Porous Five Hole

Man, I’ve been able to scroll past you all day, but this one right here. Wow. 🤌

While I totally agree with you, who is listening to the local radio station as their primary source of the broadcast in 2024? Maybe for 15 min in the car on a random night? Most people just check their yahoo/espn app for a score update when they’re not home. I haven’t seen Nielsen ratings, but they most be very low. I get it, most of the rest of the league still has two broadcast teams—one for tv and one for radio…so why shouldn’t we also have that? But in reality, it doesn’t make a whole lot of financial sense to invest money in a radio only broadcast team. It is a dying entity (and this is coming from someone who worked in radio).

That’s a bump of 4.5MM. With the reported edict of Buffalo spending to the cap, that money will come in handy toward another top six forward.

Day one of these! And of course it is now 64 and raining.

It’s nice to dream about, but the chances that Ottawa trades Brady Tkachuk within the division are next to zero.

That is tough to determine right now. Savoie tore up Junior at age 20. He was in way over his head during AHL playoff games at 19 last year and was scratched down the stretch. Meanwhile Kulich nearly led the Amerks in playoff scoring last year at age 19. Jiri, also 20, now has two years of pro under his belt. So maybe via draft pedigree you can say Savoie has higher upside, but I would not be surprised if Kulich ended up the better player both short term and long term.

He just covered an old Cream song (Crossroads) with Slash and it’s exceptional.

The refs didn’t get a championship parade, a party where the whole city takes a collective sigh of relief after 50 years, a banner, and a team that went down in history. Dallas did.

This isn’t a good take. Sergachev suffered a horrific injury that required a stretcher to get him off the ice, surgery on a fractured fibula & fractured tibia, and returned for game four.

Please tell me how that makes a difference to the end result. Brett Hull is still carving pumpkins about it. Get off my lawn.

Forgot about Asplund lol He is a full time AHLer these days: 9G, 35A, 67 GP for Charlotte.

I dislike Dallas. “No Goal” still sticks with me. Yea I think McDavid is playing hurt. He hasn’t been shooting when normally he would shoot.

All I got is he is from nearby Auburn, NY.

Glad the Canes felt some pain in losing the series 🤷‍♂️

The guy leads the NHL in goals in the playoffs this year

Randy Cunneyworth? I’m not being 100% serious, but if you bring back Ruff then why not bring back Cunney?

No love for the Bruins, but it is confusing why it took two full days for this camera angle to be discovered. Dirty.

LOL the title was changed an hour ago and we are still going to let Austin slide?

Sabres providing the pregame prep

Arbitration would buy us two years of UPL because he’s got two years of RFA left and he can go to arbitration twice. I don’t want to pay extra to buy out some of UPL’s UFA years, which is what you would have to do to sign him long term. I’m a Levi truther. He’s the long term plan. Two more years is enough to groom Levi to be the guy. We didn’t have a “Levi” at the time in the Ullmark scenario. UPL wasn’t ready then. Levi will be ready in two years…he might be ready next year.

That’s why arbitration makes sense. Still an RFA after next year and you will better know what you really have. The long term answer is Levi anyway. Devon already has nothing left to prove in the AHL (.927 save percentage in his 26 games here this year—and even better so far in the playoffs). For this UPL negotiation, you have to consider the fact that he may be a backup before the end of next year.

I think the move here is to have UPL elect for salary arbitration. He will get a significant raise, the Sabres can afford it, and back to RFA with proof in the pudding that he’s a .910 goalie (or not).

Utah Soakers would have been lit

Owner Ryan Smith has said the team will have a name starting with Utah. The options to choose from are Frost, Ice, Powder, Mountaineers, Freeze, Mammoth, Black Diamonds, Blast, Caribou, Blizzard, Swarm, Hive, Outlaws, Yeti, Squall, Fury, Glaciers, Canyons, Venom and HC, which stands for Hockey Club. https://www.espn.com/nhl/story/_/id/40111549/utah-offers-20-team-name-ideas-including-frost-hive-venom I am not a fan of any of them…

I watch the playoffs each night and my wife asked me who I am rooting for in round two…and this was my exact conclusion.