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Mittelstadt is their 5th F. Unless they're getting something really good, he isn't going anywhere this year.

Malkin got a breakaway coming out of the penalty box and then with about 5 minutes to go the Bolts collectively lost their minds. The puck just stayed in their end and everytime it seemed to be close to the net it was in the net. Look up at the TV, goal. Look up at the TV, goal. Lather rinse repeat. Stinks because Pittsburgh held the better of the play early in the 1st but the Bolts weathered the Storm and started to outplay them. The Malkin goal hurt but in and of itself, the game wasn't flipped.

Others watched more, but the biggest difference from last year to this is it seemed Peterka generated space for himself a lot last year. He's not doing that nearly as often this year. When the Kid Line got hot, all 3 guys were creating and finding space. That hasn't really happened for him since the calendar flipped. But until today, he'd had 3 games in a row where he got himself a truly excellent scoring chance. Almost think he's at the point where sitting a game or 2 and just watching would help a lot again. Now that Hinostroza is back, he might get that chance when Tuch comes back.

He was. Kind of nice to have had a chance to see what he can do when not carrying around 2 raw rookies or a rookie and Olofsson. (That said, still want to see him get one of those rookies back when Tuch comes back as Quinn is no longer a "raw" rookie. Expect those 2 plus Mittelstadt could make a darn fine 2nd line.)

Yes, this one.

Would have to think long and hard to make that deal for Makar. And still likely say no. No way does AZ get that for Chychrun.

But was clarifying that it wasn't 5 teams in all divisions. (And yes, he was asking specifically about the North.)

PTR had posted that there were about 300 seats left around 11:30 AM. Close enough to a sellout for gubmint work.

Yes he did. But finishing out a game with an injury isn't typically referred to as "playing through" an ailment. Which is why was expecting it was something from the Bolts game rather than the Swamp Cats game.

Actually, it says in the 2 - 7 team divisions there will be 5 teams qualifying. In the 8 team division, 6 teams make it , and in the 10 team division only 7 teams make it.

All but the bottom 2 in each division make the playoffs. With a kind of best of 3 play in of the lowest seeds to get each division down to 4 teams left. (That's how it worked last year; pretty sure it'll be that way again.)

EVERYTHING pre-Covid is literally years ago. ;)

Not intentionally. (Thus the deletion more or less immediately, as what youd meant finally twigged.) It's been a long week.

Anybody else psyched at the fact that Friday will be interesting all day as the Sabres MAY actually be looking to add for the 1st time in seemingly forever? Trade deadline day used to be such fun and it has been a non-event around here for years.

Not at all. Just find all the back and forth on Ukka Pukka Dukka no longer has anything to do wiht the thread and could probably fit better into one of the several threads about the goaltending in general or UPL specifically. And, don't really care that the discussion has turned away from the thread topic. Yours truly is one of the worst offenders around here of that offence. Just found it interesting and worthy of comment. MHO. YMMV.

Agree. But if the Snarks are shopping Karlsson they'll want some sort of high end kid to replace him.

Whenever he wants. But realistically that'll be the day after NU's season is over.

Just checking, the Sabres did WIN this game, right?

And if ANY of them actually has two actual GOOD games in a row, give that one a back to back and see where things go from there.

Couldn't see how they could include him with no extension in place.

Except they CAN'T trade him at the deadline next year unless they're scuttling next year's playoff run if they can't get him to sign a LT deal. He has no choice in signing for at least 1 more year. Can't see any situation where the Devils wouldn't match an offer sheet.

Does Portillo have ANY value at all? Really not expecting it.

Presuming they can work out a LT extension with him. Otherwise they've bought ~107 RS games, ??? playoff games, and a $9MM cap hit for ???

Yeah, Rittich is no Hellebucyk.

Said he is day to day with an issue he'd been playing through. Am speculating the Paul crosscheck did some damage.