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Leave him on the side of the road and hope someone picks him up. The truth is we are probably going to have to eat a large portion of his deal to get him moved.

As they proved last night by playing UPL after one rehab start instead of leaving him in Rochester the full two weeks. Adams will say that UPL needs a few starts to get in a groove. Unfortunately, the Sabres don't have that luxury.

Why the Power dislike? Simple, the kid remains terrible defensively. He keeps making the same mistakes that you gloss over. For every good play, there are 4-5 bad ones. Yes, UPL had no business playing last night. He was bad and the Sabres should have left him in Rochester as long as possible. He is not and has never been a good pro goalie. The contract years was a career year unlikely to ever be repeated. Time to move on. However, his deficiencies don't excuse Power for being a one dimensional offensive D who we are overpaying by $4 mill a year; money that would be better allocated elsewhere.

I wasn’t able to watch the game after the first period, but wasn’t surprised by the results especially with UPL in net. I hate that we coughed up a 3rd period lead. Power losing control of the puck in OT that lead to the breakaway was par for the course. I’m over both UPL and Power. We can do better, especially for $13 mill of cap. Power gets a life line when Kesselring returns, but UPL has to be on a short leash if Lyon and Ellis continue to play well.

Don’t worry. They won’t. The Sabres will win one before the Leafs do.

Cheap shot by McCabe

That was a sorry fight. What was McCabe doing?

Someone wants to make the Olympic team.

Not really. Average age was 26. I also wonder if the D pairings had hurt Dahlin a little? Truthfully, I think he’s been fine, as have the rest of the team of late.

This is a very important early season game. Win this game, the team is over 500, winners of 5 of 6 with all 5 wins over divisional foes bringing their divisional record to 5-2. A win also would be the team’s first road win of the season and ultimately validate everything they have done right recently. The team started 0-3 scoring only 2 goals allowing 10 for a -8 differential. Since then they have scored 22 goals, allowing 13 for a +9 differential. Talk about night and day.

What is the projected forward group for tomorrow? Benson Kulich TnT Doan McLeod Tuch Zucker Östlund Quinn Malenstyn Krebs (callup?)

I’d bring up and play Rosen. He’s earned an opportunity. I also don’t want Geertsen in the lineup.

The bad news is Dunne or Geersten draw back in. Maybe Greenway can play.

Impressive.

As Lee Corso says: Not so fast. When they get and stay above 500 and play with the effort we have seen recently nearly every night, then we can say their good. It’s also amazing what happens when you get good consistent goaltending.

I’ve focused on him often when I watch and he reminds me of Lydman. Honestly I surprised and impressed. I love guys who give max effort every shift.

I have to give Lindy, the coaching and players a great deal of credit. After the first three horrific games, this season was close to being over before it started. However they put a much better effort against Ottawa, started going to the net and got rewarded. Now 4-4. The PK looks like the PK in 2005-6 where they are aggressive and completely taking the time away. They are also finally protecting their goalie’s crease. Real progress. Good things happen when you field a team of NHL players. Now they need to play even harder tomorrow against a desperate Leafs team and get over 500. A win tomorrow should make their confidence soar. Hope Kozak is ok. He makes a huge difference defensively.

Sadly.

Now go win tomorrow as well

Anyone else notice that nearly all our goals occured with someone battling in front of the Leafs net?

We want 6

Love Kulich in a scrap

Great shortie after a great save

This is basically going to be a nearly 5 minute PK

Hall? We gave him $8 mill, which was well over mkt value. The least Adams could have done was get a 5-8 team list who he could trade him to instead of full NTC. The full NTC gave the player all the leverage. It was a stupid mistake by an incompetent GM. PS: If Hall doesn’t sign, maybe Adams has the money to extend Ullmark properly and we’d have had good goaltending for the last 5 years, which would have likely helped us into the playoffs the last 2 years.