Porous Five Hole

Why would the Wild do this?

I’m sick to my stomach. That is someone’s brother, someone’s son, someone’s hero. Damar, please be OK. ❤️💙❤️

some potentially positive news. follow up tweet said, “Source is me - His friend and marketing rep.”

Tristan Jarry was injured in the winter classic today. That bears monitoring as the Pens (losing today makes it five losses in a row) are a team the Sabres are chasing.

This is so true for me. But tonight I’m like, “Losers couldn’t come up with a logo and just went with “nature’s Zubaz” ffs.

I think UPL is going to Rochester. The guy has not been able to stay healthy and nothing suggests he can be a workhorse yet. Remember, he has yet to survive the AHL weekend schedule playing two out of three without injury. Aside from his one healthy year in the OHL in 2018-19 (53 games played), his durability has been an issue: 2019-2020: 33 GP (for reference, the Amerks played 62 games) 2020-2021: 31 GP (Amerks played 29 games, UPL was healthy enough for 14). UPL got four games in Buffalo and ten in Finland) 2021-2022: 44 GP (Amerks standard 76 game schedule, and UPL was injured for the entire playoffs) 2022-2023: 20 GP so far. GMKA says UPL has to play. I agree. But Anderson isn’t going to be physically able enough to be a 1B and UPL hasn’t been able to maintain this workload before. We all know Anderson isn’t going anywhere. So it’s Comrie’s crease when he’s healthy (with Anderson spelling the crease as able) and UPL can be load managed to hopefully get through a season for the first time as a pro in ROC.

Agree. Their head coach was upset about the defensive effort to the media last night. Seems like the Sens got the message (and had some post/crossbar puck luck).

Congrats, champion 🏆

You can thank me for that as I choked with a loss each of the last three weeks. I lost my starting QB in the first half in back to back weeks (weeks 13 & 14). And then my week 15 QB went on IR after the game. If only someone would have dropped Burrow and I could have picked him up this week. I could have been the hex to help the Bills.

It’ll be the rescheduled Columbus game in April & it’ll be meaningless in the standings because the Sabres will have already clinched a playoff birth. 🤞

Relentless is harder to play against than heavy. I want a relentless team first. Pressure their D with the forecheck (top line & kid line). Attack the net (Skinner, TNT, Okposo). Generate offense with speed (the whole dang team). Transition from defense to offense (Dahlin & Power). Push the pace and make the opponent chase the puck (coaching). Sandpaper can be acquired as this team develops (Tampa acquired Maroon, Nick Paul, Goodrow, etc). And sandpaper can also develop (Krebs as the example tonight). Stand up for yourself and your teammate. That’s a learned behavior with culture. The Sabres have culture. The Sabres are not a finesse team. If anything, they’re just young. While I would love for the team to finish checks more often, they’re loaded with offensive talent. And they’re being coached to out-skate and not outhit. It is working.

In his first conditioning start, Comrie was named first star today in Toronto. Nice!

Hahaha well sure, there’s that. But there’s also Ovie, Crosby, and McDavid within the same timeline. I’m just saying that 1OA in this era is more can’t miss than previously. And Laf is closer to Yakupov than he is to a stud. The Rangers have a problem on their hands.

I agree with you…the scuttlebutt is from the frustrated Rangers fanbase and not the organization. However, the comp to Krebs is not a good one. The pedigree of 1OA isn’t close to Krebs. I understand the line of thinking…young forward to young forward…but Imagine the Sabres scratching Power halfway through next season. That’s the pedigree of comp to consider (albeit different position). Not to mention Laf is getting protected minutes comparable to third liner Barklay Goodrow. It is going very poorly for him.

Scoreboard watching was probably best case scenario tonight. The Devils beat the Pens in regulation (Pens fourth straight loss) and the Canes shut out the Panthers (Canes tenth straight win). So the team we are chasing (Pitt) lost and we now have four games at hand with a team we are tied with (Florida). Nice!

I just re-watched it and I have no idea why that wasn’t icing. Not sorry tho!

That ‘five wins in a row’ face 😀

The worst part of this is we won’t ever be able to see @Doohickie’s Pilut goal meme in game day threads any longer. 😢

I was at the game after the plane crash too, and it was something! But I thought it was SJ? Pommer scored with only a few seconds left to win it and the building was almost shaking. So awesome.

Honestly, with the NHL schedule as condensed as it is…it makes sense to try to squeeze this game in if safe/possible.

Population density and street parking complicate snow removal. Plus you can’t just push the snow to the sidewalk like you can on county roads where sidewalks don’t exist. And if they do exist, they aren’t curbside like the city. The city is always going to be the last to open because it has the most to deal with. Let’s pull together here.

Yoooo they have a forklift to move cars out of the way

I think the Bills got flack for it too. I am not sure if it was politically motivated (anti poloncarz), frustration with bans/weather in general, or a loud complaining reporter (Tim Graham), but the sentiment of, “The Bills didn’t have to take this seriously, why do we” was certainly out there.