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They need to trade for offensive lineman

It's the concept of kassian all over again

Note that Dahlin has 3 less games played than Karlsson And Pi.... he's a +7

Ik the response will be other plays or players with pp and empty net stuff but the issue isn't the things Mitts and olofsson do well, it's all the other stuff they don't. They aren't well rounded and it hurts us at 5v5 in particular.

His defensive game is better. His offensive game is amazing. He's elevated to another level.

I'd agree they have defensive issues but that's not what lost us the Montreal game. Buffalo needs to carry the puck more and we've seen that start to happen. Last night is a perfect example of what this team needs to consistently to, go to the net.

4 of Mitts 5 assists are pp assists. Olofsson has 6 goals sure but he's only scored in 3 games. I think 2 of his goals at even are empty netters. So we have Mitts getting pp assists on the leagues worse pp. We have 4 of olofsson goals in empty nets or on the pp. This is why looking surface level at numbers creates problems. This is the Stafford effect all over. These players have not been good or consistent and that's a problem.

Due to another team winning, we only moved up to 3rd

Huh, if you keep generating chances, they eventually start to hit. Yup. It's the other 14 minutes of toi that the issue

For a team that claims to care about analytics... they aren't paying much attention

Enjoy the game. @LTS

Here. This right here is not the reality. The kraken did that but Montreal did not. If we had won that game everyone including you would be all sunshine and sparkles but nope we lost so time to panic.

We lost to Montreal because they got 2 lucky goals off deflections while we hit posts or watched shot barely dribble wide, or saw stuff pinball around. You want to argue we don't get to rebounds fine, that's reality. You want to argue the Montreal Canadiens somehow outplayed us using some magical game plan you think exists, no. We played well, and lost. It happens every 82 game season to every team.

What you said was wrong. You, like any 70% of this board, PANIC after every loss and lose objectivety about what actually happened. Like saying we lost a game that we dominated large stretches of because of the speed of Montreal. It's just not the reality. It's fake news.

Go look at the shot share, xgf, and hdcf. We dominated the Habs but yes we lost so must mean we panic! I've already covered the Habs. I don't have much interest adding to a conversation based solely on losing a game we were the better team in. I bet Calgary freaked out after they were better than us and lost. Also, I watched the Habs the game. What goal was the result of the breakout pass being stopped?

Lol the Habs defense. What a vaunted unit that got caved in by Buffalo. Asplund still not in is still not smart

Tage Thompson is gonna have a night I think

Sabres currently sit in a playoff spot btw. If they beat Chicago tonight Buffalo could be 2nd in their division behind Boston.

Never because Rochester has no defense. Also he's probably an nhl backup at best

They are -29% on offense compared to the teams +13% They are +53% on defense... that's so bad it hurts my eyes. You want to + on offense and - on defense for these charts.

This is Eakin level bad. They are a trainwreck.

Lol. True