DarthEbriate

All those passes the Sabres don't normally make... tonight, flawless. Sabres with 7 or 8 beautiful tic-tac-toe setups and... who's the goalie? Vejmelka? Sabres 3, Outlawed Mammoths HC of Utah 5.

Several thoughts on this one: 1. He's Chad Ruhwedel. Ruhwedel eventually won a Cup, which is cool. But the Penguins also sent him down at the start of almost every season and no one claimed him because no one needed a tweener because they all have their own. Aha, but!... 2. He's a Sabre, so he's never sent down. Bryson has already skated 248 career NHL games. At this rate, he'll have 500 career NHL GP. That seems... high... for an 8D-9D guy. 3. Yup. But then I got thinking how Adams would think... 4. No blockers. GM Sheevyn says: "They can't say we gifted Johnson a roster spot, because we had Bryson blocking him." Then, he smiles smugly. 5. But is it really a blocker if it's Bryson and he's waived, unclaimed, and plays in Rochester? 6. Or, if Bryson remains in the top 7 (meaning he'll play 40 games again next year)... does that allow them to re-sign Byram to a nice 7x$7M contract? 7. He'll be one year older next season. And at age 28, that'll be dragging the mean age up into "2nd youngest team in the league" territory.

With this team, vary, your... mileage... will.

He's had at least 6 tripping penalties where he's reaching instead of skating that will get called every time. Probably 10 minutes worth so far this season. And definitely one where it should have been offsetting but Benson was the only one in the box. For the fun extracurriculars he just needs to keep doing it. Eventually he won't be looked at as a rookie and it'll just be part of his game and they'll let it go.

Keep Benson with Norris (when healthy) and Thompson. The points will follow. Or Benson with McLeod/Tuch if JJP needs to be on the TNT line. Just don't play him with Krebs/Quinn.

Shiny Meat. Shiny Meat. Iridescent from being shaved thin. Is it bad? Bad for you? No, it's just Shiny Meat.

Arby's is a high-risk high-reward draft pick. You're living in the moment and you're happy. You rationalize that it is the BPA, but you know it's not the safe choice. But you're bold! 90% of the time the pick is a bust. Yum, horsey!

Neverr forgett McNabb! I love these kinds of thought experiments. It'd be a good long-form exploration. But if it's the case, I'm guessing we don't get Dahlin, and I'm not sure McNabb survives two separate expansion drafts. But it'd be fun to explore in a thread.... hmmmm. Maybe I'll take a weekend and think about this.

Thus my parenthetical statement. But I need to hear them say it and abide by it. Pegula needs to re-state the goal: the Sabres' purpose is to win the Stanley Cup. Because since the COVID outbreak began, it clearly has not been the goal.

I think folks often forget how compressed the Beatles timeline was. In April 1966 they started recording Revolver. In September 1969 they released Abbey Road. Let It Be got the Spector production and some pickup recordings in early 1970 and was released in May, but its tracks were all recorded in January 1969. You're really looking at 3 3/4 years to record: Revolver - Sgt.Pepper's - Magical Mystery Tour - The White Album - Yellow Submarine - Let It Be - Abbey Road. And that was their "slow-paced" half.

Korpisalo got all the bounces in the 3rd and OT but thankfully Sabres get one through. Tuch from Power and Joker.

Tuch! The goal will be with you… always.

Power tackled. But they finally call the tripping in the slot.

Tuch posts the empty net.

This OT, no Lafferty-Quinn-Power, please.

Is Byram drinking? Or betting against the Sabres? He’s had 3-4 mishandles and turnovers on his last 3 shifts.

Benson’s stick slashed and broken in the crease. Dahlin holds a Bruin. Nether called. Refs have a plane to catch.

One level up. Pegula is Plagueis, GMKA the Emperor, and Eichel went from chosen one to Vader.

He’s still the unsung hero of the rebellion (Wedge) until proven otherwise. Power! Gain the line!

Boston still has a higher gear that the Sabres don’t possess.

Oh Muel… the play doesn’t end just because you made one good stick check.

Byram broken stick. Pastrnak wins a puck battle and the Sabres just fall apart across the line.

Hope TNT is alright.

Whooo! You can’t leave Krebs that open

The grade should not be F, but rather EEE. Until the owner publicly states the purpose of the team is to win the Stanley Cup again (and puts money/resources/coaching into it), this team is on efficient, economic, and Empty.