Thorny

Marek today saying the Caps are cashing out on this season. Another one bites the dust.

Anderson has by *far* our best numbers. I’d play him as much as possible, the other two you are picking between sub 900 sv%s and Comrie in particular is below .890. It’s a pickle. I think you just play Craig as much a possible and revamp the position in the offseason. Maybe Levi and one steady vet above him

Hopefully after today the “schedule is too hard” stuff gets put to bed

McDavid has *35%* more points than the next closest non-Oiler player Gretzky-like The only thing stopping him from 7 straight 100 point seasons after his injury-shortened rookie year is the Covid shutdown

“The two vets”. I wonder if that means they’ve decided what they have in Comrie and it’s more along the lines of back up whereas UPL the guy where they were actively measuring progress

I’m beginning to think our health has been so good this year we outa swing a depth D move and take our shot at the playoffs

Was the type of game the eBug could have been in and we’d have won anyways

These stories sportsnet does are a real easy way to watch highlights https://stories.sportsnet.ca/games/63857-20230224-Buffalo-Sabres-at-Tampa-Bay-Lightning.html

Seems about right. except for cake job draisaitl. Way too high.

Sabres back in 8th by points %

Jets game in Winnipeg and specifically the dominant second period.

Lyubushkin. Just for one day (we can be heroes)

Oh he can’t win it it’s McDavid’s. But I could see a nomination given the circumstances outlined

Not even that, no lol Hart

Nope. We’ve found our starter.

With that assist, Mittelstadt eclipses his assist total from the previous 2 seasons combined

Surprised this wasn’t mentioned really in thread. The hit he made to make that play

No

I’ve been reading the thread the last 2 minutes randomly and the goal updates upon every refresh have been fantastic (Can’t watch)

It’s interesting to note that today on Marek, Elliot indicated Ottawa is hard in the market for a d-man. They want to try for the playoffs, is what Friedman said

No game on tv means I’ll be tuning into thread for unbiased coverage yada yada

I’d prefer the goal to be perennial playoff team, personally, but what do I know I also think they’ve identified their core and that’s why the focus is changing into next season. part of the reason I’m so fully on board is I’m convinced we won’t see the intimation of “development year” next season. My stance will change if that’s the case, I just don’t expect to hear anything like what we heard coming into this season

I should have gone to school to become a Hockey Guy if that sort of crack logic is all that’s needed to assume the position haha. Considering we have a 109 point pace on the road, I’m thinking THE hockey guy is right

I ran the numbers on this a week or so ago and the records were almost identical. but it’s more so WHEN you play a team - the differential in home / away isn’t large enough over a large enough amount of games yet for me to rule out it simply being a product of randomness - happened to play wrong teams wrong time at home a bit more, to your point looks like GT also a notable difference as mentioned above. I don’t know if that means the goalies are putting up inferior numbers at home in combination with us playing worse defensively as a team ie more high danger chances but goalies certainly bare their share goalies / team D relatively lacking at home still doesn’t answer the question of why, though. That’s just the what. Why are aspects of our team worse at Home, specifically? Again, could be randomness/happen to be the games we are catching guys sniping