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Did Montour just try to give Joker a speed boost by poking him in the back with his stick instead of skating back into the play? What a ***** joke.

Not Dahlin's fault.

Correct.

Good.

Technically a high stick, albeit unintentional.

Dahlin bombs. More please.

Dahlin pinched (fine), Olofsson ***** up that neutral zone pressure by going to the far side instead of covering (bad), and Staal didn't read it well enough to cover Olofsson's ***** up (not great).

It's unfortunate, but yeah, this season's obviously toast. We've got 25 games, a trade deadline, a draft, a free agency, and hopefully a real training camp and preseason to get right for next season. The more we can get done before the trade deadline in three weeks, the more we get to try out in the last bit of games. It's going to be an all-out science experiment that seeks what work works and what needs to go.

Gearing up for the single most important rookie debut in a Sabres jersey since Sam Reinhart Victor Olofsson Jack Eichel Alex Nylander Rasmus Asplund Casey MIttelstadt Rasmus Dahlin Dylan Cozens. The Goalie of the Future (EST 2017). The man with too many consonants and also, somehow, too many vowels. The Finnish Fever Dream. The man whose name, when you play around with Google Translate in Finnish long enough, might actually mean Old Man Bacon-a Hatch Machine-n. The second goalie taken in the 2017 draft but the only one that matters... UKKO-PEKKA LUUKKONEN

Hooray. The upside is that if our most skilled players were that easily affected by a coaching change, maybe they can get back to form under a new coach.

srs tho goalie gotta make that save

One point of order, created only because of the coincidence of Hutton being injured and then Ullmark practicing for the first time the very next morning: I really hope they're not rushing Ullmark back into action before he's ready.

Holy F. 5-4-2 with Ullmark. 1-16-2 without. Simply brutal. NO YELLING ON THE BUS.

I'm looking forward to the first trans NHL player scoring their first NHL goal.

Top cheese, same spot as Cozens.

JEFF

Cozens-Reinhart > Eichel-Reinhart? Investigation warranted.

Great release top cheese.

BAM

Toker looks sharp so far. Sabres are trying to force lots of stretch breakout passes, which is resulting in lots of turnovers to NYR dmen at the NYR blueline.

Which is weird, because almost all of his previous hockey play-by-play experience was on radio. He's just a very neutral speaker that inflects his voice very little. And it greatly contrasts with Rick, who might inflect his voice the most among any hockey broadcaster- you can tell where the puck is on the ice according to Rick's voice pitch without even listening to his words, and even when he's not screaming.

Saves. Bueno.