JoeSchmoe

I personally like Thompson at C. It shouldn't be this way, but I do feel he seems more engaged there. Send Östlund back to ROC and bring Rosen back up to play wing. Then move McLeod back to 3rd line C where he's better suited.

Man, that game was a gut punch. I thought we were different with Norris back.

Yep

Who came up with the term three-headed monster? Does anyone else besides me find it kind of annoying? In my case, I once sat beside a guy who talked about it all game in the Levi, Comrie, UPL days, but I don't think I liked the term even before then.

Sabres have the 10th best 5 on 5 high danger shot attempts against and 9th best medium danger. That's pretty good D.

Hopefully Ellis can do it. He's the only guy with any runway left.

Problem is they're 23rd for actual Goal%. They are the 2nd worst team in the league for 5 on 5 goaltending (goals against above expected) so until that gets better it'll be tough to improve.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but Jarmo's track record as a GM was never great in his own right. He's probably not the guy we want replacing Adams.

The Moneypuck simulator has the Sabres at around an 86% "deserve to win" rating. I've never seen a rating so high for an actual score that was so bad. I didn't watch the whole game but from the half I saw we looked really good. It's disheartening to get this kind of result.

Wait... Maybe I missed it, but do we know who's in net today?

Sounds like he's a good judge of character!

I saw the tweet and I was upset only because I don't like UPL as a player and hope he leaves the team soon so we can win more games. 🙂 If it were anyone else I'd think it's cool they're going out in Buffalo having a fun time.

Lyons overall numbers are respectable. I wonder why they seem to have abandoned the idea of him being the #1 unless he's nursing something minor that won't go away.

Crosby and McDavid play two different games. McDavid is all speed and flash, Crosby is more gritty and cerebral. In the debate about who's better at their peaks, the McDavid fans tend to look purely at the skill (to which there is little argument on who's better) but look too little on Crosby's superior IQ and strength on the puck. The fact of the matter is that for all Mcdavid's flash, he should be winning the Art Ross every year by at least 20 or 30pts. But... MacKinnon and Kucherov are always right there with him. Those two are very highly skilled in their own rights, but aren't at McDavid level. However, they make up for it with grit (esp MacKinnon) and IQ (esp Kucherov). And remember that 99 guy with 2857 career points never stood out skill wise. He just thought the game at a level his competition could not.

Are you in the 99th percentile?