Believer

Grown men getting manhandled by our kids… Awesome effort from the drop of the puck.

Nope… Hahaha

Benson… Boom

Roy didn’t want UPL to get a shutout.

Truth

Lazy cross ice pass intercepted… Gotta be crisp, Tage.

All business is people business… Reach out to all you know… We’ve all been in need of help.

confident

Isles playing a heavy game… 36 Hits… but not slowing us down one bit… Great exit and entry passing… Outshooting them 29-10… Dominating play. Another solid period.

Roy looks disgusted.

Jokiharju… Boom!

Cozens… Boom!

And love that we scored first!

Victor… Boom

Entertaining period… Sabres up on Shots and Faceoffs… Good start.

Krebs would like another try at that…

Hahaha… Probably… Enjoy connecting variables to come to conclusions for myself… So, what would you attribute the two season second half improvements to instead?

Would seem to suggest deficit coaching and lack of veteran leadership.

Nice guy… In watching him the past few years, not a guy who saw the hill and led the charge, imo… Never cared for his postgame interviews after wins or losses… Didn’t really turn it on until the past couple months he was here… probably after a discussion about his future with Adams and Pegula… Then there was the Stick Stunt… As Captain, if he wasn’t part of it he condoned it, and lost control of the group… KO had to go… The fact the team is playing better without him speaks volumes, imo. As for Byram, he seems to be a natural leader who leads by example, skates hard every shift, constantly talking to teammates on the ice and on the bench. Next Captain?

We don’t know how Dahlin behaves in the locker room… We do know he leads by example on the ice, but he didn’t speak out against the stick stunt player protest against fans… Neither did Okposo, Tuch, and Girgensons… Personally saw this as the opposite of leadership in all of them. We do know how Byram interacts with teammates on the ice and on the bench based on his play and mic’d up game… He exhibits high level leadership in his example and words to teammates, albeit on a three game sample size… Imo, Byram will be a Captain here or somewhere else someday… If Dahlin is offended, he will adjust… or not… He has $90M reasons to get over any snub.

In my best Bill Clinton imitation… “It depends on what your definition of effective is.”

Sorry, Doohickie… Doubt Power can change his personality type… He doesn’t like the tough stuff that’s part of the game… Just not him.

I saw what you saw @Pimlach… Could not believe Power let UPL get run over right in front of him with no response… Power is overrated, overhyped, and overpaid… If Byram continues to develop his two-way game, Power can be traded while he still has high first round value… Give me an all-pro late 20’s RHD who can skate with heavy presence and grit… Even up.

Bingo.

Very entertaining win.