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Miller and Vanek....both had amazing games Coho, Hoff and Pommers also played very well Myers and Leo were not very nice to watch Marchant is a prick - did you see him nod when he scored his goals, i wanted to punch the TV I also thought Weber had a nice game

Also this game is a perfect example were Miller plays very well but had mediocre stats. He plays better than stats suggest

Pommels has already had over 17mins of icetime!

He has also made 2 bone head plays when he was on the ice

Reading this is so amusing. Bipolar fans. Myers has had a good game bar te Marchant thing; every game he is better. Ennius finally does something

Good first period I think. Stafford, Foligno and Myers have caught my attention for good plays. Ennis is stroll really struggling, he is trying to get too cute with the puck. He needs to step up. Our top line looks dangerous Everytime they touch te ice

Maybe our philosophies differ. But i'm of the opinion either you play a rookie and he shows you something that makes you want to play him again (e.g. Grigo) or he shows you nothing special and so you play him only when things are going well (e.g. Brennan) And to clarify, a 4 game losing skid going in against an undefeated (in regulation) team who screwed us last season is not classified as things going well

Exactly. If a rookie looked no better than any vet, why would you play a him over any vet? I thought he looked okay - mostly invisible, saw he made one nice shot though

It would be poetic if the Sabres season was turned around by dominating the team that ruined their season last year

He doesn't have a point, but stats are deceiving - there are 3 or 4 Vanek/Pommer goals where Coho has made a nice hockey play away from the puck e.g. screening the goalie, drawing a player etc.

I will be taking the role of hope in this production of Pandora's box and say we beat the bruins 4-1

No, as far as I am aware, Pyatt is evidence of Ruff's problems, Briere is evidence of Regier's and Myers is just a general disappointment who has been signed to a long contract too early and should be traded before his stock decreases further. Leo is both a problem and evidence of Ruff's favouritism - so he is a bit more complex, but I don't have the qualifications to delve into this.

Not a huge amount. I know they often happen because of a throwing action (e.g. to baseball pitchers). The L in SLAP stands for Labrum, which is the tissue rim of the shoulder socket (it stabilises the joint, lets the upper arm (humerus) bone fit better and is the site for ligand attachment). They almost always require surgery to fix. How come, do you have this? An expansion draft - each team gets to protect x number of players, the two new gms then pick at the remains

Basically a partial dislocation - what could be bad for him is if it weakens his shoulder and allows it to pop out more easily in future. (I was in a good mood one day so joined my medic friends in a lecture on shoulder anatomy and shoulder injuries :P )

Well in the last few years it has been the soft teams who beat us easily (Islanders and Columbus i'm looking at you) and we have played well with the big boys (which is really quite infuriating). So maybe the soft schedule was actually the hard schedule :/

I dunno, the guy IS still young. I have not given up hope - I see some amazing potential in the guy. He can be bad in his zone, but it is not all the time, sometimes i am very impressed. He had 3 hits last night. None of them were Scott Steven's style, but they were solid. He has said many times he struggles to put any weight on and usually loses any gains within the first 2 months of the season. In a year or two that hyper active metabolism will drop down and he will gain more muscle and then his hits will hurt. Shea Weber has only been a real force in the last 3 years (23 onwards). Chara has only been playing pretty well since he was 25 and only amazingly since he was 27.

Price, Rask and Varlamov are all starters and Bernier could be a starter imo. The guys from 10 onwards are still unable to drink, so I don't think they can be counted (although 3/4 have quite exciting junior careers). I agree goalies can be unpredictable, but with Miller in his 30s I would like to have a decent goalie in our system who looks like they could replace him as the starter in 5 years max. If we drafted a goalie now they would only be 23 by the time Miller was 38. I'm also not too sure how many late round draft picks will go on to be studs anymore. With the internet and streaming etc. you no longer have to travel to a town to watch a player play. So Europe is suddenly less of an unknown - e.g. the Red Wings said that they think they were the only team who saw Datsyuk play before he was drafted (St Louis was also meant to but weather cancelled the plane) and one of the only teams who saw Lidstrom play. Goalies in the 2nd round: 05 - Plante, Frazee, Pavelec, Pelletier 06 - Neuvirth, Enroth 07 - Gistedt, Lafleur, Cann, Smith 08 - Markstrom, Allen, Delmas, Beskorowany 09 - Lehner, Koskinen 10 - Pickard, Simpson 11 - Helbery, Gibson, Gibson 12 - Dansk, Stolarz Ignoring everyone from 2010 onward due to age, there aren't that many names i recognise on that list, and no-one on that list (bar maybe Neuvirth) who I would want on my team over Enroth. And I don't think Enroth is a starter. So I think either you hope to get lucky, or you go for a first, for a pedigree talent

Leopold was so lazy on the play, he basically stopped trying, Fratten got passed him and then he started hooking the guy as he got his shot on Miller. Miller should have stopped it - he also shook his head as he went to the bench, I wonder if it was frustration at himself or the team that caused it. Leopold hasn't looked great a lot of the time, but always gets high minutes. Like I can understand why Myers still gets minutes because a) while he screws up, he often also creates offense and b) he is your franchise player on D. But Leopold is a UFA on a team that is laden with defence. Sit him or trade him. I hope we have a trade coming soon. Clear some of the log jam we have

05 - Price, Rask 06 - Bernier, Helenius, Varlamov, Irving 07 - N/A 08 - Pickard, Mccollum 09 - N/A 10 - Campbell, Vlsentin 11 - N/A 12 - Subban, Vasilevskiy So based on the pattern, this year will be N/A :P

If we make a cup run with Miller - then the plays others have mentioned (i wouldn't be surprised if Pommers and Vanek retire as Sabres). If we lose Miller, I don't think we make a run for 5-10 years minimum. We have no proper goalie prospects and goalies can easily take 5 years in the minors to develop. I think we should use a first or second at the next draft to get a future goalie for when Miller is too old

I'm not sure I had a problem with Grigs sitting in the third. He was on the ice for all 3 goals, and was (in part) responsible for two of them. Yes he scored one and yes he looked good/dangerous at points, but at the end of the day he was a bit of a liability. Late in the third I would rather play safe and get a point, than go for broke. I think we all want Grigs to be good, but sometimes we are a bit short sighted and want Lindy to treat him like a star (he should be on the top line and he should be on the PP and he should play the last few minutes of the game etc.). The kid has played like an hours NHL hockey, it is wrong to make him play in every situation, not only because other vets are vets and had had more solid games, but also because it is important he learns that scoring goals is not enough - we want him to be a solid two-way player. And once he becomes a solid two-way player - then he will damn dangerous

I thought Myers looked good that period. Dunno why Roby was so down on him

Very unlucky on that first goal. Solid period through. No idea how the officiating works anymore - do they want to get rid of boarding head shots? If so the Gerbe and Kaleta hits should both have resulted in 5mins and a suspension. That sends a message quickly. Good on Weber for fighting (even if it was a lame fight). No idea why we lose Weber for 17 minutes though

Foligno and Hecht. He has also played between Hecht and Ott though

The only way it isnt a goal is if Hecht blocks it or the hockey gods are with you