That Aud Smell

Interesting. I remember hearing Granato talk some time ago about how his principal focus with the team has been to get them to learn how to create good scoring chances in the best league in the world. And he made some remarks about how *difficult* it is to do that - both to teach it and to learn it and to do it.

I like this Twitter account. These are thought-provoking Tweets. And I think they may be correct as well.

When Reinhart was in the Sabres org, I recall a story about how he lit it up in the WHL in the year preceding his draft and then took a step back in the year after the Sabres drafted him. I recall the report stating that the Sabres had essentially planned for/caused this to happen because they asked Reinhart to return to juniors but focus on certain things (weight gain? strengthening?) that would help him as a prospect but not help him in the short-term of his final season in juniors. Any chance that's what's going on with Savoie? Because otherwise - woof.

The line is terrific, but this is also true. The shortie he scored against DET sticks out in my mind. It was a great play but also a pretty soft goal (that goalie was *leaky* (Samuelsson's first ever NHL goal against the same guy was a howler)).

He was bad. But it was cool that he paid an homage to Ryan Miller's WTF wave. Between Dell and the Detroit goalie (whose name is an alphabet soup), the Sabres have recently seen some goaltending that will help the shooting %.

I don’t think so. In fact, I think the Bills got it back after that call and had their 9-minute killer TD drive. This is more just a discussion on whether what Poyer did should be ruled a catch. The more we debate it, the more I can see the logic (?) of differentiating between what happens on the field and what happens off it. But as soon as I see it, my opinion snaps back to believing that was a catch.

Oof. My mistake. I was stuck in the “ball (came loose and) hit the ground” line of debate. I just don’t get the logic of how that’s an INT if he stays in bounds but not if he’s out of bounds. I’ve watched it - understand the rule and the distinction it makes - and concluded that that’s a catch and that the rule is dumb.

But it didn’t.

After the stress associated with the last several games -- shoot, going all the way back to the 2nd half of the Green Bay game! -- it was so nice to have a game where the Bills essentially coasted to victory. You are far from the only person. I think the general consensus is that it's a terrible rule and should be changed.

Bills placed Miller on 4-game IR. We can't even trust the players to break their own injury news! Miller said a couple days ago that he'd be back for the Jets game. GO BILLS!

Hear, hear. Me no likey. GO BILLS!

Why the hell not. Let's go, Buffalo!

I read through the thread. This is a fun stat to contemplate. The thing that I remember about Power from that game: How he panicked a bit at the very end of the game and needlessly turned a risky clearance into a 2-minute minor (from the replay, you could see that he had more time and space than he realized). The Sabres survived that power play, thankfully.

Matches what I recall of the eye test in watching him. Yes, the team in front of him was depleted at times. But he rarely looked the part of a 1A or 1B.

The OP cited to GSAA. That stat doesn’t account for shot quality. What about GSAE (expected)? Posts like the one above seem to raise a fair point.

Renewed request to Dan Dunleavy: Immediately announce a goal by saying the word “score.”

this is something

Someone’s going to find and resurrect that WGR caller from 2006 who sang “I Roll Four Lines” to the tune of “I Walk the Line.”

Man … I’d take Beasley back in a heartbeat *if* he could do ~85% of what he used to do. I just don’t think he can do it anymore.

DE’s dropping like flies and they sign a WR to the P Squad. Is there an injury at WR that I missed? Also occurs to me: Probably not a DE out there worth signing.

The Miller news so far is a mixed bag of encouraging and confusing. Apparently they know he’ll need surgery after the season? What’s the recovery horizon there? The Bills need Rousseau (sp) back - and also need him to step up. I feel as though the Bills haven’t had a ton of injuries - but, those they’ve had, have been to really important players. Not important on the levels of 17 or 14 … but 40 going down approaches that level for sure. The Bills are not a SB contender without him, imo. (That is, unless Rousseau were to suddenly take a quantum leap.)

And of course, Power has the benefit of Dahlin being on the team.

It’s a holiday season. The Sabres are fun. Let’s go.

@Eleven with the GDT and an apparent typo (or an inside joke I am missing) in the topic title. Goat head night. Can’t lose. Can(‘t) lose?

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