DarthEbriate

Sabres breakaway: no shot on goal and the Blues turn it into a 2-on-1.

It's 3E. Ellis, Efficient, and Economical.

Benson shoots to the crest instead of aiming for a pad rebound. Hmm. We'll make this kid a Sabre yet!

Terrible zone entries. And then JJP fairly robs himself with a slight delay on his shot.

Thompson with the Imperial Stormtrooper shot attempt.

Okposo looked to center to Skinner, but Skinner pulled up instead of going to the net. Goes back the other way and TNT still caught on the ice for a long shift, Blues score.

++How we doin'? --Same as always. ++That bad first again, huh? --Woohoo! Dirty goal on a good bounce. Just go to the net.

Well, I guess I'd best hop in the ol' B-Wing and go do my grocery shopping now so I'm home in time to--- Wait! I'm still scheduling around this team and its product?

Per the rumor, my question would be: are the Sabres shopping Mitts (that doesn't seem to be Sheevyn's way unless Mitts said he no longer wants to be here) or is the more likely track be "Is every GM worth their salt in the league looking at the garbage teams and trying to find good centers to help them now that Monahan and Lindholm have been moved?" Mitts would be a fantastic addition to any already-good roster.

NBA trade deadline is today; NHL is March 8th.

Krueger would've benched him for playing too tenaciously and getting caught behind the play, he'd have lost his love for the game as they re-tanked for Power, and then demanded a trade, which GM Adams would've gotten done for a 4th, lamenting "We only want guys who want to be here?" 😇

Ach. Yes, I was thinking longer term and forgot the RFA. It's really a let him go to arbitration, sign him to a 2-year bridge, or give him the starter salary 5x$5M.

UPL has become a solid NHL goalie this season (numbers-wise). He's stopped leaning forward and undoing his size advantage, he's overcommitting less side-to-side, and he's been better at reading the play and his rebound control (the Stars' GWG notwithstanding). The next question becomes... how long are folks willing to extend him. Is GM Sheevyn willing to give him a starter salary, or just go Ullmark walking again?

You’d have teams on the cusp (missed 2-3 years) with good young cores go right back into full-on tank mode as soon as the next McDavid/Bedard was on the horizon. GMs would sell their owners on the long-term success for just a few years of suffering. Specifically for the Sabres, I’m not sure another #1 18 year-old in the lineup is the answer.

I don't understand the bolded. In order to make it, they're going to need to get to about 96 points, which would mean going something in the order of 23-7-2 down the stretch. To do so, their PP would need to be better, the scoring would have to be through the roof, Power would look like he's playing God Mode, and their goalies would have to be hotter than Hasek for over 2 straight months. In order to make it, they'd be absolutely the most dangerous team "no one wants to play" heading into the playoffs. We'd all be ecstatic.

Well. Sometimes you get them goalied, and sometimes the goalie goalies you.

Please put someone in front of the net.

Huh. I'm just not used to seeing that one called.

Negative. It didn't go in. Just impacted on the surface (of the d-man's stick).

Dahlin needs to fake the shot, then do a Kucherov slide. Oettinger will never see it.

Okposo drifted so far away from the net on the PP the Stars were able to cover him and Dahlin's shot with the same player.

Grumble grumble... UPL bad rebound. Power no crease clearing.

This game can't go 60 seconds without a face off.

Hey. A TNT powerplay goal!

Pavelski went to the net and almost had a pretty one. Seems like that's a good idea.