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https://www.knightsonice.com/2019/6/21/18700537/nhl-rule-changes-2019-2020-season-video-review-major-penalties-cody-eakin#:~:text=Referees will also be able to review high-sticking,for the referee to review such a call. Started in the 2019-20 season, so a little over one normal season's worth of games, in total. Definitely hasn't been used much - or at least nobody has written about it when it has been - but that doesn't make its use wrong in this case.

Ironically, they're just waiting for the team to win, so that he can go out on a positive.

See: Bills, Buffalo They've gone a long way towards fan forgetting 17 years of futility.

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Small fix to common mistake. Odds = pr(missing)/pr(making) = pr(missing)/(1-pr(missing)). So, odds of missing in first year are (1/2)/(1/2)= 1 (i.e.: 1:1.) Odds of missing two years are (1/4)/(3/4) = 1/3 (i.e.: 1:3 or "3:1 against".) Good news is that they are so bad that after 10 years, the denominator is almost 1: odds of missing 10 = ((1/2)^10)/(1-(1/2)^10) = 0.000977/(1-0.000977) = 0.000978 (or "1023:1 against"). 😁

That's because they get overconfident when they see a backup in net. 😉

If Kreuger is here for the whole season, I'll take the Bills. If he's replaced by a stop-gap coach, it'll be close. If we bring in a real coach, I'll take the Sabres. Linus being out makes it even tougher for the Sabres.

If Skinner gets a hat trick and then an OT winner, does RK keep his job? 🤪

The amazing thing about that goal is how you have to watch it six times before you see every part that makes it so impressive. The first time, I missed who scored it. The second time, I realized which player it was, but thought "did he just do what I think he did?" Third time, I confirmed that it was back between his legs, but noticed the whole bench start to come over. Fourth time, I verified that it was in overtime. Fifth time was just because it was cool to see in slow motion close up. It wasn't until the sixth time that I noticed there were only two seconds left in overtime after what should have been the last shot was blocked.

I hope KA is open to trading just about anyone, but I hope he hasn't decided that he has to trade anyone (other than expiring contracts.) We cannot afford O'Reilly-type "I have to take the best offer that I get" trades, especially for someone like Reinhart. Decide what you need to get back, and then take the best offer that is more than that. If there isn't one, then don't trade him.

Yes, I was. I stopped when it became too painful - not in the tank years, but a couple after that. I may have to dig out at least the Sabres historical one.

Never used this popular GIF before, but it perfectly reflects me checking in on the game just now ...

Was it? He looked really good in some games, but his save % in whole games (newest first): 0.976 0.870 0.926 0.857 0.897 0.912 In his first five games, his save % was 0.915, while in the the last five, it was 0.920. A little better, maybe, but a lot more variable, too. Two of his best three games were in the most recent five, as compared to one in the first five, but his three worst were all in the last five. I'll admit that save % is a very incomplete metric, but can you show me one that shows he's really been improving? Hutton has been bad and also needs to be replaced. However, if you just replace him, you're still a bubble team, at best. Realistically, a better backup would have given you maybe three more wins. That would put the Sabres at 0.500 P%, tied with the Rangers for sixth-worst in the division.

People who have unusual nicknames generally don't just decide one day that they want everyone to call them that. More often, people start calling them that for some reason, and then they decide they're good with it. There have been plenty of people who have called him Chris on the show, and never once has he corrected them.

As discussed in another thread, with Ulmark in net, they have 5 wins and 6 losses. Not a winning record. They have 12 points in 11 GP, which is more than 1 pt/GP. However, that's an 89 pt per 82 GP pace, which is below playoff pace. Your starter should be notably above playoff pace to just make it in, since you expect your backup to perform a little worse. Linus has played well and might be an OK (not great) starter if the team in front of him improved.

The first first thing Kevyn needs to change: "It hasn't been good enough."

So, in games with their starting goaltender, they're below playoff pace (12 Pts in 11 GP = 89 Pts in 82 GP pace), and you think that's good enough? Wouldn't you expect your backup to be below your starter, so your starter would have to be well above playoff pace just to get in? Carter Hutton may be a problem, but that doesn't mean that he is the problem.

The bad mojo has to stem from losing on purpose for Eichel, right? So ... and hear me out on this ... we should try to win on purpose! Crazy, I know. At this point, winning would just hurt our inevitable lottery odds, so actually trying to do it should appease the Gods.

He's young in NHL years. 🙃

Actually, it might simplify it ... no chance is simpler than slim chance. 😶

At its peak, yes. Back of the end zone? Still probably out of reach, but not 15' up.

Catchable is a judgement call. It was a little high, but Evens is tall and can jump. Either way, it looked like contact was initiated before the ball came out and was more than 5-yards downfield, so it could have at least been defensive holding. That still would have given them first-and-goal (albeit at about the 7-yard-line, not the 1-yard-line.)

I was sort of in between on them. The Chiefs' defensive backs get away with a lot of clutching and grabbing, more of which should have been called in the Bills game. I was glad to see some of them get called in the SB. However, some were questionable. The one in the video, though, from where the back judge was, absolutely would have looked like Mathieu grabbed onto Evens. Someone from another angle might have disagreed.

If you knew that it would have meant losing to Brady, would you have still wanted to the Bills to go to the SB? That would have been the cruelest of ironies.

Will everyone get down on Andy Reid for settling for a field goal there like they did on McDermott? Edit: I know that the Bills were in the red zone, but I'm thinking more about the "down by 15 against an offense that you can't stop" part.