November 5th practice notes

[LGR4GM]

 

Kozak practiced and Ruff is hopeful he'll play tomorrow. Norris has begun skating on his own. 

[LGR4GM]

UPL has said he'll be starting tomorrow. 

[Taro T]

46 minutes ago, LGR4GM said:

UPL has said he'll be starting tomorrow. 

As expected.  But it would've been nice for them to give Ellis that start against his old organization.

[DarthEbriate]

41 minutes ago, Taro T said:

As expected.  But it would've been nice for them to give Ellis that start against his old organization.

If you aren't going to give him St. Louis and the motivation of "You shouldn't have a waived me. Look at your crap goaltending now" then I don't know when he will play with the 3-headed monster. Goalie Hydra!

 

Question: Has Ellis been practicing since he twinged his back?

[Taro T]

1 minute ago, DarthEbriate said:

If you aren't going to give him St. Louis and the motivation of "You shouldn't have a waived me. Look at your crap goaltending now" then I don't know when he will play with the 3-headed monster. Goalie Hydra!

 

Question: Has Ellis been practicing since he twinged his back?

Agreed.

No data on if he's been practicing since then, but he has not dressed for a game since then.

Ruff does continue to say he's willing to play all 3 and will play whichever one on any given night he thinks will give them the best chance of winning.  (And with that said, we haven't seen Ellis dress in about 2 weeks.)

[Pimlach]

Sure seems like Ellis tweaked something, he is not dressing. 

That is just how the season is going so far. 

We started with a bunch of defenseman dinged up, now its forwards, we are carrying 3 goalies, and for some reason are not playing the one we know very little about.  

[Archie Lee]

I think Ellis will be waived as soon as the Sabres are healthy enough to need the 23rd roster spot. I think they have just been waiting for the 30 days to pass in order to increase the likelihood he clears.

[LGR4GM]

Just now, Archie Lee said:

I think Ellis will be waived as soon as the Sabres are healthy enough to need the 23rd roster spot. I think they have just been waiting for the 30 days to pass in order to increase the likelihood he clears.

He clears and goes where to play when?

[DarthEbriate]

9 minutes ago, LGR4GM said:

He clears and goes where to play when?

Beat St Louis tomorrow -- then waive him after the 30 days -- and they're second in line to claim him (for NHL). They then ride their own Goalie Hydra for awhile -- until they waive Hofer. Sabres then put in a claim for Hofer in a couple weeks. Rinse and repeat.

[Broken Ankles]

3 hours ago, LGR4GM said:

 

Kozak practiced and Ruff is hopeful he'll play tomorrow. Norris has begun skating on his own. 

Not a fan of these line at all.  Moving Doan off a higher scoring line to accommodate a move up of McCleod to the first line is just asinine.  We all know Ruff thinks Tage cannot play center, so I guess we need to break up the entire Tuch/McC/Doan line which has been consistently good. 

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The current second line will get crushed out there.  Why not start Softie McSupple at RW?  Not available? 

Maybe  he’s trying a shut down line of Doan/Krebs/Greenway to play against their first line and sees more 5v5 minutes than either Tages line or the three yutes, but I guess we’ll have to see how they are deployed. 

 

[Slack_in_MA]

20 minutes ago, Broken Ankles said:

...than either Tages line or the three yutes, but I guess we’ll have to see how they are deployed. 

 

 

Nice...

Edited 1 minute ago by Slack_in_MA