Porous Five Hole

I dislike Dallas. “No Goal” still sticks with me. Yea I think McDavid is playing hurt. He hasn’t been shooting when normally he would shoot.

All I got is he is from nearby Auburn, NY.

Glad the Canes felt some pain in losing the series 🤷‍♂️

The guy leads the NHL in goals in the playoffs this year

Randy Cunneyworth? I’m not being 100% serious, but if you bring back Ruff then why not bring back Cunney?

No love for the Bruins, but it is confusing why it took two full days for this camera angle to be discovered. Dirty.

LOL the title was changed an hour ago and we are still going to let Austin slide?

Sabres providing the pregame prep

Arbitration would buy us two years of UPL because he’s got two years of RFA left and he can go to arbitration twice. I don’t want to pay extra to buy out some of UPL’s UFA years, which is what you would have to do to sign him long term. I’m a Levi truther. He’s the long term plan. Two more years is enough to groom Levi to be the guy. We didn’t have a “Levi” at the time in the Ullmark scenario. UPL wasn’t ready then. Levi will be ready in two years…he might be ready next year.

That’s why arbitration makes sense. Still an RFA after next year and you will better know what you really have. The long term answer is Levi anyway. Devon already has nothing left to prove in the AHL (.927 save percentage in his 26 games here this year—and even better so far in the playoffs). For this UPL negotiation, you have to consider the fact that he may be a backup before the end of next year.

I think the move here is to have UPL elect for salary arbitration. He will get a significant raise, the Sabres can afford it, and back to RFA with proof in the pudding that he’s a .910 goalie (or not).

Utah Soakers would have been lit

Owner Ryan Smith has said the team will have a name starting with Utah. The options to choose from are Frost, Ice, Powder, Mountaineers, Freeze, Mammoth, Black Diamonds, Blast, Caribou, Blizzard, Swarm, Hive, Outlaws, Yeti, Squall, Fury, Glaciers, Canyons, Venom and HC, which stands for Hockey Club. https://www.espn.com/nhl/story/_/id/40111549/utah-offers-20-team-name-ideas-including-frost-hive-venom I am not a fan of any of them…

I watch the playoffs each night and my wife asked me who I am rooting for in round two…and this was my exact conclusion.

$40 or so. The Rochester crowds have been really engaged, so I would highly recommend.

Clague and Jost were both called up on deadline day. While it might have been after the 3pm AHL roster deadline, it appears the Sabres told them they weren’t in the long term plans…and each opted to head home for the summer. Also, that presale code hooked me up again. Thank you!

I didn’t see him myself, but he was confirmed to be at game 3 by other Rochester fans I know. Have to imagine he was in the building tonight.

Well that was FUN! Crunch fans were gracious and confused. A combination of Syracuse backing off to protect the lead and ROC pressing made all the difference. Halverson (Crunch goalie) lost the mojo and the Amerks made them pay. The Amerks vets (Biro & Murr) came through. Excited for game five in our barn!

Amerks outshot the crunch and had some good chances. They were goalie’d in period one.

You aren’t wrong, but please see my previous post. There has been a shift in philosophy and the Amerks have had positive results (four playoff series wins the last two years). Those players are only now aging into roles in Buffalo if at all.

I think the context needs to be when Adams & Karmanos began their roles. Since then, Quinn & Peterka earned stripes and call ups (point per game guys in the AHL). Krebs also got playoff experience. Rochester since then (and now) are surrounded by AHL vets to balance the roster. The organization has also been patient with Rousek, Rosen, & Kulich…who have all played well at the AHL level. They sent down RyJo to season. Maybe they’ll pan out or maybe not. But the Sabres are figuring out what they have with their prospects before promoting them (which wasn’t the case for Mitts & Tage). It takes time to reset the development pipeline and the Sabres seem committed to using Rochester properly. I’m not saying you’re wrong in your assessment, but I’m trying to point out that there are new philosophical differences in prospect management that need time to bear fruit.

That is one angle. The other might be that Jess has a pro tennis career to dedicate herself to for a while longer. And her hubby being let go doesn’t necessarily mean there’s any bad blood.

The Crunch have carried play, but they did not generate many high danger chances in games one and two. Rochester deserved to win game one and got beat by three deflected point shots in game two. Game three was another story. The Amerks looked feeble. Their zone entries were gross and they were terrible in their own zone. Levi was otherworldly. With all that said, a little puck luck could go a long way. They’ve all been one goal games.

And the Captain has skated to the bench!