DarthEbriate

But this is the year that the false hope is most hopeful. We’re gonna be dominant this April! We’re the Jiri! We’re the team no one wants to play in the first round. And they won’t have to.

Damn it. The goalie change. The worse lead in hockey.

Good look, Rosén. Muel-PO buries it.

Byram tried to pass that across the middle of the ice through 2 Pens.

Don’t sell them short. They also had a 6-game skid and three separate 3-game skids.

20 consecutive point-per-game seasons. Tops Gretzky with that goal (19).

Another quality power play with good o-zone possession time. For the Pens.

Sabres skating. Pens not skating at all. Not even waddling.

Krebs! 100% shooting.

Good start, gents. Sloppy back check just lets Tage slide into the slot. Nice.

A Sabres win coupled with a Flyers loss tonight would also move the Sabres out of the cellar of the Eastern Conference for the first time since... whenever. 2024 probably.

Nice! They're also at least 4 games from being mathematically eliminated from playoff contention. Pegula can rest assured that they'll play meaningful games in April.

When Han Indy says, "I don't know. I'm making this up as I go," it's endearing because he's the hero and we know he has the Plot Armor to help him survive getting shot, riding under a truck, breathing for hundreds of miles on a submerged submarine, and withstanding the Wrath of God by closing his eyes. But Sheevyn isn't the hero. He's the villain. Villains need to have plans. Master Plans. Sometimes incomprehensible and convoluted, and sometimes diabolical, but always a plan that they can tell us all about while cackling over their own Awesomeness. Adams' plan is: "Wait another year; they'll all be a year older." Though, he might have to shed salary to stay EEEconomical. If that were the villain's plan in a movie, you'd walk out the theatre/stop the stream.

Wasn't the culture change the entire goal of the last rebuild? Jettison Eichel, Reinhart, Montour, Ullmark, (sure, Ristolainen, too) to bring in the right guys: Tuch and...Hagg, and let TNT, Cozens, Samuelsson bloom, under the guidance of Okposo as the then-captain). A communications disruption culture change can mean only one thing: a new GM. (Unless you already have Adams, in which case it will be to get rid of the leadership players with the most value around the league who will eventually stop wanting to be here: Dahlin, TNT, Tuch, JJP.)

Since the trade deadline, the Bruins are 2-7 (starting off with 2 FU-we-can-do-it-without Marchand/Carlo/Coyle wins). In the 7 losses they've been outscored 36-13. Joker is skating 21+ minutes/game and is somehow only a -2 and now he doesn't have Zadorov. (For comparison Mitts is -11) Boston is going to fly past the Sabres in the draft order.

I wonder if the Phlyers get a temporary bump in play with an interim coach. A 3-game winning streak could easily drop them out of the top 5 draft slots at this stage in the season.

Athletics @ Mariners?

The original Star Wars is just called Star Wars... because a) hope is not a plan, and b) A New Hope is a terrible name for a movie.

PHI and BOS are cooked and purposefully mailing it in; the Sabres have 2 games in hand on Seattle who have a vicious schedule of playoff teams looking to get home-ice in their opening round (DAL, EDM, LAK). There's a good chance the Sabres drop all the way to 8th in the overall selection.

Absolutely. That's basically 1 goal per game. If the Sabres were 1 goal/game better defensively, they'd have the second-best defense in the league with 176 GA (4 more than Winnipeg) and an overall +44 goal differential (sixth in the League).

Cozens is who we thought he is. He's been fine between Batherson (very solid 2W; 60 points three consecutive seasons if he gets 3 more points this year) and cagey veteran Perron. It does lead one to wonder -- what if Cozens skated between Zucker and Tuch all season, rather than always being with Quinn and another skater younger than himself? But look at Cozens' big homecoming game. 1 secondary assist on a powerplay set play goal where Batherson made the beautiful touch pass and Muel left Tkachuk alone on the doorstep. Beyond that... -2, 6/11 on faceoffs (6-5 is fine), 2 shots on goal, 2 hits, 1 giveaway, 1 takeaway in 17:18 TOI. Was he especially noticeable in the "Stick it to the Sabres" game? No, not really.

A mediocre GM could. Adams is not mediocre. (# blame Fury Road)

That one's on Amazon.

Good effort Kozak on the entry. Then the assist and nice shot by Bernard-Docker