DarthEbriate

Great stick check by Mitts leads to the first goal. Skinner with lots of room to shoot at. Well done, gents!

Nice Craig Anderson tribute... OK... skip ahead.

Home. Woohoo! TNT! That's what you get for trying to check Krebs with an extended arm. And now to restart the game and see what I missed.

So Girgs is Dutch (or Hutch, if you go way back) Vander and Johnson is more of a Pops guy. Sure, they both helped immobilize destroyers back at Scarif in the day, but they don't have the footspeed anymore to make the final decisive trench run.... I'm tracking.

Conditioning stint based off his minor injury? I’d rather have Levi behind the Sabres defense than the Amerks at this point. Just ensure the forwards commit like they did against the Isles. I think they’re waiting for Vasilevskiy to return before waiving, but that’s living in fear of UPL. And… Ullmark’s Vezins aside, that shouldn’t be anything to fear.

Huh. Wrongly picked up flag. The center released immediately and was 6 yards downfield. Terrible reversed call.

The hope is that at some point, they collectively realize that they are bigger and stronger (except in goal, I suppose) than many teams and they don’t have to play finesse but can really just go where they want to go and dare the opposition to stop them. Then, they can break out the fancy finesse on occasion because they’re skilled enough for that, too. But will and out working the opposition should always be foremost.

Clifton negates the shutout. Good deflection, though.

C-MuelPO!!!!! (it's a work in progress)

Good mitts, Mitts. And if you're a ref you've gotta call these knees or your players are going to be missing months of action.

Darthexercise complete, darthebriate standing by.

Dahlin can't take that minor, but calling offsetting roughing there is silly.

I'd be upset if I'm a Calgary fan and that isn't changed to a goal.

The responses to Calgary goals have been quick and good. Now, go get the lead.

Sometimes when you commit to a bit you have to think of the right line, go get the gif, bring back the link and paste it for the enjoyment of others. It takes time and sometimes you're not watching the replay to see the shot was flubbed a bit.

That's more Levi-esque....

I've not seen Levi "fight the puck" so much before. Since the opening shot he's just had difficulties holding it, seeing clean, and controlling his rebounds. Certainly makes things interesting, but it's a UPL-kinda interesting and not a cerebral-interesting.

He'll learn that this season. That's carryover from being the best player in Winnipeg. I noticed that a few times in the WHL playoffs. Savoie was heading off on a timely change and Benson would be out another 10-15 seconds. It is the future they see. Also, they're older. 😇

Typical savvyKadri move. Something Skinner would do and Benson will learn to do (and get the call once he's a vet).

Calgary is really foolish allowing the Sabres an open PP practice.

Looks like I picked the wrong game to start watching the Sabres. It looks like only one team practiced during the off day.

Yup this pretty much settles it. Rasmus Dahlin is R2-D2 the can-do hero of everything. And Samuelsson is C-3PO. Very important part of the team and plot. But constantly being taken apart.

I blame Russell Wilson. But, they could instead send Benson down to marinate in the W.

Huh. The game is on ESPN... but not streaming on ESPN+/Hulu. Well, here goes another game I won't see.

But that might lead him to actually believe that Tuch Icewalker and Princess Levi (as the trade-spawn of Jackikin Eichwalker and Reino Samidala) are going to lead the Sabres Rebellion to victory over the Stanley Cup... but that's just a weird and oddly coincidental movie-team wish fulfillment of my imagination. That's not how The Concept Of works. It's not going to happen just because it's written in the script. They've still got to play the games.