That Aud Smell

That is a damn shame, if true. Tractor-cito is an absolute marvel of modern athleticism to behold. I take no joy in inferring from this sort of thing that no one - I mean no one (except maybe Marcus Allen and Frank Gore (?)) - is immune from the ravages that the RB position visits on the human body. Henry's work load *and production* over the past ~40 games or so had been unfreakingbelievable.

My view from the stadium's 300s: I don't care what their record is - that Miami team is well-coached and played well yesterday. Flores and his staff deserve full marks for coming in with a plan on D that obviously confused the sh1t out of Daboll and Allen. Then the Bills got it figured out. It's a week-to-week league, as they say. The Jets beat the Bengals, FFS. Now, win at Jacksonville.

The replies are funny

Yeah. He had a featured role in that RJ video, jogging over the Michigan Street bridge. There was/is an intent in that regard, for sure.

Also, not for nothing, the Sabres' PDO isn't ridiculous right now. It's tenth in the league, which is ... fairly lucky. Their SV% is obviously really high (4th), and will regress. But the S% is a bit low (22nd) - maybe it will improve?

The team's raw Corsi from the 2019 streak was ~48%. Ironically, if you factor in three games after the streak, that value rises to 49.2%. The Sabres SAF were 170, while SAA were 149 over those three games -- this includes that one Rangers game where they lost badly to the Rangers despite having the raw corsi lopsided in their favour.

It’s interesting to see Buffalo almost at the middle of the Bad-Dull-Good-Fun quadrants. Trending toward Dull-Good, though, which is nice.

super rough math: the team's raw corsi in and around the 9-game winning streak of the fall of 2018 was ~46.6% - Shot Attempts being 643 for their opponents and 562 for the Sabres (this is actually over an 11-game period of time with the 9-game win streak included). their raw corsi was a bit better than that last night (48.6%). for the year thus far, the team as a whole has a raw corsi % of 49.48%.

btw - was the 9-game streak in 2018?

Hell yes. We'd be talking 41-31-10? (Btw, that's playoff bubble territory.) Good insights. I think an 80+ point team is a good outcome for this squad. A DeLuca .500 team would be a great outcome.

@deluca67 .500?

Checked the raw corsi - it was like 56-54, in the Ducks’ favor. Which isn’t as bad as I’d feared. Go, Sabres!!

I figured this would happen. But keeping effort and pace high should continue to help. And some wrinkles, as you say.

What on earth? Also: Who’s B. Miller?

One thing I want to add - and I don't know if it's been addressed upthread: The fact that this happened with the Blackhawks organization is, I think, largely arbitrary. I venture that this could have, and most likely would have, happened with any other NHL franchise in a similar situation. The temptation in these morality plays is to tut-tut and shake our heads and "for shame, for shame" the Blackhawks. The reality is much, much more complicated, and messy. It's important to reflect on the fact that no one helped this young man. No one. Not the team, not the league, not his own union. The problems and the failings that led to this tragedy are not peculiar to a particular franchise -- they are endemic to our species. Hopefully, less and less endemic as we march on and the arc of the moral universe bends ever towards justice.

It's just such an odd thing to perseverate about, given what's actually at issue. Did TSN embellish their characterization of this player's status a smidge in order to drive attention? Seems that way. Does the exercise of that journalistic license warrant attention in connection with a matter as awful and sad as this? Hard no, from me. This turns what's going on here on its ear. Persisting with semantics in connection with this matter is the weird hill to die on.

Bad things, man.

Let's go, Buffalo! I'm apt to know the score midway through the first, and that'll be it until tomorrow. Minxy Wenches.

Did you see the part of the report where Quenneville was in a meeting regarding the abuse and angrily directed that the matter await the end of the SCF so as not to affect team chemistry? Also, it’s form over substance to get exercised about the media calling this guy a Blackhawk player. The use of “Blackhawk player” is arguably stretching the truth a bit — presumably in order to attract eyeballs and clicks — but it’s not stretching the truth to the point of snapping it or breaking it.

This is so helpful. Sincerely. Thanks, bruv.

This is why I post that stuff here. I need perspective.

@Taro T those look off to me as well. The reply about everyone’s CF being better when playing away from him is troubling.