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They also are the highest scoring team in the NHL even with some teams having 5 games in hand. What's the saying? "Drink whiskey out of boots"?

So replace someone who is starting to play well with an unknown? No chance.

Comrie has sucked. I'm sorry. No excuses for him. He has pretty much allowed 1-2 non-NHL goals in every game other than the first game this year. I was all about him getting his chance here after putting up great metrics last year in limited time, but he has been awful mostly. I don't care who the competition is, you can't allow weak goals from barely inside the blueline with absolutely nobody in front of you where you simply get beat cleanly. Sabres cannot afford to be put in a situation where they start losing games 7-6 or 6-5 or 5-4 again every night because he can't stop a beach ball from way out. And why the hate for Anderson? He has been the most consistently good goalie the Sabres have had this year REGARDLESS of who he was playing and backed by the metrics.

Hey now...you're an all-star, get your game on, get paid!

It's crazy to think but he has no clue what has transpired since he got up from making the tackle and then collapsed.

The Sabres get it too...obviously Kevin Adams growing up here as the GM understands it better than anyone and I am sure that has been shared with the players and they seem to embrace it...

That's My Coach! *sniffle*

Comrie was allowing bad goals...not legit goals...goals you were like...huh? Goals you'd be yelling at your goalie in a beer hockey league for letting go in, that shouldn't be a goal at the NHL level. Ever. So the Sabres are forced to score 6 goals a night every game if they want to have any hope of winning? No thanks...I was big supporter for him coming here, but he can stay in Rochester or get waived for all I care right now.

Why? Anderson has been better than either of them. I damn sure don't want to go back to seeing Comrie allowing 1-2 softies leading to 5+ goals allowed night in and night out again.

That time is coming. Maybe not this year, but next year it would be shocking if they aren't comfortably in the playoffs.

Our daughters earn money by doing various household chores, which they negotiated prices with myself and my wife...wife tried to lowball them on some things and they agrees(kids don't always know how much things are worth), so I told them to never accept the first offer and that they needed to negotiate a better deal for themselves. We haggled for a bit and came up with a price chart for things. There are chores available for them to do on a daily, semi-weekly and weekly basis and it's up to them to choose what they want to do, but they only earn money for the work they put in. Oldest usually earns about $30-35 a week and the youngest $15-20.

Not faint praise and when you are the youngest team in hockey and also the highest scoring team in hockey even with some teams having 5 games in hand currently, it isn't undeserved.

Really good article from Pierre LeBrun: https://theathletic.com/4058153/2023/01/05/tage-thompson-sabres-trade/

Alanis Morissette would agree: I want you to know, that I am happy for you I wish nothing but the best for you both An older version of me Is she perverted like me? Would she go down on you in a theater? Does she speak eloquently And would she have your baby? I'm sure she'd make a really excellent mother 'Cause the love that you gave that we made Wasn't able to make it enough for you To be open wide, no And every time you speak her name Does she know how you told me You'd hold me until you died 'Til you died, but you're still alive And I'm here, to remind you Of the mess you left when you went away It's not fair, to deny me Of the cross I bear that you gave to me You, you, you oughta know You seem very well, things look peaceful I'm not quite as well, I thought you should know Did you forget about me, Mr. Duplicity? I hate to bug you in the middle of dinner It was a slap in the face How quickly I was replaced And are you thinking of me when you ***** her? 'Cause the love that you gave that we made Wasn't able to make it enough for you To be open wide, no And every time you speak her name Does she know how you told me You'd hold me until you died 'Til you died, but you're still alive And I'm here, to remind you Of the mess you left when you went away It's not fair, to deny me Of the cross I bear that you gave to me You, you, you oughta know 'Cause the joke that you laid in the bed That was me and I'm not gonna fade As soon as you close your eyes, and you know it And every time I scratch my nails Down someone else's back I hope you feel it Well, can you feel it? Well I'm here, to remind you Of the mess you left when you went away It's not fair, to deny me Of the cross I bear that you gave to me You, you, you oughta know Well I'm here, to remind you Of the mess you left when you went away It's not fair, to deny me Of the cross I bear that you gave to me You, you, you oughta know

Toronto Media doing their best:

Hmm...you may not be wrong...stunning difference between numbers with Power on the ice versus him off the ice in terms of goals scored. The Verdict Simply put, Owen Power is having one of the better seasons we have ever seen from a defenseman his age in the NHL. While his point production may say otherwise, he is a defenseman who has been able to create offense in non-traditional ways. He plays the game in a selfless manner, always looking for ways to manipulate time and space to allow his teammate to create. It’s very easy to see why the Buffalo Sabres took him 1st overall in the 2021 NHL Draft as he is pretty much a coach’s dream on the blue line. Will he ever develop Rasmus Dahlin’s finishing ability? Probably not, he’s never really been a volume shooter. Will he ever play with the same flare as Rasmus Dahlin? Also, probably not. He really does not have to do either of these things to be an effective offensive defenseman and this season is showing that. Dahlin and Power are two players who attack the game in different but good ways. I do think there may be room for him to grow his point production as he becomes more confident with his individual skills in the offensive zone. Also, the fact that his team is scoring so much with him on the ice, he’s bound to pick up more points. However, his individual numbers have no bearing on whether or not he can be an effective offensive defenseman, as this season has illustrated. Think of him as a supercharger of offense on the backend of the ice. He will make the good offensive lines (especially rush-heavy lines) better as he generates time, space, and opportunity for them to make the magic happen on offense. He also makes the poor offensive lines viable offensively by giving them the puck under better conditions. He could be better on the defensive side of things, but that could be said of any 20-year-old defenseman in the NHL. That will improve in due time, making him an even bigger net positive presence when he is on the ice. https://thechargingbuffalo.com/2022/12/30/owen-power-the-secret-ingredient/ So Basically Dahlin is the guy who can carry the puck, go through the other team and make them look silly at times and Power is the guy who will draw forecheckers in while backing up and then send laser pinpoint passes to send the offense in on 3 on 2 breaks from his own end.

I don't think anyone is putting a 100+ point player behind 3 other dudes...maybe Dahlin, but that is it.

Uh...did you watch when he scored 4 goals in the first period against Columbus?

Have you not seen Tuch or Girgensons over the last few games?

Not even Eichel?? 😂 Kinda like Allen's 2020 season that would have won MVP in like 98% of the other seasons that just happened to be when Rodgers had one of the all-time greatest QB seasons.

I think the move to center more than anything is what helped him. Granato is a freaking genius in some ways.

Still needs to work on rebound control(see Caps 3rd goal), but his positioning and angles have been night and day from the beginning of the season...you would see him come out to cut off the angles and there would be half the net there to shoot at...almost like he didn't know where he was positioned in relation to where the net was once he got out too much. Not sure how they have corrected this, but it is very noticeable now...when they show those same angles with the player coming down he is giving up not much of anything net wise...amazing how something as small as that could be making such a huge difference

In close, he has unbelievable stick control and ability to slow things down time-wise where the defender is attempting to make a frantic play and he simply pulls the puck away, waits for them and/or the goalie to go by him then buries the shot. Saw it in both the Boston and Washington game on goals, and almost saw it again where he beat like 3 dudes to the front of the net and was about to dipsy doodle and the defender made a saving poke check from behind. It's like he sees small spaces where he can put the puck that nobody else can get to and his stick length makes it so he can pull the puck away from the players and they can't reach it, except he does it all so fast in real time that it doesn't even look real at times.