Porous Five Hole

Goalie from the Kings from the 70’s. His fun fact is his jersey number was the first retired number in LA Kings history.

Yes three goalies incoming in the class of 2023. Induction in November. I didn’t mean to exclude them, but they’re technically not in yet 😜

I agree with you and I also think the HOF is very hard on goaltenders for some reason. There's something like 39 goalies in the HOF, with only five being inducted since 2006: Luongo, Brodeur, Vachon, Hasek, and Belfour. I love me some Millsie, but I think he was a tier below the five I just mentioned.

I miss the show Rescue Me (Denis Leary) who used that same song as their theme song.

The fried boloney at the arena is totally legit. I’ll walk the lower bowl and settle on that nine times out of ten.

This thread is all over the place. Terry didn't cause this to happen and he didn't cause the similar situation to happen with Russ Brandon. Speaking only of the Sabres and only of the business side of the office, Russ became team president in 2015. Once he canoodled his way out of a job, Kim took over as president. Due to illness, Roth was hired. This isn’t some kind of absurd turnover. I cannot speak to the churning of front office positions at one bills drive, but the average job tenure in the US is about four years. Making this about Pegula isn’t making sense to me.

https://youtu.be/Q4ghL3yWD-I?si=a7i7BvhegwxEOSoR

Thank you for explaining how loaded this team actually is. Plus all the forwards from last year returned (for now)? Let’s goooooo

The problem is cap space. The Bills only have 2.5M & Surtain’s salary is about 5M.

It really says something about the depth of goaltending league-wide when this team is rolling with a rookie starter & is afraid to send down a fringe NHLer to the minors (fringe is being kind to UPL).

He became allergic to contact

Anybody know how Toker got hurt? I heard Sabres Live say he was a couple of weeks away. Does that mean the crease belongs to Houser for now?

the music made me lol

This is a big year for Jokiharju. playing with Power is a privilege and his game needs to take a step forward.

The person who was most “wrong” was Andrew Peters. He was the one gaslighting local fans into believing star players like Dahlin are no longer signing max term deals. I like their podcast for the insight into some of my favorite teams of yesteryear, but the stuff they spit out is un-researched and unconnected garbage.

I would say none. Dahlin is coming off a bridge deal and signing *three years removed from his entry level contract. Power is still in his ELC. GMKA did say today they’re open to going long term instead of bridge with Power.

https://www.espn.com/nhl/story/_/id/38609561/vegas-golden-knights-receive-stanley-cup-championship-rings These rings are bonkers

Perhaps this is obvious, but I wanted to point out that the Sabres are done with cuts. The roster is currently at 25, but the Sabres can get to 23 by placing Jack Quinn and Matt Savoie, who just returned to practice, on injured reserve. Three goalies. Thanks I hate it.

UPL hasn’t even earned an NHL recall. He’s here because of injuries, his 2nd round draft status, and potential (I guess). To me, there’s an equal or greater chance he’s an average AHL goalie. He never earned a promotion. He was an injury prone AHL goalie with mediocre numbers. Asset management be damned, it’s time to move on.

I still have random reoccurring memories of the past Bills v Jags game in London. Your score will ease that “pain.”

That would have been perfect. But Hillsborough County did not have any interest in the infrastructure cost or build cost to make it work. The county and city of Tampa basically said, “we’re happy to have you, but we aren’t paying for it.” So they landed back in St Pete with an eye on developing the site to be more than just the ballpark.

You probably know, but the Rays have a deal with St. Pete to build a new stadium. https://www.fox13news.com/news/rays-announce-plans-for-new-1-2-billion-stadium-for-st-petersburg.amp

Can we talk about this? I am on the record to have stated that Mitts was slated to be 1C two seasons ago and he got hurt. Tage seized that opportunity and the Sabres hit the lotto. Fast forward to now, and Mitts has (to me) only shown he can be a top six forward for 40 games (second half of last year). While I’m willing to see what Mitts shows for the first half of this season, he hasn’t shown enough to consider him and Cozens to be in the same stratosphere. Dylan’s age 21-22 season (with rookie line mates) resulted in production that far outweighs anything Mitts has done through his age 25 season. Yes, Mitts had a nice second half last year…but to say the gap and potential is small between these two players doesn’t seem quite right.

Tim Wakefield passed away today. For Red Sox fans, he represented resilience and kindness. I will remember him very fondly.