pi2000

It looks to me like he's still lacking some confidence. He has a handful of plays each game where he beats a guy in his own zone, carries the puck up ice through the neutral zone and instead of continuing to hold onto the puck and create offense he pulls up and either dumps it or forces a pass at the blueline. I'd like to see him hold the puck a bit more on his rushes and maintain possession deeper into the zone to create scoring chances. He's getting there, but it seems like he gets to a spot and then just lacks the confidence to beat the next guy and make a play.

just touched base with my source... he say's hello

mischievous wench

Why? Jack will be on LTIR as well, so it doesn't really move the needle at all.

Tonights matchup.... ============================================================== BUF even strength goal differential through 5 games = 0 BUF even strength minutes played through 5 games = 251.55 exp+/- is a function of %min played at ES and team ES goal diff TRpm(team relative +/-) is the diff btwn actual+/- and exp+/- %min is % of ES minutes played ============================================================== Team Player TRpm GP +/- exp+/- %min BUF Jacob Bryson 3.00 5 3 0.00 31.9 BUF Colin Miller 2.00 5 2 0.00 33.0 BUF Zemgus Girgensons 2.00 5 2 0.00 23.5 BUF Anders Bjork 2.00 5 2 0.00 22.1 BUF Rasmus Dahlin 1.00 5 1 0.00 36.2 BUF Victor Olofsson 1.00 5 1 0.00 26.8 BUF Rasmus Asplund 1.00 5 1 0.00 26.0 BUF Kyle Okposo 1.00 5 1 0.00 24.4 BUF Cody Eakin 1.00 3 1 0.00 14.0 BUF Tage Thompson 0.00 5 0 0.00 26.3 BUF Arttu Ruotsalainen 0.00 4 0 0.00 17.9 BUF John Hayden 0.00 2 0 0.00 7.0 BUF Henri Jokiharju 0.00 1 0 0.00 5.8 BUF Casey Mittelstadt 0.00 1 0 0.00 2.8 BUF Robert Hagg -1.00 5 -1 0.00 30.6 BUF Drake Caggiula -1.00 5 -1 0.00 23.3 BUF Will Butcher -1.00 4 -1 0.00 29.9 BUF Mark Pysyk -2.00 5 -2 0.00 30.3 BUF Vinnie Hinostroza -2.00 5 -2 0.00 28.9 BUF Dylan Cozens -3.00 5 -3 0.00 26.5 BUF Jeff Skinner -3.00 5 -3 0.00 25.6 ============================================================== VS ============================================================== TBL even strength goal differential through 5 games = -5 TBL even strength minutes played through 5 games = 250.08 exp+/- is a function of %min played at ES and team ES goal diff TRpm(team relative +/-) is the diff btwn actual+/- and exp+/- %min is % of ES minutes played ============================================================== Team Player TRpm GP +/- exp+/- %min TBL Victor Hedman 3.06 5 1 -2.06 41.3 TBL Alex Killorn 2.44 5 1 -1.44 28.7 TBL Pierre-Edouard Bellemare 1.91 5 1 -0.91 18.3 TBL Steven Stamkos 1.51 5 0 -1.51 30.3 TBL Anthony Cirelli 1.46 5 0 -1.46 29.2 TBL Nikita Kucherov 1.02 3 0 -1.02 20.4 TBL Mathieu Joseph 0.91 5 0 -0.91 18.3 TBL Andrej Sustr 0.79 4 0 -0.79 15.8 TBL Brayden Point 0.76 5 -1 -1.76 35.1 TBL Boris Katchouk 0.44 3 0 -0.44 8.8 TBL Jan Rutta 0.26 5 -1 -1.26 25.1 TBL Erik Cernak -0.29 5 -2 -1.71 34.3 TBL Taylor Raddysh -0.37 4 -1 -0.63 12.6 TBL Pat Maroon -0.89 5 -2 -1.11 22.2 TBL Ondrej Palat -1.52 5 -3 -1.48 29.6 TBL Zach Bogosian -1.72 1 -2 -0.28 5.7 TBL Ross Colton -1.87 5 -3 -1.13 22.7 TBL Corey Perry -2.93 5 -4 -1.07 21.4 TBL Ryan McDonagh -3.23 5 -5 -1.77 35.3 TBL Mikhail Sergachev -5.18 5 -7 -1.82 36.4 ==============================================================

We're all doctors now, smh.

that's nice but Reinhart still sucks

Unpopular opinion.... most of those numbers are because of the weak teams they've played.

moose whiskers

mike whiskey

I'm gonna need to see about 40-50 games at this effort level before I'm convinced this is actually who they are.

There's another scenario which has him playing in the Olympics.... the disc is in fact healing, albeit slowly. There's another scenario which has him playing in the Olympics.... the disc is in fact healing, albeit slowly.

Classic Reinhart smh Shows up to play when he feels like it. If he's not producing points he's a liability.

Love how he's looked so far, but let's pump the brakes a bit here... they're 3 games in lol. He's an aging vet who's on the decline. Sure it's a nice early season story and I hope he keeps it up but let's be real.

everybody is scoring, 10 players had at least 1 point total team effort, refreshing to see

these guys are way way harder on pucks than previous Sabre teams

is buffalo hockey fun again? 🤔

offensive explosion 💥

Classic Skinner

moist wax

No, he was outplayed by Swayman in camp and pre-season. Expectations are that Ullmark will make his Bruins debut against Buffalo this coming Friday 👀 Risto is expected back in the lineup tomorrow vs Boston.

Update on some former Sabres... Jake McCabe 3GP, 0G, 0A, -4, -1 TRPM Sam Reinhart 2GP, 0G, 0A, +1, -1 TRPM Rasmus Ristolainen (Injured)

Carter Hutton yanked in the 2nd after giving up 6 goals on 19 shots. He's given up 14 goals on 45 shots in 2 games 👀.

I kinda like where the Sabres are at wrt the Eichel situation. The longer this drags on, the more respect I have for KA. The tail no longer wags the dog in Buffalo.

My source says there's a 50% chance something happens over the next 4 weeks.