MattPie

How about a: NOGOAL 99

Yep, he is of the old school, if you didn't win you lost. The metric usually aligns with the points to get into the playoffs, so it's not terrible, although I prefer points percentage as a better. 0.580 and you're a good chance to get into the playoffs with 95 points. You could be DeLuca.500 at 41-37-4 and easily miss with 86 points. Or be DeLuca.500 at 41-15-26 and be near the top of the league with 108 points.

Is the team dog a "thing", or something unique to the Sabres? I've been to a few tech conferences[0] (prior to 2020) that had puppy areas, where you could go hang out with dogs (and maybe even cats at one) during downtime. [0] CNCF/KubeCon and Red Hat-sponsored stuff

Otto. 😞

Not interested in giving up assets for a feel-good move. As others said upthread, come UFA time if Kane is interested in a short-ish, mid-price contract to close things up in Buffalo, maybe. Don't like the scandal stuff, although if KA got a feel that he truly says to himself, "that was really dumb and I'm never letting that happen again" I'm cool with second chances. Otherwise he can play somewhere else.

Seems like a conditional 7th (if the Sabres win the Stanley Cup in 2022) would be a good "Future Considerations". 🙂 I think the trade deadline sell-off is probably the most likely spectre. That close to the cap, you might not be able to trade even a JAG for a pick without falling under the floor (or taking something back). Boychuk is insurance from having to do weird cap games. Still like to see the Sabres bring him by and hit him in the knee a few timtes though. Oh man, I wish I could find it but I just saw a picture of a pair of bikes joined at the back wheel (three wheels total, one rider is forward, the other backwards, presumably either can be the forward person.)

I don't know what world you live, but that's exactly what we need to do. 🙂

Nope, it's all upward from here! Let the era begin! (I thought about calling it the Non-Eichlel/Unjacked/etc. Era, but I don't come here to be negative; no time for that)

First game of the Krebs/Tuch era!

Very true, Cozens will be a disappointment if his byline is "can fight, doesn't put up many points". That's a JAG that is a waste of a high draft pick.

It's the 5G installing itself, you should get signal in a few hours and it'll settle out.

Someone said it further up, but sure, he's probably #2 behind Thompson for scoring centers. That's still not a trade off you take. Murray or even Girgensons can deal with the pest if needed, but the point stands: having Cozens off the ice hurts the Sabres and helps the Kings.

I believe the stock announcer phrase is, "The Kings will take that trade-off all day; their wing for the Sabres current #1 Center". You don't fight the pest if you're on the first line, you draw a penalty and smile at him as he skates over to the box for 2.

Barring major injury again, I think he plays as long as he wants to. Even 75% or even 50% Jack Eichel is pretty good, and if he's up for taking the pay cut I can't imagine there's not a team that'd pay him (say) $4M/yr for second or third line.

I think he went pointless in the first two (hence the demotion, right?), so it's 7 points in 5 games. There's no room on the Sabres for a player that puts up a point a game but falls down occasionally.

Now, if they took that $2M off the Hawks' salary cap for a few years, that'd actually be a punishment.

You should probably stop. It's clear nothing you say is going to get above PTR's FanComplianceFor% threshold. I'm also worried that you might not be meeting FanComplianceAgainst/Bruins% number too, but let's work up to that.

It works for me, not going to pay money to watch, still like the people here enough to visit and keep track of the team. If they team stays good, I might even turn the bandwagon guy in my avatar around and run towards it. There are many noble and ignoble things to spend time on in life. Missing the Sabres this year is neither; spend time on what matters to you.

For my sample set of one, a decent traditional aluminum-blade shovel lasts 15 winters. It was pretty shot and I tossed it before I moved; the top handle had cracked and was taped, the bottom edge of the blade had worn off the riviets a fair bit and was uneven. Still would have worked, but not on a semi-daily basis here.

That's what I did in the Philly area, because it was only a few times a year and when it snowed everything shut down so there wasn't a rush to go anywhere. Now that I'm in CNY and RosePie needs to get to school (via car) every day I don't think I have the luxury to shovel a foot+ of snow before 8AM on a regular basis. I really did enjoy spending several hours digging out though in PA; have a cold beer or two, talk to the neighbors, etc.

I think two things are unfortunately likely to happen: KO and/or Anderson wear down and teams start to figure out a game plan[0]. I voted 20 games, but really that might not be long enough. Right now, the team is a mostly unknown quantity; a bunch guys no one has seen playing a relatively new system for them. Sure, last year, but there's so much turnover. Once there's more tape good coaches will pick it apart. I don't know this team has another level to combat that. But it's fun living vicariously through the GDTs while the good times are here again. [0] if there's a way to game plan around hard work

At some point, the CBA allowed for a 2-week conditioning assignment in the AHL. Seems.. unlikely that the Sabres would send him some other AHL team though. I'm not sure there's benefit there enough to outweigh the risks.

What if he's on the "third" line with 35 or 40 points? For that matter, even using your 50 point season benchmark would we complain if anyone on the Sabres is putting up that kind of production?

In the second phone video of the goal, notice he skates by while the other guys are celebrating to track down the puck and collect it.