GDT: Sharks @ Sabres, 7:00pm, March 10, 2026 (MSG, ESPN+, WGR-550)

[bob_sauve28]

40 minutes ago, Doohickie said:

Drop all depth charges!

Ummm...that type of ship doesn't generally drop depth charges, but sure, why not 

 

[Ogelthorpe]

18 minutes ago, dudacek said:

Isak Rosen and Jacob Bryson played on the weekend.

That Schenn and Stanley still can't on Tuesday says...something.

Like?

18 minutes ago, dudacek said:

 

 

Edited March 10 by Ogelthorpe
Get the papers, get the papers

[K-9]

18 minutes ago, dudacek said:

Isak Rosen and Jacob Bryson played on the weekend.

That Schenn and Stanley still can't on Tuesday says...something.

I could tell you exactly what it says, but this isn’t the forum for that. 

[dudacek]

15 minutes ago, Ctaeth said:

random observation ... but last game vs the lightning they didn't deploy metsa/kesselring as partners.  they partnered metsa and kesselring with the other 4 d-men instead of each other.  Metsa/Kesselring shared the ice for 20 seconds last game according to moneypuck.  Time with each partner for the two of them:

Dahlin-Metsa:  3:02

Power-Kesselring:  2:12  

Dahlin-Kesselring:  1:49

Samuelsson-Kesselring:  1:34

Samuelsson-Metsa:  1:24

Power-Metsa:  1:20

Metsa-Kesselring:  0:20

This is not new. It has been the case pretty much since they started rolling Metsa/Kesselring as their 5 and 6.

Smart coaching as far as I'm concerned.

[K-9]

18 minutes ago, Ctaeth said:

random observation ... but last game vs the lightning they didn't deploy metsa/kesselring as partners.  they partnered metsa and kesselring with the other 4 d-men instead of each other.  Metsa/Kesselring shared the ice for 20 seconds last game according to moneypuck.  Time with each partner for the two of them:

Dahlin-Metsa:  3:02

Power-Kesselring:  2:12  

Dahlin-Kesselring:  1:49

Samuelsson-Kesselring:  1:34

Samuelsson-Metsa:  1:24

Power-Metsa:  1:20

Metsa-Kesselring:  0:20

The pairings and minutes were hugely impacted by penalties. That said, when Kesselring and Metsa are paired, it’s usually in the first couple periods and seldom in third periods as Lindy has had one of the top four skating with for a while now later in games. 

[LGR4GM]

8 minutes ago, Ogelthorpe said:

Like?

 

You should do your own research. I hear that is popular. 

[Flashsabre]

Tonight would have been the perfect game to insert the new guys in the lineup and avoid that letdown. Oh well find a way. Celebrini is a treat to watch. The next generation Crosby

 

[inkman]

2 hours ago, matter2003 said:

We should rename ourselves Orcas for this game and go bite out their livers.

 

2 hours ago, North Buffalo said:

Gotta flip them over first.  Orcas do that

(But there is already a team with an Orca logo…)

[GASabresIUFAN]

30 minutes ago, dudacek said:

Isak Rosen and Jacob Bryson played on the weekend.

That Schenn and Stanley still can't on Tuesday says...something.

That one government is more efficient than the other.

Edited March 10 by GASabresIUFAN

[inkman]

3 minutes ago, Flashsabre said:

Tonight would have been the perfect game to insert the new guys in the lineup and avoid that letdown. Oh well find a way. Celebrini is a treat to watch. The next generation Crosby

 

Technically, last game would have also been a nice time to have the monsters we got at the deadline in the lineup. 

[K-9]

4 minutes ago, Flashsabre said:

Tonight would have been the perfect game to insert the new guys in the lineup and avoid that letdown. Oh well find a way. Celebrini is a treat to watch. The next generation Crosby

 

I hadn’t seen much of him because he plays for the Sharks but I certainly heard all the hype. I loved watching him in the Olympics and he certainly proved to me that all the hype is warranted. He’s a transcendent player. And only 19? That is crazy. I think he’s supplanted Bedard as the next “great one.” 

[Jävə Keith]

Swordsmen will take out those sharks when they attempt to get aggressive tonight.

[LGR4GM]

30 minutes ago, bob_sauve28 said:

Ummm...that type of ship doesn't generally drop depth charges, but sure, why not 

 

Looks like a South Dakota class with a random helicopter pad stuffed in front of turret 1. Need a good ole fashioned Cleveland or Fletcher class for some depth charges. 

[dudacek]

14 minutes ago, K-9 said:

The pairings and minutes were hugely impacted by penalties. That said, when Kesselring and Metsa are paired, it’s usually in the first couple periods and seldom in third periods as Lindy has had one of the top four skating with for a while now later in games. 

It’s not just later in games.

Each of their 1st shifts against TB were with top 4 partners.

They have barely played together at all: less than 10 minutes all season according to Moneypuck

[LGR4GM]

3 minutes ago, Ogelthorpe said:

You poor canadians are so funny🤣

$.64, what does that say about efficiency? 🤣

Not as much as $220million. Also, and this doesn't surprise me, that .64 is actually .74. I did my own research 😉 

[TageMVP]

Sharks 9-8 

Michael Celebrini has 12 goals but 3 are called back due to the "two line pass" being reinstated for this game only. Celebrinis 9th and the game winning goal goes off Powers skate as he's laying on the ice after getting trucked by Samuellson. Mattias checks Power on purpose in an effort, though feeble, to toughen Power up. 

Power is later released from the team after this game as Ruff finally realizes Power stinks and he can't take Powers "softer than butter" approach to hockey anymore 

[Stads]

Interior: Clan del Golfo Cartel (Bogota, Colombia)

Hector took a deep breath and entered into Chiquito Malo's quarters. They assured him the wire taped to his chest would not be detected. Once he set foot in the room, he knew something was amiss. Chiquito stood slowly up from his luxuriant desk. After the snap of his fingers, Hector knew these were his last breaths. The cacophony of bullets rang out and shredded Hector's chest into a sea of crimson. As he fell to the ground, he knocked over a large pile of cocaine. His blood spelled out the following in the powder:

 

[Broken Ankles]

26 minutes ago, K-9 said:

The pairings and minutes were hugely impacted by penalties. That said, when Kesselring and Metsa are paired, it’s usually in the first couple periods and seldom in third periods as Lindy has had one of the top four skating with for a while now later in games. 

FWIW - From Natural Stat trick - Meta and Kesselring have only 10 minutes together while Metsa has 305 minutes with "others".  If you go to the last 7 games (post Olypics)  it's 8.25 with MK and 56 minutes with "others".   It's like 5 full shifts together in 7 games.  Not a lot.   It's highly protected, with MK is not seen as a protector. 

 

[Ogelthorpe]

12 minutes ago, LGR4GM said:

Not as much as $220million. Also, and this doesn't surprise me, that .64 is actually .74. I did my own research 😉 

Not according to the exchange house at rainbow Bridge ya goof. 

Edited March 10 by Ogelthorpe

[bob_sauve28]

17 minutes ago, LGR4GM said:

Looks like a South Dakota class with a random helicopter pad stuffed in front of turret 1. Need a good ole fashioned Cleveland or Fletcher class for some depth charges. 

First battleship I ever saw and went on was USS Massachusetts, a South Dakota Class battleship. That was a million years ago!

Visited USS New Jersey last year and man was that thing gigantic. We spent a an hour or so walking around it and hardly saw much of it. 

Tom Hanks made a movie as a captain of a Fletch Class destroyer. It's called Greyhound and it was pretty good movie  

[K-9]

Just now, Broken Ankles said:

FWIW - From Natural Stat trick - Meta and Kesselring have only 10 minutes together while Metsa has 305 minutes with "others".  If you go to the last 7 games (post Olypics)  it's 8.25 with MK and 56 minutes with "others".   It's like 5 full shifts together in 7 games.  Not a lot.   It's highly protected, with MK is not seen as a protector. 

 

Yeah, @dudacekshed further light on the subject as well. I hope Lindy get comfortable enough with the new guys to pair with Kesselring (I think Metsa will be sent back to the Amerks) so that our top 4 can get a few less minutes per game heading into the post season.

[Taro T]

1 hour ago, Doohickie said:

The Sharks are a point out of the last WC spot.  They need this game.  This is a classic trap game.

If the Sabres come out like they did in the first half of the TBL game though, it will be over by the start of the third.  I don't expect a drop off in urgency just because they nosed ahead of the Lightning.  They've been fighting for their lives since December and there's still more work to do.

Must Win.

Snarks are the only team in the league that's played less than 61 games.  They may WANT this game, but they don't NEED it.

And, regardless of how good or bad either team is, Buffalo almost always has the Snarks number.  Rare exception was Thornton's 1st game as an official Snark.  That was an absolute disaster, but that team that day might've beaten the '77 Habs in Moe-ray-all; they were that stoked to have gotten him.

[TageMVP]

4 minutes ago, Taro T said:

Snarks are the only team in the league that's played less than 61 games.  They may WANT this game, but they don't NEED it.

And, regardless of how good or bad either team is, Buffalo almost always has the Snarks number.  Rare exception was Thornton's 1st game as an official Snark.  That was an absolute disaster, but that team that day might've beaten the '77 Habs in Moe-ray-all; they were that stoked to have gotten him.

That team was awesome and they had Cheechoo come out of nowhere for 56 goals 

[LTS]

Love to see this team come out and continue the energy from Sunday's game. Naturally it won't be the same physical level but if they can come out with feet moving, high pressure, up tempo game they have been playing that would be nice. It would be easy to have an energy let down after playing back to backs and having the second game be the level it was.  If they show up and skate hard... it says something about their mentality and approach.

And yeah.. I started the year with thinking I'd turn the game on if I had nothing else going on. I quickly got to, I'll find something else to do and now I clear the calendar in order to watch the game.

What a season.

[Kicksave]

After the other night I am 100% confident that this team is playoff bound and I am ready for that playoff intensity (which Sunday felt like).  Some of these games down the stretch will seem a little anticlimactic to me.  I realize we need to stay on course and the team does not think like this (or I hope they don't) but some of this next month might feel like a little bit of a swoon as my eyes are fixated on the post season.

 

I know, still gotta win our games but I am READY for game one, whoever that ends up being against.