DarthEbriate

That was a fun, messy game. The Ravens center was about as accurate as Imperial stormtroopers all night.

🍺 The good news: with Hall we'll win the draft lottery. The bad news: we'll have traded Hall by the trade deadline and the team that gets him will barely miss the playoffs and win the lottery instead.

Way to... draw... a penalty, Skinner! Now, let's go get one.

Not as clumsy or random as a blaster... is not Dahlin's shot tonight

wRisto!

There's got to be a stat somewhere about goalies making their NHL debut vs. the Sabres....

Alright -- time to go pick up some power play converters.

Quick period thus far. Skating and passing and engaged much more than last night. We'll have their shield down in moments.

I guess Eakin-Rieder is an unbreakable tandem now, because Eakin's original linemates (Girgs and Okposo) are both out, he could do it. But everything's just a little ramshackle here at the beginning.

Huh. I.... guess Mitts and Asplund aren't better offensive-minded centers between Olofsson and Reinhart --- allowing Sheahen to continue to focus on the bottom six and getting cohesive with his own line?

It's pretty much this. The Caps were 41-20-whatever last season and won their division (the bulk of this new division). xTheir main offseason change was to ditch their Hutton equivalent (Holtby's done) and go with the up-and-coming kid. They also lost their Holtby replacement, but they'll lean on Samsonov all year or trade for someone once a team sputters. They're better than the Sabres. They're more experienced. Talent isn't going to do anything. They're cohesive with minimal turnover. We have to outwork them early in the season until our team jells. We have to be battling and be more aggressive and attacking to have a chance. The opening weekend is the preseason, but that's no excuse to not outwork them.

I hopped a transport after Hall made it 1-1 last night and only got radio messages from then on out, but it sounded like a haphazard preseason game... which is to be expected, honestly. Except for one thing that stuck out at me. Rob said on the broadcast that Coach Krueger said to paraphrase "just go out and have fun" and he wasn't going to do much "coaching", and that now during a break having just given up a goal he was doing more "coaching", I guess meaning yelling or gathering everyone together at the bench or whatnot. But that is alarming. This is a 56-game season all intra-division. Going out and just having fun can be a useful message, but you need haste. If ever there was a season of "go out and attack and start fast, be relentless on the puck, set the tone" this is the season for it.

Olofsson's sniping ability precedes him... Hall was left completely alone. Alright --- swithcing to targeting computer aka phone during transit. Have a great game, all y'all! Let's go, Buffalo!

All too easy.

That was gross. Risto had all the time in the world, then couldn't complete a pass, and we scrambled from there on out until it was in the net.

Whoa! KeyBank just had a communication disrupttion on the screen. It can mean only one thing: invasion! of the clock and score graphic.

Cozens deftly controls, gets out of the zone, and dumps it in for a change.

I like the intros. They're well-intentioned and also goofy. The Okposo-to-the-Hilt!

Risto needs to go full beard.

Finally, some enthusiasm for Reino

Raise your hand!

Point and Cirelli, eh? Meanwhile, our only hit (McNabb) we traded away for a 4th-round pick (Hudson Fasching) and a 3rd (Deslauriers, on this list). And we threw in two 2nds to go with it. None of those players were proven at the time.

Carter the Hutt Solo: I think my eyes are getting better. Instead of a big dark blur I see a small dark blur. Jack Eichwalker: The puck is important to see. You used to stop them, you know. CtH: I'm going to stop them again, you know. Convenient. Jack: Just stick close to McCabe and Risto. Halldo and I are taking care of everything.

G.D.T.? G.D.T. Now that's a term I've not seen in a long time. A long time.

The one thing we're forgetting with regard to toughness is that GM Kheevyn learned from the best GMs. All he'll need to do is sign Dalton Smith to the taxi squad for those meanie teams.