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Nuts. Chartay w/ the tap in of a bad bounce off the end boards. 3-2 bad guys.

If Don Stevens is correct, Amerks technically had 4 PPs over the course of the the 5 minute call and another 2 minute penalty by the Sens due to the way the Amerk penalties played out + the goal scored on the major.

Malone w/ the PP goal. 2-2.

Laaksonen took a bone headed slashing call. So instead of the Amerks getting a 3 minute PP shortly, they have to kill just over 1 minute of 4v3. Nevermind. It was too many men. Either way, Lodin got a PP on the 4v3. 2-1 bad guys.

Malone almost got into a fight after an Amerk (him maybe?) got crosschecked to go headfirst into the boards. Linesman broke it up too quick. The Sen got 5 for boarding. Malone apparently 2 for roughing.

Real nice individual effort by Crookshank. Tied at 1. Believe Kulich had the assist on the Amerks goal.

Biro on the PP. 1-0 Amerks.

Doubt Fox gives a rat's rear end whether the umps look good or bad. However the organization that they're paying $B's to for the rights to broadcast the games MIGHT have a vested interest in making them seem better than they actually are. 😉

If you have AHL.tv, the Baby Sens make their 1st trip back to Ra-cha-cha since the Amerks eliminated them from the playoffs this past spring. A reminder to all 3 (?) other STHers that we have a complimentary subscription to the Amerks specific AHL.tv package. Your same credentials from last season should get you in. Warm-ups ongoing right now.

Huh??? If you aren't joking, they're using advances from the same technology that Fox developed to create the glowing pucks in their '90's NHL broadcasts which was then adapted to put down & distance lines/guides on football broadcasts.

1st game both teams had a hard time staying on their skates & all passes regardless of circumstances were seemingly all high danger. Last 2 games were against 2 of the best 4 offenses (IMHO) in the NHL. And tomorrow's game with be against another really good team that pummeled Granato's Sabres last year on at least one occassion. If they still are giving up crazy scoring chances in games 5-9, THEN will agree they have a problem. But having 4 points right now outweighs the gaffes in game 1 & the being outplayed in games 2&3 by teams that, on paper, should be outplaying them.

And except for the Alphose & Gaston routine right before giving a gimme goal to Montador, he played great. Put that more on Jokiharju than him. And 1 bad goal out of 37 shots isn't exactly worthy of breaking out pitchforks for. Now, 0 bad goals on 48 shots. Stone the witch! (Burning them is soooo passe.)

They can't unless they either send Sheahan (or other skater down) or lose d-t-d Lyubushkin for the rest of the road trip.

Forgot all about him. Of course that was under different rules and from the same draft that brought us the Mike Zigomanis fax machine fiasco. The list of college prospects that waited out all 4 years of the Sabres holding their rights still only has Petersen on it.

Don't know that Peterka can improve much over what he's done so far. 😉 We need him to keep that up. Power seemed much more comfortable out there last night. (And in the 3rd against Florida playing w/ Samuelsson.) He really seems to be the type that once he finally has a good shift settles in and doesn't look back. Hoping that's the case. Expect it will be. Tomorrow night will be a good follow-on test. Quinn definitely has room for improvement. Didn't expect him to look as overmatched as he has. He didn't seem overmatched in his 2 games last year. He'll get better, how much is the Q. Don't believe Krebs still qualifies as a rookie, but will include him. There's a lot to like about his game. Just need him to learn what passes can actually get through & when he has a good enough scoring chance to actually shoot. Once he gets those down, he should be fun to watch. Have enjoyed watching them play these 3. Expect that'll hold. No idea which rookies/potential rookies get callups, but we know there'll be some & yes, they will need to improve from game to game. The light at the end of the tunnel might finally not be a freight train.

Sabres didn't develop Vesey. The Preds did that. And Vesey had told the Preds he was going to go the UFA route, which is why the took Buffalo's 3rd as a consolation prize. That was a complete waste of a 3rd. It's still only Petersen that bailed on them. But we hear every year how this year's potential bolter is going to bolt though to date, only those claiming Petersen would do so have been right, and that's why it feels like "all the time." But, yeah, either or both of the 2 you mentioned might walk. And if either or both do walk, #### 'im.

According to Biron last night, Ruff did it in games 2-4.

If it is, could see the cap start to go up to where it should currently be by this coming season. Thise Thompson & Samuelsson deals are looking better & better. (Regardless of neither having a goal yet this season.)

Well, oddly enough, Granato found a C role for him. (He also did so briefly in the Cats game the last shift of the 1st & a handful of shifts in the 2nd.) Will be interesting to see how he does centering the Sabres "checking" line. Personally believe he's better at C, due in large part to some of the issues you bring up that he's had on the wing. Also, he does play a 200' game, so centering the checking line may not be as crazy as it seems initially.

Did not know he had been broken. 🍺

Wonder if Pekar is Cincy bound with the extra F in Ra-cha-cha?

Yeah, it'll be really interesting to see if Granato makes the same D adjustment tonight if Power starts as he did the 1st 4-1/2 periods into the season. Will also be interesting to see how long Power & Jokiharju stay together should either struggle.

Well, had you done so, you've expected Krebs watching from above rather than Quinn. 😉 You also would've expected Girgensons to slide to C. Nothing to see there. 😉

He had to come up w/ some sort of an article. And this one is getting people discussing it. Would an article merely about how dreamy Luke Hughes is have generated nearly as much discussion? Pretty sure we both know the answer to that, & that is why one redrafts an NHL draft 1 year later. 😉

And Tennessee played in Buffalo this year. That worm has turned. In '24 the KC one does as well.