DarthEbriate

Always curious on this phrase. If you hit the post and out, did you ever really have him beat? It's the same as missing the net entirely.

Hall draws another

It's not impossible. Backstrom used to bulls-eye womp rats in his.... yeah. My heart's not in it.

Ullie just a bit too overzealous there. Backstrom with the savvy off-the-backboard goal. Well. Onward! Go get the next one.

Staal!

All those new muscles on Dahlin... and now he's pulling a circa 2019 Risto.

Why not both? (Other hologram aside: Amos might have saved the season)

When Hall first signed, I figured the logical move was Skinner-Eichel-Reinhart; Hall-Staal-Olofsson. 1 main zone-entering puck-handler/playmaker on each line. But Okposo with Hall intrigues me.

Assistofsson! Wait, check that.... Goooooalofsson!

King is a UFA after this season. Any takers? Any?

So Eichel gets put in a headlock behind the net after a whistle and the only guy that comes over in white is Reinhart, and the entire Caps squad. Huh.

I've got a bad feeling about this.

That's Miller's operational!

Nice.

Gotta score --- then double these punks up on the other side of halftime. Also, kinda wished Hall had just scored on the partial breakaway, rather than seeing another power play.

Montour --- you've got to get that puck out. Thankfully, the end result is a shot directly into Ullmark's Buffalo crest.

I didn't realize the Capitals had such a fast roster... oh, they're just beating us to the puck is all. Very well, carry on then.

^ This many times over. WSH has wanted it every game. Today, it looks like they've been skating 6-on-5 all game thus far.

That's the real trick, isn't it? And it's going to cost us something extra. There are two more seasons (at least) of flat- or further-diminished cap, let alone self-imposed internal caps. While this helps us in re-signing Dahlin and Jokiharju on bridge deals, the Skinner deal keeps getting worse all the time (with every goalless game). No team can afford to take on $9M at this time. I know folks want Seattle to take Skinner, but that requires Skinner to waive his NMC and Seattle to be foolish enough to take him. How many first round pick(s) are folks willing to give to Seattle to take a $9M 3rd line winger (Carolina and now again here). Completely aside: I do suspect (again, complete speculation, but I can easily see it happening if attendance remains limited through the end of 2021 and into 2022 --- which makes sense to me, vaccinations or not) that the season after the expansion draft we'll probably see a push for a compliance buyout option from the owners if there's another cap dip. One per team. It cannot be done before the expansion because Seattle paid $650M to get good players, so the league can't allow the buyout until afterward. Maybe in the summer of 2022 we can buy him out.

Well, baby face sure. But he's 6'3" 183#. That's not so junior high.

It's a long short season. There's plenty of time for things to turnaround. Just look at our October/November last year vs. the rest of the season. If the team takes off in two weeks they'll be fine. But yeah, right now, there's no indication that'll happen.

That's really a poor effort. Vanecek owns us thus far. But we got a point. Win tomorrow and it's [edit: this series] all good. The Sabres aren't competing with the Capitals for a playoff spot, they're going to be in it. The Sabres need to keep pace with the 3rd-4th-place level teams

Oops. Sorry, jinxed him on the shot.

Ullmark is so patient in the shootouts. He's the anti-Lehner in that regard.

Risto and Sheahen on the break! Annnnnd... yeah.