DarthEbriate

Cab sauv and a ribeye. Nice way to close the year.

Behind the bench, pick up your visual scanning!

Nice shot, nice drive by Sheary.

Whoa. Did I just see someone “watching” a hockey game in a stormtrooper helmet? I mean... you can’t see in those things.

So... how is Smith bleeding? Any replay?

Nice nhl.tv commercial with the older chap who missed Orr’s Cup-clinching goal because he was in the bathroom. “There’s my seat... the empty one.”

Great save, Lazar!

Yeesh Linus. Cut down their angles, but don't look like you're trying to cut down their angles. I dunno, goalie casual. (Just like Paquette's casual miss there.)

The veteran during the anthem. Turns out it was likely his name. You know, the guy.

The guy is wearing a Luke Adam jersey?

Other than Sabres games? ;-] Sabres victories are built on hope.

It kinda woke them up for a couple games... and now I'm curious. It may have jump-started his point streak. I'll go research. Two games before the "double minor" fight vs. Wild is when Eichel's streak started with the 4-goal outburst vs. Ottawa. The Wild game was a loss, a contested/close loss to Boston, then a big win vs. Florida to right the ship. Then 2-1-2 in the next five, which is... good hockey. Then our solid west coast trip before the skate blades came off the second half of December. I guess Eichel's fight sort of helped. They were 1-5-2 in the games leading up to the Eichel streak and fight.

Agreed. It'll be sad if Cernak has to fight off of a faceoff for something we should have addressed real-time weeks ago. But a fight in general might just wake this team up for a week or so.

Watching the game before friends come over for an impromptu and low-key game night to celebrate an East Coast New Year's because we're getting too old to actually make the goal of local New Year's. Gather as many Sabres as you can, because history has shown you can deflect evil Moulson-Lightning with a good Sabre at your side.

And it looks like 3 primary assists to go with the goal. And after watching highlights a very slick deflection PP goal. Reinhart/Vanek-like.

I think the thinking is Captain Rivet.

Sure we could have. Can you imagine an NHL GM trying to make a trade with the collective conscious of Sabrespace?

Lies! Deception! PA Gullet will know the truth! This is a disgraceful reflection on our franchise. Players, GM, everyone. Not only are we calling someone to essentially be tough on our behalf, he's not even a prospect who could threaten to stay up in the lineup with his edgy game after the fact (e.g. Concept of Kassian or DLo or as pointed out above Borgen). We had to sign him to a contract first. Vesey and Eichel and Reinhart are the only people on this team who have scrapped or stepped up for a teammate this entire season in a "roughing" manner. I don't want a line of Peters and John Scott and Adam Mair, but this team lacks even the basic gristle that keeps your goalie and stars and kids clean. I'm minded of a video clip I had a long time ago before youtube existed. It was a regular season game, but some Dallas Star took an after-whistle poke at the puck after Hasek had covered it. Hasek barked back because he was always going to ensure the refs knew how woe-trodden he was, but he didn't have to do anything because half the team was there in a moment. The Star got buried by Zhitnik and Holzinger already throwing punches and high sticks, and probably escaped any harm because all 10 skaters on the ice ended up piled in a mosh pit behind the net. Hasek just whistled and strolled away.

Sad, but true. He got dinged up last year and was overworked last year, too... No other center to help him out.

Would any double minor count?

Montour... don't go in there half-hearted. Go clear him out for poking Linus.

Risto... directly into the goalie ... then into the wide-open net.

If the Bruins sleepwalk, Eichel is going to mangle them.

Didn't Gionta and his surgically repaired arms and his "old man muscles" win our hardest shot skills competition just a few years back? So my answer is nope. Dahlin isn't even 20 yet. He has 5 years to work on his shot and it'll be very much improved by then. More importantly is getting stronger in his own zone, making snappy passes on the PP, preventing short-handed breakaways, and working on the all-around game.

Looking at Chicago's cap... They have $11M coming off the books just in goalies this offseason. Get a 4M goalie and a ELC backup and they're on the path to cap sanity. Their bad contract is Seabrook. Kane is still very effective and they don't need to move him. So they can ask for the moon. I'm going back to my stance from years back (or at least the last time Kane was mentioned). He can have a homecoming after his current contract expires and he is wiling to do a 2 year/6 M hometown discount as a 3rd liner / PP specialist.