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Not sure what you're trying to argue. The Sabres ran their #1 PP unit. Against C-bus, they ran their #1 unit minus Tuch. They now have 1 goal to show for it. Yea.

Cossa's an NHLer? Seider isn't playing, Holl isn't playing, Compher isn't playing. AHL goalie behind ~1/2 of their normal PKers. Sure, they brought their A team.

Well, it went through Tuch. But it seems they are getting used to each other.

Against AHLers, great tonight. Last week, not so much. Expect the Rags to be that kind hubristic?

Norris being a great teammate. He could've scored the goal, but wanted to let Thompson get his 2nd instead. 😉

How far behind is your feed? It's easier to do when you're actually at the game. 😉 Just sayin'. (No idea how he normally does it.)

??? Delay of game for Cossa playing the puck outside the trapezoid.

Dahlin, please get off Lyon anytime now.

He shouldn't have tried to play the puck to Dahlin. Just cover it and take the FO.

😞 3-2

And for very young guys, contracts are 1/3 guaranteed. For old guys with some special circumstances (primarily when the contract is signed) they are 100% guaranteed.

Timmons took a hard spill behind the Detroit net. Lost a bit of an edge as he was getting hit. He popped right up, but he's going to be sore tonight. Could've been a lot worse.

It's 2/3's guaranteed. Should the Sabres decide to buy him out, he gets 2/3's the remaining money over twice the remaining years left on the deal when they buy him out.

Wow, not sure how Detroit didn't score there. Huge scrum in the Sabres crease and Lyon was down facing east-west as the puck went across the crease but somehow Detroit couldn't get a stick on the puck.

Wonder if Mrtka gets the 9 game tryout. If Samuelsson isn't able to go vs the Rags, could definitely see them giving him that look. And have to believe Helenius and Mrtka are pencilled into next year's line up (though obviously a lot can change between now and then).

Draws don't matter. (Except when they do.) Yeah, even if Thompson and Norris don't have "chemistry" can't see taking Norris off that line simply for his ability to win draws cleanly when they matter.

Thompson off the draw.3-1

McLeod robbed by Cossa. (Well sort of, you hit him in the winged wheel and even with 14 extra lbs of muscle you probably aren't putting it through him.) Great pass from along the boards by Tuch to him sending him in clean behind the D.

Shoot. 2-1. Kane. Sabres still have issues with puck carrier below the goal line leaving the slot clear for a sniper to sneak in. Lyon with no chance. Should be a Sabre.

Byram out for the very end of the kill.

McLeod and Tuch on the PK. Dahlin and Timmons the D. Followed up with Norris and Benson and Mrkta and Bryson.

He definitely is more self confident than Power at a same juncture.

Johnson loses his stick in the corner, stays with the play and seems to legally get the puck away from the Wing, but the ref did not agree. 2 minutes for holding. Wings to the PP. Very possible.

Byram saved a goal. Not sure how he didn't get called for covering it in the crease (didn't look that closely at it, maybe the puck was outside the crease when it was under him) but still 2-0 Sabres.

Well, hopefully should it come to that, and not wishing it on Bobrovsky but should it come to that, am hoping that preseason vs a mix of NHLers and AHLers isn't the same as playing vs NHLers. If it takes FLA falling off due to injuries to sneak the Sabres into the playoffs, so be it. Had Fasching not kicked a goal into the net that counted, FLA might very well have missed the dance the year they lost to Vegas. Would be poetic somehow that their run ends with the Sabres sneaking past them.