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Personally I like to the list the 2 RSN (when applicable) and otherwise indicate if it's a national broadcast in the US. I don't really know about Canadian broadcasts to include those for the Canadian members. But I always look up every game anyways since I do a Game Day Info post in a slack server I belong to, so it doesn't matter too much to me if only MSG-B is posted here. I only have to worry about Caps games being blacked out here, or when a game is on NHL, TNT. Otherwise I'm using ESPN+ and it doesn't really matter. I'd like to see us get above .500 tonight and carry some momentum into Friday's game, since I'm coming up for that one. I'm really hoping we can start putting together a lot of multi-game win streaks this month to make up for our slow/inconsistent start to the season.

Why not just send Rousek back down then? I guess they want to play him and Savoie?

Does Biro have to clear waivers again if we sent him back to Rochestor?

I have to assume the spot is because Benson got put on IR. They are calling his injury week to week. That left an empty spot. I would have thought they'd use it for Savoie (and they still might by sending Biro or Rousek back this weekend). If Savoie plays tonight I think that's his 5 games and they'll either need to bring him to the Sabres or send him to Juniors. My guess is he'll get a tryout and they will drag it out until World Juniors unless he makes his case to stay on the team.

Often NHLN games just pick up one of the RSN feeds. Hoping it's the Sabres feed since they are the home team. We'll see.

Apparently one of my friends isn't feeling well, so Sabres game it is. It'd be really good to start November off right and extending the win streak to 3 games..

Yeah. I got Sunday Ticket this year, and I was debating swapping to YouTube TV next year since it will be "cheaper", but I don't think they have some of the channels I rely on for hockey, so I just adjusted my FIOS plan to try to get things a bit cheaper. We'll see how that goes. I have friends coming over tonight, so I won't get to watch the game until tomorrow

Ugh. I feel like Tuch was just starting to get back to form after looking hurt/bad to start the season. I hope it's not serious. Maybe a personal day or something.

Biro has more goals than Oloffson...

How about now?

I live in a 3 story townhouse. My street has a ton of houses in short walking distance, but I guess having to walk up all those stairs (especially for the very little kids) is off-putting enough that I rarely get trick or treaters. So I never bother. I did buy a bag for myself though.

Bummer about Backstrom. I've always liked him. A key piece to the long stretch of the Caps being good for all those years.

Biro in. Levi back to practice:

I don't get why he did the traditional logo with the black and red. I like Comrie's mask better (and UPL's for that matter). After how good his regular mask looked, I find this one a bit of a let down. But art is subjective.

The 4-5-0 Sabres head into Philly tonight for the first game of a home and home with the 4-4-1 Flyers. The Flyers will head to Buffalo to face the dreaded Goat head on Friday night for game 2. If the Sabres win tonight they'll move to .500 on the season. The expectation is that UPL will get the start, and Levi may return to the line-up as the backup. I haven't seen word on that yet however. Yesterday's practice lines: We'll see during morning skate if he keeps Biro with Thompson or decided to shuffle the lines a bit

Their coach got fired before the season started. The new coach was in the AHL last year (and has been an AHL coach for a bit I think), but I guess there is uncertainty about how good things will be with the last minute change

I think if Krebs wants to remain in Buffalo, he needs to turn himself into a shutdown center. DG has been playing him in key defensive zone face offs already.

Biro looked better in preseason and I think the only reason he didn't make the team was Benson looked better. While Biro doesn't have quite the same stat line (I haven't watch any Amerks to go on anything besides that), I suspect part of this is a reward for his play in the pre-season, while still doing well down in Rochester.

Seems like a lot of pressure to put him on the top line. Or whatever that is. The way they are playing I think the Mitts line is top atm. Then again they put Benson there, so not surprising. I'll be curious if that's what they go with. I suspect DG likes the other 3 lines, so he's keeping them the same

It was. The injury to Benson was announced the same time as Levi's. Benson missed some practice and a game, then returned and played again.

So with Benson out and Biro called up, what do we think the lines will be now? I assume Biro wasn't called up to sit in the box and will play over Olofsson or Jost. Last game's lines: Greenway-Thompson-Benson Skinner-Mittelstadt-Peterka Jost-Cozens-Tuch Girgensons-Krebs-Okposo I'm not sure where I'd put him. Maybe something like: Greenway-Thompson-Cozens Skinner-Mittelstadt-Tuch Biro-Krebs-Peterka Girgensons-Jost-Okposo

23 Sabres also blocked 21

Ah yeah. That rings a bell. I'm sure I'll still forget that by tomorrow though.

Someone previously explained what 6k meant, and I promptly forgot. I still find it a confusing nickname. UPL makes sense to me. Upie also makes sense to me. I won't call him 6k, but at least I know who is being talked about now (the first time seeing the name I had no idea they were talking about UPL). But anyways. I feel like he showed last year he could play well. The problem is he couldn't do that over a long stretch with consistency. He lost confidence, then the team lost confidence in him. Levi is hoping to practice tomorrow. But even he's able to go this week, we have a back to back on Fri/Sat. He'll get at least one game there. Likely he'll be the starter Wed as they try to ease Levi back in from injury (assuming no set backs). We need him to play like he did on Sat with consistency. I'm not optimistic, but I'm rooting for him to succeed.