Colten Ellis Love Fest

[HumanSlinky39]

Think the guy deserves a thread at this point. 

Is he "The Guy" long term? Way too early to tell, but there's a lot to like about him in the few games we've now seen...

• Good positioning
• Moves reasonably well laterally
• Seems to have pretty quick reflexes
• Strong rebound control
• Plays aggressively, but not overly so
• Doesn't seem to get rattled and/or intimidated
• The team seems to have confidence in him in net and I think it shows in their play in front of him

I'm not saying he's the next Hasek or Miller by any stretch, but he's shown enough to me that he should be our guy until he gives a reason not to be. 

Maybe he's the Sabres' Doug Flutie...just hopefully with a longer shelf life.

[Scottysabres]

8 years 8 mil

cats and dogs living together

the curse is over

Stanley Cup here we come

[Flashsabre]

They won’t know if they don’t give him a run. 
 

I would let him have the net for a while here. We know what Lyon is. See what the kid can do

I would end the UPL era. Move him out.

Run with Lyon-Ellis and Levi developing in Rochester.

[_Q_]

4 minutes ago, Flashsabre said:

They won’t know if they don’t give him a run. 
 

I would let him have the net for a while here. We know what Lyon is. See what the kid can do

I would end the UPL era. Move him out.

Run with Lyon-Ellis and Levi developing in Rochester.

Ellis-Lyon*

[PromoTheRobot]

[Flashsabre]

And he’s only the second best Ellis in the organization 😝😁

[Gatorman0519]

He certainly played like a top goaltender...at least for tonight. 

[Doohickie]

1 hour ago, HumanSlinky39 said:

Think the guy deserves a thread at this point. 

Is he "The Guy" long term? Way too early to tell, but there's a lot to like about him in the few games we've now seen...

• Good positioning
• Moves reasonably well laterally
• Seems to have pretty quick reflexes
• Strong rebound control
• Plays aggressively, but not overly so
• Doesn't seem to get rattled and/or intimidated
• The team seems to have confidence in him in net and I think it shows in their play in front of him

I'm not saying he's the next Hasek or Miller by any stretch, but he's shown enough to me that he should be our guy until he gives a reason not to be. 

Maybe he's the Sabres' Doug Flutie...just hopefully with a longer shelf life.

Intelligent too.  Makes smart hockey plays, especially when handling the puck.  UPL typically rims it around the boards to the opposing team while Ellis actually passes it to a teammate more often than not.

[Doohickie]

57 minutes ago, Gatorman0519 said:

He certainly played like a top goaltender...at least for tonight. 

He's 3-1 in his short career, with a .914 Sv%.  Sounds good, but he also has a 2.76 GAA which tells me that the Sabres are still giving up too many shots, but are mostly able to overcome that with him in net (more confident with him, leading to more goals?)  His one loss against Utah was a game that the Sabres totally played like doo-doo.

[Doohickie]

Interesting:  He's played almost exactly the same amount of time as UPL.  Compare their stats:

[Doohickie]

Also interesting that comparing GAA, he is just behind our friend Eric Comrie, and he's also played virtually the same amount of minutes.

Rank  Name          Team  GP  W  L  SA  Sv  GA  Sv%  GAA  TOI
30     Eric Comrie  WPG   4   3   1   119  108  11  .908  2.75  239:56
31      Colten Ellis   BUF    4   3   1   128  117  11   .914  2.76  238:46

Edited 1 hour ago by Doohickie

[7+6=13]

2 hours ago, Flashsabre said:

They won’t know if they don’t give him a run. 
 

I would let him have the net for a while here. We know what Lyon is. See what the kid can do

I would end the UPL era. Move him out.

Run with Lyon-Ellis and Levi developing in Rochester.

At 4.75, I don't see it, unless we eat approx. half.