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There was just over 13 left when Peterka got out of the box. Time flies when you're having fun. Not sure how Jankowski didn't score there. He had Primeau beat. But it must've hit the post.

Holy cow. Only 5:35 left this period. That was friggin' FAST! That can't be right. Guess it is. Went FAST!

Will be interesting to see how the D-pairings change w/ having the lead now. And also how they do rolling 3 lines. Starting to be end to end.

Hard to say. He didn't have much of a chance on any of them. The Amerks are bringing it, finally.

Prow & Malone had the assists on Murray's 2nd.

And back to the new Krebs line.

Malone centering Murray & R2 Rou2. Fitzgerald & Schuldt w/ them. Murray! 5-4! Biro & MacInnes centered by Jankowski to follow that shift up.

Really wish it was the other way round (Krebs to Quinn). And Krebs now centering Peterka & Quinn. Laaksonen & Alt are the D out w/ them.

Good PK. They killed it w/ only 1 shot against. Quinn passes to Krebs on a 3-1 and Primeau snags it & freezes it.

Need to keep up the solid play & get the momentum back again.

And Amerks w/ another PP. And Peterka gets a penalty for playing the puck w/out his helmet. The ref that called it is a Koharski.

Peterka! We're tied! Beautiful feed from Krebs. Prow w/ the 2ndary. Not even 2 minutes into the 3rd. They're bringing it.

Brett Murray. Down by only 1. And Jankowski draws the PP.

Well, it's not over, but it will take a Herculean effort to get this game back under control & into the win column. Just don't see them having it in them.

The game is way more entertaining listening to the Laval feed.

And 84 represents a bad team. Not even a kind of, sort of, average team. Topping THAT was good enough to be in the playoffs. 😉 (You don't have to be better than the 8th best team; you need to be better than the 9th best team. If you're the 9th best team, by definition you can't be better than yourself, so you need to get somebody else into that role if you're going to get in, but it's always the 9th best team that is controlling. And is why the Caps, or Pens, or Bolts, or whomever only needed to be average to get in. None of the bottom 8 were even that good.) The mean, BTW, was just under 92 this season. So, all but 2 teams league wide that were above average by that definition made the playoffs. And the top 16 teams by record all made the playoffs, so all above average teams by your definition made them and all below average teams missed them. (More an anomaly than anything else, but it is what it is.) So, kind of like how back in '86 being exactly average wasn't good enough for the Sabres to make the playoffs, being even a modicum over average was good enough then and

You sure about that? 8 below average teams missed the playoffs by a mile. Every team that was average or better made them. Ordinary would've gotten the Caps in w/ about a week's worth of games to spare.

Prior to seeing what moves happen, the former definitely can't be said & it's still a minor leap to expect the latter. Though w/ adequate to good goaltending the latter (average, aka in the playoff hunt, if not actually in the playoffs) becomes a very reasonable expectation,

Considering he needed 2 guys to get him from the far side of the ice to the bench because he couldn't keep his legs under himself right after his head hit the boards, pretty sure it was a concussion.

That would be a nice add, if he's ready to go again.

It's encouraging. Of course, the flip side is that if the Pegulas are willing to suffer through empty buildings for 1 more year "to do things the right way" we may not see the Sabres fix the goaltending as well as we might hope this year because the FUTURE is bright. But 22-23 might not be as bright as we hope, but it won't be the feared final nail in the coffin. Personally, hoping they aren't willing to suffer through that bad of losses intentionally. And back to the topic: go AMERKS!

No, when he said "there will be suffering" he meant exactly that. He was about to ice a team that was going to be horrifically bad for at least through the McEichel draft. And, the day he said that was the day he should've been fired. (Well, technically, the day he agreed to that plan was the day he should've been canned, but close enough.)

It could also promote a very good lax team or a very good football team.

The weird thing about the news item is the Swamp Cats are from Miami. It's not exactly like they're on break from Ottumwa, IA.

Let's hope that was his own cheek. 😉