nfreeman

Interesting move on D. A promotion for Joker or a demotion for Dahlin? Or other?

So a friend of mine is traveling to this spot -- Churchill, Manitoba -- in a couple of weeks to (hopefully) see the Northern lights and polar bears. I think he's the only person I know who has been to Hudson Bay. If you check it out on google maps, you'll see that there are no roads that go there, although there is an airport and a train station.

Good for Hutton (and for the Sabres). He's having a terrific start after a crappy 2nd half of last season. But games like last night are not a sustainable winning model. They took their foot off the gas after going up 3-0 and relied on Hutton. Fortunately, he delivered and Kovy shot wide on several point-blank opportunities. That won't happen consistently. They'll need to play much better vs Evander and the Sharks. I didn't think Reino, Mojo or Skinner did much last night. I liked Scandy, the 3rd line (i.e. Larsson's line) and of course the Mitts-fits (good call on that nickname from someone upthread). If they can get going and provide offense consistently it will be a huge help. On to SJ.

Ok boys. Let’s get one here.

Good rest for the Sabres. How will they respond to squandering a lead on the road to a fast, physical team?

I like Reino standing up for VO and Skinner doing so for Dahlin.

Keep your pants on please.

Now that is some high-quality on-location Sabrespace reporting.

Looking at that lineup, I think there is NFW that Anaheim trades a good forward for Risto. They don't have enough of those to begin with.

While I too like Mitts being sheltered on the 4th line for 9 min or so per game, I think the Dallas game was the first time his line didn't get dominated by the opposition in zone time. It's progress, but I need to see it more than once. I advocated this in preseason and would still be on board unless he looks on this roadie more like Stars game Mitts than 1st 5 games Mitts.

Link? I think the league would like to do this, but not the players.

This, like a number of your recent posts, is obnoxious. Take it down a notch please.

I think Sheary, Vlad and Vesey are UFA, not RFA. I think there is NFW that either Larsson or Zemgus gets a 3-year deal from the Sabres or anyone else. As for Lazar, I don't think he can be penciled into an NHL role here as he hasn't played a regular-season minute with the team yet.

@shrader -- I think Gilmour has to clear waivers to go to Rochester, so I think it's more likely that, when Montour returns, if no one else is hurt, they just keep Gilmour in Buffalo and carry 2 extra defensemen.

5 goals in 6 games, and a PP one-timer for which there is no defense. Sometimes you get lucky with a 7th-rounder, innit?

It was nice to see the joy on Vlad’s face after the Skinner goal today. And while it wouldn’t hurt to upgrade that spot in the lineup, ERod certainly hasn’t done anything this year to show that it should be his.

Of course they would, and they probably will. But if you really, really care about a team, and you stick with them, every now and then you get to experience something amazing. I was thinking this myself today. OTOH, there are a lot of teams in the unwashed middle and the lower tier, and plenty of points available there to secure a playoff spot.

Did it look on one of the replays like Skinner tipped MoJo’s goal?

Five and one.

Dallas is probably going to come out desperate like CBJ did. The Sabres will need good goaltending and to generally keep their cool and weather the storm. A lively home crowd would be nice too.

Interesting. Probably not after 2 straight wins but far from impossible.

Yes indeed — I spaced on Montour.

I agree with most of this but I’m not sure that either or both of Bogo and Pilut would be in the top 6. It’s possible though. Interesting question. Joker has similar skills to Pilut but is bigger and a better skater. And Scandy is much improved over last season and IMHO playing much better than Bogo was in the 2nd half of last season.

I think they probably decided that they weren't inclined to make any changes to the lineup at this point, and thus that it would be a waste of TT's development time to call him up and not play him. They are probably less concerned about this factor with Lazar.

Well, my back and forth with @Taro T was tongue-in-cheek. Although they’re definitely the third line.