IKnowPhysics

Petermania is mass suicide.

This defense doesn't deserve this offense.

Go Potatoes.

Must win.

I do scotch. Samesies.

Must win. In his 2GP, Remi was last in 5v5 CF% by a wide margin and last in 5v5 HDGF%. Housley's actions continue to correlate to data, even with small sample sizes. Who leads the team in 5v5 CF% and is second in 5v5 HDGF%? You guessed it, Frank Stallone, er Nathan Beaulieu.

That's a huge expense in a relatively new arena. But if anyone doesn't think that it visually makes a difference, here's some evidence: Red seats: Black seats: The black seats (Staples) are actually wayyy more empty than the red (Little C's), but the red seats absolutely highlight the emptiness.

One of the soldiers that went to war for us through the Sabres' best years so far. Second on the team in +/-, second on the team in blocked shots, first in team Dmen in takeaways when he played for us the first time.

I think this is right. Average NFL career is 3.3 years. No guaranteed contracts. Gotta make the paper while you still can in a sport that has a 100% injury rate.

And we'll have more than $92M (-Shady salary) next year, so we can buy any player we need.

Predictions Summary Highlights/Agreements: Season points ranged from 69-99. All represent an improvement from last season's 62 points. Average was 85. Season goals for ranged from 210-263. All represent an improvement from last season's 198. Average was 237. Season goals against ranged from 229-290. All but one represent an improvement from last season's 280. Average was 254. Everyone picked Eichel to finish top two in goals (at least 27 goals) and first in points (at least 75 points, 86 points average). Everyone picked Reinhart to finish top three in points. The average guess at top goal scorer was 36 goals. Everyone thinks the PP lands between 4th and 18th. Everyone thinks the PK lands between 15th and 30th. Nylander grabbed five mentions in biggest surprise. Mittelstadt grabbed five votes in biggest disappointment. Outliers/Weirdos: Everyone had the Sabres winning 35 games except Pi. Everyone picked Skinner to finish top three in goals except Taro. Everyone picked Skinner to finish top three in points except Taro, Hoss, and IKP. Player outliers: Only one defenseman cracked top three goals or points (IKP: Ristolainen) Only Taro picked Sheary for top three in goals. Only Liger picked Thompson for top three in goals. Only Hoss picked Okposo for top three in points. Goalie outliers: Pi think Hutton plays 70 games, Flagg thinks only 45. Hoss thinks Ullmark plays 36, Pi only 12. Matter thinks Goalie X plays 12 games. Everyone but Pi thinks Dahlin will be the best rookie. Pi thinks it will be Pilut. Wookie can't decide whether it's Dahlin or Mittelstadt. Everyone but JSB, Pi, and Liger thinks Dahlin is at least a Calder finalist. JSB thinks Okposo wins Lady Byng. Everyone but Darth, Huckleberry, and Liger think that Eichel is an All-Star.

Because we're building a dynasty, not a lucky one-off, so we need to master fundamental five on five hockey. There's no doubt special teams can win you the few games that you'll need to edge other teams out on the way into a playoff spot, but being bad at the core game will be exposed one way or another. The good news is it's early and we're getting Ws anyways to stay relevant, positive, focused, and improving.

Sabres are getting handily outshot 5v5, including high danger corsi for/against, and it's evidenced in 5v5 goals: BOS SF-SA 27-23, HDCF-HDCA 5-6, GF-GA 0-2 NYR SF-SA 19-30, HDCF-HDCA 5-9, GF-GA 0-1 VGK SF-SA 15-25, HDCF-HDCA 5-8, GF-GA 3-2 Total so far: 61-78, 15-23, 3-5 (CF% 44.2, HDCF% 39.4, 5v5 GF 32.5%) It's early yet, but the wins like this are unsustainable. And if they are sustainable, Hutton will win a Vezina and Eichel will win a Hart using only the PP.

MSG and NHL Network? One's not blacked out?

FWIW, now here's Ron: https://www.sportsnet.ca/hockey/nhl/william-nylander-maple-leafs-camps-standing-firm-negotiations/

My fault. I can't read anymore. That was his '17-'18 salary.

He makes $894k this year, of which Sabres only have to pay for game after the trade (presumably near the deadline = 21 games/82 x $894K ~ $229k).

Pominville and Moulson's cap hit is $9.575M and will be off the books next year, minus whatever smaller amount we might offer Pominville to stay on.

That's too wide of a margin, for just about any normal shot map. We were outplayed by the Rangers, with exceptions to the PP and Hutton. Yeah. Not good.

Hutton shows big balls PP erects the first win Eichel's gut check reigns

Anybody else getting a ridiculous amount of bass audio during Carubba Collision commercials?

Lehner eats ranch.

The organ player was given a real organ instead of a keyboard. That's a nice thing.

Haa, a twitter handle just to trash the arena food, etc. Love it. Hopefully you'll be followed by someone in the organization that can make a difference.

You can't slap together a brand new 50% of a roster in one off season and expect instant results. Housley will be given at least the full season unless some unfathomable trainwreck occurs, like starting 6-35 or something. Then he might be sacrificed just to wake up the players. Note that only one of 45 voters so far actually voted for gone by the end of the trip. This board never sees that level on consensus on anything.