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… that is why fancy stats suck.

Tage needs a shortie

I wonder if Chicago would trade McCabe back to us?

Hank says we are 32nd in high danger chances allowed. That’s a sobering thought.

Lets hope so.

10!

I feel much better about our goaltending now.

Phew 6 goal lead re-established. I was getting worried for a minute. Now if only VO or Mitts could score.

TNT 4pts from tying Sittler’s 10 pts night.

Gretzky texting Panger about TNT. Now Tage has arrived.

Short side. Wow

We want 6.

I’m shocked

UPL still sucks. Sabres need to get their energy back.

Great stat Jackie. Cozens first Sabres to have 3 straight 3 pt+ games since 1993 (Mogilny and Patty) and 1st player in the NHL 21 or younger to do it since Karlsson.

Sabres now lead the NHL in GF.

Mitts with the excellent back check

I think the TNT producer called the NHL and asked them to spice up the game. Terrible call. Excellent save.

Best trade ever. Way to go Jbot.

Just tuned in. Ooops! Saw the TNT one timer for his hattie.

It's funny that you brought up where to play Chychrun, because after I posted my lineup, I began to think how to best utilize his talents and I kind of decided to make him Bush's 3rd line partner 5 on 5, but to add him to the 2nd PP as the PP QB, allowing Power more ability to "wander" and look for seems in the PK box kind of like he did in Michigan. It would certainly be a much different look than the Tnt lead first unit. I also like the idea of physical but mobile 6'2 220 Chychrun teaming up with Bush to become a physically dominate pair. Thus Samuelsson Dahlin Power Joki Chychrun Bush

One other note on Comrie is that the guy really hasn't played much hockey in the last 3 years. In 2019-20 he only player 27 games across 2 levels. In 2020-21 he played in only 5 games (he was the taxi squad goalie) and even last year he only played in 19 games. That's on 51 games over 3 seasons. His last season carrying a full load was 2018-19 where he played 48 games (47 as the AHL starter) and did well.

He was born in Buffalo and money talks, but generally I agree he is a long-shot. How he plays is what I'm looking for. The key here is to stay to the general plan, but at least be flexible enough to allow that some areas simply aren't going to get filled with prospects right now or that it would be best from the franchise if they were manned by more veteran players. I wouldn't mind making a move for Chychrun right now and see if it works. If he doesn't my guess is we can recover most if not all we paid from a contender at the deadline.

No wizardry just numbers crunching. UPL couldn’t stop the puck in the AHL and historically over 40 goalies don’t fair very well in the NHL. Add that Comrie had never been an NHL starter and only had 28 games of NHL experience and you have a recipe for failure.

The Edm Oilers back in the day often left Grant Fuhr out to dry and he more often then not made the save. I love our up tempo style. It’s exciting and fun to watch, but that makes the need for top notch goaltending and some defensively responsible D even more imperative.