JoeSchmoe

I was saying they needed Barger stealing 2nd with the Kirk double play threat always there. I feel like they would have almost conceded the base with the threat of a missed throw scoring Vladdy.

Go Sabres!!! 🥹

Not if the fan has a screen on it. Then it just gets stuck, and the constant air blowing on smeared in 💩 increases the stink. Nobody wants that.

What happened?

I listen to the pod only because of Rivet. I think I mentioned before Rivet plays the buffoon but is actually personable and has real passion for hockey and the team. Peters thinks he's the smartest guy in the room, and that's the real joke. Lost all respect for him after this...

I'm not sure what analytics you're looking at but my sources show he's not good. We have so many better options, but like Lafferty last year, I fear us playing him until it's too late to do something about it.

Any signs of improvement will be ratcheted back when the coach's pet Justin Danforth gets back. I don't care how hard he fought to get in the league, he doesn't deserve a lineup spot. He's a whopping -22% relative expected goals In 34 minutes of ice time and 54 shifts of 5 on 5 ice time, his line has 0 high danger shot attempts. Zero.

Great effort! They're firing on all cylinders even without a healthy Bo and Springer out of the lineup. Their biggest weak point all year was the bullpen, but adding Bassitt and Lauer to the mix has been huge. Varland and Hoffman rounding into form has helped a lot too.

If I were Levi, I'd be upset. UPL got parachuted into the NHL with sub-par AHL numbers and has by and large sucked in the NHL, whereas Levi has always done well in the AHL but he has had far fewer chances on a far shorter leash in the NHL.

With your US American dollars can you find something?

If Power is even remotely physical with his check, that goal doesn't happen.

He makes me not want to buy tickets to games. There's a real chance we can get back to packed buildings again if Terry swallows the remaining $20mil on his contract.

Amen brother!

UPL plays so bad, it brings the whole team down. I swear thats why we can't seem to improve.

Good teams have goalies that steal games for them. UPL loses games. Has his entire career. The question is, how many is he going to hand us before Adams pulls the plug.

Yeah, he looks shaky.

Quinn was the only one skating

Josh Done

They chased Fried as well.

My son was always a multi-sport athlete growing up. He played minor hockey and baseball both at the highest level. Sadly, for hockey... only the one sport kids ever made it to play in the OHL or College. If you want to play at a high level, you gotta be a hockey robot. The literature will tell you otherwise, but it's true. You'll also hear that some NHL'ers like McDavid were multisport, and in fact they weren't. They might have played a little house league lax or something but if there was a skate that night, lax wouldn't happen. For baseball, there's a couple kids that played rep hockey (albeit at a lower level) that got college committments, but most quit by the time they were 13 or 14 and focused on baseball thereafter. I don't regret not pushing my son into focusing on one sport... To throw all your eggs into one basket with no guarantees of making it, you're going to miss out a lot of fun. That said, if he was a guaranteed 1st round OHL guy, or a future D1 starting pitcher the smart move would have been to go one sport with him.

I'm too lazy to google the specifics but this team had the most come from behind wins in franchise history. There were plenty of big moments in there.

No one is taking UPL at his salary, and there's no way the Sabres would retain the giant chunk of salary it would take to make him halfway marketable. We're stuck with him.

I thought Thompson looked lethargic at times.

If you weren't saying that by midseason last year, you weren't watching this team.

Any updates on Norris? Also... Just throwing this at the wall to see if it sticks, but when Norris goes on LTIR, does his salary come from the team (Terry) or some insurance plan? If so, could his high potential for LTIR made him more attractive to Terry, esp given Cozens was almost as big of a sink $ wise? This is conspiracy theory stuff I know so go easy on me, but when I see how easily Norris got hurt, I wonder if there could be more to his injury history than we know about. How much the team knew is where I get thinking. 🤔