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The league had to make sure the Isles fill up that new arena.

As long as Boston and Philly don’t move up I’m ok. But those are big city teams that Bettman would like to recover, so you never know.

Damn, the Blues iced the puck too many times instead of just getting it over the blue line. They had this game.

Technically it’s Alternate Captain.

6.5% chance for 1st, 6.7 for 2nd, 0.2 for 3rd, 44.4 for 7th, 36.5 for 8th, and 5.6 for 9th. San Jose has the best chance for 1st at 25.5%. I wish the league showed it live like this when we lost McDavid. I still think it was rigged to punish the Sabres for tanking.

The next round will be best-of-five, which I think unfortunately if it’s against Laval will be a loss. They’re a tough team to beat. The first round series are best-of-three, the division semifinals and division finals are best-of-five, and the conference finals and Calder Cup Finals will be best-of-seven.

When the team moved to Syracuse from Hamilton in 1992 as the Vancouver affiliate, the Nestle plant in Fulton, north of Syracuse, was a major sponsor of the team. A fan vote picked the name Crunch. Over time its affiliation changed to Columbus, Anaheim, and currently Tampa. But the name remained even though the Nestle plant is long gone.

Defenseman Max Crozier and forward Conor Geekie were returned to Syracuse after Tampa was eliminated.

The 6'1 ", 182-pound Plymouth, Mich. native was a steady force for the Phantoms on the blue line, finishing fourth among USHL defensemen in scoring with 41 points in 55 games and finishing third on the team in assists with 31. Osburn had 19 power-play assists and 20 power-play points, tied for third among league blueliners. The Buffalo Sabres' fourth-round pick and Wisconsin commit finished the regular season with a +10 rating, helping the Phantoms to the second-lowest goals-against average in the league at 2.69. Osburn was named to the All-USHL First Team on Monday.

Minor league teams prefer to play near or on weekends to maximize attendance.

I was hoping Tampa could keep the series going to game 7 so they don’t send their best callups back to Syracuse to play against the Amerks.

Like so many other former Sabres, he underperformed until he left for another team.

ECHL Jacksonville lost their 1st round series to Florida in four straight games. All four games ended in overtime.

Nervous about the Amerks chances. Syracuse has a big physical team, and if they get by them Laval has given them trouble all season.

Cozens with the drive by let Domi cut to the middle. 😒

Wrong, Murray was willing to take big swings to try to improve the team. It’s mind boggling that a team with Eichel, Reinhart, O’Reilly, Kane, and Dahlin couldn’t make the playoffs. Unfortunately nobody knew about Lehner’s issues, and we got the worst couple of years of his career. I’d much rather have a GM like Murray than someone like Adams who clutches his draft picks like they’re his own kids.

It would be smart to give them a game to get used to their old line mates again before the playoffs.

A higher draft pick is worth more in a trade, which is what Adams should do with it this draft in a package for a veteran defenseman.

It stinks that Carolina sat a number of their best players and lost to Montreal, thus eliminating Columbus.