Practice Lines 12/7/25; Noah Östlund returned to Amerks

[Brawndo]

Greenway on the top line 

Edited 2 hours ago by Brawndo

[Believer]

Interesting top line.

Time for Thompson and Tuch to deliver.

[ponokasabre]

Östlund needs to go down if he is sitting 

Who was in the starters net? 

[mjd1001]

Greenway on the top line?  Please no...

[triumph_communes]

I would swap Zucker and Greenway but I understand the concept regardless 

[DarthEbriate]

I guess... at least Greenway isn't playing center this time as he did in his season debut?

[LGR4GM]

🔥 Lindy into the 🌞 

[Brawndo]

Östlund going down and keeping all three of these goalies is certainly a choice 

[sabresouth]

Wow, in what universe is Greenway a top line winger? This organization is an absolute disaster. 

[sabresouth]

I keep coming on here and hoping I'll see a fifty page thread that just started an hour ago about ka being jetisoned. No such luck yet. Sigh...

[inkman]

1 minute ago, sabresouth said:

I keep coming on here and hoping I'll see a fifty page thread that just started an hour ago about ka being jetisoned. No such luck yet. Sigh...

That isn’t happening this season.  We just have to hope Daddywantsbucks finds some other cheap version of an NHL staff.  We know he’s not going to pay top dollar or bring anyone in that scares him (I.e. has opinions and wants to use them). 

[HumanSlinky39]

If Greenway is on the top line, Lindy should be immediately dismissed on principle alone.

[pastajoe]

33 minutes ago, Brawndo said:

Östlund going down and keeping all three of these goalies is certainly a choice 

Just not a good one. 😡

[Brawndo]

 

[mjd1001]

43 minutes ago, HumanSlinky39 said:

If Greenway is on the top line, Lindy should be immediately dismissed on principle alone.

Jordan Greenway. 1 goal and 2 assists in 14 games so far.  He can't stay healthy. I'd be worried about him getting more than 15 minute of ice time without breaking. 

He has 5 goals in his last 72 games.

And THIS is who you are even thinking of using on that top line?

If I'm Tage, as soon as Adams is done talking to Östlund, I'm going there and demanding a trade away form this team.

Lets send Ostund, who has legit been having good games...lets send him down...while giving the offensive powerhouse in Greenway top line minutes and making sure we can keep all 3 of our below average goalies instead.

Frustrating.

Edited 1 hour ago by mjd1001

[DarthEbriate]

1 minute ago, mjd1001 said:

Jordan Greenway. 1 goal and 2 assists in 14 games so far.  He can't stay healthy. I'd be worried about him getting more than 15 minute of ice time without breaking. 

He has 5 goals in his last 72 games going back 2.5 seasons.

And THIS is who you are even thinking of using on that top line?

If I'm Tage, as soon as Adams is done talking to Östlund, I'm going there and demanding a trade away form this team.

Lets send Ostund, who has legit been having good games...lets send him down...while giving the offensive powerhouse in Greenway top line minutes and making sure we can keep all 3 of our below average goalies instead.

Frustrating.

But they're going to be hard to play against because they're so tall.   😇

[Brawndo]

[Brawndo]

11 minutes ago, mjd1001 said:

Jordan Greenway. 1 goal and 2 assists in 14 games so far.  He can't stay healthy. I'd be worried about him getting more than 15 minute of ice time without breaking. 

He has 5 goals in his last 72 games going back 2.5 seasons.

And THIS is who you are even thinking of using on that top line?

If I'm Tage, as soon as Adams is done talking to Östlund, I'm going there and demanding a trade away form this team.

Lets send Ostund, who has legit been having good games...lets send him down...while giving the offensive powerhouse in Greenway top line minutes and making sure we can keep all 3 of our below average goalies instead.

Frustrating.

Tuch will be a deadline move, Tage around the draft and I do not blame either of them 

[PerreaultForever]

1 hour ago, Brawndo said:

Greenway on the top line 

Zucker and Benson should be switched imo but Greenway in that top spot relates directly to what I said earlier in a thread. They are one top veteran forward away from a decent line up but they don't go and get that forward, they just plug in Greenway instead and thus we stay where we are. 

[PerreaultForever]

8 minutes ago, Brawndo said:

Tuch will be a deadline move, Tage around the draft and I do not blame either of them 

I think Dahlin will ask for a trade too. Given his personal life this year he might really want a new start in a new place as well. All depends on how his wife is and how tied (or not tied) she is to the community. 

I know the feeling because many years ago my wife almost died in childbirth and after she didn't, she kind of felt like it's a "new bonus life" and she wanted to throw caution to the wind for several years and that's when we took the kids and moved across country to the west coast. It's a real rebirth moment when you go through something near death and serious and if she has it, he might want it too. 

[inkman]

1 hour ago, Believer said:

Interesting top line.

Time for Thompson and Tuch to deliver.

 

1 hour ago, mjd1001 said:

Greenway on the top line?  Please no...

 

1 hour ago, DarthEbriate said:

I guess... at least Greenway isn't playing center this time as he did in his season debut?

 

1 hour ago, sabresouth said:

Wow, in what universe is Greenway a top line winger? This organization is an absolute disaster. 

 

51 minutes ago, HumanSlinky39 said:

If Greenway is on the top line, Lindy should be immediately dismissed on principle alone.

This isn’t the first time Jordan has found himself on the 1st line this season.  This is the result of a GM without the mental acuity to do anything other than what the players contracts will allow (aka keeping Östlund up based on performance) and a coach who has no creativity. 

[mjd1001]

Greenway is a below average player who really is only useful penalty killing, he's injury prone and not reliable. 

But they signed him to an extension for this year and next year a $4m per year, so they are forcing him in there to justify that deal.

There was little chance he was going to play more than 60 games in a season.  Per game, you are paying him like a 2nd line player when he doesn't even produce like a good 4th liner.

[Eleven]

1 hour ago, LGR4GM said:

🔥 Lindy into the 🌞 

It's Adams not Ruff.

[mjd1001]

Looking at the analytics, Since Greenway has been here, he and Tage have played together almost 270 minutes.  When they are together, the Sabres score a goal once every 15 minute of ice time.

That number is not that bad, its pretty good actually.  Maybe Lindy is so frustrated that he is down to making his lines based on a spreadsheet?

I'll give it one game to see if it works....not that I have any input and could over-ride the decision anyway.  I'm feeling that real world common sense will win out over past analytics and show this is a bad move..but who knows at this point.

Edited 1 hour ago by mjd1001

[Jorcus]

13 minutes ago, mjd1001 said:

Looking at the analytics, Since Greenway has been here, he and Tage have played together almost 270 minutes.  When they are together, the Sabres score a goal once every 15 minute of ice time.

That number is not that bad, its pretty good actually.  Maybe Lindy is so frustrated that he is down to making his lines based on a spreadsheet?

I'll give it one game to see if it works....not that I have any input and could over-ride the decision anyway.  I'm feeling that real world common sense will win out over past analytics and show this is a bad move..but who knows at this point.

Paul Hamilton stated postgame last week that Thompson likes playing with Greenway. There are positives and negatives but it is a big line and will be hard to push around.

Who is coming in for Östlund.

Edited 1 hour ago by Jorcus