Porous Five Hole

Sandstrom tonight. So probably Levi tomorrow.

Yes and Rosen tied it up late in the third (25). The kids are alright.

That number for Russia felt light, so I did a search and found 61 Russians have appeared in an NHL game this year: https://www.quanthockey.com/nhl/nationality/active-russian-nhl-players-2024-25-stats.html

Yea I mean sure. But like, why complain about some people having a good time with each other? ”oh man, they bought party favors like balloons and they made dinner reservations and then they got together after and had wine and enjoyed each other’s company. The audacity!” It’s an odd thing to complain about to me. And that’s why I called him grumpy 😀 Maybe I missed the point and he was complaining about his ex? 🤷‍♂️

When you say “them,” you may be referring to the players. Flash is talking about everyday Canadians going to NHL games and they are booing the American national anthem in Vancouver, Calgary, Montreal, and Ottawa. This is directly attributed to the political climate.

Let em be. It isn’t hurting anybody. You sound like a grumpy hater.

I’m not a spittin chicklets podcast guy, but I know Biz has used the word/phase a bunch. Wagons wheel and roll, they're on a roll, kinda unstoppable. That’s the Amerks right now.

With baseball season around the corner, here is what Cleveland is doing with their broadcasts. If the Sabres did this, I would pay it. It would be like a buck a game.

I’m similar. We have this little box called Xumo that connects to our tv and uses WiFi to deliver the cable. I said who has cable anymore, but I should have said are these Nielsen ratings? Where is this Breeze fella getting his numbers from?

Who has cable anymore other than me?

He’s gonna be an NHL All Star. I said what I said.

Leone also called out RyJo & Komarov on Sabres Live today. Said they’ve been playing hard minutes and excelled. He was complimentary of Metsa of his effort and defending as a smaller guy. He was also saying Levi has impressed in getting whistles during chaos and working very hard. We know Levi may have outgrown AHL competition, but he’s excelling instead of stagnating. You love to see it.

I’m addicted to this franchise. I was playing a game with the family tonight called Loaded Questions. The question was what is the one thing you would wish for in this lifetime? My wife went first and said health and happiness for all of her family and friends. I said one Sabres Stanley Cup win before I die. And I meant it.

When I was filled with hopium two years ago, I said that both teams could still win that trade even though Vegas won the Cup. I was wrong.

The Amerks are a wagon. Aube-Kubel with two tonight, Murray (21) and Rosen (24) also scored, and they’ve pushed their winning streak to six. Levi excellent tonight as well in the 5-1 win against third place Cleveland. They’re at 29-12-3-1 on the year, which is the second best record in the league. I’m saving my pennies to follow their playoff run in the spring instead of going to Sabres games for the rest of the year.

Clock was stopped at 7:16 for the goal review. I’ll take it as good mojo

After that snooze fest of a game against the Jackets, this has been very entertaining!

They did it in December 2022

The Sabres need a longer term answer than a few games.

I get it. He has been steady eddy here in ROC. But I would prefer to continue for him to marinate here. At some point, this franchise needs to develop guys properly and throwing ANOTHER kid into The Show to see what happens is not the correct decision. I believe he’s better off in the A as long as possible.

Can you explain why it complicates a buyout? I can’t find anything stating an injured player cannot be bought out.

https://www.sportsnet.ca/nhl/article/real-kypers-trade-board-3-0-setting-up-for-a-memorable-deadline/ Write ups on Cozens, Muel, and Byram. On Muel, this caught my eye: “Injured Mattias Samuelsson, out for the remainder of the season, but signed at a $4.285 million deal through 2029-30, is as well.“ The bolded…has that been reported anywhere else?

I think this is just the internet being the internet. Tuch and Cozens are the road game alternate captains. Muel and Tage are the home game alternate captains. Since Muel & Tage were both out injured on Tuesday, the Sabres didn’t have an alternate captain on the ice. But none of that means someone got stripped of a letter. Publicly embarrassing a player by stripping a letter mid-season would mean game-over for that player in that locker room. The time for changes like that is in the offseason.