news, not bad.

I could have sworn I remembered him as a depth piece on a Russian Olympic team once

I had no idea Sobotka was from the Czech Republic.

The first one is waved off because Ristolainen is offsides way down behind the Tampa net.

Pommers got the OT winner in Tampa last season. He gets 2 tonight.

I made some poster identity errors in another thread, and then found you. I thought you had switched your name to Samson's Flow but that was Touched by Boyes.

We need to lose to Florida tomorrow so we can stomp them when I'm in attendance with 18 friends from HS next month. That's right, I stole the Sabrespace meetup format.