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45 minutes of good hockey versus one of the 3 worst teams in the league starting an AHLer in net. San Jose isn't much more of an NHL team, they need to do this to them too. Really would like to see Comrie get that start, but it will be UPL.

And the Anaheim PA crew playing the Smiths How Soon is Now. Now that is somebody tired of the Suck Hard for Bedard.

Guess dropping the exclamation point doesn't really help. 😉

Cozens

Strome being a bit of a prick.

Shouldn't have added the exclamation point. 😉

Zemgus!

Except they really haven't run Comrie with a reasonable D in front of him. And every time since he came back, when they have wanted to sit UPL the game has had some sort of significance for Anderson. Playing the Otters, going for his 700th NHL game, playing the team he shut out a month or so ago. Anderson is 1-4-0 his last 5 decisions & was horrible in 3 of those. He's not the future & needs to be out of the primary rotation. You may very well be right that Comrie is nothing more than a backup. But we haven't seen enough to say that definitively IMHO. And it isn't like either if the other 2 are playing well enough lately to only be giving him 1 game every 2 weeks. That should be Anderson's role. Again, MHO.

If he pitches a shutout this period, would give him the SJ game. Doubt Granato & Bales will agree.

That's the point of running BOTH UPL & Comrie this year so they can figure out if that will be good enough for a year or 2 or if they have to fix it.

Really? Watched the 1st & Tampa was all over them. They outshot them something like 21-7 in the 1st & had been outscoring them 20-5 14 minutes into the game. Ingram had a horseshoe up his butt.

Pretty sure just a 3 game point streak, but he does have 4 points in those 3 games.

Fun fact, that glowing puck / puck tracking Fox introduced in the 90's was the basis for the yellow yard to gain lines on football broadcasts. So, like so many innovations before it, it can be used for evil or good.

And when we're going to reduce stuff to generalizations, it's amazing how much those who scream loudly for tolerance & diversity are more than happy to show intolerance to those that don't agree with them. Face it, generalizations suck, & the more we continue to attempt to categorize everyone into one of 2 camps & play a serious game of us & them the lesser we all are. And those screaming loudly about all/any of this from whichever point of view are in the VAST minority. Don't get sucked into their games.

So, the same lineup as they practiced with yesterday. Hopefully it works better than Monday's version worked.

IF the streaming service for in market along w/ out of market will net them more revenue than the local RSNs do, that will happen. Would be surprised if it will because live sporting events are one of the very few items that end up making money for the cable & satellite services. Eventually the cable providers will go away, but until they do somebody will step in and pick up those local broadcast rights. But there's no way ESPN or Apple want to be covering the production costs to be broadcasting over their streaming services every single game in the NHL (or the NBA or MLB) especially w/ 2 different sets of announcers. Curious though how the various networks actually pay the various teams & leagues their money. Always thought they pay up front each year, but that could be very mistaken. If they do pay upfront, this'll have minimal effects on the NHL & the cap. If they pay as they go, a bankruptcy filing could make things interesting. Though would be surprised if it's supremely disruptive as a bankruptcy judge & trustee would allow them to still be paying for stuff they need to remain an ongoing entity, so the teams & league would only be out (& possibly temporarily) any monies owed for games already broadcast.

Ftfy.

Have no issue w/ you. But the mythical DeLuca 0.500 is ####. When there are all of ~4 teams (and likely fewer) in each conference on the bubble in the last 2 weeks of the year & the mythical DeLuca 0.500 gets at least a quarter & sometimes 1/2 of its predictions wrong, it's pretty friggin' worthless. The Sabres are going to have to be significantly better than a DeLuca 0.500 this year to make the playoffs. It means nothing.

20 teams over 10 years were on the wrong side of the playoff cutoff (either good or bad) than what was predicted by the mythical DeLuca 0.500. It being wrong twice on average every year is really bad predictatively.

There were 7 ####ing teams in 10 years that were below the mythical DeLuca 0.500 that made the playoffs. 13 got to it and yet still missed. (Doesn't count the 70 game season, the DeLuca 0.500 is even less useful if that's included.) Considering it only matters if teams are close to being in the playoffs, that's a horrible track record.

WRONG.

With an R^2 of 0.135. That ranks right up there with average psychiatric theories of causation. 😉

It would. Especially if they used the '83 vintage equipment. Make everybody play in what was available in '83 and the modern guys wouldn't have a prayer. There was a reason there were very few butterfly goalies back prior to the end of the '80's & the '90's. The leg pads didn't have risers in the knees, nor did they lace up really loosely up high to accommodate the knee/lower thigh not having the pad stay stationary relative to the goalies leg. Not only that but there was still a LOT of unblocked net when goalies were "in position." The behemoths that roam the creases today would be toast as shooters picked corners. Geoff Sanderson was a monster coming down the wing with his slapshot when he 1st came into the league but was nowhere near as effective by the time the "dead puck" era began. And btw, though Garrett won the MVP that day, he was an injury replacement and was a fulltime backup. King Richard was supposed to be Vancouver's ASG representative.

Same at ~600' 20 or so minutes east of Ra-cha-cha.

If yesterday's practice lines are an indication, then the top line is back together but EVERYTHING else (including all 3 D pairs) is jumbled still.