Thorny

Anderson is better than Tokarski and he’s not yet 50 pass

Agree.

Always shadows directly over top of his right eyebrow whereas on his left side you can see it sits noticeably higher. This doesn’t mean anything I just notice a lot of dumb pointless stuff. File this under Reinhart adjusting his helmet an abnormal amount

Seriously asking: Has anyone noticed that his helmet is always slightly tilted to the side?

The math isn’t being fairly represented by breaking down each individual goal, this is what people misunderstand when it comes to math and sample sizes. Say, for argument, UPL had only a 25% shot to make any one of the 6 saves. If you break it down individually, you can make a case for how realistically we couldn’t have expected a stop as he only had a 25% shot on each. But if you get *6* chances with 25% odds, looking from the perspective of the data set as a whole, one would be CORRECT to assume and predict that at least one will go our way. This is why I said the thing about: if the total against is high enough, there’s assuredly blame to go around for the goalie Just because it’s very unlikely on any *one* spin that a roulette wheel comes up on #4, if you spin it 500 times you can expect it to land 4. if it somehow didn’t, it would be a statistical anomaly, it wouldn’t be a case of “well what did you expect? Which one spin do you think should have hit?” No, it’s that, when the spins are all viewed in totality, the math changes hope this makes sense

Back to my point about how we always face back ups, though: sure, we gain tonight from having a true #1 in there..but Tampa also can do the same thing re: vezina winner vasilevskiy. I agree we’ll be much better once we have a true guy, but today is a good example of what I was getting at when I say the improvement isn’t just “plug and play”. Much of that improvement in this case would be offset by also getting THEIR best roster

Let me help If the following fill in the blank: "Im not sure which of the *insert #* goals he was expected to save" is populated by a number 5 or greater, the goalie shares in the blame. full stop. It's ok to expect your goalie to provide POSITIVE value, and not just the literal bare minimum of "don't hurt us" It's a position on the team where you *look to gain advantage over the other team's equal but opposite guy* same as any other people are so weird with goalies

TBH, and with all due respect, I'm not THAT sure gritty would fix the GT situation but, really..you know what - he might be an upgrade of course lol

It's true. This is why I purely watch WWE now and have forsaken the 4 major NA sports Say what you want, but at least I know what's happening is f*cking real

For posterity: Tampa Bay is the 12th most penalized team this season by way of Minors Buffalo is the 19th most penalized team this season by way of Minors Tampa also gets the 9th most powerplays Buffalo gets the 6th most power plays - - - Tampa is being hit with more minors than Buffalo, and are receiving fewer PPs Just some overall context fwiw

Our best hope is that the guy who SHOULD be easily blocking pucks given his size washing out gets paid back to us in the form of the littler guy who SHOULDN'T be easily blocking pucks...doing exactly that at the NHL level ala our Saros

Does he? I think/hope he's looking to supplement, now, in the pursuit of greater progress - - - Bolded would be a decent place to start, but I don't think we see a G addition in season. I pray we aren't waiting on Levi. I don't THINK we are, we at least took a swipe at the concept of Comrie

I disagree. Except in egregious situations Im not the blame the officials guy, and I didn't see this as close to egregious. Darth had a good breakdown above. We just played a game where we got like 10 PPs in a row, can't remember who it was against, but we had a parade of PPs. This stuff just happens

This game didn't suck at all, it's another game in a long list where we are clearly icing HALF a good team. Where's @DarthEbriate....half a ship, amirite? There are spots were we are no doubt about it, certifiably good enough, and other spots that so clearly need to be upgraded. It's the bad parts costing us: that's a good thing. Particularly in light of the recent intimations from Adams, if they can be believed, that he's made the identifications and is moving towards addressing the lineup now

We got their B goalie who played like a B goalie, that's for sure. Oddly enough, Elliot doesn't usually play that way against us Our scoring is certainly improving

In Tuch's defence it wasn't a "dream come true" game, or whatever

Tuch had a poor game

not a poor result against TB, to be fair, on most nights. Snatching 1 point from the Jaws of 2 sucks but, not the worst outcome

and poor goaltending

don't forget the awful special teams

Couple of firsts today: Samuelsson first point this season First mark in the third standings column for the Sabres this season

I'll take the blame I guess. Went south after I left, 3 straight against I think whoops lol

^ bump

So, functional, not literal. got it

my own fault. I'm out for the rest will check in later