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Bryson with Montour?!

can you waive somebody in the middle of game?

classic Reinhart

holy Hutton, what was he doing sliding to his left there

I'd like to see Cozens get a few looks at center. He can't be any worse than Staal at this point.

In the Rangers pre-game Joe Micheletti mentioned Eichel had a cracked rib entering training camp.

If history is a guide, Sam Reinhart is due for a big game, before disappearing again for a stretch of 3-4 games.

Seth Appert for HC? A guy who has coached a grand total of 7 pro hockey games in his entire career? I'm surprised Terry and Kim haven't already promoted him.

huge breakout game for Eichel, Hall and Skinner Rangers win 7-5

Stalock hasn't played this year, he's rehabbing from an upper body injury. That last thing they need is another injured goalie.

RK is a politician and Hall drank the koolaid.

such an attractive franchise too, what with all those expensive contracts coming off the books... oh wait.

Skinner-Eichel-Reinhart have played a total of 4-5 minutes together this season, and they looked good, generated some scoring chances, had some good zone time, moved the puck well. Hall-Staal-Cozens has looked pretty good too actually, Cozens being the only guy who scores tho, so naturally RK sits him after they put up a goose egg on Saturday.... ***** genius. What I see 5v5 is they like to move the puck around the perimeter, back to the D, down to the corner, behind the net.... at some point you need to force pucks to the middle of the ice otherwise you'll never generate enough high danger chances. They're bottom 10 in the league in high danger chances per 60min.... and top 10 in low danger (perimeter) shots. Not a recipe for success, especially when your high danger shooting percentage is hovering around 10% (league average is around 17-18%).

Yeah I'm getting there. It's tough to be patient, considering all the adversity they've faced, but they really *should* be better than what they've shown, all things considered (long layoff, no real practice time to gel with new teammates, covid, injuries, condensed schedule, stacked division, cursed puck luck, etc). They need a spark. A couple games with goals from the top guys might ignite this team.... right? Or no?

DON'T DO IT

Disagree. Lack of oversight has gotten them into this mess. Somebody more qualified than Terry and Kim needs to preside over the GM.

*****

ok coach <sad cozens noises>

With this marathon stretch of games you'd think the older vets would need a break here and there, guys like Okposo or Staal.... but no, he sits a fresh young Cozens instead, a kid who has legs for days and has been playing well.

Highly qualified president of hockey ops with full privilege to do anything they want.

It's still amazing to me that for how bad this team has been and for how long, I can't remember the last time they actually fired a coach during the season. Ron Rolston 2013? You're basically telling the players that the organization is OK with losing and we'll reevaluate the coach after the season. If they were truly desperate to win, they would've moved on from some of these clowns much sooner. That's how you build a losing culture.

============================================================== BUF even strength goal differential through 19 games = -23 BUF even strength minutes played through 19 games = 994.23 TRpm(team relative +/-) is the diff btwn actual+/- and exp+/- exp+/- is a function of %min played at ES and team ES goal diff %min is % of ES minutes played ============================================================== Team Player TRpm GP +/- exp+/- %min BUF Jake McCabe 7.01 13 2 -5.01 21.8 BUF Rasmus Ristolainen 6.23 11 1 -5.23 22.7 BUF Riley Sheahan 5.32 18 1 -4.32 18.8 BUF Curtis Lazar 3.93 16 0 -3.93 17.1 BUF Jacob Bryson 3.09 3 2 -1.09 4.8 BUF Rasmus Asplund 2.88 4 2 -0.88 3.8 BUF Dylan Cozens 2.76 14 -1 -3.76 16.3 BUF Matt Irwin 1.67 9 -2 -3.67 15.9 BUF Jeff Skinner 1.42 15 -3 -4.42 19.2 BUF William Borgen 1.41 4 0 -1.41 6.1 BUF Casey Mittelstadt 0.70 6 -1 -1.70 7.4 BUF Jack Eichel 0.63 16 -6 -6.63 28.8 BUF Tobias Rieder 0.18 16 -4 -4.18 18.2 BUF Kyle Okposo -0.02 13 -4 -3.98 17.3 BUF Brandon Davidson -0.09 2 -1 -0.91 3.9 BUF Henri Jokiharju -0.45 14 -6 -5.55 24.1 BUF Brandon Montour -0.55 16 -8 -7.45 32.4 BUF Tage Thompson -0.55 9 -3 -2.45 10.7 BUF Cody Eakin -0.74 18 -6 -5.26 22.9 BUF Victor Olofsson -1.60 18 -8 -6.40 27.8 BUF Eric Staal -2.86 18 -9 -6.14 26.7 BUF Sam Reinhart -3.45 16 -10 -6.55 28.5 BUF Colin Miller -4.07 18 -11 -6.93 30.1 BUF Taylor Hall -5.00 18 -12 -7.00 30.5 BUF Rasmus Dahlin -8.33 18 -16 -7.67 33.3 ==============================================================

He sounds like a politician.