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Maximum Power!

That was a beautiful pass

Comrie: .883 Save percentage, 3.67 Gaa. UPL: .899 Save percentage, 3.31 GAA. Those stats are not “nearly identical, they’re noticeably worse. There’s also the 12-5-1 record for UPL, compared to Comrie’s 4-8. Part of that is due to injuries but it’s hard to not put UPL over him, and Anderson has played the best in the limited games.

Nice play by mitts there

We’re playing better, but the score in the third is still 0-0

Come on

Chief operations officer.

I will say a large part of what determines the top contenders from the average playoff team. Take the Avalanche last year for example, they had Toews, Makar, Byram, Girard, Erik Johnson, and Josh Manson for their top 6. If we get a couple more bottom 4 defenders to replace our 6/7s we’d be in good shape.

Pretty sure this isn’t true, bloom was signed last season and was playoff eligible for the Amerks after his season ended, he didn’t end up playing though.

Nice pass by mitts (my feed is behind)

Jokiharju was missed.

Interesting. I wonder how the lines end up.

That was such a soft goal

He was reading this thread where someone predicted Reaves would murder Dahlin… wild couldn’t stop Dahlin so he had to try something.

Crap

I have a brother at the Amerks game tonight, said Kisakov has 5 penalties on the night, woof.

Let’s get another one

Dahlin!

I think at least some of that has to do with being on the pk, at least the second one on 5v3. If one guy works on clearing the net, it leaves a 4v2, not exactly something you can expect to prevent a goal on.

Damn

1. The powerplay ain’t broke, don’t try to fix it. 2. Cozens is better for keeping possession/battling on the board, and has a decent shot himself. Also has better passing for setting up the other guys on the powerplay.

Let’s go!

Couple things: Chychurn has been bad on his right side. Any trade for Chychurn likely means Power is moving to Rd or Chychurn is playing on the third pair. Power moving to Rd may work out, but most defenseman are significantly worse on their off-hand. I would not pay the cost to put Chychurn on the third pair, and doubt it would be worth it to move Power to Rd and pay for Chychurn. Especially when considering how much Chychurn has been hurt. There’s also nothing wrong with having goal scorers on the third line. The panther’s regular season success last season was a good chunk due to the depth of their forwards and being able to score with their bottom 6. The Avalanche last year had Burkakovsky on their third line, helping them win a cup. In a couple years we could have a second line caliber third line with Krebs/Östlund/Kulich/Savoie/Rosen. A major driver of Chychurn’s trade value is his contract, which Buffalo wouldn’t get as much benefit from when compared to other teams. After this season, he’ll have 2 more years at 4.6 million, which is good value for the play you’d be getting. Sabres are not expected to be tight on cap during those seasons, so there is less value in his contract when compared to other buyers. However, by the time that contract expires, Dahlin and Power will likely (hopefully) be signed to big deals, and it’d be hard to fit another big defenseman contract. A trade would probably end up being 2.5 years of Chychurn for 7(+\-) years of Savoie, 7(+\-) years of 2023 draft pick +. That is not something I have interest in.

Obviously we are all hoping for a full recovery for Damar. The big worry is that he had CPR for a while, (9 mins from a report I saw), where he wasn’t breathing. ~10 minutes with little to no oxygen to the brain is rough on you.

The first line all played less than 20 minutes. That’s reasonable for a first line of a team that is down and is trying to win. Dahlin did play a lot, but he was the best looking Sabre out there tonight IMO.