Pimlach
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36 minutes ago, DarthEbriate said:
On IR for the Penguins: Jarry, Rakell, Acciari, Brazeau, and a couple guys named St. Ivany and Hallander. Day-to-day: Rust and Koivunen.
3-4-3 in their last 10 and losers of 5 of their last 6.
Knock them down, then kick them all the way down to the McKenna Sweepstakes. Go win this game.
Just the kind of game for Crosby to net 2 in the 3rd period for a 4-3 Pens win.
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27 minutes ago, Scottysabres said:
Canucks got nothing I want on the Sabres roster.
Agree.
Some of the players they have that are available to me seem like soft passenger types.
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13 hours ago, RETURNTOGLORY said:
Josh Norris has a history of numerous injuries, most notably a recurring left shoulder issue that required three surgeries and caused him to miss significant time over the last few seasons. He has also experienced other upper-body injuries, including an oblique injury that ended his 2024-25 season. More recently, he is sidelined with a new upper-body injury that started the 2025-26 season, which has already caused him to miss multiple games.
Shoulder injuries
Recurring issue: Has dealt with a chronic left shoulder injury since playing for the University of Michigan and at the World Junior Championship.
Surgeries: Has undergone three surgeries to correct the shoulder issue.
Time missed: He missed substantial portions of the 2021-22 and 2022-23 seasons due to the shoulder injury, which included a mid-season surgery and end-of-season procedure.
Other injuries
Oblique injury: Suffered an oblique injury in March 2025 that sidelined him for the remainder of the 2024-25 season.
2025-26 season: Started the 2025-26 season with another upper-body injury that is expected to keep him out for a significant amount of time.
Other issues: Has also been listed as having other upper-body injuries, day-to-day injuries, and a COVID-19 related absence in the past.
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12 hours ago, Eleven said:
Can you PLEASE get rid of that apostrophe? It's killing me.
Canuck is interested dere … what’s wrong wit dat?
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4 hours ago, Wyldnwoody44 said:
Soft tissue injuries are just a different animal, once you get a lot of them then yes you typically have more laxity in ligaments and etc etc.
Not impossible to heal but a bone vs soft tissue is truly apple vs orange.
I have learned that soft tissue ailments are rough, they come and go, and they really do linger.
I finished PT, but I am still stretching the quad, hammy, hip and piro formis, and calf muscle - ever since my full knee replacement in Jan 2024 it has been bothersome.
Stretch everyday and just be happy that I walk fine, I golf, I hike, and mostly do whatever I want. But it will mean maintenance forever.
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9 hours ago, JohnC said:
Where did you get the exotic notion that the Sabres want to build around a player such as Norris? The only player on the Sabres who is in the lofty category of worth building around is Dahlin. Norris certainly isn't in that category. Let's not forget that he was dealt in a one-on-one deal for Cozens. So his acquisition falls far short of an Eichel blockbuster type of deal. Hopefully, Norris becomes a first or more likely 2C player for us. If he becomes that caliber of player, then the trade works out well for the Sabres. If it doesn't, then so be it and move on.
Not quite a one for one John.
It was Cozens and a 2nd round pick for Norris and Bernard-Docker. Adams thought he was getting three players.
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4 hours ago, JoeSchmoe said:
I feel like the Grand Canyon sized chasm is the IQ. Malenstyn can skate... His hands aren't great, but it's the vision he lacks most.
I sometimes think Scooby Doo and the gang are going to show up on the ice someday, demask him, and reveal Zemgus Girgensons hiding underneath.
I saw them at the rink at the end of October ...
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Just now, Doohickie said:
He struck me as the kind of guy that, if we were both on layovers, would be interesting to talk to at the airport bar.
He likes beer.
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47 minutes ago, GASabresIUFAN said:
I remember a few years ago when the watch word from management was how fast the new guys, like Malenstyn were. How did that work out? Speed is great, but speed without skill isn't all that helpful.
I think he is as advertised. Fast, hits hard and hits a lot, and puts in effort.
Some guys make it with what they got.
I thought he might know how to fight too, but he doesn't.
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3 hours ago, GASabresIUFAN said:
Keon Coleman has a high max speed as well.
Yes, Keon does, which why the Bills were not afraid of drafting him despite his slower 40 times compared to most WRs. The thought was he is not a track guy and does not know how to get a good start, but he plays fast.
Unfortunately, a fast start off of the LOS is really important in the NFL. Keon's high max speed has not translated into game speed so far.
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8 hours ago, Doohickie said:
Sabrespace has heard this story before, but about a year after No Goal, I met Brett Hull at DFW Airport. He was waiting for his bags at the carousel. So I approached him and we talked about the just complete season for a few minutes. Finally I asked him about the Cup winning goal. He said he would have liked to score a highlight reel goal, but what happened happened, so what else could do? The refs said it was a good goal; he couldn't give it back. He said all this season, lining up for faceoffs and stuff, opposing players would nudge him and say, "That wasn't a goal, Hull!"
Then I asked him for his autograph. I said I didn't have anything to sign, so could he sign his boarding pass? I told him my nephew, Matt, played hockey, so address it to him. So he wrote, "To Matt, Good luck in hockey, Brett Hull"
I thanked him and said I would give it to him when we went up to visit my family in Buffalo that summer. When I said Buffalo, he visibly winced.
Overall he was nice guy to talk to, approachable. He caught a lot of ***** for No Goal.
I talked to him once. Of course I brought up "no goal" and he laughed and said something to the effect that he has met about 50,000 people from Buffalo that were at that game. Funny guy.
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3 hours ago, Mustache of God said:
I agree Dunne is the most likely, they could also choose to stick with 2 goalies like any other rational franchise.
Uh, no. Why waive a tradeable asset? Goalies are like gold right now and any one of them will be claimed.
They already created the 3 headed monster, they still have not seen enough of Ellis, and Lyon was hurting in some way according to the NHL network broadcast.
If they want to keep all their assets then you send Östlund down when Norris is ready. Otherwise you waive Dunne but I would prefer we keep him.
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5 hours ago, Brawndo said:
No Norris tomorrow per Ruff maybe this weekend
Play him at home his first game back, we have a bigger medical staff there.
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23 minutes ago, kas23 said:
It’s probably not as rare as people make it out to be. Even the ROR for Tage trade. It took years for this one to develop. STL’s benefit was immediate and ours was not. And before people say ROR won them a Cup, if Tage was in a competent organization, he would/will probably have a Cup as well. I don’t think we can blame that trade in isolation for our woes. I think it comes down, at the end of the day, who was the better player, ROR or Tage.
Well many great players played in competent organizations and do not have a Cup, especially in the period after expansion and prior to free agency.
The Blues unloaded a very bad contract in Patrik Berglund who was done as a player and was a major distraction. They also unloaded a player that had no more use to them in Sobotka. So the trade was not just ROR for Tage. It included a first rounder that turned out to be the last pick of the round (Ryan Johnson), and it was an opportunity to unload some junk and clear some dollars.
The Blues were looking to re-tool and ROR was obviously a really good 2-way center to help them. The freaky emergence of Binington in goal, a veteran team with both skill and grit, and then everything fell into place like storybook. ROR gets a Cup, a Calder and a Selke.
Everything went storybook perfect for the Blues on the trade.
It is only fitting that Tage scores 500+ career goals in Buffalo and leads them to a Cup.
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Cooley had 4 goals last night for Utah, 2 were in an empty net. I was surprised to see Peterka with 0 points. It appears he was not playing with Cooley and Guenther on the first line right now. He played with McBain and Crouse on the 3rd line, Utah has been looking at other line combos.
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1 hour ago, EM88 said:
The Buffalo Sabres have a bad building, have not made the playoffs in over a decade, and face many of their Canadian fans not crossing the border as much. Yet there are still 4 teams with less revenue than they have, along with about 1/2 of the league within 20%.
If the team can upgrade their building in a meaningful way and have a playoff season or two in order to facilitate some fan support, this may actually be a hockey market that is pretty good to support a team in todays market.
I think just winning again, being a legit playoff team and eventually a Cup contender fixes everything, even with the crappy facility. The hockey market is good just by the fact it is surviving. Get a winning team and they god from survive to thrive.
Anyone have any real numbers on the Canadian fan attendance changes since the T2 era started?
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Bad news for him. Real good player. Wonder if this will impact his Olympic participation?
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11 hours ago, PASabreFan said:
The end pieces were sooo tender despite their charredness.
Prime rib
Brisket
baby back ribs
tenderloin
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33 minutes ago, mjd1001 said:
I don't put too much into this, but this is the best I can find (keep in mind the numbers might actually under-estimate Doan because he gets so many more defensive zone starts than Peterka does.) Doan only gets about 45% offensive zone starts, and then the Sabres lose the faceoff (lose possession) almost 54% of the time. Peterka gets 68.2% offensive zone starts, and his team wins those offensive zone faceoffs 62% of the time.
Doan has 63 defensive zone starts, JJP only has 28 defensive zone starts (all this even strength)
So here goes:
When Doan is on the ice: 127 scoring chances allowed. 54 high danger chances allowed. 15.9 expected goals allowed.
When JJP is on the ice: 143 scoring chances allowed. 62 high danger chances allowed. 15.7 expected goals allowed.
That expected goal number would likely be a LOT higher for Peterka and lower for Doan (allong with the rest of the numbers) if JJP wouldn't be sheilded so much from defensive zone starts.
Their ice time per game is very close, and seeing how Doan is on the ice starting in the Defensive zone a lot more and the other team has possession of the puck off of faceoffs more, I'd say those numbers say Doan (and of course, his linemates) are performing positionally in the defensive zone better than JJP (and his linemates.)
This might be the most critical stat favoring Doan over JJP:
Despite the lopsided zone starts (offensive vs Defensive) where Doan starts in the defensive zone and JJP doesn't that much....total time on ice Doan has only 33.7% of his time in the defensive zone, while JJP has 40.9% of his time in the defensive zone.
The goalies JJP is playing in front also have about a 1.5% better save percentage than what Doan has behind him.
The fact that Doan starts in the defensive zone so much more, yet has less defensive zone ice time can only lead me to think he helps a LOT more with getting the puck out of the defensive zone (and keeping it out) than JJP does.
When taken into context together, most of the fancy stat numbers through 22 games point to Doan being much better in defensive zone coverage and helping exit the puck from the defensive zone than JJP.
Interesting data and your analysis of it was very helpful.
This is a multi Cup Post!
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4 minutes ago, JohnC said:
I thought with Doan, we were getting a grinder who was a third or fourth line type of player. However, his offensive instincts and production have surprised me. If he was inserted on the first or second line now, I would not automatically say that he was miscast for those upper line roles, although I would still categorize him as a third-line type of player. I'm not going to say that he is better than JJP but what I can comfortably say that he is a more well-rounded player. What makes his value more noticeable is that he excels in areas in which this team was glaringly deficient, such as net presence, a physical style of play and more responsible play in the defensive zone. There has been a lot of discussion here about roster construction. From that standpoint alone, he was a good addition.
They are different players.
So far Peterka and Doan's scoring production has been almost even, Peterka has 9 G and 16 points (+2), all at even strength. Doan has 7G, 15 points (-3), which includes 2 PPG and 4 PP points. In the Utah games that I saw JJP does not play PP1, and gets limited PP2 minutes.
I have not seen any actual evidence that Doan is better in the defensive zone than Peterka is right now in Utah - I am sure someone can pull fancy stats comparing the two. I would like to see that.
Doan's offensive game is to hound pucks and get to the net for the greasy goals, something the Sabre's really needed. My eyes tell me that Doan has a physical component to his game and hustles to get back on defense, something JJP did not consistently show.
Peterka's offensive game is fast-break skating and a sniper shot, skills that several other Sabre players possess.
The Sabres can use a guy like Doan. Factor in Kesselring and this is shaping up to be a good trade right now.
In addition, we just saw that Rosen and Östlund are emerging and they are more similar in style to JJP than to Doan, so in the name of balanced roster construction Doan is a guy we need.
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6 minutes ago, Taro T said:
Didn't say HOW we got them. Have to subscribe to get the story. 😉
(Where's the D'oh! smiley when you really need it.)
When I first came here I asked you if you were one of the original Phantom Sign Makers. If you were then there would be funny stories.
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1 minute ago, bob_sauve28 said:
Math! Boo!
Such a perfect science. Maybe too perfect.
That sure makes it look impossible
It is not impossible. Win enough in a row to improve the current .500 to .600. This can be done in a few chunks with winning streaks, they are about to win 3 in a row if they can get a road win in Pittsburgh - that is a real MW.
Then maintain .600. This means they average winning 6 of 10 (3 of 5) like a real hockey team.
It means no more big losing streaks. No more losing 3 in a row. No more OTL's unless they are come from behind. It is time for this team to grow up.
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13 minutes ago, Taro T said:
Follow-up - everyone got gravy boats.
For what they did with them, you'll have to subscribe to the Only Fans page.
I thought this year was butter dishes?
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The NBA active roster for a game is only 12 to 15 players. NBA backups would absolutely destroy non NBA players.
Dahlin laughed and said he knew Malenstyn had some really good skills.
Many NHL 4th liners were once high skill players. I knew a guy that played youth hockey against Adam Mair and said he would score double digit goals pretty much every game and just dominate everybody.
GDT Sabres at Penguins 11/26/25 7pm MSG WGR550
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He earned that right.