DarthEbriate

Byram draws the hook --- go get the goal, gents!

He's always been Scottish. His voiceover though... was American. Fun fact: David Ankrum reprised his role as the voiceover of Wedge for Rogue One.

And they raced to the playoffs... But then they hired Adams as an assistant coach that summer. And have sucked since. Remove the poison! Sorry! Waved it off right away. But now the discussion. Do you challenge if you're the Avs? Landeskog currently has 3 disallowed goals this season (only 1 scored) --- so far.

A bit. They are realizing they don't have a goalie of their own tonight, though.

Lyon sv% .333 UPL sv% .500 Black sv% .667 Get Wedge in the game.

Grain-friendly beef kibble! And a spaghetti squash + spaghetti with a tomato sauce of ground turkey and chicken sausage. Making up for some less-healthy choices earlier in the week and upcoming on Saturday. The Way of the Green! Nice feed by Power, and... Blackwood a bit of a sieve here tonight.

Yes. They know him from the USNTDP. I'll credit Karmanos for managing and making final decisions on the Amerks, though.

Now that... is a bad rebound. BB-4 with the tap-in. Woohoo!

Had to run to the pet store, then eat dinner... launched the game and it was 1 goal on 1 shot. Finished loading the dishwasher and... heard a goal horn. How we doing? Same as always. That bad, huh.

Auston Matthews out, some guy named Dennis Hildeby in goal. Leafs up 2-0 after the first. Adams is watching another Atlantic team pull further ahead. (subject to change.)

I love it. Be a heel. It's good. The league needs more of them and more personality in general. But of course, he's not done jack in Utah yet, either. They're currently 4th in their division and tied with the Blackhawks. (Though I do love how their team plays.)

I can see him being a little too abrupt for the likes of Pegulas the Wise and Sheevyn to have a future here. Whether he is a good coach, becomes a great coach, or not.

This is why every player interview is, "gotta get pucks in deep, go to work." I'm fine with players talking about fans, wildly inaccurate expectations, and whatever else. Be a human when you're in an interview. It'll be fine. Fans are idiots, just like 24-hour sports cycle hot takers. The only problem right now is Kesselring hasn't gelled with his partner (I don't know who it will be from game-to-game yet), or his new team and structure, and as much as we all want him to be a top-4 and his Utah metrics say he could be top-4 --- he's only been that player for one season. He'll have that shield down, we gotta give him more time.

He's having a rough start to the season and now at age 32 he's probably lost a step in addition to any lost from his reconstructed knee. He has only 1 goal on the season, though he had another wiped out by an offside challenge. But you know come playoff time if he's healthy he'll be a contributor along the wall and in front of the net.

Until Benson returns and a "first" scoring line can be cobbled together (Benson-Östlund-TNT, perhaps), I'd be tempted to try: Doan - McLeod - Tuch Rosen - Östlund - Quinn Greenway - Kozak - Thompson Malenstyn - Krebs - Dunne

Given (injured when they acquired him) Norris was 1C and 21 year-old Kulich was 2C with 63 career games played... and the other options going into the season were Krebs and Danforth (with Kozak as 13F because Geertsen had to play).... Yeah, it was actually pretty likely in the event Kulich hit any sort of sophomore slump.

He keeps losing his first faceoff taken of the third period... like, one time, his stick was outside his skates... something's fishy.

I got it. I got it! <wires cross; additional blast door closes> Kessel Run.

We've also seen the way Utah plays. Their forwards are everywhere and with pace (and did the same last year). They make things a lot easier on their defensemen than the Sabres forward do. Kesselring looked good jumping up the lineup all last season in part because he was on a solid team and played a bunch with veterans like Cole, Maata, and Sergachev. Most nights (and especially when Benson/Dahlin/Zucker are out, and TNT isn't feeling it) the Sabres don't make anything easy for their teammates. Kesselring looked top-4 capable with Utah and if you put him with a fully operational Dahlin he probably looks great. But with Power, or Byram, or Bryson --- he's going to be exposed at times.

I don't think Matthew Barnaby is qualified to be the Sabres GM, either.

Ottawa cleared the Norris cap hit for a newer, younger, healthy 2C. (Cozens' and Pinto's lines have alternated as 2nd this season, but Pinto gets 2 minutes more of ATOI per game this season, he's the 2C.)

But I have watched the Sabres when both Dahlin and Benson are out of the lineup.

What's the most likely outcome tonight? Lyon/Luukkonen goes full supernova and make 40+ saves. Final: 2-1 (OT) Avalanche The Avalanche coast and let the Sabres stay in it with a couple 3rd period goals, before shutting the door with a ENG. Final: 6-4 Avalanche The Avalanche come out guns a'blazing and do not stop until Ruff asks for mercy. Final: Avalanche victory by 6+ goals

Just for giggles... of pain. Let's play Sabre's mirror injuries on the Avalanche from opening night. LW1 (Benson), C1 (Norris), LW2 (Zucker), C3 (Kulich), C4 (Danforth), D1 (Dahlin) Out = Lehkonen, MacKinnon, Colton, Drury, Bardakov, Cale Makar Gabe Landeskog — Brock Nelson — Martin Necas Victor Olofsson — Gavin Brindley — Valeri Nichushkin Joel Kirivanta — Parker Kelly — Tristen Nielsen Taylor Makar — TJ Tynan — Daniil Gushchin Devon Toews — Brent Burns Josh Manson — Ilya Solovyov Jack Ahcan — Sam Malinski MacKenzie Blackwood Scott Wedgewood Now... That's the cup of a carpenter roster of a contender.