PASabreFan

The buttoned-up, sphincter-squeezing corporate culture of these people. Killjoys. No... murderjoys.

Correct. He was doing The Dunleavy. Then he claimed he knew Linus had made the save, while Rob still thought it was a goal. Bizarre.

That sequence in the first period last night was unbelievable. Whose memory is good enough to rank such things, but it would have to be up there in team history. Sadly, Dan did not pay proper homage to it. "Hischier!" Silence.

Good read. A little loose-goosey with the facts, but, hey, it's ArtVoice. https://artvoice.com/2021/02/25/buffalo-sabres-the-pegula-era-hits-ten-years-by-andrew-kulyk-and-peter-farrell/

We don't have much 'round here. Please don't take our last little bit from our sippy cups.

1. I am not stalking you. 2. I wouldn't discount some psychic connection. I mean we're all in each others' heads anyway. I honestly don't know why kitchen reno came to me. Weird.

Are we sure the benching is RaKru's call and not KeAda's?

You must feel like I did when I tried to tell people Pegula was trash, to be feared and loathed.

Especially when you consider what the rulebook says. The puck, while on the stick, must make contact with the red line.

He couldn't have been a better shooter last season? Why do people say he had the best year of his career? Sorry, Jack, pull that horseshoe out.

In other news, husbands every day are being forced to agree to kitchen renos.

I don't buy the unlucky angle. To buy it, you have to believe that a certain percentage of shots are SUPPOSED to go in. Says who? Does not talent play the biggest part of that result? Why is Jack's shooting percentage so low this season? Bad luck? Give Bubba Watson 10 five-foot putts. The average pro golfer makes 9.5 of them. He makes six. Is he unlucky?

I don't understand the reference. I tried the google too.

For some reason, I hear this post in the voice of an old-timey, nasal-y radio announcer.

This is the best takedown of the asininity of analytics that I've seen. Well done. Stop counting. Start watching.

I'll open with three: 1. The coast to the bench. I know the rule about the exiting player needing to be three feet from the bench is not strictly applied, but still you're losing a second or two for the entering player. The optics are terrible. That said, it's an established and accepted way of leaving the ice. 2. Same issue — coasting on the backcheck. See Gilmour, Doug and one of the worst days of our hockey lives. Also well established and seemingly accepted. 3. This one will probably stroke me out some day if the Sabres ever get back into the playoffs — four seconds left in a period, the puck down below the Sabres' goal line, defenseman grabs the puck, unchallenged, and rings it up the boards onto the stick of an opposing player for a screaming shot at the Buffalo net. Go ahead. Unburden yourself. You are amongst friends.

Am I to understand someone sits and watches a game and counts posts/crossbards hit? Or is it a league/team stat?

*****-shrinkers.

It should be noted that, as nfreeman points out, the Hockey Gods are political in nature. Senate-like almost. There are factions. One wing was lustily in support of breaking Jack's ankle last night. "Hobble him like that bitch in Misery!" exclaimed Pandolfo. (Hockey Gods assume the last name of retired former players.) Satan came through to broker a deal. Eichel's ankle would be only tweaked. And... he will go bald rapidly starting in 2023.

There just has to be more to the Skinner story.

Plus, a change could be justified in that a GM normally gets to bring in his own coach. "Hey, I gave Botterill's coach a shot. It wasn't working."

He did answer it. He admitted he didn't have an answer.