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Johnson has also reliably played on the right side in college and thus far in the NHL. Earlier this season he had a shaky game, and took a penalty for being too physical (Ruff basically benched him as a result), but I have no doubt he'll give a better game-in/game-out performance defensively than Bryson.

This Quinnway player, with their combined salaries, would make $7.375M for the next two seasons. Just caught the highlights. Yup -- the Sabres D did what they could to blindly centering to the opposition (Timmons), only lightly pressured (Byram), lost battle (Dahlin), and unable to take the pass (Samuelsson) to give away the game. Ellis even made a very good initial save on the Byram turnover. The goalie was hung out to dry the first half of the game. TNT was able to take advantage of DeBrincat on the rush goal and again in OT. We need to see him use his size and strength more against actual defensemen who are not the size of Bryson. With Dahlin back they're allowed to win again -- it just took them a little while to remember that and get warmed up. Glad they even got the extra point. Now, go win some games in regulation.

If he were that thin-skinned he would've sold the team ages ago. But if that really did upset him, his next action should have been to tell Sheevyn, "I will never be booed by the home crowd again." And then fired him into the Sun and spent the resources to get a winning hockey ops department.

They do put on a consistently very good podcast and discussion.

Jarmo teaching Adams to play hardball with solid, if unspectacular, players would be a start. Rather than Okposo 1x3 and Girgensons 3x2.2 (not terrible) and 1x2.5 (bad -- he wasn't improving), Greenway for 4, etc.. It's an Adams Tax, not a Palm Trees and Taxes Tax. The real question to me now are the prized RFAs: Benson, Doan. (Kesselring TBD). The former 2 are guys you can include in a long-term core and benefit greatly from. Still need the 1C and 1G, but they're worth paying. But will they want to be here or will they JJP their way free and get traded for 2027 RFAs? Now, watch Tuch re-sign for 8x$7M once his agent is able to kick the signing bonus cash portion of the contract up a little higher to be a bit more buyout proof.

Hey! That's not 10. 2-4-4 in their last 10. One win in their last nine. Did Matt's memory return by being struck in the head a second time?

1-4-4 in their last 10. What will be the result of the next 10 games?

Start watching tankathon instead of the regular standings?

If we can come up with words every night, then they certainly can. They're even being paid for their work. I need an endorsement for this.... Whatever happened to that guy's balloon rig anyway? Did it just crash down to earth and smash up someone's shed?

Rosen's stick snapped and that was the ENG.

Kozak on the backcheck, but it means he and Rosen both get caught low. MacKinnon feeds the puck in front... and that'll do it. Needed that PP to score, and TNT got the haft of the goalie stick instead of the net.

Get the AHL PP squad on the ice!

Phew. Avalanche two on one and a post.

The Sabres trail by one, looking to notch their first road victory of the season. Can they pull off the comeback? Can they get a loser point? Who takes it? Whose cuisine reigns supreme?

Tuch: if you're going to do a drop pass to Thompson there, then stop at the side of the net or drive across the face of the goalie for a screen. Don't stay wide and go behind it. There's no rebound behind the net.

Kozak just saved another shot on goal from Brindley on the backcheck.

Sabres taketh, Sabres giveth.

The 4th line has been good. I hope they score one against MacKinnon's line. That'd really miff him.

Wooooohoooooo! TNT through the blocker.

It was the AHL version.

Two fans on one-timers, one from each faceoff dot.

Byram draws the hook --- go get the goal, gents!

He's always been Scottish. His voiceover though... was American. Fun fact: David Ankrum reprised his role as the voiceover of Wedge for Rogue One.

And they raced to the playoffs... But then they hired Adams as an assistant coach that summer. And have sucked since. Remove the poison! Sorry! Waved it off right away. But now the discussion. Do you challenge if you're the Avs? Landeskog currently has 3 disallowed goals this season (only 1 scored) --- so far.

A bit. They are realizing they don't have a goalie of their own tonight, though.