JoeSchmoe

Is this you're question?It's not very specific. I think most of us are assuming to you know La Nova is a Buffalo pizza place, or at least looked it up. It's right in the title. If your question is something else, then I'm at a loss.

I'm too lazy to look or think too hard about it, but who are these guys on Colorado? Florida? Vancouver? I think Samuelson is supposed to be that guy on our team, though he does punch way below his weight class. Dahlin's that guy too. I don't know enough about Byram. Power "should" be that guy but never will be.

All year he's generated more scoring chances than he's given up. He's on my team.

Jacob Bryson is playing really good hockey. In my books he's in our top 6. Last I heard, our record with him in the lineup is well into the plus side. Advanced stats have him up there. Here's are my D pairings for next year, emphasizing competition to stay in the lineup. Byram-Dahlin Samuelson-Power Bryson-Joki Johnson-Clifton The 5 to 8 D should be a competition all year. If you're good, you play, if not you don't. But right now, Bryson plays. Edit: inserted 5 on 5 relative ExGf%

Great win! Dunleavy better on the radio call today than last OT.

Billion wings ÷ 50 years ÷ 365 days. That's almost 55,000 wings a day.

I'm guilty of trying to run that calculation in my head to see if it's legit.

Haven't watched at all, but .924 doesn't sound shaky, especially on a 5th place team in the division.

If we had a team full of Dahlin's we'd be planning the parade now. We suck because he's the only one we got with both heart and talent. You'll be hard pressed to find anyone that agrees with you about EJ. He was terrible through and through. Eye test. Old fashioned stats. Advanced stats. He was a drag on CO when they didn't resign him, he was a drag on us, now he's Philly's problem.

This is the biggest horse 💩 fallacy in hockey. Every team in the league has veterans that have won in the past. They can't all win. The team with the most heart and talent is the one that wins. Both of these traits cannot be taught.

If they would have made this trade week 1 we might be in a playoff spot by now.

We the fans paid his grossly inflated salary by buying tix and watching on TV. Shouldn't he be thanking us?

Granted I had the sound down, but I only noticed him direct traffic once. I also see him skate into traffic (without the puck) where we already had two guys. I agree that being more mobile is what the PP needs, but I think the twitter clip is greatly exaggerating all the good Byram is doing.

I'm not buying anymore tix to games until the Sabres are sitting in a playoff spot more than 10 games into the season. I thought about starting a new thread on this but I'm too lazy. The only way I see us making the playoffs is if we trade some of our pint sized prospects for actual good NHL players. These players would then replace Okposo, Girgensons, Robinson, and the rest of the scrubs we're trot out year after year.

Back to being mad about Mittelstadt

Sucks that we have fans willing to focus on a tiny sample size of data for two years ago to justify the trade. Sucks worse that our GM is seemingly doing the same. 🫣

Barring major improvements across the board from our existing roster or a major free agent acquisition, there is no way we make the playoffs next year. We are our worst team.

We are worse next year. Byram was a net negative on a very good team. Unless he improves greatly, he's going to suck on the Sabres. But because he's the shiny new toy, we're going to play the crap out of him. Meanwhile, we're missing Casey's production.

Agreed. And none of our countless tiny forward prospects are looking anywhere near ready for next year. Kulich has dropped back greatly. Savoie is too small to be NHL ready. The other guys are at least 2 years away.

Byram is a below 50% expected goal player THE COLORADO AVALANCHE. Clifton was a below 50% on THE BOSTON BRUINS. Why are we paying for stats gurus in our front office when our GM's M.O. is to take other teams' table scraps?!?!

Am I missing something? Did Okposo leave yet?????? No??? What the f#$@ are we doing here?!?!?!!

I'll admit I use the Moneypuck stats quite a bit. Tonight it says we had 2.645 expected goals for. That is ridiculously low IMO. We had sooooo many golden chances... That's how we got 7 GF. I'd say we should have at least been 4 xGF. I get that not all our shot attempts got through and/or we missed the net, but we were buzzing all night. Stats nerds... Any thoughts?

EJ sucks so bad. It's too bad Adams didn't do a bit better than him in free agency.

Miss the shark/barracuda meme. The random ones are the best.

I agree with this, but he has looked a bit better lately.