thewookie1

Zero interest in trading Cozens; if he bottoms out in 2/3 years we can pay to dump him. He still has very high potential and the last thing we should be looking to do is trading Cozens. We need to work to help fix his confidence issues

Dahlin looks off but is still playing passable as well as playing solid in his own zone Power has been fine; he's even using his body occasionally but because he isn't a bruiser or putting up 2pts a night, he's a bust... Thompson has looked good in spurts and he ramps up like every year; Tuch has been playing hot Quinn seems to have lost all semblance of the player from last year and I'm unsure why Cozens lost something after his fight with Hatheway, he lost his ability to think quickly and has had to have his magic sucked out of him

Analytically he suppresses Dahlin 3 pts but they are still positive. Joki without Dahlin is 38% GF He's certainly capable of better than 3rd line winger-hood But his confidence seems shot at this time

Muel was supposed to be it and showed plenty of potential but is seemingly imploding Byram wasn't the type of defenseman I wanted but we were effectively blocked with a more defensive player in Pesce and seemingly can't find a way to draw in one via FA Clifton has done well and is a good 3rd pairing player. Lyubuskin and Johnson were effectively Hail Mary's Jokiharju plays well with Dahlin...... that's about it

I guess its less that I wanted more powerplays than I feel there was a serious 2 tier rule set the entire game. In the late 1st or early 2nd, Zucker was literally mugged and taken down and yet no call was made. When we had a 4v3 PP, Thompson was hooked almost 180 degrees without a call and soon after they scored following the next faceoff. Dahlin gets blatantly tripped as they enter the zone thus giving them an easy in yet Thompson playing Malkin hard along the boards is immediately called even without it being a scoring chance impact play. The whole game felt like the Sabres were being called for weak penalties to which the broadcast would refuse to show. Lastly the offside goal, the TNT announcers made me want to punch my TV I was so perturbed by how they completely ignored that there was a 2nd view of the puck + stick from the other side which would make it easy to see that it was impossible for the puck to have crossed the line when the other Pen had entered the zone.

As I said earlier, felt scripted or fixed; the amount of missed calls on the Pens in the 3rd only for them to ding Thompson to help Crosby get a shot at his 1st of the year feels far too scripted. Between the offside goal and somehow not calling a blatant trip on Dahlin with 2min left in the game we were screwed royally.

Bs call

Power had his man locked up, Rakell was the extra guy on the back end. How Pittsburgh got away with a literal backward trip at the zone entry though is asinine.

Pretty much because he’s the only guy on the line playing well, but still hobbled

These refs are imbeciles

Cloudy skies!

JJ ***** you Pens

And another incredible save against us

Game was fixed from the start. Give Buffalo a quick lead then let the old stars looking for milestones work their way back on national TV. Meanwhile you allow a rather easy to judge offside goal, let Pens players interfere blatantly twice and the announcers ignore entirely

Refs refusing to call anything on Pitt one free goal

Feels like the game was scripted for TNT frankly

Well I'm working so I forgot lol ***** Sens won in OT

Didn't even know a game was going on

All those names are cool but the newest guy sounds like a villain's civilian name

There is no satisfying you, is there.

Greenway is a player who shows up big for the 1st 20 games by means of being healthy and physically bullying the smaller skilled players that are still rusty; disappears for the next 40 due to a number of reasons like injuries and then reappears for the last 20 when defensive play is of a premium and harder checking is more frequent. Reminds me a tad of Pominville’s 2nd stint here in how the middle 40 is nothing to celebrate but on the ends their a force.

My guess is it’s more to do with his previous injury in combination to some degree of Ruff changing some of his game.

No to ties ever again

They played fine

Vegas and Edmonton deciding to yank a player around for a week