MattPie

And Vegas' locker room is double protected?

Jack I'm rooting for 1 PPG. The team it's more amusement to see how low they'll go. I'd be fine with losing to slide down in the rankings.

I'm really hoping it's the Abylsma (2-year) Experiment and not long enough to be an era.

Can I interest you in two Bylsma sick-jersey-bro specials? (Those would have a pretty awesome season wager, BTW, loser has to buy and wear a Bylsma Sabres (or Pens) sweater)

To be honest, they held out longer than I expected. All that's left is can Jack, and the Sabres, manage 1 Point per game.

We weren't in the hunt at the bye week. I think there's a thread :flirt: that did the math and found the Sabres needed to play at a president's trophy pace for the remainder of the season just to get to the bubble. The only possible reason it looked that way was the Adams Division is pretty bad this year.

How about how 5-on-5 goals vary with PP effectiveness, too? The Sabres PP has been pretty good all season, I think. Even strength not so much. I can't believe it's common that teams with terrible even strength offense are #1 in PP. If he sticks, can we call him "Columbo"? If he sticks, can we call him "Coral"?

I've kinda had it with fake news and conspiracies. If he can't keep stop himself from making baseless accusations, he can go be President but I don't want to see that nonsense here. I'm sure he's a good guy IRL and I'd like to have a beer with him sometime.

I wonder if his mind will implode if the 8th seed team gets blown out the last, meaningless game of the season and ends up -2 but in the playoffs.

It's entirely possible that the announcer audio feed is a little ahead of the video and ambient audio so the call is closer to the game.action.

2017-?: the MODO era.

Realistically, I'm sure they had contact with most of the available coaches at the time. Who knows what the depth of that contact was.

They must have brought in a bunch of new players at the deadline, right?

It's pretty tough to head hunt someone with your back to him, your rationale is flawed.

Take it as a gift; at least we won't have to see Risto get 35 minutes of ice time in a regulation loss.

Better, check with Josie first. I'm not sure you want my sour old man stink about the place.

Agree with the others about the Flagg posts on the The System thread. That's some great work. In football terms, Dan's system is 5 of 6 plays is to throw 20-30 yard passes. They don't connect often, but at least when they don't you're not tackled for a loss. The other play is to hand off to your first-team all-star running back (Eichel), who rushes 11 yards per carry on average, but in Dan's mind no one else on the team can do that.

He either did change the system in his mind but it looks the same to us ("but the center now looks to receive that 95 ft pass on the *right* side of the ice!"), or when the going got tough, he went back to his safe-place. Either way, I hate his system and I grow ever more weary of watching it.

Zero seems unlikely, but < 0.05 % isn't. :) The Sabres have to be close to mathematical elimination by now though.

I'm moving to the cancel NHL.tv and f' it, maybe I'll listen to a few on the radio when I think of it, camp. Or is that a bunker?

I'm torn, perhaps I should have, but at this point I'm interested how far off they end up and how close 93 is to being "right".

After this collecting dust, it moves.

Or that French guy that plays for the Flyers, Bellemare. Signed into the NHL at 29, I can't believe he was drafted.

That's interesting. Does it mean that some late-bloomer playing for (say,) MODO in the SHL can never play in the NHL if suddenly at 22 it clicks and he becomes unstoppable?

Turns out Matthews refers to his hair as Lake Ontario. M-x grammar-nazi-mode Jack *can* break is record with a 7 point night. Whether Jack *will* break his record this season is another question. The two people that voted "No" are patently wrong.