JoeSchmoe

The Lake Erie sheepshead that used to wash up at my friend's beach house would rot pretty evenly. That said, tonight the rot seems to be emanating most prominently from the tail.

I wish I could give this a double laughie emoji!!!

Pull the F'ing goalie and send an F'ing message!!!!!!

Eric Johnson and Connor Clifton have experience. That's all this lineup was lacking. 🤣

Last year's and this year's 5 on 5 expected goals %. For some reason Kale Clague looks to be wearing the career AHL'er label, but based on his reliable meat and potatoes play, he needs a chance, given how poorly our two FA's having been doing. Pair him up with Ryan Johnson on the 3rd pairing and we're looking as good or better on the back end as last year.

Fixed the title

A pet peeve of mine is you play north-south you get a bunch of 2 on 2 opportunities. Sure, 2 on 2 is tough to score on... and the typical move this year is to wait for more teammates to also gain the zone to improve chances. Problem is, the other team also comes back, and now you're trying to score 5 on 5. When are you putting more pucks in nets... 2 on 2 or 5 on 5?!?! Play North - South... create what you can... take some chances... and the goals will eventually come.

Think it was Cozens that just dropped that high volume F bomb?

Peterka! 😁

That's what made us so successful last year. Had we anything close to serviceable goaltending (i.e. Anderson level), we're in the playoffs... Maybe winning a round if get the right matchup (i.e. against a slower team). Why isn't the team doing this this year. I could count on one hand the number of times Cozens has sped the puck through the neutral zone. Tuch maybe a bit more, but every game last year he was so dynamic. You think Granato has coached this out of them in favour of a more defensive focus, or do you think they just want it less this year?

From kids hockey, all the way up to the NHL... When your goalie is trash, the rest of the team gets down. What you see here is exactly that.

Why? He makes a lot more money than you or I to be a lot worse at his job.

Anyone see that nightmare of a defensive play?

Sabres are doing really good for high danger chances against and low danger chances against. They are doing really poorly for medium chances against. I'm expert, but I'll put high danger chances against on the defense. Medium danger... I put that on the team playing okay defense, but not maintaining zone possession.

Novice house league hockey. Team down 2-0 in the quarter final of our 24 team league. Season on the line. Something clicked in me on the bench that if we didn't score 3 goals, the season was over. I remember grunting on the bench between shifts... I was so determined to win. I scored the hatty to get us the 3-2 win. Won player of the game which included a free burger at the pub down the street from the arena. We went on to lose the semis by a goal. In the last couple minutes of the game we had zone pressure. The puck came back to our d-man who after an entire season still didn't understand what offside was... all despite me trying to coach him about it before each game. Anyhow, he had been standing just on the wrong side of the blue line as per his usual. When the puck came to him, he immediately shot it in the zone and the ref blew it offside. There I knew it was my last shift of the season. Me, being the class act 9 year old I was... went up to him on the ice....and in front of a packed arena, gave that teammate the hardest shin slash a 9 year old could muster. My coaches never said a word. Almost 40 years later I'm still that a-hole... I just mask it better.

Last night he tripled his points in one game! Could the absence of Girgensons be part of the equation?

The team that played the last two games are making the playoffs with league average goaltending. Add Thompson and Quinn in the mix and we're capable of making a run. Sadly, our only hope at league average goaltending would be Levi finding his game. UPL showed some hope, but league average goaltending doesn't lay the egg he laid tonight, even on their worst days

Get over. Won't save it 100% of the time, but I'm guessing someone like Binnington might get it 50% of the time.

Advanced stats say 2.1 exGA. UPL let in 6.

We're winning with league average goaltending.

Why was UPL on his goal line.

Don't know.

5 shots

So much for UPL being the answer. Greenway is also back to bring the player I wished we never acquired.