DarthEbriate

RFA this summer. Sheevyn Special 8-year extension incoming

He could almost buy his own ship for that.

His shoulder has been fully repaired from the surgery and he'll now become the power forward that Minnesota always wanted (albeit on the 3rd line instead of a top six). He and Zucker are going to feast. From here on out, Greenway will only miss time from a couple shot blocks. 71 GP 15-21-36 +12 And dressed for every playoff game. All eleven of them!

Lock sabre-foils in attack position.

Was he the person behind raising ticket prices after horrible seasons?

That stinks. They'll miss his versatility to play center and wing with Norris out of the lineup the entire time.

It is not selective memory. Reimer's game log last season: https://www.hockey-reference.com/players/r/reimeja01/gamelog/2025 Upon return from Anaheim, in his games he gave up 2(W), 2(L), 5(SOL) his only poor game and the Sabres could've won it even without Dahlin and were outshot 12-4 in the 3rd in full Alamo Death Star Mode, 0 (in relief of UPL, L), 0 (in relief of UPL, L), 2(L), 3(L), 3(L), 2 (in relief of UPL, L). His one bad game still got them to a shootout (and a blown lead He never got shelled or chased, which happened to a very inconsistent UPL seven times (5 or more GA) in the same timeframe. And then they hit March and he took over and the Sabres scored more goals and Reimer got the wins. But Ruff started Reimer only 7 times between 11/23/24 and 3/1/25. And Adams had waived him for October and almost the entirety of November where he would have played instead of Levi. Keep and play the veteran and quite possibly it's a different season (still a very flawed team, but with more wins).

If Samuelsson is healthy, he plays. Until he's re-injured, of course. But then why bring up Metsa? Just send down Johnson. Geertsen can play defense in practice. You're home and then at Montreal, which is nearly as quick to drive from Rochester as to fly. You can get Metsa or Novikov in a heartbeat. So instead, the logical thing is to take Metsa away from the Amerks (when they already have Dunne up) -- and the possibility that neither plays if Greenway is a go.

But there was only one backup to worry about last year. As always, it goes back to Adams and the man who hired him and continues to love and employ him despite all evidence showing he still hasn't learned enough to be effective or efficient at his job. I'm sure he's economical. They had a goalie with 500 games played experience ready to provide average backup (tandem) goaltending. And that guy whose career numbers are equal to UPL's best season in which he was excellent for half a season? They waived him immediately upon returning to the States after the Prague games. Adams had an offseason plan to pair the new starter with a veteran. And then he abandoned the plan immediately. It was shown that Luukkonen wasn't at the same level he had been the end of the previous season and Levi wasn't ready. And their defense still included Cozens, Quinn, Power, Muel... etc. and a new system under Ruff. And they went with two inexperienced goalies instead of Reimer. It was the people in charge of personnel who don't understand teambuilding and roster construction... again. If Reimer had been retained and provided his usual .900 goaltending, instead of Levi's numbers in Oct/Nov, and if Ruff had allowed Reimer to split the games instead of just riding UPL forever once Reimer had been re-claimed off of waivers... they probably are 4-5 wins better. And if one of those wins is against Montreal (0-3-1), maybe it's the Sabres sneaking into the playoffs. ----- Fast forward. This season, they might finally get it. Once again, it's a veteran goalie with career numbers better than UPL's career (though not as good as Reimer's). But there's no reason for Lyon not to be a tandem goalie with UPL. Let Lyon play. Send UPL to Rochester for a conditioning assignment. Play Ellis once every 4 games so you see what he can do and you don't burn out Lyon. Get the goaltending right. For once. (then fire Sheevyn anyway.) Ellis should play Monday in MTL and at TOR next weekend, and he should already know when he's going to be in net.

Wow. Ruff really didn't like that interference call. Whatever. The kid played the body. Why is this Metsa -- the captain of the Amerks -- instead of Novikov? If you just need a body to sit in the press box, let Geertsen practice as a defenseman (like he did in NJ).

Go to the front of the net. No matter what happens... no matter what occurs... Benson will find you!

Unless he was injured... Johnson essentially benched for his first-period interference penalty. 5:12 total TOI

Spence was a +3 for the Sens. RHD. 3rd and a 6th over the summer. Sized like JBD or Bryson....

Oh come on, ***** can't be blocked. It's such a versatile word.

....Docs will say that's how you get hemorrhoids.

Tagebacca is over 200 years old and has infinite patience. Kulich!

Conflict of interest Wait... the KBC has a beer sabre and a 2-foot chicken parm now? Why isn't the barn full???? Fan experience!

Eeep. Fortunately, Stutzle didn't bury that.

Errrrrm... Or 5-2 for that matter. As I posted earlier today in another thread...

Good burst to feed Quinn. But yes, he can make nice passes, but he doesn't have the vision to get to them. Benson does. Which... I guess is why Krebs has had to reinvent himself as a Lazar-like 4th liner type. Who can still make a nice pass.

Two goal lead re-established. They were just teasing the Sens with hope.

Great kid, don't get cocky!

Dahlin and Byram were split up to start the period. Dahlin/Timmins couldn't figure out the coverage. Byram/Bryson almost gave up a goal as well. They stopped skating. A city in McLeods! Part 2. McLeod and Tuch woke up.

I'm still not sure how Ottawa hasn't moved him to wing yet. Remember last season, when Ruff got upset by TNT and Cozens not playing responsibly as centers and he made the comments about how he'd move them to wing if they weren't willing to play the position? On 11/1, Cozens played on the wing vs. NYI. Cozens scored his first goal of the season on the PP. And immediately thereafter, he was back at center next game. He never started on the wing again the rest of the season. Meanwhile, Thompson eventually went to the wing and never went back to center until this season.

Zucker! Just impacted on the surface.... of the net.