DarthEbriate

This Lyon goalie isn't as good as Levi.

That should've been caught. No goal

Tuch, The Concept Of will be with you, always.

Oky-Lan Kposobi: Reino, do you want to say hello to your trade-children? Reino Samidala: Sure. Kposobi: It's a goalie. Reino: Levi! Croon-Tan B: Ee-see-tay oy-dah! (Translation: Oh! And a first rounder!) Reino: Jiri! Croon-Tan: For reasons we can't explain, Reino's lost the will to make the playoffs. Reino: (frustrated at not scoring, somewhat delirious) Levi!

You must Levi reflexes if you race pods make those saves. You must unlearn what you have learned.

A lot can happen in 60 years. 40 years ago (but not to the day)... Krebs read out the starting line up and then said, "Lock S-foils in attack position."

To the first part, emphatic yes. They should have traded him as a rental (and then offered him a fair market deal when he hit UFA anyway). You don't let your only good goalie/center/#1D, etc. reach UFA when your organization has been garbage for 10 years. As to the concluding bolded sentence... once the foundation is built, there is no bust. Tampa went to the 2016 ECF, the next season they missed the playoffs. They didn't blow anything up. Cooper was still coach, Yzerman was still GM. They went right back to the ECF the next season. Then, Yzerman left and his longtime AGM took over. They got swept in the first round. No major shakeup. And then they went on their current run. Build the player foundation (Dahlin, Power) and some changes will take place and some aberrations will happen, but you open the door and it will stay open as long as the core is there and the ancillary pieces are renewed. For Tampa, it started with tanking with Torts all the way back in 2007. Hedman joined the team in 2009-10 and it's been a basic upward trajectory since then.

He got the #6 spot over Bryson against Philly now that Samuelsson is back. That's a kind of impact.

But spelchequers aren't going to catch mediating.

Yes. Day-to-day with an undisclosed something and hasn't been practicing since his shellacking by Nashville.

The Sabres are in a win-or-go-home tournament the rest of the season (maybe 1 loss allowed... so call it a double-elimination tournament, but a loss to Florida counts as both losses). What experience exactly do the Sabres goalies (excluding Anderson who is injured and hasn't practiced) have that Levi doesn't? Levi has played more pressure-packed games, tournament games, and almost more total games in the last 2 seasons than any of the Sabres other older goalies. Levi was the 2020 WJC Best Goaltender, the 2022 Richter winner, 2023 Richter finalist (not yet awarded), and even won the Beanpot MVP this season. (And he would've crushed it in the 2022 Olympics had he been allowed to play.... where Canada finished 6th. 6th! By playing Eddie Pasquale and Matt Tomkins. I'll bet Owen Power wishes that Levi had been his team's goalie in Beijing). In the last 2 seasons (since COVID shortened seasons), the Sabres goalies have played the following # of games: 2021-22 Comrie: NHL 19 UPL: NHL 35, AHL 9 Levi: NCAA 32 Anderson: 31 NHL 2022-23 Comrie: NHL 19, AHL 3 UPL: NHL 33, AHL 9 Levi: NHL 1, NCAA 34 Anderson: 25 NHL

April and not just mathematically still alive, but with a win on Tuesday they could be breathing down teams' necks with a 1-2 games in hand on each of the direct competitors (FLA, PIT). If only PIT would lose a few more and make it interesting. Baby steps. You've got to learn to walk before you can make the precise calculations needed to make the jump to hyperspace.

I'd also like to add seeing him fully healthy. He had shoulder surgery last summer, then in his first game back with the Wild he either re-injured it or injured his other shoulder and missed an additional 2 weeks. If he needs another cleanup surgery and get back to his 2022 self (or just feel confident taking/making checks again) that'd go a long way.

If KO retires and VO doesn't get moved preseason, then they're both on the 4th line next season. Savoie gets to learn like Krebs did this year. Girgensons-Savoie-Greenway. Savoie would get moved around to a few different lines as part of early season experimentation to see if he should hang around or get routed back to the WHL or loaned to Europe somehow.

Comrie took the 4-3 loss in gm 2 of the season. Luukkonen took the 4-1 loss during a mid-January funk. Anderson got the win --- with 53 saves --- in the late February push to save the season (before the wheels fell off in the first 3 weeks of March) Everybody gets one. Levi is up.

When we claimed Jost off waivers he quite pleasantly surprised me based on his fallout in Minnesota. I've liked Mitts overall but wanted to see more engagement and tenacity away from the puck (or to retrieve it) and really embrace being a bottom-6 guy -- maybe like Angry Larry. I was thinking he might need a change of scenery to get him to that point, but I believe (and hope it increases further) we're seeing that without the change in scenery. A bottom-6 winger who can temporarily fill in at center in the top-6 is a pretty useful handyperson to have. Put some mitts on that handyman and you have a Mittsyman. And he should grow a beard.

Yes. If he's cleared medically then I at the very least have him dress as the backup against Ottawa in the final home game so he can get recognized by the home fans and by the Sens.

Yikes. Get in front of the man, please. Joker inexplicably jumped outside --- maybe thought Quinn would be closer to support inside, but you can't give up the center ice lane, even with a good head fake or shoulder shimmy.

Tuch, the Concept Of will be with you. Always.

Nice stop, UPL.

It's fine when Thompson is unmarked. But no one has let that happen since the beginning of March. But it needs to have a second wrinkle -- someone to stand in front of the net. Run it from behind the net. Activate the D down to the far side of the net. Something.

Holy moly! That's how well a goalie can read the play? And how fast a glove can be? Is that... legal?

Dang it, kids. If you're going to do it, get out of the zone first... then dipsy doodle and make weak passes.