DarthEbriate

Kozak got double-shifted at the end. Should've started sooner. Benson didn't stop skating until 00:02 left on the clock.

This season he definitely has had a bunch of multiple goals-within-two-minute spots. When they need him to staunch the bleeding, he's gone and slashed the artery.

Zucker out of lucker on that.

Zucker, Cozens, Thompson, Byram, and Dahlin a combined -12 (Dahlin only -1)

The Sabres have blown 14 leads this season, and are going for 15 today. That's bizarre.

Check that. It'll be 6-2 by midway through the 3rd period.

Nah. It's hard to make a trade on a weekend, especially during a game, especially against a team without income taxes and with palm trees. And yes, here in Seattle we can grow palm trees.

For as solid as they played the first, they've unraveled twice as much. At this rate it'll be 6-2 after three.

Bryson with the goal. Hmmmm.

Buffalo is credited with 0 blocked shots through two periods, per NHL.com. Is that... accurate?

^ This. Ratzlaff and Milic were both fantastic in 22-23 when the T-Birds went to the Memorial Cup (winning the WHL championship over an outmatched Benson/Savoie) with a team of over-18ers and stockpiled talent. Last year and this year, the T-Birds have been a bunch of messy kids and he's been hung out to dry.

He lost his stick on back-to-back shifts or 2 out of 3.

Burakovksy is lucky he plays in the 2020s and not the 1990s. He loves just dawdling across the center of the ice inside the blue line. There's no Scott Stevens type lining him up.

Quinn had a bunch more time to make a better shot, puck goes down the ice and the Kraken score. Dang. After being up at least 10 shots on goal, it's now 20-17 Sabres. Once more taking it easy after taking a good lead.

Get the puck down low, TNT. There was contact with his Tanev's head, so I can see why there was some truculence from the Kraken.

Tanev spun himself and Dahlin had committed to the check. I don't think there was an elbow though. Nope, no elbow.

He's good with color commentary and banter. But that really requires a three-announcer team where the 2nd person is your analyst.

Hey! Good period.

VO would've buried that. 😇

Wooooooo!

JJP... when did you become an Imperial Stormtrooper?

Are Kozak/Benson PK3? I saw Lafferty on the kill earlier, but didn't see who he was skating with. Tuch/McLeod are PK1 with Greenway out. ---- Dang, the Kraken clear the puck about as forcefully as the Sabres normally do.

Kozak moving quickly, but doesn't look to be running around at all on the PK with Benson. They made it look clean. Good kill.

Thanks, Luukk. I owe you one.

I don't know that Wahlberg is playing center yet, either. At least, not before the WJC. But they have some veteran centers in Jobst and Dunne (and Kulich/Kozak when they're there).