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Have to agree with this. This is as much UPL’s fault as it was Ellis’s fault last game. Funny how we view ourself in goalie purgatory. Not a single one of them can just be an “average” goalie. That says more about the team in front of them than the goalies themselves.

It really is, which is why I wonder if it’s even fair to evaluate Ellis based on last night’s loss. An elite goalie would’ve been able to stop some of those goals, but still.

Here’s what I would do to level the playing field. After a 2 game win streak, the first goalie who plays enough to win the 3rd stays.

I don’t care how many wins we get next year. We need new coaching. This up and down and not knowing what is going on is coaching.

Clearly Norris is heads and shoulders above Cozens. The only wrinkle here is the injury risk.

Don’t let Bob Kraft or DeShaun Watson know about this!

But it depends on the reason he’s getting low TOI. It would be appropriate for a 3rd line player who only recently came up from the AHL. He’s getting sheltered minutes as he probably should. Now, if you think he would be benefitting from increased playing time against inferior talent, then he should be sent down.

I just picked Colorado randomly. They have a 3rd line of Goaloffson, Drury, and Nichushkin. None of them have eclipsed 60 points in their careers. Carolina: Carrier, Staal, Martinook. None of them have ever reached 60 points. Edit: add Tampa Bay. Girg and Homberg. Speaks for themselves. Hannibal Gourde did have one great year of 64 points in 2017. All other years he’s around 30-40 points.

I really like these lines. Outside the 4th line, any one of them can score.

Kevyn: “See guys? I told you so!”

I really doubt this is “coming to an end”. I hope this post doesn’t age well, but there has been a zillion of things KA has “tried” but never come to be. The only way around this is to just waive one of them and I don’t think KA has that in him.

I think Norris has already established himself in terms of skill. Let’s not pretend we still need to worry that about compared to the elephant in the room.

Let’s not forget, UPL fighting for his job > UPL who is named starter.

Shhh. Don’t jinx it.

It always starts with the tip.

But, I heard on the street he’s only 112 lbs, soaked.

I got good vibes about tonight. Go Sabres!

Or this:

This is a bold prediction.

I can just see Terry’s logic now. He hired this Jarmo guy to teach Kevyn how to be a GM. Kevyn still doesn’t know, so Jarmo must be fired.

If I were UPL after that game, I would be drinking too. I don’t care what he does in his off time. But he needs to do better or we need to cut the cord.

Agree. We seem to get goalied a lot. But, we never seem to do the goaliing, at least when UPL is in net. We don’t need a perfect goalie, but at least one who has the ability to steal some games here and there. This isn’T UPL.

I have not been to the MMA in over 15 years. It was finished in 1996 and is now 29 years old. The Aud was used for 56 years. What are people on Buffalo saying now about KeyBank Arena. Surely it’s not time to rebuild a new one. Would renovations bring it into the 21st century?

This is true. It basically comes down to the injury. Calloused bone is a natural phenomenon. Surgical intervention on soft tissue usually leads to some degree of scar tissue, another natural phenomenon. But, scar tissue is not as strong as the tissue around it. So, it depends on the injury.

It’s probably not as rare as people make it out to be. Even the ROR for Tage trade. It took years for this one to develop. STL’s benefit was immediate and ours was not. And before people say ROR won them a Cup, if Tage was in a competent organization, he would/will probably have a Cup as well. I don’t think we can blame that trade in isolation for our woes. I think it comes down, at the end of the day, who was the better player, ROR or Tage.