PromoTheRobot

Even though they were outplaying Buffalo in the first, the Sabres made them work for everything. Now they're tired.

Looks like he handled himself fine.

Just saying it's not only the Sabres.

Lindy mixes lines so much this could still happen.

What if Arber Xhekaj gets frisky?

Not surprising. Lindy doesn't want to take a chance here. He may well wait until the Toronto home-&-home to test drive Ellis, or will UPL be ready by then?

Many teams do this.

The Habs could be looking past us.

Odds are Lyon starts but it would also be a good time to see what Colten Ellis brings.

I thought you were referring to Lyon.

They finally got away from the fully Tage-centric PP.

Can you describe them? I can't find any connections career-wise and he's from northern Minnesota.

That is the question of the day. It's time for Colten to get a start. But who do you feel comfortable starting him against? At MTL? Home vs DET? The Leafs home n home will force Lindy's hand but do we want to wait that long?

There is a tendency to assume whatever you were is what you will always be. Lyon was actually the perfect candidate to elevate to a starter's role. Peak age, experienced, shown flashes of greatness over his career. Let's also not forget my mantra about defense: it makes goalies play better. And the Sabres are playing mostly good defense now. In these 5 games how many jailbreak rushes have the Sabres given up? Now think about the past two years? Even in the first 3 games we have reduced the number of high danger chances by the opposing team. Penalty kill, while still early, is the best in the league. That's a huge corner we've turned.

Greenway is close to coming back. Kesselring is skating on his own. Norris was reported as 8 weeks out.

As of now Sabres have the 4th best power play and the #1 penalty kill in the NHL.

Anyone that certain of the outcome ought to monetize their hunches, right. A classic making- lemonade-from-lemons scenario. Take this game. On Draftkings Panthers are -142 moneyline. So a $10 bet earns $7.04.

I'm going on a little day trip today so I'll catch up with both the Sabres and Amerks when I get back tonight.

Except Utica got two garbage goals very late when the game was in the bag.

Whoops, he is. 😆

Selective memory re: Reimer last year. Lindsey did play him and he lost more then he won before he got hot towards the end of the season. So it wasn't as obvious as you make it out to be. Also remember that folks here thought Lyon was going to be a dud when Adams signed him because stats. 🙄 Reimer is 5 years older than Lyon and is still a free agent.

I'd like to see how good/or not Colten Ellis is first. But I also can't see starting him while Lyon is playing so well and the Sabres need rack up a couple wins.