Samson's Flow

Apparently 5 is enough for 25 minutes of play

Only 2 more left

Did say the oilers only have 10 shots? 4 goals on 10 shots. FML

That was an excellent start to the period

If Zack Kassian gets a hat trick I'm done with this team

One of these days Dahlin is going to score on all these chances

Oh no another beaulieu Scandella shift

Bronx cheer for Hutton making a save

It looks like they're playing 4 on 4 out there

When you win every time it's hard not to

Apparently keep practicing...

Ray said we practiced the PP today - so it's bound to be better right?

I'm just going to keep thumbs up everything you say tonight I guess. Lineup choices are gold lately

He doubled his season goal total tonight in 5 minutes of play

Well through the first 5 minutes the game was on pace for a 36-12 blowout. Hoping we make history #stats

We better hurry up and start scoring if this is gonna become a game. And maybe make a save it two

As clear as Cheerios in Buffalo...

We're making Zack ***** Kassian look good

Did the oilers really score 2 goals on 2 shots? Wtf guys

It's only messy and a pain if you don't know how to handle caulk. ? I'm making a joke but also noting that the more I worked with the caulk gun the better I got at not making a huge mess. Watch the pros do it and its very clean.

Only thing I can think of is *puts on tin foil hat* that the team is trying to artificially control his games played/stats to make a case that he only established himself as a starter next year when his RFA contract is up. Lowers his long term contract and gives the team a better case if it goes to arbitration. Other than that I got nothin'

At least the shutdown line of Zemgus & Larsson is back together. With Jeff-Jack-Sam back on line 1, look for another no secondary scoring game from the middle 6.

The PP1 struggles to me come down to the Derek Zoolander effect. They have one move. The entire right side of the power play unit's sole responsibility is to retrieve pucks and pass it to Risto at the top who then passes it to Jack for a one timer, but more often a continued cycle cause the shooting lane is blocked. There is no dynamic movement and if that play doesn't work they just keep passing back and forth until they can attempt it again. Because of that, we can often spend the entire power play with possession in the offensive zone (good!) while generating zero shots and/or scoring chances (bad!). Last year just having ROR as a threat to score from the right circle made it so opponents had to decide between allowing the Jack one timer or leaving ROR alone in the right slot. The quick movement from one side to the other opened up opportunities for our best players. To me Skinner needs to be the right circle player and Sam needs to be back in front of the net. Gives us more options in terms of ways to score, as a point shot/deflection is available if the defense cheats to the wings.

Boy looking at that Edmonton lineup it really is McDavid and Draisaitl and nothing else (I guess RNH can be in there). It's amazing to me that even with the best player in hockey since Gretzky, the Oilers remain terrible. If the Sabres don't win a game soon I am going to start losing faith in our playoff chances.

And maybe some for the refs. But yeah the Sabres are starting to show what they're made of.