HumanSlinky39

Jesus, Dunne. I could have had a better shift than that.

WTF was that?

He has the same look on his face every time they show him. Every. Single. Time. I can't tell if it's boredom or he's trying to hold in a sludge fart.

Just once I'd like to see Lindy get pissed.

*****

That didn't prevent him from making the save.

CAPTAIN

By the by, the Flames are DEAD LAST in the league in scoring.

My 10 year old daughter just asked "why are they always so bad?" How long ya got, kid?

JFC. This team, man.

If these guys lose another game against one of the worst teams in the league on the wrong end of a back-to-back again, FIRE ***** EVERYBODY. Wake up, lads. That seems to be what they do anytime they show signs of life. Still early, though. Right? RIGHT?

Geez, miss the start of the game and walk in to them down already

Byram. Power has size/reach you can't teach but he's in his 4th full season now and I struggle to identify one thing he's good at. Byram is pretty solid all around and doesn't have nearly as many confounding moments as Power. Is Power's problem coaching? I suspect that's part of it, but I just don't see the flashes of "wow" talent that you'd expect from a #1 overall pick. When I think of him, I just think "underwhelming." I think he's a bit of a victim of being the top pick in an extremely underwhelming draft class.

I'm not reading too much into the last few games. Countless times in the last few years this team has shown signs of life only to fall back into old bad habits and lose several in a row. This season is a game-to-game proposition for me. I'll worry about playoff standings in March if they can keep their heads above water. Go Sabres.

Think the guy deserves a thread at this point. Is he "The Guy" long term? Way too early to tell, but there's a lot to like about him in the few games we've now seen... Good positioning Moves reasonably well laterally Seems to have pretty quick reflexes Strong rebound control Plays aggressively, but not overly so Doesn't seem to get rattled and/or intimidated The team seems to have confidence in him in net and I think it shows in their play in front of him I'm not saying he's the next Hasek or Miller by any stretch, but he's shown enough to me that he should be our guy until he gives a reason not to be. Maybe he's the Sabres' Doug Flutie...just hopefully with a longer shelf life.

And Draisaitl is DEADLY from right there. That was an incredible save. This kid looks like a potential real find. I'm not gonna go too crazy because I've seen countless unknown goalies get inserted and have a nice few/several games then turn into a pumpkin, but RIGHT NOW he's our best goaltender and the attributes are obvious. Hopefully he's a guy we look at a couple months down the road and say "Hey! Helluva job on that one Adams!"

I'm not even thinking about them "figuring it out." Been bit too many times buying into that crap. Just enjoy the wins and don't read too much into them. I'll decide if they figured it out in April.

That is the best game I've seen then play in a long time and I continue to be impressed with Ellis Let's keep it rollin', on to the next one.

Ellis should be the guy going forward. Ride him til he gives you a reason not to. He's earned it.

TNT

ELLIS!

Let's get Östlund a Hattie.

Back-to-back cup finals hangover? Seriously, though, I think they missed Hyman a lot, just got him back. Secondary scoring hasn't been there like last couple of years. I do think all the recent deep playoff runs have caused them to start slow, which has been common with them the last couple of years. They'll likely catch fire in December/January. I just don't see them getting over the Cup hump with Skinner/Picard. Skinner isn't very good and Picard's been awful this year.

Oilers will pay for the Sabres laundry for two weeks.

I said "seriously." 😂