Porous Five Hole

I like Perbix

Connor Timmins has been good so far in stepping up to a top four role. Far more minutes than anyone intended for him. He’s blocked more shots than anyone on the team and his on-ice expected goals number is very good. Can’t wait for Kess, but Timmins deserves praise.

Dobes has been better than Monty so far. This will be his third start…he’s 2-0, 1.46, .940.

We are at game four and talking like this trade will be a known formality is bonkers. It’s podcast fodder that we should not be paying attention to. Hence your grain of salt comment with any of it. BUT, let’s entertain the idea. If a trade, retaining 50% makes a lot of sense. It means an acquiring team only needs to fit 2.375MM onto their cap making Tuch literally the most premium deadline add in the league. The haul would be enormous. I’m not fond of kicking off the Jarmo era with trading a very useful player who grew up a Sabres fan. It’s the exact opposite of what I would do. But if Tuch will not accept 10MM X 6, I totally get it.

Four of those goals were on four consecutive shots! Amerks win 7-4.

Inkman the fun police is on the beat!

Lyon revenge game 🦁

From undrafted to the NHL.

Saw a Peterka highlight from the other night and learned the Utah Mammoth have ripped off the Sabres goal horn.

23-24: 17.9%, 10th best in the league 22-23: 20.6%, 9th best in the league 21-22: 23.5%, best in the league. Appert’s PP was always good in Rochester.

Aren’t we starting our backup tonight?

@SDS, fyi. I am not going to make the joke this year.

Goodness, you’re right and that makes me want to 🤮.

The concept for making up Peterka’s production was an uptick in team goals with Quinn, Kulich & Benson specifically in mind, and a down tick of goals against with Kess & Timmons in mind (which pushed Glass Sammy to third pair). That plan can still work, but jeeeeez not so far. Also, the whole “want to be here” effect our lame duck GM has been spewing for years. Vibes. The plan was vibes, I guess. I cannot wait til GMKA is fired.

I didn’t see this anywhere on SS, but this is more than the arena cost to build even adjusted for inflation. The arena was built in 1995 for $127M. That's only $270M adjusted for inflation today. https://www.wgrz.com/article/sports/nhl/sabres/keybank-center-renovations-expected-to-cost-400-million/71-147c5a48-cda9-4df5-ae2b-d91bb5c21b93