DarthEbriate

No. Win it 4-1. Get the game winner and 2 empty netters. One of the ENs can be VO for the Gimme! Gimme! Gimme!

Remember how Reinhart fell down all the time? And then he grew up a bit and .... he didn't fall so much. (Any more than a Crosby or Marchand or TNT falls, anyway. Falling is a part of the game.) The Sabres are 2 years from all these young guys not falling so much. It's going to be a lot of fun when they grow into their professional hockey bodies. Cozens doesn't need to drop a glove there, stay out of the box, we're forcing the issue on them and they know it. That said, let's go get a 4-on-4 goal.

Negative. Didn't go in. Just impacted on the goalie. Kinkaid has been very good tonight. And super-quick getting to the dump-ins. He's been better than Swayman (this year).

I.... don't think they were offside there. They've been offside a whole bunch.

That's what a really good top line and top pairing looks like. But we held on. JJP with the right move, the perfect shot isn't there, so play the rebound. If you're TNT or VO, yeah, snipe it. But otherwise, keep the pressure on.

Undrafted, eh? I mean... he was acquired via trade. But I don't get it.

Marchand had an extended hand in Boushh's face, so he gave him some shoves over the top of his back. Nothing gets called in a playoff game, it's just two players establishing position and battling. In a game where Boston has 3 consecutive penalties and the refs think there's some unbalance (there isn't), they give a whistle because they're looking. In playoffs -- 10. In this specific scenario, 3. But it should have been 2 each, or nothing. It's stuff you see every single game go uncalled.

If you call that, you've gotta call the Marchand elbow. Or.... just let them play. That was nothing.

Gotta avoid blocking with the side of the knee.

Please be OK, Dahlin.

One of those has to go in. Come on, puck luck!

VO and TNT on the same PP. But then R2 switches so VO is at the point... set up the one-timer, gents! JJpost.

Wait... the B's coach says he can't find ice time for Foligno but that Foligno is "playing so well". So... he's done? Just like last year? Otherwise, you know, you'd find ice time for him.

Hino... put that to Girgs or put it right on the pad so Girgs might tap it. Thanks, Ray, that's what I was typing.

Uncle Owen is going to be so good... once he's old enough to look like an uncle, of course.

Krebs needed to get back and be the D-man with Dahlin in deep there. I think Krebs, anyway. Both Mitts and VO were on the offensive. Fewer odd-man rushes against, please.

And VO is the left-hand shot to one-time that pass. Quinn should be on the left dot on PP2 as the Thompson equivalent.

Looking for the pretty shot instead of just shooting and looking for a greasy rebound.

Someday Krebs is going to shoot it quick, and I hope I'm there to see it.

NHL 98 -- slide past the goalie at the top of the crease in full "hold stick at the top of the slap shot" mode. Then, release. Every time. You're taking a slap shot from 6 feet out? Yes, yes I am. Great shot kid, that was one in a... well, every three, really.

Tuch, you want to be a hero? Go for the hit on Marchand there.

Hands covered in squid! At that speed will you be able to pull it forehand in time? It's just be like Beggar's Canyon back home playing Boston in the goatheads.

I've got a red ale, an okonomiyaki (with squid) recipe I've been waiting to try, and the lady of 'Ebriate is on a girls' weekend so there's no need for restraint in Star Wars quotes. Let's go, Buffalo!

Are we suggesting that Ted Nolan, or any other coach, would immediately whip the youngest team in the league (featuring at 41 year-old goalie to skew that age), with this goaltending overall, rash of own-goal-deflections, or missing its 2 most responsible longest-tenured PK/D-men while also having a 3rd PK/D-man playing on one foot, and also missing 1 game from their best player into a winner in the last 4 games against... ...@CAR, @TB next night, ARZ (winners of 4 of 5 and riding white-hot goalie Vejmelka who in November is 4-0 with .950% ), and then the hottest team in the league VGK with 9 wins in a row and an "release your anger!" Jackikin Eichwalker? This 5-games stretch (with Boston) is a murderer's row at this point in the season (not just who you play but when you play them) for an injured-D/cool-goalied team. But it's not the end of the season and it's not an indictment on the coach or a cause for fan overreaction. They'll right the ship in the next 6 with Joker back and maybe even the Muel along the way. (And hopefully win tonight as well.)

To protect them both from the Atlanta Thrashers, they were hidden by Brian Burke when they were drafted. The League knew, as I did, if the Thrashers were to have any joy, they would be a threat to not become the New-Jets.