Marvin

I imagine one of Johnson's issues is that he will be 3LHD for his entire career here. I imagine that he sees himself as being more than that.

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IMHO, the density of the current schedule is starting to get to them.

I imagine the use of tablets on the bench is as fraught as the use of computers in math classes. If you know what you are doing as a coach or teacher and can educate your players or students on how to use them properly, then they are probably useful. But the potential for misuse is high.

I read that Miami had less than 300 yards of offense. Just shows how much the gaffes on offence and special teams mattered. Can the Bills have them cured by next week?

I expect the Bills to be underdogs the rest of the way. Miami showed everyone the way. A bad offencive line is its own punishment.

Lyubushkin was not positionally unsound in Toronto, but he had a consistent partner; thus, his defence tandem read plays together and made correct ensemble plays. Because he has been injured and has not had a consistent partner except for the earliest part of the season, he and his partners are often not on the same page. He needs to stay healthy ("the #1 ability is availability") and needs to settle in with Clague or whomever until they function well as a pair.

I had thought so too, but I saw shots being credited in situations like the above in numerous NHL rinks over the years.

The Bills have played 3 in a row on the road every now and then. The league does seem to try and avoid it. I remember that I used to see 2 road - 1 home - 2 road more often in years gone by.

I am waiting for the floor tumbling run.

This is true of shots on goal as well. Until the league started monitoring games after 2005, what constituted a shot on goal varied. For instance, Buffalo was notoriously parsimonious about crediting a shot on goal -- we required that a goalie intentionally make a save for a shot clearly intended to hit the net that would have scored had the save not been made. Here are circumstances where Buffalo scorekeepers would not count a shot on goal unless a goal resulted whereas at least some, if not most other teams' scorekeepers would count it. 1. Puck bounces off the boards on a zone clear and it winds up on net. 2. A hard pass directed off the net deflects off of someone and the goalie has to make a save. 3. The goalie catches or deflects a puck that looked like it would hit the post or maybe go over the net. That means that for any other team, Dominik Hasek's save percentage would have been higher than it already was.

I thought Lyubushkin would be better, but the injuries have hurt his meshing with the system and are leading to penalties. On the other hand, I think Kale Clague has been his highest quality consistent partner has not helped one bit either. In any event, I would prefer Clague being pushed down the chart with an upgrade. However, since I imagine part of the function of this year was to get an idea of what we have in Bryson, Fitzgerald, Pilut, and Clague, I am not holding my breath.

No rest for the wicked.

Where is Samuelsson?

That's a goal.

I am hoping for Hamlin to be passed the Lombardi Trophy from Allen downtown.

Additionally, his price sets the price for lesser players. For instance, the price for Luke Schenn out of Vancouver is correspondingly astronomical.

If Mittlestadt and Olofsson can make tonight's performance a regular thing, this team will be mighty dangerous in the playoffs. Yes, the playoffs.

It hurt just to read that subject.

So they will displace the Sabres for the best record from before Thanksgiving to miss the playoffs?

Welcome to the board! Yes, we need 6 of 8.

According to my news feed, one option is to let an 8th team into the AFC playoffs and to go by winning percentage for seeding so that there is no bye.

You could swap him with Okposo.

There are a few YouTube channels who have the odd podcast.

A few pundits think Power will be better than Dahlin. If they are right, TNT could easily be 3rd on the Sabres.