DarthEbriate

One period remains. Next goal wins, most likely.

Refs are allowing every bit of grabbing, stick holding, slashing, and interference that the Pens can muster. Good. The Sabres need to be able to work through the garbage and score anyway. They've been skating and competing the last few minutes now that they know they're not getting any calls.

Only two commercial breaks. 4 shots allowed on the road and that includes one horrible penalty call. It should be 0-0, but the Sabres can easily overcome this.

Timmins, just get it deep, buddy. You know your forwards were gassed.

Multiple interferences just fine.

The Amerks ruined his dreams, not the Sabres. I wonder if a team can petition league office to show that one ref simply has it out for team X, with the film and statistics to back it up.

The refs owe the Sabres two calls for that garbage.

Matte helmets are not cool.

No. It was on deadline day. 😇 The closest Adams has gotten was sending the conditional 2025 NSH 7th he got in the Asplund trade to Columbus for F Eric Robinson. That was on 12/6/2023. The conditions were not met (45 GP in Buffalo, he only played 40), Buffalo kept the pick and it became: F Melvin Novotny Robinson was... ineffective with the Sabres. But in two seasons with Carolina, Robinson has 98 GP 19-19-39 and a +12 in 12:03 minutes/game. 143 hits. We like Malenstyn for his PK work, and he throws some solid hits. His Robinson replacement numbers in the Sabres lineup: 97 GP 6-8-14 and -20 in 10:44. 261 hits

How many King Richard jokes do you know? III. The answer is III.

I like Garland, but he's Benson-lite. His career high is 52 points (he's on pace for 46 this season). Agreed: I don't like $6M over the next 4 years -- I want that money to go to Benson instead. The other issue with Garland is that when I say Benson-lite I mean lighter-than-Benson. Benson can still fill out and get man-strong. Garland is 29 years old, 5-10, and only 165#.

...maybe that was just age 18-37 Crosby. But now he's 38. Thirty-eight! He's probably got grandkids coming over for Thanksgiving tomorrow and is worried about getting the turkey out of the brine and pre-baking the pies. Tell Kozak that Sid is McDavid and sic him on that line.

Quinn Hughes? Sure, sign me up. But it's impractical unless it's with an extension that won't happen. The only other interesting one is what Baker-Fairburn postulated -- toss them a 2nd round pick (and something? a 5th?) for Sherwood as a rental because he wants way too much money for his age/speed when he gets to UFA this season. But he's hot, healthy, and hitting now. It allows you to add strength/aggression/hard to play against, waive Dunne back to where he really belongs, and Östlund goes down when the centers return.

On IR for the Penguins: Jarry, Rakell, Acciari, Brazeau, and a couple guys named St. Ivany and Hallander. Day-to-day: Rust and Koivunen. 3-4-3 in their last 10 and losers of 5 of their last 6. Knock them down, then kick them all the way down to the McKenna Sweepstakes. Go win this game.

Don't trade for Quinn Hughes unless you're a contender. He's walking to the Devils at the end of next season and the acquisition cost would be pretty ridiculous. But it's nice to dream that Byram+ a couple things would get you Hughes for all of 2026-27 -- as you're 100% likely to lose either of them in July 2027.