DarthEbriate

Panthers took over with possession for a bit, but the Sabres responded well at the end of the period with their own push. Good game. Both goalies playing hot.

Someday Rasmus is going to bury that.

The skaters need to start skating again. It's nice for a goalie to steal you a game, but they need to become themselves again and move.

They did setup both Tuch and Cozens in front of the net at one point, but didn't bother to shoot.

Score on the PP, don't retaliate and give the refs the opportunity to even it up.

Gents, you're going to pressure Barkov a bit better than that. But then, you do have Levi, so it's all good.

Every call has been obvious thus far. High-stick and hold were good. The two Jost calls were terrible on him, not on the refs. Just as long as the refs are consistent.

Jost... you sit and think about what you did. Start using your head, buddy.

Well killed. Clean.

Jost you know better than that. That was brutally obvious.

This Lyon goalie isn't as good as Levi.

That should've been caught. No goal

Tuch, The Concept Of will be with you, always.

Oky-Lan Kposobi: Reino, do you want to say hello to your trade-children? Reino Samidala: Sure. Kposobi: It's a goalie. Reino: Levi! Croon-Tan B: Ee-see-tay oy-dah! (Translation: Oh! And a first rounder!) Reino: Jiri! Croon-Tan: For reasons we can't explain, Reino's lost the will to make the playoffs. Reino: (frustrated at not scoring, somewhat delirious) Levi!

You must Levi reflexes if you race pods make those saves. You must unlearn what you have learned.

A lot can happen in 60 years. 40 years ago (but not to the day)... Krebs read out the starting line up and then said, "Lock S-foils in attack position."

To the first part, emphatic yes. They should have traded him as a rental (and then offered him a fair market deal when he hit UFA anyway). You don't let your only good goalie/center/#1D, etc. reach UFA when your organization has been garbage for 10 years. As to the concluding bolded sentence... once the foundation is built, there is no bust. Tampa went to the 2016 ECF, the next season they missed the playoffs. They didn't blow anything up. Cooper was still coach, Yzerman was still GM. They went right back to the ECF the next season. Then, Yzerman left and his longtime AGM took over. They got swept in the first round. No major shakeup. And then they went on their current run. Build the player foundation (Dahlin, Power) and some changes will take place and some aberrations will happen, but you open the door and it will stay open as long as the core is there and the ancillary pieces are renewed. For Tampa, it started with tanking with Torts all the way back in 2007. Hedman joined the team in 2009-10 and it's been a basic upward trajectory since then.

He got the #6 spot over Bryson against Philly now that Samuelsson is back. That's a kind of impact.

But spelchequers aren't going to catch mediating.

Yes. Day-to-day with an undisclosed something and hasn't been practicing since his shellacking by Nashville.

The Sabres are in a win-or-go-home tournament the rest of the season (maybe 1 loss allowed... so call it a double-elimination tournament, but a loss to Florida counts as both losses). What experience exactly do the Sabres goalies (excluding Anderson who is injured and hasn't practiced) have that Levi doesn't? Levi has played more pressure-packed games, tournament games, and almost more total games in the last 2 seasons than any of the Sabres other older goalies. Levi was the 2020 WJC Best Goaltender, the 2022 Richter winner, 2023 Richter finalist (not yet awarded), and even won the Beanpot MVP this season. (And he would've crushed it in the 2022 Olympics had he been allowed to play.... where Canada finished 6th. 6th! By playing Eddie Pasquale and Matt Tomkins. I'll bet Owen Power wishes that Levi had been his team's goalie in Beijing). In the last 2 seasons (since COVID shortened seasons), the Sabres goalies have played the following # of games: 2021-22 Comrie: NHL 19 UPL: NHL 35, AHL 9 Levi: NCAA 32 Anderson: 31 NHL 2022-23 Comrie: NHL 19, AHL 3 UPL: NHL 33, AHL 9 Levi: NHL 1, NCAA 34 Anderson: 25 NHL

April and not just mathematically still alive, but with a win on Tuesday they could be breathing down teams' necks with a 1-2 games in hand on each of the direct competitors (FLA, PIT). If only PIT would lose a few more and make it interesting. Baby steps. You've got to learn to walk before you can make the precise calculations needed to make the jump to hyperspace.

I'd also like to add seeing him fully healthy. He had shoulder surgery last summer, then in his first game back with the Wild he either re-injured it or injured his other shoulder and missed an additional 2 weeks. If he needs another cleanup surgery and get back to his 2022 self (or just feel confident taking/making checks again) that'd go a long way.

If KO retires and VO doesn't get moved preseason, then they're both on the 4th line next season. Savoie gets to learn like Krebs did this year. Girgensons-Savoie-Greenway. Savoie would get moved around to a few different lines as part of early season experimentation to see if he should hang around or get routed back to the WHL or loaned to Europe somehow.