mjd1001

Well, this is now 5 wins in the last 6.....just a little too late for this season.

what movie?

Sabres so far this season: 1st period: 67 goals scored, 41 allowed, +26 (best differential in the league) 2nd period: 54 goals scored, 70 allowed, -16 (tied for worst in the league) 3rd period: 51 goals scored, 71 allowed, -20 (2nd worst diffential in the league)

Tuch is having a bad year on the PP.

Sabres outscoring the Rangers 13-4 this year through 2 1/3 games.

And the dreaded goaltender change...usually bad news for this team.

Watched part of the pens-Caps game earlier, they put up the graphic about how the Sabres and Caps were tied for the most goals in the first period of any teams in the NHL..... Well, Sabres are pulling away. They are the presidents trophy of the first period this season.

I enjoyed watching some of the games, and I'm glad they had the tournament, but personally I'm happy NHL hockey is back. I really wish an international tournament like this could be done before the season, not during it, but that is not how they want to do it I guess.

And can go to the corners and chase loose pucks. And can finish a check deep into the corner and not have to worry about being the center as the first one back to denend the rush. And not have to worry about distributing the puck whe he has it in the slot, because he simply has zero ability to do that. He has the ability to do that obviously. I think he would enjoy wing better too.

Watched them with the wife last night. Really happy with them, my opinion much better than season 2.

I don't think its getting old for 2 simple reasons: 1.) he is here and continues to play at center 2.) He is very bad in that role. He's a bad player. The team is losing because of his play. For all the excuses about the position he is in, the team and management around him, for the most part the other 20+ players are not hurting the team as much as he is. The complaining will continue, and will be justified to many of us in that he contiues to hurt the team. Until his play gets DRAMATICALLY better, or he is no longer here, the complaining will contiue...and it is justified, after all this is a message board where we talk the most about the very best,and very worst parts about the team. I would say the complaining about management is getting just as the complaining about Cozens. But if we don't talk about the things about this team that are bad, we may as well just shut down the forum for the rest of the season.

If that option was on the table, I'd do it. Although I'd like to see what else was available. I am fearful that the league-wide value of Cozens may be a lot less than many of us think/hope.

I am surprised by Power being so low. Not because he's having a great year, just we keep hearing on the broadcast of how well he is doing offensively even strength. McLeod I'm not surprised at. I really think, overall, he is close to one of the top 5 players on this team. Hes contributing as well offensively as you can reasonably expect from a 3rd liner....but most of the time he is very responsible away from the puck. Cozens and Quinn though, every set of numbers i look at say those 2 guys are sinking this team. Take Cozens and Quinn off this team, replace them with 'average' players and they are probably in a playoff position. As I posted yesterday showing Quinn's numbers are considerably better when he is not playing with Cozens. Half of his ice time is with Cozens.....half is without Cozens, and while he doesn't have a ton of goals, his metrics are close to 'even' without Cozens, compared to Quinn having some of the absolute worst analytics in the entire league this year with Cozens.

As much as I complain about Cozens non stop, I'd be good, as a matter of fact happy, to keep him on this team if he was permanently moved to wing. If he gets traded and the team he gets traded to puts him on wing, i'll be pretty upset the Sabres haven't done that here. I agree with you on Power. I'm not 100% sure he's going to be 'top tier', but If you forced me to bet whether he would be good enough to be considered a top 10 D-man in the league or not...I would bet yes. I think its going to take a couple years though. I wonder if the key for Quinn is just getting him away from Cozens being his center. If you look at the advanced stats this year, Quinn has played even strength with and without Cozens for about the same number of minutes. Quinn's Corsi% is 7 percent/points higher without Cozens, his Fenwick is about 7.5 percent higher without Cozens, Shots for vs against is over 7 points higher without Cozens, Expected goals are almost 12 points higher without Cozens,Actual goals for vs against are 5 points higher without Cozens. High danger chance percentage is almost 25! points/percent higher without Cozens.And higher danger actual goals are 12.5 points higher when he isn't with Cozens. And when he is without Cozens the Sabres allow a goal about once every 20.73 minutes he is on the ice even strength...but when he is with Cozens they allow a goal once every 15.5 minutes. That is a HUGE difference. Stastically, Its like the difference between a goalie with a GAA of 2.89 vs one at 3.87. Anyone on this team that you want to help, get them off of a line with Cozens.

This is not the only one, but one of my all time favorite Cozens zone exits...