Doohickie

Okay, tomorrow is the second game of a back to back. I suggest the following (are you paying attention, Donny?) Bring in the well rested forwards. Switch from this Skinner - Thompson - Tuch Peterka - Cozens - Quinn Mittelstadt - Jost - Olofsson Girgensons - Krebs - Okposo to this Skinner - Thompson - Tuch Peterka - Cozens - Quinn Asplund - Jost - Okposo Girgensons - Krebs - Hinostroza The idea is not putting two new guys with Jost, but spreading them around, with the goal of giving the bottom six some fresh legs. I don't think Donny will do it though; I expect him to ice the roster than won today.

You wish. 😏

But he's Sabres Blue, through and through.

Memba? I mean the way the Sabres played at the end of the season last year was fantastic. Playoff pace. The only problem was they'd dug too deep of a hole for it to matter. They dug a hole again this year, but this year they found themselves much earlier in the season. The early injuries on D set them back but as they've gotten healthy they really are back to where they were late last season, and much earlier. If they keep this up, the playoffs are clearly attainable. They are currently 4 points out of the last WC spot with 3 games in hand. Win those three games and they are in the playoff mix. Looking at the January schedule I can see them getting 24 points for the month. The biggest unknown is seeing how they play with playoffs on the line. Last year they were playing for pride, now it's for playoff position. It's a different kind of pressure so it will be interesting to see how they handle it.

I'm good with that

Pretty obvious: when he challenged Krebs, Krebs skated right at him.

Although isn't it Dahlin heaving the long passes 🤔?

Tage has 7 years to break the tie

Fuggin homers. They had to give a star to UPL but no.

Tears of joy.

I'm gonna fight 'em all A seven nation army couldn't hold me back

I gotta tell ya, when Cozens scored I got goosebumps.

There's no discretion: Blood = 4 minutes.

Come on guys, watch your sticks!

A double.

Evenly matched. I guess I should rephrase that 😒

Skinner's getting into bad habits with blind passes. Donny needs to talk to him about that.

***** ME

That was a really unnecessary penalty by Okie.

*****

Evenly matched.

Maybe the progression is put a young center on the 4th line with our energy guys (Okie/Girgs and/or whoever succeeds them) and toughen 'em up a little. I could see Krebs moving up to 3C but I like him at 4C for the time being.

Krebs leading Sabres through two periods in Corsi Percentage at 72%