DarthEbriate

Goalie fight!

Is Clifton healthy yet?

It's odd from Zucker, because earlier this season he got in retaliation fight. Based on PIMs it was either vs. the Kings or Islanders.

Crosscheck Noesen. Take your Roughing penalty. Force an ensuing scrum. Rev up the crowd. Rev up your teammates. Yell some profanity. If they want to escalate further, so be it. Skate 4 on 4 with the juice afforded by a raucous crowd and bench, score one more on the PP. Win it going away. Several folks have pointed at the scoreboard as the reason not to respond. You point at the scoreboard when you're up 7-1 and the other team scores a goal and goes into a wild celebration dance, not when they cheapshot your leading scorer. Good teams respond like a hockey team and make the remainder of the opposing team's best players' touches painful, and win the game anyway.

Oh FFS, he got hurt by not intervening? By being within 5' of Noesen? It could at least be a UBI and be related to the removal of a letter.

A strong finish only correlates to a strong start the next season when the team is good. The Sabres are not a good team. (yet)

The NFL's only new team name since the Ravens in 1996 is the Commanders -- who briefly had the FT instead. (The Texans reused an old NFL name from the 1950s.) I think if the NFL did some expanding now, there'd be some newfangled "S"-less plural names to avoid copyrights.

Trade him for 3 firsts! Or… in the Adams Era Sabres… gift him a spot in the top 6 from here on out.

The most important thing is: does he look the part? Did he learn from his one-game callup earlier andplay to the speed of the game? Because he’s having an excellent AHL campaign and growing nicely.

The Rosén Showcase is on.

It should be the Sabres and it should be next season. The trouble is that you can turn around an NFL team in a single offseason. And in the AFC East the division crown is wide open with an injury to one single player.

Sending him down is a paper transaction so he's eligible for the AHL playoffs. Give the Amerks every opportunity to make a deep run and give Kulich all the games with ramped-up intensity that he can handle.

Utah Outlaws sounds so wonky. If they choose it, they should mandate that Outlaw be pronounced Ooot-law so that it rhymes. I'd go with the Mammoth, but strictly for the mascot. You could call them the Woolies or the Mumakil.

This is false. They blew the play dead because of an injury. The referees and linesmen convened to discuss the possibility of a penalty, and a linesman allowed for a major. It was then reviewed by video to confirm the major. No one threw their arm up as a result of a headshot on Tage.

Back into the mix? Name a team with a .700 points percentage this season. There are four teams in the league above .600 and none above .673.

I watched Cootes in person last night. Not top 10.

Joker has a positive rating for the Sabres this season... and it's not all his time with Dahlin. But taking Heiskanen and Hakanpaa out and replacing them with Jokiharju and Vaakanainen is... uffda!

There are no accusations. This is all based on empirical evidence. And you lay the groundwork to be good by doing the simple things right, like protecting your best player and letting the League know that this garbage will not stand.

Absolutely right. A good team addresses it and still wins the game because they won't blow a two-goal lead with a 5-minute PP and that will expire with under 10 minutes to play in the game. Tampa, Boston, Florida would have all responded.

I think Novikov would likely be good with it. He's got some muscle and recently took a one-game suspension for an "eat stick" moment. He was upset. But Kaleta was out injured and McCormick was in his first game back from a concussion and on a no-fight mandate. Everyone else just cowered. The person most willing to fight was RJ. Quinn took an awkward hit in the first and might have missed a couple shifts.

But this hadn't happened yet. I didn't care about a collapse, I cared about a team defending their own, momentum be damned. The worst that comes out of it is the Sabres don't get a power play by taking a major of their own. Whoop-de-doo. Statistically, they're good 5-on-5 (when Cozens/Quinn aren't on the ice).

So... when was that time going to be? After they looked into the future and saw that they got out of the PP having given up a goal against so then the game was too close to address the cheapshot on their leading scorer, alternate captain, and leaguewide face of the franchise? And Ruff is apparently just a defective clone of himself now.

Son of Ben: Search your feelings, Coach. You can't do this. I feel the conflict within you. Embrace your hate! HC Grand Ruff: It is too late for me, kid. GM Sheevyn will show you the true nature of the Franchise. He is your master now. Son of Ben: Then Coach Lindy is truly dead.

Next year. This was the last matchup.

But it was a 2-goal lead at the time.