Randall Flagg

Hopefully a function of all the PKs. I'd like to keep him a couple mins under that, have him nice and fresh all year.

Dahlin's goal could not have been more accurate, spooky. Playing the Avs is a tough draw any day, you have to take advantage when they're at the end of a road trip and ready to go home, especially with the refs letting them do whatever they pleased and feeding them PPs. Sabres locked it down. Where was that poise Friday? We need to see it every night!

the haters on the board

Tage has forgotten how to rush the puck It is insane that they keep gifting Colorado PPs and won't call this *****.

These refs need to be imprisoned btw

I agree that that's their plan but i'm not sure it's the best plan to get Ws right now. Our PP is horrible, under 10%, and our second unit is probably a negative +/- at this point.

Excellent job, the PK is a revelation. Joki is a lot better when he's not battling injuries

Let's go boys, 3 goal lead to intermission please

Power's an NHLer right now, but I would reduce his workload and maybe take him off of PP2. It's moving a bit too quick for him right now to be as crisp as we need in that spot

What was MacKinnon doing, yapping to the refs?

Yuck

I don't mind that call or anything but I saw two trips of Sabres and a high-stuck Sabre that were ignored in the last 10 mins

Luukkonen is a different man when he's expecting to play hockey that day.

This isn't your grandma's Avalanche. Or your two-years-older-brother's Avalanche either. Keep taking it to them, go get number 4.

Strong period

We will never see a number smaller than 3 in the other team's column

Nah, I embrace being the first guy to see thru the sabres/literally hitler/on the wrong side of history etc. What's the hockey version of World War II, year zero, the only event in history that any current team can be compared to, the foundational creation myth of these Sabres?

I will. This team isn't good and isn't going to make it

These were both good additions to a bottom pair where Joki struggled, and Clague/Bryson/Stillman played almost every game. The Sabres still needed a top 4 defenseman to help or shield Power, who clearly needs that. They knew they needed it- they were in on Chychrun and Hanifin. But he didn't make it happen.

Does it bother you that the Sabres are 29th in all-strength xGF%, and 31st in all-strength high danger CF%? They were better at these things last year by a fair amount. They are not a good hockey team right now. They are already falling behind and nothing about their play suggests it's about to get better.

Greenway wasn't an offseason addition I guess, that's why I was confused. Adams entered the open phase when players' contracts expire and when teams like to trade and didn't get any forwards out of it. Also, while Greenway is technically a veteran, he was acquired as a lost young player/reclamation project. That has gone well, but Greenway is no different from Tage or Cozens or any of the other guys trying to do this for the first time.

This is exactly what my buddy and I were talking about when the Sabres got their fourth goal. Sometimes the hockey is wild, and you're clinging on for dear life, your goalie gets hurt, the other team is good, whatever. But when you get to 4-4 that late in the game, real hockey teams get the game to OT. They batten the hatches, find a way to at least get that point. We both knew what everyone in this thread and everyone on the bench knew - this game wasn't ever going to get to overtime. The goaltending was not going to hold up, the defensive zone coverage wasn't going to hold up, and the forwards were out of control, completely frazzled - they were whiffing, weak-wristed, couldn't bear down on anything. It was obvious and it didn't even bother me, because that is the team we chose to come into the season with. Everything we needed to do but didn't do, every hole we needed to fill, was in a position that would help a team get through a game like this one. We never did those things, and so the game played out just like it did last year. Whatever. That's what they wanted, that's what they get. They can deal with the consequences when it all plays out one way or another. The Sabres desperately needed a vet who can play forward, especially as Okposo gets older. It's clear that whatever he can bring to a game mentally and with experience isn't going to help with how limited he now is as a player. We needed a shift from one or two players just like this, to settle things down and get the game tilted more evenly in the third. The Quinn injury only added to the heaping pile of reasons to make an addition like this. But Kevyn didn't do anything. And he won't. The Sabres desperately needed a goalie they could rely on in the event that Levi struggled with his first time experiencing this workload and this level of hockey for an extended period of time. A real goalie, that has been there before. They stuck with the three headed monster, Comrie who can't ever stay healthy, UPL who just can't play and will never play in an NHL game where he allows fewer than 3. Well, Levi was overloaded after being played 4 games in a row, Comrie got hurt, and UPL led the team in melting down, just as you'd expect. Kevyn had every reason to make an addition with foresight for a game like tonight or a start like this. But Kevyn didn't do anything. And he won't, even with these injuries. He has told us this all along, and we should listen to him they are 25% of their games played under .500, which would correspond to 20 games under .500 if extrapolated, hence last place pace

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They're not really dancing around .500, they have 6 points in 8 games played. That is last-place pace.

Just watched the episode where George has Elaine take an IQ test for him. His stammering to explain the coffee on the test destroyed me