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Which is more credence to the belief that they SHOULD be a playoff team when all is said and done, but will be hard pressed to be in the division's top 3 and with any sustained lack of focus at all can easily miss the dance once again.

Fork it; they have to win again sometime. Why not tonight? Go, go, Buf-fa-lo!!!! PS - hadn't noticed before, but Freddy even has a prehistoric rudimentary Buffalo Sabres logo on his hat!

Don't believe there's an exact time spelled out. It's when the ball is stationary and nobody is making an effort to make a play on it.

That game wasn't on Levi.

A big blank? What had you posted?

Why not ask Blandino (who actually knows the rules) or the other guy (Pererria?). Steratore is usually good for getting it wrong. As to why the refs would pick up a live ball they'd ruled a fumble? If no player from either team goes to pick it up, they will blow the play dead. (I.e., if both teams treat it like a dead ball, the refs will deem it to be a dead ball.) And, at that point, the ball goes back to the Jest at the point they last had possession of it.

Not sure what you're getting at with the bolded. As you'd said earlier, the ball did roll slowly out of the end zone and it was a touchback for Houston at that point. Were you referring to the playoff game in Houston and just misselected which portion of the quote you were responding to? Yep. And you can't advance a fumble that's intentionally kicked or batted, but the refs decided (correctly IMHO) that Allen's kicking the ball was accidental. (Had he not kicked it, he likely would've recovered it himself several yards back from where his teammate eventually recovered it.)

Not sure about being smarter, that's probably the case but not positive about that; but when he finally learned to skate (not at an elite level, but good for a big man) he became a perennial AS. He was SOOOOOO awkward when he 1st came up w/ the Aisles.

You can advance a fumble in general. You can't advance one in the final 2 minutes nor on 4th down unless the fumbling player is the one recovering it.

Presuming the ball stays in the end zone: If the Texasses recovered it, the ball would've been theirs at their 20. If the Jest recovered, it would've been a touchdown. If nobody bothered to recover it, the ball would've been the Jest and placed at the point of the fumble (roughly the 1 yard line). If it didn't stay in the end zone: As it actually rolled out of the endzone, it ended up a touchback for the Texasses. Their ball at their 20. Had it come back into the field of play and been recovered, it would've been the recovering team's ball at the spot of recovery. Had it come back into the field of play and gone out of bounds, it would've been spotted where it went out and whichever team (most likely the Jest) that had last controlled it would have possession. That covers MOST of the ways the play could have played out. And, had they been playing against the Bills with the ball going out of bounds or the Bills recovering, some jackhole that wasn't an actual in-game ref would've come over to the refs to tell the refs that the Jest player MEANT to score a TD so just give it to them.😡

Didn't say Adams should go get him. Said he was believed to have been in on him and wondered if he still was and what Anaheim would make him give up to land him. This thread says Adams wants to "add." Well, Zegras was a guy he wanted to add earlier. And right now, that is a player type that he has not added to the mix. (He has a bunch of guys in the wings that are more in that mold; but they're all really young. If he did want Zegras then, and a significant portion of the flaw of the top 6 is that Quinn is performing well below expectations; well, Zegras gives the team a playmaker down low on the PP (something the team lacks) and he's a legit top 6 offensive F (what Adams thought he'd have in Quinn) and personally wouldn't be surprised if Adams still wants him. While most here want another power forward, and personally expect in a slightly different vein the team could really use another McLeod; would not be at all surprised if, should Adams make a deal in the next month or so, that he brings in Zegras or that sort of player.

The rumor over the summer was that Adams was trying to get Zegras. Wonder if he's still on his radar and what Anaheim would want for him?

No, he has knocked down a ton of clearing attempts that get past lesser mortals. Won't disagree that the puck gets past him some at the boards (particularly the left boards, which is NOT where he played coming up through the ranks). Will be watching for that more. It could be as simple as he's not as adept at using his body to keep it in the zone as guys that are used to (aka grew up) always playing on their "strong" side.

And the guy this kid saw in past seasons would make some miraculous keep ins that led to great scoring chances and oftentimes goals.

And the schedule lines up that way nearly every year. The schedule is quite sparse in October and compresses significantly after Christmas. (Apparently after Halloween this season.) The league doesn't want to compete against the NFL (but can't really do much about that for 4 months) nor the WS (which they can and do alter their schedule around). So, maybe @Brawndo's plan to keep Reimer up for the 1st couple of months and then flipping him and Levi makes sense; but again IMHO this team has too little room for error to have the 2nd best guy down in Ra-cha-cha while the 3rd best guy is dropping 2 points every 4th start. AND in both of the past 2 seasons, after Levi got called up for real, UPL's play tailed off noticably. (Was it because UPLs play tailed off that he got brought up, or (more likely in this kid's opinion) did his play tail off because he now had legit competition for the starter's job?) If it was because Levi got called up and now UPL was no longer 100% the starter in his own mind; well, guess what very possibly happens again when Levi gets called up in December. And Levi will be getting at least 1/2 the starts in that situation anyhow. When all is said and done, Levi's likely going to get ~32-35 games which is a bit over 3 of every 8. And, while this is a slightly tangential discussion, if UPL can't be his best self without playing at least 3 of every 4, he is NOT the goalie for THIS team. They are too young to be playing in front of a sieve every 4th game just to keep the starter in a good space mentally. (3 years from now, when they're actually a team with a standard age distribution, sure. But not now.) MHO, ymmv.

My bad. Didn't realize your statement "Levi should be in Rochester playing a lot" was just a shouting at the sky lament. Because, you agree the team needs to make the playoffs AND that Levi is better than Reimer. That would seem to indicate that you agree that Levi is where he should be based upon the reality of what we have and not what we'd like/wish to have. Seriously, the lament is cool; just the way you'd written it out, it seemed like you were saying they should've kept Reimer up and sent Levi down. Which, with where this team is in its own history wasn't an actual option IMHO.

No. This team NEEDS to make the playoffs. Even if Reimer were in Buffalo, Levi gave/gives the Sabres a better chance to win games than Reimer would've. Reimer doesn't get the win against FLA. He doesn't get the win in the 2nd Joisey game. Personally, don't believe he'd've gotten the win against the BJ's either; but Devon didn't come close to his A game that day, so maybe. But, personally expect that had Reimer been the backup goalie the Sabres would be sitting with 7 points right now rather than 9. And as we know from past experience those 2 points could make a world of difference come April. The wildcard in the equation is would UPL be playing at his current level which is essentially the March-April version from last season if Reimer were up or would he get the "warm fuzzies" to have his Sally Field moment "the coaches like me, they REALLY like me" and play like the January-February UPL. Don't honestly have an answer to that. IF Reimer being here would've brought out THAT UPL (because there is no question who would be the starter today and a month from now in that situation), then yes, Levi should've been backstopping the Amerks to a really good run. But if we'd still have the March-April version, then no, the Sabres need the extra points from the backup.

Very tragic. The Falls unfortunately is a huge lure to those wishing to pass beyond this life in a dramatic way. May those 2 children RIP and may their mother finally have the solace she apparently couldn't find in this life. Back in the mid-80's during a noon news broadcast Channel 2 was covering some sort of flower festival by the Falls. About a minute into the broadcast you see a short older man run into the river. His head bopped up a couple of times and then he went under the water. A few seconds later there were a pair of feet popping out of the water as he went over. Don't remember the reporter, but will never forget seeing the guy's legs pop back up out of the water. Mental illness sucks.

You're confusing Karmanos with Forton. Karmanos getting the GM reins likely would be a good thing. (Can never say for certain with a 1st timer. But his pedigree is good.) Forton, while he seems like a nice guy, yeah, not so much.

Considering Ruff DID call out the f'ups, not real upset with him also pointing out SOME positives in public. And, with the next game 4 days after the previous one, have no issue with a bag skate nor Ruff ripping into them after the game nor at the next meeting. Right now, the only real similarities between Granato and Ruff are that they both for some unbeknownst reason seem to think Seth Appert can run a PP. There's been no empirical evidence to date that he can at this level.

His new coach is also specifically calling out mistakes that they can't allow to happen and that he intends to fix. Spewing the losing culture?

Perfect timing for 1: Aisles, Wings, Otters up next on the slate. Need to beat the teams that are in your demographic to advance into the high rent district.

The 219 is right there about 2 miles from the stadium and the I-90 is, what, 4 miles away? Abbott, Milestrip, and Southwestern are all multilane in that area. Way more open than downtown near the MMArena is.

We're in agreement on that. Fully expect Pegula to get more stuff built around the area of the new stadium.

And that one shot he got off from in front, he was pretty well tied up and the shot didn't end up with much on it.