DarthEbriate

I'm sure the speed difference between these teams won't be apparent in 3-on-3.

McBain now 9/9 on faceoffs for Utah.

This is where getting that 3C who is an elite FO guy can be helpful. Power getting outhustled, outworked, outstrengthed... by... 5'9" 178# Kailer Yamamoto

Waved off immediately. Lucky. Horrible follow-up shift to the Sabres' goal though.

Utah can't challenge it. Good goal.

Yup.

Österized with the bank shot.

Muel, you've gotta hold that shot until the screen gets there.

Utah broadcast saying they've been excellent in the dot tonight; their best faceoff percentage of the season. Nevermind, they're playing against a team with only one good FO guy on the entire roster and he's been out all season. Oi.

ESPN+ working here with the Utah feed.

16-5 shots for Utah in the second. Lull Vejmelka to sleep... clever.

Utah skating harder since the good Sabres PK. Good music from the Flower Power era.

He didn't try. He could've put the effort in to hold that puck in the zone until the change was complete and reinforcements arrived. It's lack of effort or tenacity.

Östlund needs to carry the puck just a step longer. If all he's going to do is one-touch pass on each possession, he's not going to be much of a player.

Utah's broadcast told the story of Taro Tsujimoto during the intermission. Which is nice --- gives their new fan base some background of the silliness of the league. They didn't cover the trivia of: Who did the Sabres select in the 1974 draft with a pick after Tsujimoto?

Just in time for the final 40 seconds of the 1st period... Lock Sabre-foils in attack position!

Peterka is tied for 74th on the all-time Sabres scoring list with Yuri Khmylev (150 points). He trails Tyler Myers by a point. Maybe not a video, but definitely a PA callout during a TV timeout in the first period.

And his name is… Isak Rosén?

Who gets the revenge game -- Doan and Kesselring or Peterka? Why all the vengeance?

Third in the division. In the conference they would have been the 7th seed. But there are differences from year-to-year in the parity. Tonight, they could win and still be outside the playoffs depending on the outcomes of other games in the East.

X - X - Thompson Doan - McLeod - Tuch X - X - Quinn Malenstyn - Krebs - Greenway X - X - Geertsen Out: Benson, Norris, Zucker, Kulich, Danforth, Kozak Likely in the lineup next game: Östlund, Dunne, Rosén, and Geertsen? Krebs - Thompson - Greenway Doan - McLeod - Tuch Rosén - Östlund - Quinn Malenstyn - Dunne - Geersten Krebs got a look in preseason with Norris-TNT, so I'd presume he goes up the lineup. But Rosén or Östlund on TNT's line wouldn't surprise me to try to better balance out the AHLers.

Be sure to accent the hard H.

That's right. His first game after reclamation was against SJ.

Well at least the D-corps is healthy, because the forwards are at about 60% operational strength from the preferred roster.

At this time last year, Levi was being rushed, Reimer was with San Jose, and Luukkonen was fall flat after and solid previous season. This year, we have the veteran in the lineup and playing almost exclusively. The kid (Ellis) has played one “no one has video on me yet” game, and Luukkonen has had one good showing and one messy one.