Doohickie

Is he clearly better than the other two? Player SV% GAA Colten Ellis .896 3.41 Alex Lyon .899 3.23 Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen .891 2.73 (including tonight's game, Ellis is up to .898)

It feels like Tage has, in fact, improved his play without the puck, including defense.

His time is at hand. We know he'll be back. I kind of like our pipeline; the players on the edge like Östlund and Rosén are mature prospects, ready to graduate to NHL play. There are others behind them that will be ready soon. The Sabres also have AHL vets that are creditable tweeners who can fill depth roles should injuries demand (Johnson, Metsa, Dunne), who don't hurt you too bad when pressed into service. Jacob Bryson will never be a top 6 D, but at this point he's fine as a 7D. He's played most of the Sabres games this year and has a +/- of -1 which isn't awful. It feels like he's taken a positive step over the last year or so. He feels more NHL vet and not so much a tweener trying to hang on. It feels less like rushing the young talent up too quickly and ruining them, and more like timely development.

There were a few saves tonight where he looked like Charlie Brown on the pitcher's mound when a hit comes zooming through: All limbs, everywhere at once. And yet in a split second he's in place for the next shot. His utter commitment to the save is second among Sabres goalies only to Dominik Hasek.

The streak is alive! LONG LIVE THE STREAK!

I noticed several times in this game that Östlund was playin' with that dog in him.

Almost scoring?

Almost, Quinner. Too bad it wasn't Malenstyn. He has such sweet moves.

Tuch needed to do something, anything, but a wraparound!

I think Timmons pushed the Minny player into him.

Ran out of Depends again?

Love Kozak but he's not a 1C.

What was that penalty? He just gave him a shove from behind in open ice.

I had the same thought; he seemed slow to react to the situation.

Right?

FACTOID: The Buffalo Sabres have not lost a game this season when Beck Malenstyn scores a goal.

JFC