Broken Ankles

What color is your shawl or afghan?

I think Kozak should have been given 4th line Center duties over Krebs. Glad to see/Surprised to see Östlund remains in the line up with return of Norris. But not worth quibbling between two for 4C duties. Krebs has been durable, and fine with giving the JAG with more experience.

Balance may have been the deciding factor. For all the floating Tuch did, his line had the highest xGF and their XGA suffered only bc of the egregious giveaway by Tuch leading to a goal by Boldy. The First line with two kids and Tage got dominated when playing against Kaprizov/Yurov/Zuccarella, and their XGF/XGA and Corsi bears that out. But the newly constructed Third line with Doan/Östlund/Tuch seemed to pick up the slack. It seems Minnesotas scouting saw the McLeod line has been high scoring as of late, so they tried to match up defensively to shut them down, and they did for the most part. That lines Corsi was 21%. Abysmal. Curious if Ruff tweaks it with two games of subpar performance and the possibility of Norris coming back into the mix next week. I think this confirms that Östlund can play center at this level, especially if he has two veteran wingers to support him. He probably goes back to Roch when Norris comes back as Taro noted earlier but his play and those silky mitts on the game winner makes me think his development is going well.

Big win for the Sabres Saturday night on the road against the Leagues hottest team. If we know Lindy, he substitutes Norris for Kozak, Greenway for Dunne and keeps all the other lines the same. Buffalo wins going away with Ellis in the net on Monday against the Peg. Lots of chatter about the Norris goal and assist. If he can just stay heathy they say. Ellis gets one more chance to prove his worth as a #1 and the Sabres are shut out in Philly on Wednesday. UPL gets the net in Winnipeg on Friday where the Jets exact revenge and shut out the Sabres 6-0. The board is flush with Adams must be fired, annd UPL traded. I question my sobriety. Wash Rinse Repeat. Wake me up if they ever win 4 in a row.

Tuch does know that scouts are looking at him each night right? Not playing like he needs a job next year.

Greasy.

Question- why do both Defenders pivot towards Zuccurello and leave a 50 goal scorer wide open?

Just follow @Brawndo. He let you know about his status earlier today.

Netflix https://m.imdb.com/title/tt35627915/

The Eddie Murphy documentary is worth a watch. Not great but an exclusive with Eddie at his home, in addition to his friends.

JFC. Byrum having a day. That trade with Toronto for Carlo can’t come soon enough. Play ***** Defense! Meanwhile Jake Allen doing his own version of Superman in Buffalo.

Must tie.

When you remove ENG it’s 70 in 2025 vs 66 in 2024. Net 6 less than looking at team GA but still more. And FWIW if you look at XGA, it’s 70/64. And we know the PK is much improved, so more 5v5 goals in those numbers. Obviously it’s a 5 man effort in those numbers but still surprising. https://www.naturalstattrick.com/playerteams.php?fromseason=20242025&thruseason=20242025&stype=2&sit=all&score=all&stdoi=g&rate=n&team=BUF&pos=S&loc=B&toi=0&gpfilt=gpdate&fd=2024-10-01&td=2024-11-29&tgp=410&lines=single&draftteam=ALL

If you told Mule was playing at this level, coupled with trading Kesselring and Timmons for Joki and Clifton and the goals against would be worse than last year through 23, I would be like…. Keep making me look foolish Glass.