DarthEbriate

If it's a fast line... Fast line? You've never heard of the Baptbailyium ERod?

Nashville hasn't lost in regulation in over a month... their overconfidence is their weakness.

Gah! WGN is national broadcast... so there's no live NHL.tv service. Looks like I'll be doing chores around the house instead. Go Sabres!

Is it the green beer? Or the actual celebration of... an Irish version of Whacking Day?

I'm reading this with the musical stylings of the Max Rebo Band. It's quite jaunty. Daddy issues, selective memory loss, one apparently omni-prescient baddy, and a recurring cast of characters. It's all there! In fact, it's very much like the NHL and other sports.

Jack's got a new hand and he's ready to get back in the fight.

It doesn't have to be a line of thumpers, but making disruptive contact is still important. Martin (an actual checker) just hit Risto along the boards. Almost became a full Leafs possession, but Sabres were able to clear the zone. Next shift, Nylander didn't just poke-check, he got his body on... (Nelson? Scandella?) and it became a Leafs possession and shot. Was busy typing so didn't see if this goal was caused by anything. But checking lines and all players can still make contact. Even Larsson isn't doing that this year.

I'm a little irked that after we score a goal, we ice the least energetic of our lines (Pouliot-Larsson-Pommers), a checking line that won't throw a check, and two AHL-level (but with a future) defensemen. That said, everyone else was on the PP.

Woooooooo! Now witness the power of this fully armed and operational battle-Reinhart!

Hey Beaulieu... nice. Wake up, everybody.

The O'Reilly toss and bounce is our best scoring opportunity.... unimpressive!

We're scrambling in the defensive zone and it'd be nice to finish a check or two in the offensive zone (just to let them know there will be sacrifice to make those tidy little passes).

Hmm... Inauspicious start. Liven up, Sabres!

We've found a Leaf, may we burn it? (Wrong idiom movie, Sir!)

You're also a spacecat astronaut. So... that's pretty sweet. Precisely. It's just a game played for fun. If one doesn't invest cash heavily (attendance, PSLs, gambling, merchandise, and the like) it's easier to enjoy it for what it is. Like the occasional trip to the museum. Or following a certain movie franchise. Whatever our inclination. But this Space is fun and interesting and a good source of information, regardless.

What do you mean 'zero' (edit: primary) assists? Deck Officer? Deck Officer!

Hmmm. I'm not saying we should've won or wouldn't have given up a goal in the final couple minutes anyway after they pulled their goalie. But... Yes, of course there's a but. But, Robin did a mini goalie-pull of his own that led to an easy goal that shouldn't have happened. Our top line and D-pairing got a -1 today, and I don't blame them one bit for that goal against.

Approximately 3720 to 1? But I like 3 to 1.

Always two there are. But every professional sports team always has a whipping boy. Heck, even my Little League team had a whipping boy. Even that kids' book The Whipping Boy had a whipping boy. :angel:

I like it. Next season he unloads on some poor unsuspecting, suicide-pass receiving soul in the first round of the playoffs?

Seriously, Lehner was in danger of taking a penalty for playing the puck outside the trapezoid if the poke check had worked. Why, Robin?

Lehner came out of hyperspace too close to the system.

Nien Nunb agrees.

Wooooooo!

Matt Ellis, Nick Tuzzolino, John Daigneau... we're just rolling for future analysis folks? Oh! They're all in the dev academy. Got it. I should listen more instead of wander in and out of the room.