DarthEbriate

HCDG going back to some familiar 2020-21 season things for the road trip. Cozens-Hinostroza are reunited as a speed defense line for McDavid (with JJP replacing Caggiula on the other wing). Cozens had 2 goals and the Sabres won at home in November 2020 with Caggiula. In 2021, the 6-1 L at Edmonton was basically their only no-show in any game for the entire month of March, but the lines were then repeated in Calgary and got the 1-0 shutout. Note the similarities to that mid-March 2021 lineup: Skinner - Thompson - Tuch Krebs - Cozens - Hinostroza Asplund - Mittelstadt - Olofsson Girgensons - Eakin - Okposo (Hayden, Bjork) INJ: Caggiula JJP is in for Krebs. And honestly, I'd put Z back on the wing and get Krebs in the 4C role rather than Quinn, but whatever works. Mitts has been good at faceoffs this year and has been killing penalties, plus that AMO line was solid March/April last season. The key is getting Tuch up as a puck carrier/retriever for the top line. Edit: And Sheahan practicing is a bonus. This allows Bjork (or a rookie who's not adjusting to the pace but is a future top-6 skater) to head to Rochester while still maintaining a sound NHL 4th liner.

I was definitely using a laptop and it's hard to say without seeing your screen, but try something like this on iPhone: 1. Load the youtube video on your iPhone. 2. Tap the address bar at the bottom to modify it (don't tap Share yet). 3. Copy the address. (you could try to write the timestamp at the end here, but I find it clumsy to try to deselect the address) 4. Open a new iPhone browser tab by tapping the double box/new window button in the very bottom right. 5. Paste in the address. Then type in your additional &t=50s timestamp text. 6. Tap Go. (This should open the video to "when" you want it.) 7. Share or Copy/Paste that new address path.

I don't think that's the case. He was super durable because he was basically a tank on skates. He never missed a bunch of games from injury. Just to check: Jagr had 74 pts before the 2004 lockout, scored just fine overseas during lockout, and then benefitted from the same rules as the reborn Sabres by netting 123 pts in 2005. So figure 70ish more points if no lockout. Then, he did three more seasons overseas (he was healthy all 3 years in terms of GP). Then, he returned and was still in the 40s-60s each year (except the 2013-14 half season lockout) and a couple seasons at the end. 4 more top-six seasons: that's somewhere around 200-280 more points he left on the table.

The other thing we all need to remember on Joker is that he, too, is a youngster by NHL defense standards. He's only 23 and has played 60 fewer career games than Dahlin has (and also had to redo his game through the Krueger debacle). The entire top 4 is youngsters who all need a couple more seasons to grow into veterans. Even Muel has a long way to go to round out his game. At any rate, gotta give the entire team a couple more games given their current practice setup before making any massive lineup changes. You can always make tweaks shift-to-shift.

The only Gretzky stat I need to list him #1 is this: If he had never scored a single goal (like Muel so far!) he would still be the NHL career leader in points. (p.s. Jagr would've caught him if not for lockouts and playing in Europe.)

And get one of those big travel trips out of the way early so you can do lots of short eastern jumps for a few months. The other western road trips this season are Dec (COL, ARI, VGK) and then February in California (which sounds pretty nice).

Now there are two of them! Nice goal. But uffda, 38 can't just let the most dangerous player on the other team drift down in front of the goalie like that. Savoie's not that short.

I want to give STTVO one road game so see if they relax or get a spark, but I'm also of the mind that the opposition is being extra diligent to take away Skinner/TT space. VO is a crafty guy and makes good passes to them into space, but he's not a transition or puck carrier. That's Tuch. Historical note: STTVO worked last year. After the initial hot start and then VO's injury, this top line was united and Tage/Skinner did really well from it. VO hung around and continued to get assists until Tuch arrived and the line looked great as well. Then, at season's end, after VO was able to shoot, HCDG reunited STTVO and finished the season strongly as well. So this is a known and successful commodity and it allows Tuch to be the puck carrier for another line. That said, Skinner/TT can put up 70 goals between them and if that needs Tuch, then by golly, Tuch it up.

Dang that was a good shift by the Panthers. Just bled the clock down with possession. Good timeout, don't leave it.

It's early in the season so no doldrums yet, but one thing is obvious today: Florida did not take Buffalo lightly. They put the petal down early and are keeping it going all game. And despite the youth, this Sabres squad looks resilient against a top-end offensive squad.

Mitts - Cozens - Olofsson together now. Tuch was with the top line. Adjustments happening.

Skinner needs to get a little crazy here now that the whistles have been put away.

Tage and VO on the 4-on-3. With Dahlin. That's the framework for a good PP1 Ekblad is a stud. He and Cozens are fun to watch.

Which one? Also of note: Dahlin's a top-end player. He gets the tripping call.

Mitts is high on the time on ice today because he's on the PK.

Rousek could easily finish the season in Buffalo. (Moreso than the 19-20 year olds who are still a couple seasons away.)

C'mon, no one is suggesting putting Bjork in the lineup. 😇

To be fair, that was mostly JJP's effort possessing the puck, and not so much Quinn or Krebs. Though that could become a dynamite line next season.

He did. But he's not a skill forward that the refs are looking to protect.

Puck luck today is very pro-Panthers. That bounce just eluded Muel right to Montour. And the Panthers have earned it, too. Rasmus the Younger!

Can't let the stick get between a skill forward's ankles, they'll topple and earn the call every time.

Totally agree. But for the PNW trip coming up I'd have Hino and his wheels in the lineup and Quinn... probably heading back to Rochester.

Has JJP been the best forward so far this season? Yes. He's been fantastic. He just never loses the puck or knowledge of where it is.

Are we being outshot while on the PP this season?

Need a little more haste coming back defensively while on the PP there. There shouldn't have been a 2nd opportunity for Reino.