DarthEbriate

You said it. Again...

UPL is.... better than Comrie or Anderson has played yet this season.

I'm watching the Sabres broadcast for the goathead-hype, but I'm guessing Panger is over on the St. Louis broadcast yelling "Jeepers!" and "Jumpin'!" a lot at the Sabres' skill display tonight.

In the last 12, Cozens has 9 points and VO has 6. Sure, it'd be nice to get more, but .75 ppg is pretty darn solid and 60-point pace, and VO has the potential to rack up lots of points in bursts Quinn with the patience! He was so very overdue tonight. I don't think either of them were the issue during the skid. It was more of who was in the lineup for Okposo/Girgs and the befuddlement of the team with the rotating D injuries. As we see --- Muel and Joker and Boushh all being back solves many problems. They should have 4 tonight themselves. But 2 isn't too shabby.

What are Cozens and Olofsson?

Skinnnnnnnnnnerrrrrrr!

Hulu/ESPN+ is way behind once again, it would appear.

Skinner on the bench saying, "This is my goal song next year."

I've never seen the black and red Sabres look so nice. Last time I saw them on TV was on a 27" JVC. This is sweet. (I like the new original better. But these should be routine alternates.)

Blur my gimme, gimme, gimme!

It's not a fluke; this team can score. The Sabres were 2nd in the league in goal differential behind Boston going into their skid. All it took was one big game to reset their positive. Keep Muel in the lineup (and stay healthy across the board, and keep a-Dahlin' and a-Tagin') for a month and they'll be safely in the positive.

Nice palindrome goals night: BBBMBMBBB

Seriously. Does @Brawndo operate in the same sphere of time and space as the rest of us? He can see the future... goals, the past, old friends long gone.

To the powerplay... for those that want to see a Quinn goal, maybe this is the time to snipe one.

That's correct, as he's overtaken Fox tonight. Though Fox plays late tonight. Erik Karlsson has been otherworldly on offense this season. 21 gp, 11-18-29 thus far.

I don't understand the makeup of that line other than as an odds-and-ends combined line. VO is a sniper who finds open space but needs a distributor/puck carrier, not a boards guy; Mitts can stickhandle, but doesn't rush up the ice or force anything to the center of the ice, nor win board battles; Hino is a forechecker has has speed, but he's also very much the 13F complimentary piece. It's just not a good construction. Each of them is the 3rd guy you put with two other forwards.

True. But in this particular case, Skinner also took a matching penalty and the previous comment was about him getting a Gordie Howe hat trick.

Here's hoping. It's been a month since he blocked that shot in Edmonton (and then missed the Calgary game). If can get back to first-week (and TOR last-year version) going into December, we'll be much improved.

Skinner has zero career fights. He'll talk but that will be it.

Yes. And yes.

It's not so much the injuries as the who is injured and who replaces them. Joker is a 5/6 (I think someday he can be a Lydman-type, but right now at his age and experience he's a 5/6), but the Sabres use him as 3/4 and top PK guy. Muel is a 3/4 guy but the Sabres use him as top-pairing lockdown defensive D and Dahlin's life preserver. Lyubushkin is a defensive 5/6, and the Sabres use him accordingly. And Dahlin missed a game, too. Taking 2 top PKers (Joker/Muel) out of the lineup, limiting Boushh with a foot injury so he's not as mobile or able to be physical, and then missing Dahlin for a game... and replacing them with Bryson and his clone Pilut (both 7/8 at best) for extended minutes is a big problem, especially for an offense-first team made up of kids. Fitz maybe could replace Boushh for a few games, but when all 3 of those guys or Clague are in the lineup, it's a bad situation. Then, take Okposo out of the lineup and neither goalie making a big, game-changing save, it's a recipe for disaster. Next year, they'll be able to weather a rash of injuries better from the forwards and goalies.

One post and two days. It's a good newcomer approach --- that or the Bernier 2-goal special.

Clean up the penalties a bit and keep the energy high, because tomorrow the buzz in the building with the goatheads is going to carry you through the backend of the back-to-back.

So... it's going to be 18-6 at the first intermission?