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A 2 week interruption due to a covid outbreak. Top pairing Risto and McCabe having career years, one out indefinitely with long haul COVID symptoms, the other a season ending knee injury. Borgen, a shining light in an otherwise dark season, suffers a broken arm. Eichel possessed by the spirit of Ville Lieno. Microscopic shooting % (historically low at even strength). Goal post after goal post after goal post. What can we do to appease the gods? Burnt offering? Blood sacrifice? Something needs to be done.

Free Jeff Skinner

MOIST WAND

Rinne

Hall, Eichel, Skinner, etc... will have breakout games here in the very near future. You can see the scoring chances growing, it's just a matter of time... a couple big games from those guys and they're back on track. Eichel will score early one of these games and snap out of his funk. Dahlin is due for a breakout game as well. It's coming.

skinner back in the lineup? hutton in the cage? eichel under a microscope? i'm in

3 studs: Rieder, Okposo, Hall 3 duds: Eichel, Sheahan, Eakin

all of them

classic Reinhart, another one bounces in off his stick

I'd like to see a little more aggressiveness in the d-zone in the 3rd. They back off too much, give them too much respect.. they need to close their gaps and get after it. That's been a problem for years, they play aggressive at times but always seem to regress into PK mode as the game moves along.

He does look slow, doesn't have that extra gear to pull away. My guess is back spasms. Shoulder injury wouldn't prevent him from reaching top speed.

their forecheck rotation has been excellent

yeichel

wow, did not expect this brutal

I want to believe in KA. He's a good kid, I know him a bit as our paths crossed a few times on the ice as young players. My concern is that he'll hesitate to make those ruthless cut throat type decisions every GM has to make at some point. Eg, if it comes to time fire RK, I just can't seem him pulling the trigger, maybe he'll surprise me, but I'm not sure he has it in him. The idea that he's simply a Pegula puppet is very possible. I'm not even going to entertain idea's of who would be a good replacement at GM and coach, because we have this conversation every year and watch as qualified candidates gets scooped up and have success. I'll go back to John Cooper almost 10 years ago... there was a group on here who were banging the drump for him for a couple seasons before he got promoted to the Lightning. Gerard Gallant, when he was let go by Florida, before Vegas grabbed him. It's exhausting and pointless.... Until there's a president/czar who knows hockey and has connections, nothing is going to change.

I tested positive (w/ symptoms) 13 days ago. My wife and 2 boys (15/17), managed to avoid catching it, so it's possible for you to dodge it, but you need to make sure your wife is sequestered to a single room in the house with her own bathroom. Make sure you wear a mask when bringing her food/clothes/supplies/etc... and wear gloves if possible, wash your hands frequently. I had similar symptoms to your wife, the worst of it lasts about 3-4 days, fever broke on day 7. I took a multi-vitamin, zinc and magnesium supplements daily. Good luck, hope your wife pulls through and you stay negative.

They just won their first game in forever and now RK is making lineup changes... What could possibly go wrong? SMH Anyway, another terrible matchup for the Sabres... Trotz is just light years ahead of RK when it comes to strategy. I see a 5-1 NYI win, Sabres get maybe 20 shots on goal. Just an ugly ugly game, exacerbated by lack of depth on the back-end.

the only gripe i have with skinner is that he seems to quit on plays... his first effort is good, but second and thrid effort are not consistent enough.

breakout game imminent

can't see them finishing this game in Tahoe, the ice is a disaster. brilliant idea to use dark paint under the ice for a day game, smh. they don't appear to have lights, so they're screwed.

looks like a sprained MCL... had the same injury in college. i missed 6 weeks, hopefully his is not as bad.

They played to win. It looked like they believed they could. One small step, now they need to figure how to come out like that every game.

1-0 Devils in a shootout