DarthEbriate

Time to run up the score.

I agree. Hasek would beg to differ.

Alright, PP. You may fire when ready.

Long shift, but no damage done.

What a terrible turnover by McDavid, just passing it to nowhere! The entire d-corps is doing well.

Great Tuchaway at the blue line. Too bad we couldn't convert that into a goal.

This McDavid guy is pretty quick.

Third period, let's close it up. We're going in. We're going in full throttle.

Hino's speed draws the hook.

Our pinches are looking a lot better with a week of practice in the books.

J to the J to the P to the!

Boushh

It's clean, but I'd want to start a fight for it anyway.

And that does deserve a fighting response.

Get some puck possession in their zone and go side-to-side. Their Skinner will slide right out of the picture.

TAGER!

We like him...

Casey can take him. They don't call him Mitts for nothing. Skinner doubles up on Skinner. Stoza causes chaos. Sabres 5-3.

Good Pekar is back to health and ready to battle for playing time. Bjork adds a solid, speedy vet. Maybe get one in for Jobst, but when healthy, this lineup has some pretty nice depth at forward. (Yes, there's a youngster on each line who'll need quite a bit of seasoning and strength.) Game 1 lineup: Rosen - Malone - Mersch Murray - Kozak - Weissbach Rousek - Biro - Kulich Cederqvist - Jobst - Kisakov Bjork, Pekar, Warren, Olischefski

This is the way.

HCDG going back to some familiar 2020-21 season things for the road trip. Cozens-Hinostroza are reunited as a speed defense line for McDavid (with JJP replacing Caggiula on the other wing). Cozens had 2 goals and the Sabres won at home in November 2020 with Caggiula. In 2021, the 6-1 L at Edmonton was basically their only no-show in any game for the entire month of March, but the lines were then repeated in Calgary and got the 1-0 shutout. Note the similarities to that mid-March 2021 lineup: Skinner - Thompson - Tuch Krebs - Cozens - Hinostroza Asplund - Mittelstadt - Olofsson Girgensons - Eakin - Okposo (Hayden, Bjork) INJ: Caggiula JJP is in for Krebs. And honestly, I'd put Z back on the wing and get Krebs in the 4C role rather than Quinn, but whatever works. Mitts has been good at faceoffs this year and has been killing penalties, plus that AMO line was solid March/April last season. The key is getting Tuch up as a puck carrier/retriever for the top line. Edit: And Sheahan practicing is a bonus. This allows Bjork (or a rookie who's not adjusting to the pace but is a future top-6 skater) to head to Rochester while still maintaining a sound NHL 4th liner.

I was definitely using a laptop and it's hard to say without seeing your screen, but try something like this on iPhone: 1. Load the youtube video on your iPhone. 2. Tap the address bar at the bottom to modify it (don't tap Share yet). 3. Copy the address. (you could try to write the timestamp at the end here, but I find it clumsy to try to deselect the address) 4. Open a new iPhone browser tab by tapping the double box/new window button in the very bottom right. 5. Paste in the address. Then type in your additional &t=50s timestamp text. 6. Tap Go. (This should open the video to "when" you want it.) 7. Share or Copy/Paste that new address path.

I don't think that's the case. He was super durable because he was basically a tank on skates. He never missed a bunch of games from injury. Just to check: Jagr had 74 pts before the 2004 lockout, scored just fine overseas during lockout, and then benefitted from the same rules as the reborn Sabres by netting 123 pts in 2005. So figure 70ish more points if no lockout. Then, he did three more seasons overseas (he was healthy all 3 years in terms of GP). Then, he returned and was still in the 40s-60s each year (except the 2013-14 half season lockout) and a couple seasons at the end. 4 more top-six seasons: that's somewhere around 200-280 more points he left on the table.

The other thing we all need to remember on Joker is that he, too, is a youngster by NHL defense standards. He's only 23 and has played 60 fewer career games than Dahlin has (and also had to redo his game through the Krueger debacle). The entire top 4 is youngsters who all need a couple more seasons to grow into veterans. Even Muel has a long way to go to round out his game. At any rate, gotta give the entire team a couple more games given their current practice setup before making any massive lineup changes. You can always make tweaks shift-to-shift.

The only Gretzky stat I need to list him #1 is this: If he had never scored a single goal (like Muel so far!) he would still be the NHL career leader in points. (p.s. Jagr would've caught him if not for lockouts and playing in Europe.)