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He works for the Sabres right? His questions (if you can call them that) aren't really questions at all, he just force feeds them talking points most of which are just pointing out the obvious. And often he just keeps talking without giving the player a chance to reapond.

They played a different style with Jack out of the lineup, so scoring chances were down as well.. If you also look at goals allowed per game, BUF is giving up 1 more goal per game with him in the lineup. The lesson here is that it's a system thing, not just Jack doing all this on his own.

Yeah, it was a junior stick, he's been using intermediate sticks for a while now. He shouldn't have flexed it, but he's grown a ton in the last few months and I don't think be realized he could snap it. Knowing him he wouldn't intentionally try to break it. But I feel like there's a lesson to be tought here so I'll give it some thought. The pro shop guy wanted me to pay for the stick and I asked why they couldn't just return it for replacement under warranty. I feel like maybe I should've paid for it just to show my kid how to take responsibility for your actions... but then again maybe the stick was defective or already partially cracked.

GMTM is always open for business.

Need some parenting advice. My 13 year old snapped a 40 flex kids stick in the pro shop testing the flex on it. He barely leaned on it. Do I pay for the stick? Make him pay out of his allowance? I'm fairly certain the shop can just get a replacement from bauer as it's under warranty. I'm considering what disciplinary action to take with my son if any.

Look at the data Flagg posted in the other thread showing where other teams shoot on BUF. Most of their shots are from the point, in thr middle which is the easiest saves to make.... I like that he saves those shots, but he doesn't see much rubber from the high percentage scoring areas because of how the Sabres setup defensively in their zone.

Game they should win, but at 23-22-10 they're due for a loss. I'll say they get down 3-0 early storm back in the last 5 minutes but come up short... 4-2.

Same, teeing off at noon, with the way I play, highly unlikely to be done by 4p puck drop.

My hope is simply that they play physical and finish all their checks, and block some shots for a change, and score more than 2 goals, and make Matthews invisible, and Eichel goes wild, and Lehner punches Matthews in his repuslive excuse for a face.

I agree, but those Kings teams also gave up very few shots in general. BUF gives up the most shots in the league.

DIed the day after national Pizza day.

The guy who touched it last gets credit for the goal and SOG... because without the tip there's no telling if the shot would have actually been on net.

Flagg, what's the significance of "unblocked" shots vs all shot attempts? Wouldn't total shot attempts give a better idea of where teams are attacking from? Likewise with shot attempts against?

These guys are going through a stretch of 12 games in less than 3 weeks. The more rest they can get, the better. They're not even skating on off days.

very interesting data there. I think that also shows how poor BUF is at blocking point shots... right? And our left D can't get pucks through.

McCabe broke his stick and still hit 99. It's nowhere near accurate.

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I'm not sure they need to make the protected list public? Each team probably submits it to the league, who presents it to the Vegas staff. If it leaks, there could obviously be turmoil.

I follow the Ducks out here. They have a good team here's a few takes.... They have some outstanding defensemen... Fowler, Lindholm, Vatanen.. with up and comers Theodore and Montour. Bieksa is their Gorges, must take advantage of him when he's on the ice... get on him quick and he'll cough up the puck. Perry has been terrible this season. 9 goals in 55 games for a guy making $8.6m... they pay him to score goals, that's all he's good for. Getzlaf never shoots enough... here's another guy making +$8m who has a whopping 8 goals in 48 games. Despite all this they still find ways to win... due to their dynamic defense and depth at C (Getzlaf, Rakell, Kesler). Will be a tough matchup for BUF 3rd line, whoever that is. While you're watching the game, pay attention to how well Fowler (and Vatanen and Lindholm) skate, and how quick they are on puck retrievals. Will be a challenge even for guys like Kane to get any pressure on the forecheck. Theodore and Montour are plus skaters as well. Rakell is an up and coming talent, IMO he'll be an All-Star someday, reminds me of a young Briere, he has that potential... great hands, smooth, agile, plus offensive awareness. Get an early goal on Gibson and he'll be shaky the rest of the game. Weak 5-hole.

We're nowhere near that point. Talent wise this is a playoff bubble team... and guess what... they're a playoff bubble team. I'll become concerned if you the players start talking about needing to do something differently... but all you hear them talk about is putting together a full game... playing the system for 60 minutes, which is not a slight on the coach.

Don't lose sight of the goal of this franchise.. It's not to make the playoffs... it's to build a perennial Cup contender. You don't do that by trading away prospects to hopefully slide into 8th place and get pounded by the Capitals in the first round. Would it be nice to get in the playoffs this season? Sure it would, but don't mortgage the future for some temporary success.

It's not like he went full Steve Ott... http://www.cbssports.com/nhl/news/steve-ott-calls-sabres-fans-booing-completely-ridiculous/ "I think it's completely ridiculous, to be honest with you," Ott said. "We go into other buildings, we've won a lot of games and teams should have the same amount of frustration, sold-out buildings and it's funny because they're continuing to cheer on their team. They stand behind their team. They respect the work ethic and everything else. "It's disheartening when we did get hemmed in our zone and they're basically mocking us when you get up past the blueline and you finally get it in their zone after I guess you could say that minute and a half shift when they didn't have a scoring opportunity. I guess you can say it was more the mocking of my teammates and everything else that probably pissed a lot of guys off, including myself." "You're a fan of the Buffalo Sabres and hopefully you come to cheer us on and motivate us to be good. We've got a lot of young players on this team and they definitely don't deserve to be booed. They deserve to have that excitement and energy. It's definitely not their fault for the last six years of frustration that's gone on."

They like him, but they're looking elsewhere at the moment.

I see him about once a week or so, we talk Ducks stuff occasionally, always has a few good stories to tell.... duffel bags full of cellphones for road trips, cocaine abuse, player/coach relationship issues... etc.. It's fascinating stuff. There's a lot of dark and dirty stuff that goes on inside organizations.