Thorny

Nhl games are so quickly paced nowadays. A crisp 2 and a half hours. reminds me of Major League Baseball

Let’s just say they’ve had..not a bad period on the mic

It’s actually insane how much of a dead ringer Levi is for Carey Price

Ping Levi our best penalty killer here

Actually, we should commit infractions against Max Domi

Top line looks a handful as expected Levi nice save

This team has Max Domi. No way we won’t win

Rogers Night in Canada We don’t know it any better than you guys. Just per capita.

No it’s: 7D, so Rousek is out hang in there though I honestly think we win this. They are a decent matchup for us

So they trust the guy they wouldn’t give more than 8 minutes, (and rather have that guy in as D-7), more than their options for a 12th forward? I’m so lost haha

Need a big game from Dahlin, and from Thompson, and Levi, of course. Then we should be ok. I feel like they’ve just been itching for a reason to do this lol - - - Also, they just don’t seem to have confidence in some of their fringe guys coming in, the Brysons and Biros and Rouseks. Why go 11-7

The last time the Buffalo Sabres had a back to back, they lost the first game before jumping out to a quick 3-0 lead over the Sens the next night. I expect it again I’m glad the top line looks swell because the bottom 2, and 1/3 of the other line don’t - should help Tage, who had a multipoint effort in the second of that mentioned back to back

Hurt his team putting on a show Hope for him it’s not serious

Sabres go as Dahlin goes. Big game from Dahlin and they’ll win. He owes one, after yesterday hopefully he doesn’t even need to play 26 mins to do it

Have we learned nothing? The implication, if you removed him, the team would be good? Symptom, not cause

Lost that series tho

Samuelsson will be worth exactly what we paid him, for every year of his contract. And he could have been signed for that amount during any given year. You know exactly what you are going to get from him, he just is. Which is exactly what I said when we signed him His contract was never like the others

That’s awesome. That’s me during the ‘06 run. Which for you would be like olden days! Hey now, imagine more less doubling your age and not seeing a single playoff series win between now and then. that’s me!

I am 2.06 x Benson’s age thanks appreciate it

In the sense there’s no adequate answer To the detriment of the team when Bryson has to fill the gap until that guy gets here. Sacrifice a bit of the now for the long term development. Checks out, you are probably right

That would be an embarrassing way to do it. He won’t do that. The message there would be that he only played to get to an arbitrary number of games played, at the expense of his team. For which he is presumably captaining lmao (that’s not @ you chewie just the optics) (ok, I hope that’s what happens now)

At least we are going to defeat the Leafs this evening

Why is their 7th D to start the season someone they are afraid of playing

If they miss this year? Ya maybe a coaching change on the docket I was older than every member of the Blue Jays this year, too. Even Brandon Belt. I had a look at John Schneider’s age and even there I was like…tick tock haha

Pretty big tangent here, but a massive (and unexpected, because you don’t really think about stuff like this in advance) part of being a sports fan as you get older, that I am honestly just starting to truly reckon with over the last few years, is transitioning, as a fan, from looking up to the players as adults, then peers in an age sense, until finally..starting to see them as kids. It’s wild. I can only imagine it’s enhanced by following such a particularly young team. Candidly, I’d even say it’s something I struggle with. Sometimes to me, and it makes me feel so old, they just come across as children to me. The crafted social media skits and videos enhance this. The dominant voices of twitter (found on this content) enhance this to me (meme twitter? “Stan” twitter?. I don’t know). Not saying that stuff bothers me at all, it just highlights my perception of an age difference not just with the team, but the online fanbase. Thankfully this place is bursting at the seams with old farts. I can be Gandalf to the Treebeards. But rounding this post back on track (sorry I’m just spitballing randomly as I go along here I didn’t plan this out), I think my disconnect with the players themselves might be something that feeds into your point: they *do* seem like a team of kids sometimes, in instances such as the one you highlight, the guys being seemingly playing worried and scared at home. With such inexperience, it’s not hard to understand why. Of course, it’s a young league for everyone, but is it wild to suggest we are just..particularly young? The numbers back it up. I’m not a fan of being too much of an outlier, like on any end. we talk a lot about how good of a coach Granato is for young players, the other side of the coin is that slightly older players are often good for a coach