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A note on Quinn

@DarthEbriate

Both Crosby and Ovi come into tonight's game vs each other with exactly 1423 career points. The Two Towers

On another note, Joki is back rotating in and Power is still on the right, are we thinking that's his home now? The no space for Ryan Johnson thing definitely seems overplayed and it seems to be he might be able to slot right in on our left side

It's always in the wake of a loss like yesterday that I shudder at those types of comments. If they truly are focused more on building for playoff wins right now than regulation wins, it's scary.

Sun's getting real low..

Have they made it clear to Quinn, and the others in the rotation, that regardless of how well they play (Quinn has been one of our best 6 forwards by the metrics - we care about those now, right? Ventura? Bueller?) that they CAN'T bust out of said rotation? No dangling carrot? Or is it that they don't adjudge Quinn to have done enough to escape said rotation? It has to be 1 of those 2, doesn't it? Not sure I can argue for the merits of either

It's an interesting / kinda weird line. I almost feel like it's too STRONG of a measuring stick, ie - I'd be confident in saying a deluca .500 team is really good - looking at the numbers, it's not just that they ALMOST exclusively make the playoffs - teams at Deluca .500 are so often well above it. Then there's the one team right at the mark that misses the playoffs. It can happen that you are merely a pretty good team that hits Deluca .500, but looking for us to hit in in that way..almost feel like there's a more realistic indicator of a "reasonable but might not make the playoffs quite yet" type team that I THINK Aud was getting it.

Quick (way too early) follow up: Reinhart, October - 9gp, 2 points: 18 point pace Reinhart, November - 4gp, 3 points: 62 point pace

The ROTATION! continues. Quinn sitting now. Discuss today's lines. Hinostroza, from press box to top line.

Haha

The chances of a Deluca .500 team missing the playoffs is relatively fairly rare, only happens about once a year I think. Ie if you have 41 regular wins, you very likely aren't losing 36 in regulation. This isn't to say Deluca .500 without playoffs won't happen, but to me expecting deluca .500 is pretty close to excepting playoffs. It's not likely we'll see deluca .500 + a miss. It could happen, should be ~ 1 team that does it: Vegas was over deluca 500 last year 43-31-8, and missed. Every other Deluca 500 team made it, all others that missed were below the mark Previous full season, also one team at deluca 500 to miss - Montreal 3 at Deluca 500 actually missed the previous year But the year before I didn't see any @ deluca 500 that missed. Could be us this year, just seems a small statistical landing ground. Anyways, just statistical food for thought, no real point to make here

Your reading of my take is nonsense. I didn't presume any of the erroneous content you just laid out. You hit on it with the bolded - that's what I was saying. That's what I meant by trap game. My thought is that they were looking beyond what they consider to be an inferior opponent - human nature. It might not be accurate, but the result of the game only lends credence to what I said. Makes it more likely. That the Sabres "got up for", performed better in "event" games last year is a documented fact. That means they've left something in the tank during the rest, presumably. - - - Called what would happen but being right isn't enough on this site, I need to explain why I was right the next day, as well. lol Have at it

My comment isn't supposed to reflect positively on their effort. It was a condemnation of their effort. Just because we don't like it doesn't mean it's not true. We didn't get our best effort tonight because they are looking forward towards Thursday. And that's a generous reading - the alternative is that we didn't get a good game from them just because. Which would be an even larger issue Yup. They'll win Thursday.

Have you seen the Sabres record in “event” games last year like Eichel returning, RJ night, etc etc Bet Buffalo

Doesn't matter. Like I said - trap game. It's a vibes game Thursday. I expect we'll see their best and we'll probably win it.

Don't pull him when we have possession, they wait till a face off because we'll surely win it /s

PULL THE GOALIE ALREADY yeesh

Can’t, not don’t

Probably boredom

Calgary has dropped 5 straight. Meanwhile

I suppose it’s possible this represents a bit of a trap game for this team. That’ll be down to the coaches to have them ready - this team performed very well in “event” games last year so I’ve no doubt we’ll be getting their A game Thursday - hopefully not looking past this one. Isn’t really something this team as it stands can afford.

I’ve always seen the guy from Always Sunny. Here he is talking about one of his goals

Score one for Sabrespace in the “properly selected whipping boy” column