DarthEbriate

Clifton reads the telegraph and turns it into a nice chance. McLeod's got some wheels.

Had several days of PP practice. Get an extended 5-on-3 early on. Unforced errors on passes out of the zone, losing the puck by Tuch, and two really easy clears. Not the most confidence-inspiring look.

So... just gonna stand in a circle staring goofily at each other?

A tepid crowd shoutout for GM Sheevyn... But everyone like Lindy.

This is the way how we win.

It should noted that while in Green Bay, LaFleur was both calling the plays and the coordinator of the offensive game plan. Hackett just happened to be there. Because Hackett is his false front/protector. They thought they were going to Denver together, too.

Huh. One of my other favorite teams just announced something discussed in the recent Sabrespace talks. The Pohlads are planning to sell the Twins. Interesting. Very interesting.

Everyone is onboard now. https://www.theringer.com/nhl/2024/10/10/24265446/buffalo-sabres-jumbotron-nhl

Look at the size of that thing! What's more important to the Sabres brass right now? The product on the ice, or the ultimate power of that new scoreboard?

This fascinating relic provides us an intricate exploration of PoMo-Millennial art that was commonly referred to as "foodporn" at the time. In particular, notice the bacon rising up triumphantly, a reborn burst of deliciousness, through the center hole of the bagel ring. Records these days are scarce, and some translations are indecipherable, but we believe this was referred to by the people of the time as a bacon glory-hole. Notice the subtle use of shadow on the right side of the container and then deep shadow on the far right off of the brightly exposed table. This emphasizes the bagel rising up out of the darkness, led by the bacon glory-hole as a tentpole of ascendancy. What dark depths did this delicacy need to arise from? That is likely lost to time. The bacon is also balanced by the key figure of the image -- the Buffalo -- in the upper left. As our cunning student of foodporn @Stoner noted, the bacon is broken to allow us to see the Buffalo in near entirety. This Buffalo shield is leading the charge out of the darkness, using the bacon and bagel as a springboard into triumph. But alas, there is uncertainty. The head of the animal is off-canvas! This embodies the inconclusive nature of the times. The questions of "who is really in charge here?" and "is there some phantom menace on the horizon?". The answer is to head, pun intended, and spring boldly out of the darkness, and into the light. And there's some fries that look tasty, too. Edit: Sorry Cami, for hijacking your thread. Hope you sing really well this season!

Just wait until VO pulls an Evan Rodriques in the playoffs while the Sabres are still sitting at home. Incomplete player, absolutely. But in the right setup and having a playmaker to draw eyes away... he's a 20G scorer, and not everyone can be that. I still think that in 5 more years you can look around and see VO had a really nice little career with 160 goals and played for 4-5 teams, and he got traded for once at the deadline as additional playoff scoring help. And 10 years from now he's a "remember some guys" guy. Remember when VO had "Gimme Gimme Gimme" as his goal song?

It's Opening Day! Again! Lock s-foils in attack position and accelerate to attack speed.

Maybe. But they'll never know until they begin to extend themselves.

GM Sheevyn would say he didn't need to get a top-4 defensive stalwart like Pesce this offseason because he'd already gotten Byram at the trade deadline. Top 4 complete! But in 2023 offseason, the Devils lost Graves and Severson, then had Hamilton get injured and their goaltending fall apart. Pesce resolidifies the D-corps (with Nemec/Hughes a year older, etc.). And Markstrom is a good add. Established and fairly consistent except one poor year with Calgary.

Second-to-worst way. 😇 What they need is to rise up and confront, head-on and with gusto, a physical confrontation. And they need to do this as a team. There are other ways, but it's hockey, so a regular old donnybrook is the easiest way to accomplish it.

Or it's just transposing lines 2 and 3 and nothing to dwell on.

Daccord just got 5x$5M from the Kraken for 69 games of NHL experience. He was a UFA at the end of the season and was an original octopus expansion pick. Good job, Swayman!

There is 80 games' worth of time for injuries or performance to dictate who is in net, though.

Hopefully, we have a player who learns to protect himself better from aggressive old d-men who are looking to set the tone early in a game.

Swayman reset the goalie market, as intended. Now a #1 is going to be looking for Vasilevskiy money. Levi's agent is tenting his fingers and smiling.

It is odd, for sure, but as part of the (North American) season opener tripleheader, Blues/Kraken is the logical one to kick out of primetime. Bruins/Panthers is the clear primetime kickoff (banner raising and a good matchup) and Bedard/Utah makes sense to get on the opening slate out west.

He will never have a better chance to get his career in order than until JJP returns. Then, he can keep it going while skating for Aube-Kubel. Krebs has a desperate home audience in a home opener with a fragile fan base watching on TV. All he needs to do is go hard to the net, go hard to the corners, and skate and battle his hinder off. Open up space for TNT's shot and for a D-man to jump into a play down low. Maybe draw a retaliatory penalty. He can still be the unsung hero of the rebellion (as one of the offspring of Jackikin, he can still be Wedge. Or he can be Biggs.)

I'm bored, but otherwise doing alright. There's too much time between games 2 and 3. Thanks for asking!

Push the Sabres and they won't push back. It's been that way for 10 years. Can Ruff change it? They did call up that one AHLer for a game vs. Tampa Bay after getting tossed around the previous two seasons. Remember that great example of toughness? Part of the beauty of playoff hockey is the ebb-and-flow. Good teams taking turns controlling play and going at each other, pushing, prodding, exerting their will. And then it shifts back. The Sabres haven't been able to push back against a physical team. And it can't just be a bunch of newcomers on the fourth line. It needs to be everyone. Tuch responded to the hit: well and good. That's expected. But the response needs to be ongoing through the rest of the game. There needs to be a fire and an orneriness at the end of the game to send a message for the next day, and the rematch later in the season. This franchise still needs a line brawl in the worst way. They need to pick another franchise and make them an enemy. Force a good old rivalry. Make those games must-have tickets. And then, pick another team, and do it again. I nominate Boston and Tampa.

Yup. Tie your boat the bronze-medal goat. Now the Jets are free to trade for Davante Adams. Heck, they can even sign Bakhtiari despite the fact that his knee can't pass a physical.