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Like last years version. 🤮 He's gotten back close to on pace to be a -30 in +/- for the year if he plays a full season.

Greenway-Quinn-Kozak....do they even have a shot on net? Its not a 4th line, so they need to have SOME presense in the offensive zone, they have had zero. $7.5m dollars for those 2 wingers and they are pretty awful most nights. Krebs-Malenstyne-Dunn might be the best line of the night, even in the offensive zone. They just have no finish. As mentioned above, Tage looks lost with those 2 young guys.

Tage-Östlund-Rosen was a mistake. I'm not saying those young guys might not deserve ice time or eventually will be good, but you need goals. Don't mess around with Tage, play him with guys he has played with before.

Anything up with Tuch tonight that I missed? He's normally at the top of the list in ice time for forwards, right now 8 other forwards have more. Not to mention I haven't really noticed him do anything of note since the beginning of the game.

Or, you could say when you hit a post, its almost 'perfect' goaltending as the goalie took just the exact right amount of 'net' away from the shooter, and only left the post.

Give me UPL and Quinn to anyone for 3rd round pick and a decent minor league forward. I'll plug that minor league guy into Roch and bring up one of the Roch guys on a permanent basis to replace Quinn. It would make the team better not playing UPL anymore and replacing Quinn from the lineup.

Between this year and last year, this will likely be the 28th game where he had a save% under .900. Almost half of his games. And some of those games are in the low .800s and .700s. You can't win with a goalie that half of his starts (or more) he allows more than 10% of the shots to be goals. (and lets i a LOT of easy goals where sees the shot, is set, facing the shooter and still gets beat alot)

I'm 2/3 of the way there with you. Power has had some good moments to me. The other 2? Yes, the team would be BETTER with the replacements that would likely take their minutes.

Its only been 2 games before tonight, but UPL had a .877 save percentage coming in. Playing the worst team in the league...and not even half way through the game, he has managed to drop his save percentage to .859%. And they weren't lucky goals or anything. The first goal he was too slow to get over, that last goal was one of the worst an NHL goalie can/should ever allow.

St lous has allowed the most goals in the league. Their goalies have the worst Save % in the league. Can we please get a goal?

Its clear to me they were the 2 worst players that caused the most harm to this team last year (even more than Cozens). Not a good sign if you are giving them both "another chance" and they end up costing you points/games you might need at the end of the season.

Ok, I'm really close to being done with the UPL experiment. That wasn't screened, he was set, he was facing the shooter. It wasn't a blast. That was just a bad, bad goal by the goalie. I expect my goalie to make that save every time.

So the biggest positive to his game on that card is that he has 0 penalty minutes.

To Pile on Jack Quinn a bit more: This season of the top 10 forwards in ice time for the Sabres even strength.. Jack Quinn: -2nd last in Fenwick % -last in Corsi % -3rd last in shots for/against -He's negative in goals for/against, negative in expected goals for/goals against, negative in scoring chances for/agains, negative in high danger chances for/against.

"Scoring chances" in the first: St. Louis, 2 scoring chances 1 goal. Buffalo, 6 scoring chances, 0 goals.

In one period he's moved his SV% up about 10 points already.

Something happened to him in the 2024 calendar year. Yeah, it could be an injury but he had an injury earlier and came back and played well. -In his first full season, he was as productive as he was last year plus his +/- was a lot better. -His 3rd season he scored at nearly a 30-goal-per-82 pace -Then last year, his production dropped, and he basically became the worst 2-way forward in the league. He stopped going to the net (almost totally), started making a lot more mistakes defensively. His plus-minus got a lot worse. AND, if you look at his analytics, pretty much every teammate-linemate got worse when they played with Quinn than they did with anyone else. He even brought Cozens analytics down. He has flashed a bit of good play this year, but when you average it out, he is still costing the team more than he is contributing to it. Maybe you just keep him around to play Ottawa, sit him the rest of the year as your 13th forward. In the last 2 years... -Vs Ottawa: 5 games, 5 goals -Vs all esle: 82 games, 13 goals

I think Skinner made less mistakes. Skinner hung around the blue line, was alergic to going too deep into his own zone, but he didn't kill you with turnovers and mistakes. Quinn is actually worse that way right now. Personally I want to give Quinn half the season, but after 40 games if he has under 12 goals AND is still making mistakes, it might make the team better to bring up a young guy from Roch to take his spot (even if they give you 5-10 less goals per year, with a little common sense and hard work they may cause you to give up 5-10 less per year or more from your own net).

Quinn has played better this year than last. Thats not saying much, but he has. The issue with him is 2-fold. 1.) For where he plays and how many minutes, can you rely on him for 20+ goals? 2.) He's not a good 2-way player (neutral zone/defensive zone) but can he at least not cause you major problems with mistakes. He's on pace for about 18 goals this season. The team needs better, but he's in the ballpark. Defensively though, each of those mistakes matter. Again, he's better than last year, but still no where close to being where he needs to be.

Their goalie makes a great save, our goalie lets in a shortie because he can't get over quick enough.

In net for St. Louis, Hofer's numbers look pretty bad, but he's not a bad goalie overall. This year he had 2 awful games (actually a game 1/3) where he allowed 10 goals on 28 shots. -The rest of his games this year, he has a .887 save percentage. -Last year it was .904 in 31 games. -The previous year it was .914 in 30 games -The year before that it was .905 in 6 games. He as a better career GAA and save % than UPL. So yeah, hes not great, he had an awful stretch this year...but he is capable of having some good games too.

Last year the Sabres had only 6 teams below them in the standings, the worst of the worst. Against those 6 teams, they were 8-7. Vs the rest of the league they were 28-39. So yeah, they did lost 7 games to the bottom 6 teams in league on one hand, but they still were much better vs the bottom of the league than the teams above them.

My personal opinion is neither one is an aberration but neither one is who they are. They are a combination of both. They are a team that is just outside of the playoffs. They are a combination of three games that they were at the start of the season with the better team that they've been since. Now when they get some injured players back, let's see if they can improve on that.

I think people blame Power too much. I pointed out a few games ago.. power was on the ice and a goal was scored against the sabr.. when if you break down the replay he was the actual only player on that entire side of the ice that played it correctly. So yeah, I agree. There are people who have it out for power that will just blame him for things that aren't even his fault if he was anywhere near something bad that happens. Quinn, on the other hand, I have been very tough on and I believe he fully deserves it. He has played somewhat better this year... But still not a complete game. Last year, however, I truly think he may have been the worst forward in the NHL of guys who played a regular shift in their top 9 around the league. Tuch is good, he is solid all around, he plays a complete game. He's not perfect though, he does make mistakes And he does have bad games.

I posted that a couple of days ago so I forgot what site I went to to get the data... But the number I came up with was for all of the goaltenders combined. Obviously the majority of that being UPL but including everyone.