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Prow has been the guy they've been giving the 1st pairing to all season. Believe Clague is the most experienced.

Yes.

People still want Olofsson in the press box? ;) Wow, did the Sabres need that.

Really believe it was the shock of seeing Samuelsson go down. That injury looked nasty & they all saw how much pain he was in. Granato needs to settle them down & get them back to the game that got them that 2-0 lead in the 1st.

Also, pretty sure they COULD have let him play a month or so ago (realizing they'd've had to designate him differently) but held him out because the kids & other backups were getting the job done and he wasn't desperately needed. By giving him more time to heal, there's less chance of him blowing it out again.

Only for a goalie.

Not necessarily. If it was the tendon that provides stability in turns (pretty sure that's the ACL, but it's late, maybe MCL) you can go straight forward w/ no issues at all but the slightest twist might be excruciating. Hoping it's just a sprain.

Was he actually playing D either night?

But yet Chara never seemed to do so.

Realize this is waaaay behind (watched the Amerks 1st) but the Tuch goal was just a product of the Mitts and Thompson lines outworking & outhustling them and just exhausting them. What a fun 90 seconds of hockey.

You didn't miss much.

Cool. You get them to sign any body parts?

Well, when you have 0 defensive defensemen (well 1 kind of sort of now that Tischke took Pilut's spot) you have to try something to help them out.

Why are we discussing this game? This team isn't in the national championship hunt. /s Go Bulls!

And people forget that in the "these guys are good, scary good" season where Pominville iced the 1st round cake, he'd CLEARED waivers to start the year in Ra-cha-cha. Good teams often have useful pieces getting some additional seasoning dominating the lower level. That said, as said earlier, wouldn't send Quinn down until the end of the month at the earliest and only if he is still getting pushed around and not finding spots of production.

Unfortunately, nobody knew he was having medical issues. The rumors going around at the end, which turned out to be completely off-base and false, were not remotely charitable.

Uh, care to show the post that claimed otherwise?

Quinn was getting knocked around pretty well his 1st 2 games. Wouldn't be sending him down before the end of October, but if he can't stay on his pins better when he does get in games, letting him go back down for a few games to get his confidence back wouldn't be the worst thing for him. MHO. YMMV. But, let's see how he does tonight before cementing him into the lineup or sending him down.

Plus, it's very possible that Granato told the guys that are the "bubble" players that early in the year he'd be rotating who the odd man out is.

Tuch started at the end of December when the Sabres were holding fan raffles to see who would get to be between the pipes that night. He didn't affect the end result but he was involved in pretty much ALL of the scoring in the next 2 months. Which is likely why people think that's when the turnaround started. But they were bad from November-February. In that stretch, they had something like 15 points before he got in the lineup and 16 after prior to March. When healthy in October, Anderson, & Tokarski too to a lesser extent, willed them to a good record. When healthy the last 2 months they were good pretty much regardless of the goaltending. The other reason IMHO Tuch coming back seemed to correlate to winning is they weren't having those painful, oh, crud, are they about to fall off the map again losses after he came back like they'd had in November & December. Or at least not as many of them.

'Cuse was driving. Got to ~ the 30 with 0:26 left, but got picked. Final 27-24. Boo.

Clemson took the lead. 50 yard run & a 2 pt conversion. Cuse opting away from the FGA on their 1st drive is the difference at present. Clemson 24 - Cuse 21. 10 minutes to go.

@Thorny looks like Fitzgerald stays in the lineup. Good call. The silver lining/good that may come from the Jokiharju injury is we finally get to see Power Lyubushkin. And, if all F's stay healthy through the next 2 games will be interesting to see who sits against the Habs. (Presuming Krebs will sit 2 of they win tonight.)

If you're right about the fracture & it's very possible, would expect him back in either a fishbowl or full cage while the healing completes. Doubt he misses the Yotes game & probably has the Pens game targeted as a return date. Maybe the Chicago game.

21-16 with 14 minutes to play. Clemson went for 2 but got intercepted.