DarthEbriate

TO. Hmmmmm. Nice. Settle it down.

Good, get some makeup calls and balance it out. And... let's get the PP cooking.

He's also doing play-by-play from Buffalo on a TV screen. The road announcers are tough around the league. But yes... his call of the game even at home is a little lackluster.

The meaning of life: reach. Just keep reaching. Then, reach even further until you're off balance and no longer in good position and trip up on the experience.

Boston was waking up in the latter half of the 1st. Now they'll elevate their game and the Sabres need to respond. Should be fun to see.

In my experience there's no such thing as luck.

Wellllll... have you been watching the Sabres since 2013? And Vegas and Seattle had pretty darn sweet expansion rules (though the GMs smartened up for Seattle's draft).

Well, apparently the Sabres look like the Isles looked when they were missing 1/3 of their lineup to injuries and COVID.

Ellis is crafty. Also, with the current lineup I wouldn't think much on it.

Subban, Subban, Subban...

Good save on Tuch there.

Thompson sliding in at the end... but he's trying to pull up and gets knocked over. You're 6'7" 220#. Go clear the front of the net. Take out the Isle and Butcher if you need to.

Dahlin-Joker always seem to play well as a tandem for a few games and then fade for more than a few games. We look like we're into the fade.

And the answer is no.

Do we have a fight off the face off?

Krebs is going to be good when he gets his NHL-level strength in place.

Joker is fighting the puck this period.

My favorite RJ call. Though I'm not sure RJ would have even gotten the chance to say it -- it never even got near the line.

Joker weakly cleared it... right into Okposo's stick 3 feet away. And deflected right to the Isles for the shot and goal. Yuck. Now for a response. Need to see something.

Nope. That was all Bjork. Terrible penalty to take.

Yup -- gotta see a replay. It certainly looked like he got clipped and taken down. Rather than losing an edge or just running the goalie on his own.

Yup. On the one hand, very pretty. On the other, oof, ugly.

Prow with an AHL-level shift there. But Pysyk calms, clears, and then Tuch/Thompson reestablish.

I'm guessing he gets bought out in the summer of 2023. Then, there's only one gnarly cap hit ($6M) in the final year of the deal 2026-27. But otherwise it's entirely manageable.

Dahlin's got to not give that puck away so easily. Still 11 seconds in the period, that's plenty of time for a counter and Barzal on the ice. Hold it, force it to center ice and then dump it, if you're just going to kill the clock.