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People really coming down hard on Okposo. I hope everyone remembers that he is not some AHL bum. He has been a consistently good bottom 6 forward. He was off from action for 10 months, then suffered an injury that kept him out for another 3 weeks. It might take a guy a few games to get back to full speed. And I didn’t even think he looked particularly bad last night.

So, I didn’t watch this, but are we seriously heart aching that Ted Nolan can’t get an NHL job? He has gotten 3 NHL head coaching jobs and reportedly turned down a couple others. Also he has a reputation for being somewhat difficult to work with. How many NHL jobs are enough? Not everyone can get one. It’s hard to get them. I just don’t buy it.

Good post. Every team throws a clunker once in a while. What we can’t do, and what has happened in years past, is turn one bad game into a lengthy stretch of poor play. They need to come back with an answer in their next game. And yes, Eichel’s sub par (for him) play could possibly be traced back to his training camp injury. He missed a few days of practice in training camp, about 3 weeks ago, for an upper body injury. That’s all we know. Could it be something that’s bothering him still?

Hang in there. Hopefully we keep taking small steps back towards “normal” in the next few months.

The whole point of the thread was that their fancy stats were very good, better than their record, and that they have been unlucky. Its not like the game last night proved that wrong. The fancy stats were as terrible as the eye test for last nights game.

Definitely. What I saw didn’t really seem like lack of effort. More like a lack of mental focus or cohesion. Out of sync and a step behind.

I would have guessed something along those lines. I’m always about 60% sure that I understand the meaning. Lol. Don’t get me wrong, I kind of enjoy the mystery of it all. Don’t ever change @spndnchz! The vagueness doesn’t often encourage meaningful discussion though.

You are right. It was an NHL regular season game. Has anyone ever told you 82% of your posts are so cryptic that I feel like a shaman trying to divine the meaning from your words?

Ugh, now you tell us!

Finally, someone with a constructive solution instead of just complaints!

Cool. That’s fine. But you said you didn’t understand what it meant and called it analytics, so I was trying to clarify. Edit: and by the way, I agree with you. If you just finished intently watching the game, then yeah, this chart is probably not going to tell you anything you don’t already know. Especially in a game as lop sided as this one.

Lol, the colored blotches are where shots were taken from. The darker the color, the more shots from that area. Lots of dark color near the goal = good for offensive team No dark color near the goal = bad for offensive team See the big blue spot right in front of the net? Rangers took a bunch of shots from there. That’s bad. Lol, it’s not even analytics. It’s literally just a picture of where shots were taken from.

This is too much. I’m gonna need you to take it down about 25-30% there Callaway.

Linus was great. The team was not. Not enough intensity, and the Rangers outplayed them. Lucky to get a point.

Well I guarantee that the Sabres’ stats, advanced or otherwise, were trash in this game! Whats a killer extinct? 😉

Sabres were trying to be entirely too cute there. How many times do you want to skate the puck into the offensive zone, then back into your own zone, then up the ice again, then back into the Dzone............that was annoying.

Risto looked like he got scared and didn’t know what to do.

Actually, they could sign Hall as a UFA, and draft Borgen (or anyone else) as well.

He’s only 29

Krueger seems to be a lot quicker to switch up the forward lines this season.

No, they don’t need to be chasing hits. They need to get focused and execute. They’ve been scrambly and a step behind all game.

Nice job Jack, Victor and Sam!

Irwin looks like an 8th D out there.

Didn’t watch first period. Was it as ugly as the shot totals?

Maybe they aren’t right now, I don’t know. However, reports were that they were aggressively shopping him during the offseason, so I would assume they might still have some interest in the idea.