DarthEbriate

We won every single puck battle that shift. Just ran out of speed on the final shot.

Ohhhh! Fitz almost with the backhand wrapper

Didn't look like Bjork missed by much there.

In the Mittelstadt District?

KrebberTucher!

Mitts is going to start racking up assists the second half.

Coyotes broadcast must have mentioned how hard they played against Boston last night at least 20 times so far on the broadcast. If it were a drinking game I'd be in as bad a shape as if I were doing an episode of GI Joe Drinking Game.

Skinner is looking much improved on the power play as the season goes on. And Krebs on the PP is a good thing.

Outworking them on the PP.

Arizona taking lazy hooking, stick-waving penalties. Make 'em pay before the break!

Oh, Tucher! So close

Efffin' eh, Mitts! Krebs!

Excellent save. Schmaltz is 4-4-8 in his last 6 games, so he's currently the Arizona offense. Tage.... be healthy!

Wooooooohoooooooo!

<in Wookiee grunts> Anderson is in net. -- Where did you dig up that old fossil? ++ That is a great goalie.

That would have been fun for him. Robson... and... seriously, who would we have dressed as the backup if Anderson/Toker couldn't fly with the team? The local Phoenix emergency goalie? University of Arizona's backup goalie? A free agent for $750k?

It's a way for the league to keep some form of interest in a mid-season matchup between Arizona and Buffalo. I look forward to how the team handles the challenge. Not as much as I look forward to building this new Lego set... but forward. Challenge. Adversity. <trails off mumbling brick brick something>

It's a trap...question. Our no goalies have respawned back to our opening night goalies. And Carter Hutton has been on IR since super-early in the season. Memories: Remember how the Sabres played Arizona in game 2 of the season and Vejmelka stood on his head and stole a point for Arizona? It should have been Hutton. We would have scored a 7-spot on Hutton that game (everyone else did early in the year). It would have been so delicious for the 800 fans in attendance.

We will want that $5M in 2023 to spend, but I hope it's on a goalie that warrants the salary. What I want is in July 2023 for us to have enough information on UPL to either give him 5x5 (probably higher by then if the cap starts moving up) to be the starter or to move him or to do a 2x$2.5M as the backup to... Levi... because it's the Levi thread. The going rate in 2021 for a starting caliber goalie is $4.5M-$6M. https://www.capfriendly.com/signings/all/standard/goalies/2-15/0-15000000/0-0/1-way (Filtered for 1-way, standard contracts, and I got rid of all the 1-year deals that would have a variance (but were mostly oddities and cheap: Martin Jones to PHI, Rask returning to BOS at an insane discount). Ullmark at $5M was reasonable because he's an average starting goalie (when healthy) and that salary right in line with what starting goalies were getting on the open market in the summer of 2021. If we didn't want to pay Ullmark, we should have signed him during the season last year to try to keep the cost down or traded him at the 2021 deadline as a rental (health permitting). And that decision could have been more easily determined after claiming Nedeljkovic off waivers at the beginning of the season and sliding Hutton into the nearest garbage chute.

Michigan-Canada-Michigan-Buffalo. Unlimited (games for) Power!!!

Eakin won’t be resigned this offseason in the event he can’t be traded. But in the meantime: He’s a JAG clone for Sheevyn, he wins face offs, has played and been decent with Girgs and Okposo in a defensive/grinding role, and has a great red mullet. I am hopeful that Hinostroza and his wheels are resigned for next season. The rest of them can float away with the rest of the garbage. (It’s a Star Wars reference and has no bearing or reflection on who they are on or off the ice and in the rest of their future dealings.)

You’re all forgetting the true measure of captaincy: the ability to lead the team stretch!

Master Toker, it's good to see you full functional again! AADell expresses his relief, also. They were both acquired by the current GM. (edit: they want to be here...)

Nonsense. There’s always room on any bandwagon or in any fandom. Young or old. New or experienced. Or even if you’re trying to catch that really cute girl/boy’s eye and want to show a common interest in whatever it is. Hell, even if it’s just because you like the colors. Gatekeeping is a waste of time. Enjoy the game. Enjoy the skill on display. Enjoy the drama. That’s what sport is for.

When the Sabres aren’t in the playoffs, which is... often?, just go with whatever team you find fun to watch. There’s a playing style that’ll catch your heart, or a player, or an underdog... or just appreciate how good Tampa is. Then, enjoy for a round or two. Alternately, enjoy all the ex-Sabres that are out there. Foligno and the Wild. Reino and the Cats. Beaulieu and the Jets.