DarthEbriate

Oh my. I forgot, I forgot. With the win... Grand Ruff: The Senators will no longer be of any concern to us. I've just overseen the destruction of their team permanently... this season. The last remnants of their roster and Cozens have been swept away.

Amerks clinch a playoff spot with the win. Östlund keeps his goal-scoring streak alive at 6 and his points streak is up to 8 games. ENGs = wins.

Same post, different day: Game Three: G Ratzlaff makes 40 more saves in another win -- this one more easily at 6-3. Game Three: G Leenders also gives up 3 goals, but gets 30 saves in an overtime win 4-3.

Depends on which stat you're look at exactly, but I'm seeing Philly with the .872 and the Sabres at .878. In recent years, .895 is fine as save percentages are lower in general. .895 is the mean in the league this season (15th FLA at .897; 16th CAR at .894). Only two teams have averages above .910 (WPG is 1st at .913). Contrast that with the clutch-and-grab era. (Let's take 2002-03: 12 teams at .910 or higher, and the mean was .906-.905. In that season, .895 would have been 2nd to worst in the league, right above St. Louis... who finished second in their division and made the playoffs...?? Huh.)

And to think all it took was 3.5 months and a 9-game losing streak by Boston. The answer is in the room. Yub nub!

This. On the goaltending side, GMKA hasn’t been “right” yet. And then he backtracked on a solid plan (Reimer for 25-35 games of .900 sv% just like he’s done for SJS and DET) by waiving him immediately. Now, he might still get to 25 games, but that’s because UPL has been burned out and benched. You built a tandem in the offseason: use the tandem! If Levi had had a preseason shutout and a shutout in Czechia then maybe you waive Reimer, but why? This leads to my question. At what point is Levi subject to waivers next season? Automatically at the start? Or will there be a games played # still in play despite age and seasons accrued?

The Bruins are doing a proper end-of-season tank. They’ll get a top pick, maybe get Marchand back, re-add their top d-pair and still have $25M+ to reshape their roster next season. But! That roster needs a ton of re-shaping and I think they may also opt next season to see how close they are to McKenna-world.

Krebs! Clear the puck! You’re killing a penalty. Shoot it through the gaps.

I saw an empty net shorty in McLeods!

Sanderson is fast like… Sanderson. He attacks, too which is fun. Hey… Sabres… if you skate instead of weakly pushing the puck around you’ll be able to clear the d-zone

Sabres completely stopped skating now. But Benson almost… puts it right into the crest.

Krebs from Cozens. And that’s twice with immediate response goals. The Sabres need an “after scoring” line that just goes out and shuts everything down for 50 seconds.

Muel with 4:00 of shorthanded time; he's third after Dahlin and Byram with even strength time.

Sign Houser to another last week of the season deal for a real paycheck. Then, get him into a game to continue his dominance against NHL shooters. Balancing out some of the other non-penalties.

JBD trips and the D collapses.

Tic-tac-tic-TNToe

Several weak clears and passes lead to more Sens shots and possession, and then finally the chance to do an easy lob clear for a line change... and just rifle it down for an icing instead.

Remember when the Sens home statisticians were crediting Cozens with anything in his first two home games with them (17 hits in two games). Not so much anymore.

I’ll say it. They had some possession, but the Sens power play is pretty weak without Tkachuk. Wants to be Hasek.

Lots of Sabres passes going to “space” that a Sen is standing waiting for it, rather than skating into the zone with possession or dumping it and going to get it.

Hey! I got an idea. 30+ shooting percentage as a team every game! Screw defense.

Quinn fights for the puck. Outmuscles! And earns an assist. Nice job, Solo.

So JBD and Stützle don’t like each other?

If he still wants to be here, that is.

Tuch on the frozen-in-carbonite waiting forever rebound tap in.