Kesselring and UPL are week to week with their injuries

[bob_sauve28]

 No idea at all who this person is, but here's what they said: 

 

 

 

[dudacek]

She's a Buffalo News reporter. Believe she replaced Lysowski.

[ponokasabre]

14 minutes ago, bob_sauve28 said:

 No idea at all who this person is, but here's what they said: 

 

 

 

Great to see Benson back!

 

Hopefully Sammy is g2g by Thursday, and Power I really hope its just a rest day, if we are missing our entire second D pairing for any length of time that is going to really be devastating

[Taro T]

25 minutes ago, inkman said:

Ok. Someone needs to explain when the term “line rushes” became popular to describe lines in the NHL.  Definitely since after I joined the board.  (Yes that’s almost 20 years ago) At some point everyone started using it. The internets aren’t much help.  We weren’t calling line “rushes” in the 90’ or even early 2000’s.  Then one day I hear / read Paul Hamilton dropping the term like everyone has just been using it. 

Good question.  Understand why the media folks use it, because seeing who's working through the drills together (aka a rush up the ice) is how they figure out which groupings are actually lines on that particular day.  But no idea when it went from simply "lines" to guys taking "reps" together to "line rushes."

When did "physicality" become a thing?

Heck, when did we go from "noodles" to "pasta?"  

[inkman]

6 minutes ago, Taro T said:

Good question.  Understand why the media folks use it, because seeing who's working through the drills together (aka a rush up the ice) is how they figure out which groupings are actually lines on that particular day.  But no idea when it went from simply "lines" to guys taking "reps" together to "line rushes."

When did "physicality" become a thing?

Heck, when did we go from "noodles" to "pasta?"  

First and foremost, being married to an Italian, Chinese food has noodles. Italian dishes have pasta.

I’m praying (ok I’m atheist) but you get my gist, physicality can be shot into the sun. I can only picture Bill Cowher’s old stiff mug saying dumb words like physicality.  

[DarthEbriate]

On 10/4/2025 at 9:42 AM, mjd1001 said:

I think if Greenway is in the lineup, its not on the 4th line. If Geersten is, it is on the 4th line. Big difference in minutes played.  Any 'greenway' replacement for usage will be someone else.

I think Greenway is a 4th liner on this squad. He's definitely not rolling with the Norris line or McLeod-Tuch under normal 5-on-5 situations. Ruff has a very Ruffian-style kid third line in Quinn-Kulich-Doan.

If Greenway skates on the remaining spare parts line of say: Greenway-Krebs-Danforth, then they probably get 9-10 minutes 5-on-5 and Greenway gets another 2+ as PK1.

But, I do agree that Geertsen gets much different ice time. If the 4th line for that night is Geertsen-Krebs-Danforth, then Geertsen gets 6 minutes total and other players get a double shift with the Krebs-Danforth forechecking effort.

8 minutes ago, Taro T said:

Good question.  Understand why the media folks use it, because seeing who's working through the drills together (aka a rush up the ice) is how they figure out which groupings are actually lines on that particular day.  But no idea when it went from simply "lines" to guys taking "reps" together to "line rushes."

When did "physicality" become a thing?

Heck, when did we go from "noodles" to "pasta?"  

Pasta is from the Italian word for... well, pasta.

Noodle is from the German Knödel or dumpling, but a boiled dumpling is a type of pasta.