DarthEbriate

GM Sheevyn Palpatine Palmsatine You know, in 15 years, I'll have to post, "Somehow... Palmsatine returned."

Just made a minor adjustment there.

Wednesday 12/11 - home game with TNT on the broadcast. Friday 12/20 - home game with ESPN+/Hulu on the broadcast controls -- but it's a Toronto game so you won't get as much home team audience participation. Wednesday, the cat will be out of the bag nationally.

Meanwhile, surprise surprise, the Bruins/Flyers game goes to OT so they're each collecting loser points. Utah moves ahead of Buffalo. The Sabres would pick 8th overall if the season ended right now. Depending on how games go the rest of the day, they could be drafting 6th overall tonight. One-third of the way through the "win-now" season.

So, you're saving all this cap space the last 4 years so you can pay JJP and Quinn big extensions. What if JJP refuses to sign long-term? What if Quinn is just broken? And Zucker walks (he'll have already been traded, but still). And Byram demands a trade?

I think Kulich thought he ran out of space, but yeah, that smacks of what-the-hell-ness? And he's been playing alright overall today, too.

Somewhere with palm trees, warm sand. (Though sadly we just left Rhode Island / We did what? / Just forget it.)

And so it is.

Nice pass by Kulich. Send that kid back to Rochester, ASAP!

They do perpetually if you're always the youngest team in the league.

Cozens moving his feet, has a good shift, helps draw a penalty. You know... that kind of effort would look good in a 4th line winger.

Cozens needs the press box. Or a complete change of scenery. He'll maybe someday score 30 again, but at this point, he'd be a -30 anyway.

Cozens passed way too far behind JJP/Benson? on the rush. Utah praising the backcheck, which was there, but the pass was godawful.

You need the Fire Adams chant to be heard on the visitor's broadcast during in-game action.

I'd say when he chooses them. He's using Granato's staff, plus Appert.

Did Zucker finish the period? I noticed that McLeod was skating with TNT-Tuch toward the end of the period. Maybe I just didn't see him.

And they could've been your starting tandem the last two seasons, with Ullmark walking this past summer (or traded at last year's deadline if they're not in a playoff spot). One team is putting in a good effort team-wide. The other has Benson, Kulich, Kozak, and Malenstyn leading the way.

Like Josh Allen, they had Eichel and Reinhart and ROR and Dahlin. They attracted ex-MVP in Hall. They signed a top free agent in Okposo one year. But then (except Dahlin so far), they traded all those guys (admittedly, in varying circumstances).

-12 currently.

Yeah, that wasn't even close. Lazy play by Gilbert. Don't like to see that from the 8th d-man.

<sigh> Benson passes it back to Cozens on a give-and-go, and Cozens is adjusting his helmet and misses it.

Good shift by Kulich. Won several races and battles -- led to a slot shot by Joker (blocked -- which led to a Utah rush). Still, good job by Kulich.

Hope Luukkonen is OK. Got clunked on the back of his head.

Power got stood up by the ref, leading the first turnover. Then, Power pokes at it but the puck doesn't clear the zone, and it's in the net.