DarthEbriate

4 goals on 15 shots is not the UPL we've come to know these past 2.5 months. But he was hung out to dry on turnovers twice if not three times today.

Um... they're in the lead. Eventually, they'll take the That's a damn fine save right there. the bus to the airport and go away to their next destination.

The Terry-Vatrano line loves seeing Skinner-TNT-Tuch on the ice (granted, TNT at the end of a shift this last matchup).

Yup. Just called him Haysie.

Brian Hayward? Had to look it up. Not sure if he's the guy today or not.

Mainly the way too loose defense and the Jekyll & Hyde game from one period to the next.

He had to outskate Radko Gudas to a loose puck, with a head start, and with Gudas having already lost the angle. (You know, Gudas, the notoriously super-fast mobile defenseman, often compared to Scott Niedermayer, Brian Campbell, and Cale Makar because of his wheels.) And Skinner elected to pull up and... get grappled by Gudas.

VO has been much better defensively this season than TNT has. Granted... small sample size.

"I now understand why the Sabres are where they are in the standings" - Ducks color commentator

UPL just dribbling through everywhere. He's been so consistently good, and... laying pucks like eggs today.

Good. Maybe that'll wake Skinner up for a game.

Nah. They're too tall to go to the net.

You mean Young Ben, that wizard's just a crazy young man!

Not enough shots seen? Gross turnover by TNT + Vatrano goes strong to the net + UPL dropping rebounds = all too easy.

Continuity with TNT? Tuch will occasionally drift across the goalie's face for a screen? Skinner (surprisingly, because he's a turnover-machine on the PP) has 6 PP goals this season to lead the team?

Sabres are so enamored with the drop pass to start the PP rush that they do it when there's a Duck trailing for said drop pass. You're on the PP, meaning if you rush up ice it's a 3 on 3 with lots of space or even a 4 on 3 odd man rush. Instead you drop it and allow that trailer to get back on defense and the zone entry that much harder. Hmmm.

TNT with 2 shots... on goal?

So much time to whip that puck around to Ryan J, but Erik J just holds it until the forecheck arrives. Gah. (forecheck their D and force them into easy turnovers was the Ducks broadcast's #1 key to the game.)

Nice job to force the turnover, then sneak a shot though.

This is the Green Way!

How can you be so... right... all the time?

Good. Gooooood. As a Sabres fan, I like it. If I were a Ducks fan, this would be incredibly annoying. "What's a duck?"

Agreed on all 3 counts. I was just limiting it to last game's lines and no trades/moves. GM Adams and status quo.

This is fun! So if they win at home Monday morning and salute the fans after the game, are we happy that they grew up and acknowledged fans’ financial and applauding contributions again? Or are we angry that they capitulated and didn’t stick to their message?