DarthEbriate

I... um... I'll take it! Let's go PP!

Good kill.

Joker was just holding him up. Didn't want him to fall over.

Get it to Quinn sooner. Let him make the goalie sweat.

At home. Sid on your team. A very solid coach in Sullivan working them for the interference call. Against a trainwreck organization. You betcha the refs are going to be carrying some quick whistles this period.

So... will the Pens turn up the pressure another notch this period? Or will the Sabres start skating?

It's OK. Lemieux would like garbage on this season's Sabres squad, too.

Agreed. Contact with the noggin/mask weighs pretty heavily these days though. At least for the goalie.

Please use the intermission to wake up, gents!

Wow. You can win challenges.

I was about to say Pittsburgh was absolutely controlling play whenever the Mitts line isn't on the ice, but then the Mitts line loses a faceoff and... another challenge? That's a hit to the head on UPL.

Yes. In one of the first few games of the season he failed to do so, got knocked off his skates, and the Sabres line change turned into an oddman rush goal. He's not making that mistake anymore.

Linesman should've caught that live. Crosby was offside by 2 feet.

Stupid Crosby. (And Power, where were you going, buddy?)

Nice work on the boards by each of the forwards Greenway, Mitts, and Benson. Each one won a board battle. Too bad for the bounce at the blue line or it could've gone from good shift to great.

McCarthy could also someday be a bottom pairing D. Still years away, but is playing as an 18 year-old for Boston U.

Not to think too much about Wenatchee, but they're a brand new transplanted team, with a great roster and currently in 2nd place in the western division. So while their 2 best forwards are off at the WJCs (Geekie and Savoie).... they trade them both. Classic case of they didn't want to be there? You'd rather be at the WJCs? Seems like they could have gone for a championship this inaugural season if they had wanted. The Western Conference was much weaker this season with the T-Birds disbanded. Anyhoo -- here's the haul that the Wild picked up in the combined trades: Out - Geekie, Savoie In - Josh Fluker ('06), Maddix Mccagherty ('06), Sam Ward ('05), 2024 1st, 2024 3rd 2025 1st, 2025 2nd, 2025 8th 2026 1st, 2026 2nd 2027 1st, 2027 4th, 2027 7th

Trailing Finland 2-0, Kulich buries a cross-ice pass from the right circle on the powerplay. But, he takes a knee-on-knee on his next shift and headed back to the bench. Didn't leave the ice early that I saw. End of 1 in the early semifinal.

Woohoo!

Great shot, kid! That was one in a million... well... up to 4 now on the season. Habs TSN announcer "It's a hell of a shot by Quinn."

Have they been practicing the power play?

1990s me says, whatever. 2020s me says, forward spun willingly right through Levi's shoulder and head.

I'm not sure players around the league consider Skinner much of a pest. Talented goal scorer: absolutely. Great skater who can draw penalties by forcing defenders to reach/hook. Chirper and whiner, definitely. But apart from the chirping.... He's very inconsistent in his attacking/engaged games (1 or 2 periods a week, maybe?). He never gives the goalie an extra tap at a loose puck. Defenders don't have to dig him out of the crease again. He forechecks tenaciously, but really nowhere else on the ice. He's not hard to play against. Easily ignored if you tune out his voice.

C'mon ref. Call Thompson holding the stick. Or call the hook/tackle. Either way. Don't reward them and promote clutching and grabbing.

That's how you go to the net. Sabres' players could take note of that.