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Middlestadt still sucks I see @Contempt

Proving to be quite a good set up man tho

Who cares? Probably it's a person just like you who has his favorite whipping boy and nothing he does will ever change that. Dude could put up 50-70-120 and you'd find something to rip on him about. GTFO with this bullcrap.

I think you should stop hating the player so much that you can't even be honest about what he is doing right now and continue bashing him for what he was doing 2 and 3 years ago. Your bias is overwhelming to the point you can't have an honest evaluation of him so to be honest your opinion has no value to me since it's based on your hatred of the player and not reality.

Why trade for one when they can get one or two in FA? It's not like they don't have plenty of money. Not sure how you can say a player regressed offensively when he is on the 4th line now and his role has changed. He is flourishing in his new role, btw also.

I'd be shocked if he didn't sign here...immediate spot open on a young and highly talented team that will be likely making a cup run in a few years...almost a no-brainer and perfect situation to become a part of.

His release and the torque he generates is other worldly... He also has this move where he is skating with the puck and then in one fluid motion he rips a shot where it doesn't even look like his stick moves but the shot is gone in the blink of an eye with speed, power and accuracy. The first time I saw it I had to keep rewinding because I didn't believe I saw what I thought I just saw.

Yup. And then picking up only 6 of 24 points in the 12 games preceding the 6-1-1 streak. In those 2 streaks that comprised 20 games they picked a total of only 6 out of 40 points. That isn't going to get it done very often.

If people are still bagging on Mitts they haven't been watching the past few months. Dude has been the best player on the ice for the Sabres more than once during that time.

Crazy the Sabres have gone 6-1-1 in their last 8 and picked up no ground on the other teams ahead of them.

Gutsy effort...good win over the 2nd best team in the NHL and according to moneypuck analytics, the best team in the NHL.

Well damn...this is looking like a bullseye. Feeling pretty prophetic 😂

A random person versus the official NHL statisticians? I'm taking the statistician. Why would you think 2 players who are 20 wouldn't get better? Look at Cousins first two years in comparison to this year.

Cozens isn't making $7.1 this year, he is still on his ELC I believe isn't he? That number doesn't kick in until next year.

Mitts is starting to find his niche as a very good passer and set up man. He has started to show some tenacity in both backchecking and puck battles as well. I am starting to like his game more and more. I think he has another level he can take it to next year that may see him around 20 goals and 65-70 points.

% of PP Share(Penalties Against to Penalties For %): 1st - 55.35%(Pens 2nd - 53.75%) % of shot attempts that are blocked: 3rd - 24.23%(STL 1st - 23.77%, TOR 2nd - 23.82%) % of unblocked shot attempts that miss the net: 4th - 26.49%(COL 1st - 25.41%, BOS 2nd - 25.72%, EDM 3rd - 25.81%) Defensive Zone Giveaways to Opponent(fewest): 6th - 295(COL 1st - 247) This is kinda surprising to me...the Sabres have the highest percentage of PP time in the NHL, meaning Sabres both draw a lot of penalties and don't take a lot of penalties in relation to other teams. Watching the games, I get frustrated by how many of their shots seem to get blocked and/or miss the net but they are in the top 4 in both categories in terms of having the fewest shots blocked and shots that miss the net as a percentage of their unblocked shots. Basically they get their shots on net more often than most other teams. Also, unlike many seem to think, the Sabres are very good in terms of not turning the puck over in their own end compared to other NHL teams ranking 6th in terms of fewest turnover in the defensive zone. I think the Sabres turnovers in the D zone are many times of the egregious variety that lead to very high quality chances more often than other teams so I would say the percentage of quality scoring chances off turnovers would likely be very high even if the actual number of turnovers isn't.

I'm simply going to say you don't watch many other hockey games then because the Sabres are actually 6th best in the NHL in terms of turning the puck over in their own end. However, it seems the turnovers they do have are of the really bad variety that lead to high quality scoring chances. So I would say it's more of the quality of the chances given up from the turnovers that are bad rather than the number of turnovers themselves. They also block the 2nd fewest shots in the NHL and are the lowest hitting team in the NHL but that doesn't mean much as Carolina blocks the fewest shots in the NHL and is 2nd fewest in terms of hits and they are 2nd in the NHL in points.

Levi's movement skills are next level. Like elite level RIGHT NOW for NHL goaltenders. It looks like our other goalies are moving in slow motion. Even Marty Biron let out an uncontrollable "oh!" on one of the highlight clips during the intermission of the Ranger or Panther game on a save he made where he flashed his pad out so quickly that it caught Biron by surprise and he just reacted to it. That's hard to surprise a former NHL goalie THAT much with your movement ability and quickness. He will adjust. This kid is going to be special. Just watch.

Highly unlikely...New Jersey had 63!! points last year. As of today they have 108 with 3 more games to play, which likely puts them around a +50 point total differential. There is NO WAY the Sabres go +50ish point total differential next year. Mainly because they already have 20 points more than the Devils do and will likely end up with around a +25 difference by the end of the year with 5 games left, which is half the total. Now if you are saying they could end up making another 20-25 point jump next year then sure, I could see that very easily. But it would basically have taken 2 seasons to make the same jump NJ did in one, which is almost unbelievable really. Outside of an expansion team, the Devils are about to set an NHL record for largest point increase from one year to the next, both in terms of number of points and point percentage increase. And even with expansion teams, only the San Jose Sharks who went 11-71-2(24 points) had a larger increase but that's because it was almost impossible for them not too. Yes...an NHL team REALLY did have only 24 points over an entire 82 game season once...almost unfathomable. Currently the 06-07 Penguins and 17-18 Avalanche are tied with the largest increase with 47 points. NJ needs 2 more points in their last 3 games to tie the record, 3 points to break it. Also my prediction prior to the season that the Sabres would end up in the 87-90 point range and just miss the playoffs is looking pretty freaking good right now.

Why couldn't I eve have dated one of those twins where she tells me they share EVERYTHING with each other and asks if I would be OK with that... Our structure is to have no structure.

Once in OT and then in the shootout.

Well at least we have a goalie that can win a shootout now haha

If they lose this game it will be one of those you sit there and wonder how they lost the game. They have been the better team by far all night.

No lead is ever safe with this team.

Just two brutal goals to allow within 50 seconds of each other. This team is determined to single handedly prove the old adage that no lead is ever safe.