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I hope they aren't rushing Tage back, but we can certainly use some reinforcements.

Caps had a slow start to their season, but have gone 8-1-1 in their last 10 and are on a 4 game win streak. It's going to be a big test. Hopefully Levi can rebound from his last start

Yeah. I don't get it. Before the season they said 15 national games. But there have been several additional games added to NHLN on top of that list. I have NHLN, so it's not a huge deal to me, but for anyone who only has ESPN+ it's dumb. Plus I have no idea what feed I'll get. For one game it was MSG-B, another it was the hockey night in Canada feed. I guess we'll see if it's MSG-B or TSN when the puck drops.

My college team was the Golden Knights (we predate the Vegas team), and we'd yet "Night" during the anthem. I personally don't mind the anthems. I think it's cool we do both. I'd be fine if they stopped doing them all together. I'm not Canadian, but I know the English version of the anthem pretty well after so many Sabres games. Pretty embarrassing this guy messed it up. I noticed it right away, but as someone else said, after how bad we played I kind of forgot about it.

Sabres start a 3 game road trip in Winnipeg tonight against the 8-5-2 Jets. Looks like the game is on NHL Network instead of ESPN+ for those of us out of market, but will be on MSG-B for anyone in market.

I say they either just extend 3 on 3 to 10 minutes or do 5 minutes of 4 on 4 again. If it's still tied, then go to 3 on 3 for another 5 minutes. Get rid of the shootout. Bring back ties. I'd do: Win in regulation: 3 Win in OT: 2 Lose in OT: 1 Tie in OT: 1

This is so dumb. I hate if we don't touch the puck in overtime..but that's on our players..not the rules. The circling back to your own end thing is kind of lame, but not nearly as bad as the "clog up the neutral zone" strategy in 5v5 a ton of teams employ. They going to add rules to "fix" that too? Meanwhile we still have some games that are worth 2 points and some games that are worth 3. They should fix that first. Also get rid of the shootout. It's terrible.

I will say they really upped their game since Pommers: I was at Pommer's 1000 game (which was awesome for me since he's one of my all time favorites and the jersey I'm wearing still due to my other jersey being unwearable) But they only gave us these signs:

Me too. I drove 400 miles for this game, they better not let me down..

Personally I like to the list the 2 RSN (when applicable) and otherwise indicate if it's a national broadcast in the US. I don't really know about Canadian broadcasts to include those for the Canadian members. But I always look up every game anyways since I do a Game Day Info post in a slack server I belong to, so it doesn't matter too much to me if only MSG-B is posted here. I only have to worry about Caps games being blacked out here, or when a game is on NHL, TNT. Otherwise I'm using ESPN+ and it doesn't really matter. I'd like to see us get above .500 tonight and carry some momentum into Friday's game, since I'm coming up for that one. I'm really hoping we can start putting together a lot of multi-game win streaks this month to make up for our slow/inconsistent start to the season.

Why not just send Rousek back down then? I guess they want to play him and Savoie?

Does Biro have to clear waivers again if we sent him back to Rochestor?

I have to assume the spot is because Benson got put on IR. They are calling his injury week to week. That left an empty spot. I would have thought they'd use it for Savoie (and they still might by sending Biro or Rousek back this weekend). If Savoie plays tonight I think that's his 5 games and they'll either need to bring him to the Sabres or send him to Juniors. My guess is he'll get a tryout and they will drag it out until World Juniors unless he makes his case to stay on the team.

Often NHLN games just pick up one of the RSN feeds. Hoping it's the Sabres feed since they are the home team. We'll see.

Apparently one of my friends isn't feeling well, so Sabres game it is. It'd be really good to start November off right and extending the win streak to 3 games..

Yeah. I got Sunday Ticket this year, and I was debating swapping to YouTube TV next year since it will be "cheaper", but I don't think they have some of the channels I rely on for hockey, so I just adjusted my FIOS plan to try to get things a bit cheaper. We'll see how that goes. I have friends coming over tonight, so I won't get to watch the game until tomorrow

Ugh. I feel like Tuch was just starting to get back to form after looking hurt/bad to start the season. I hope it's not serious. Maybe a personal day or something.

Biro has more goals than Oloffson...

How about now?

I live in a 3 story townhouse. My street has a ton of houses in short walking distance, but I guess having to walk up all those stairs (especially for the very little kids) is off-putting enough that I rarely get trick or treaters. So I never bother. I did buy a bag for myself though.

Bummer about Backstrom. I've always liked him. A key piece to the long stretch of the Caps being good for all those years.

Biro in. Levi back to practice:

I don't get why he did the traditional logo with the black and red. I like Comrie's mask better (and UPL's for that matter). After how good his regular mask looked, I find this one a bit of a let down. But art is subjective.

The 4-5-0 Sabres head into Philly tonight for the first game of a home and home with the 4-4-1 Flyers. The Flyers will head to Buffalo to face the dreaded Goat head on Friday night for game 2. If the Sabres win tonight they'll move to .500 on the season. The expectation is that UPL will get the start, and Levi may return to the line-up as the backup. I haven't seen word on that yet however. Yesterday's practice lines: We'll see during morning skate if he keeps Biro with Thompson or decided to shuffle the lines a bit