Doohickie

I think about March Madness and how lower seeds sometimes advance, and a No. 8 seed has actually won the tournament, Villanova in 1985. As a No. 8 seed, that means that 28 teams were ahead of them (seeds 1-7 in each of the 4 regions). It's rare but it can happen. A #3 or worse wins the NCAA Basketball tourny over 20% of the time. A #3 seed is an overall ranking of somewhere between 9 and 12. The point is, if you bring more teams into the CFB playoffs, there will be more upsets. It happens in basketball, it can happen in football.

So after a few games of Tyson Jost, my impression is that he plays faster than his hands can keep up with but doesn't back off the throttle. He just doubles down when he inevitably fumbles the puck, and goes and gets it back or at least disrupts the other team as much as he can. He displayed good hands with his goal last night, so given time and space he apparently knows what to do. He seems well suited to playing with Okie and Gus. He's probably the highest skill guy that still has sandpaper to center that line since maybe Larsson or maybe Lazar. High motor, rugged, but enough skill to cash in when the opportunity presents... at least that's my impression so far.

The thing that makes me feel good about the Sabres' prospects going forward is that Dahlin is getting that way; hopefully Power will pick it up. Tage is learning how to lay the body on opponents to grab the puck. The whole Cozens line seems to understand they have to do that, but still learning NHL level physicality. But I'd like to see it out of more of the roster. Skinner tends to aggravate other players, get them off their game and goad them into penalties. Tuch is big but doesn't use it enough (imo). I think one of the things I like about Jost is that he seems to like mixing it up.

I wonder what she's gonna think about moving to Switzerland? "They don't even speak English here!"

I was thinking more along the lines of, considering the Sabres' record, they're not exactly upper crust. That's what I mean: If we have all these top players, how come we suck? Must be the rest of the team.

What does that say about the rest of the team then? 😛

Wow, crazy. I came in here to post "BRING BACK MICHAEL HOUSER!"

Except when really close to own goalie.

The refs don't want to decide this one. Until they did.

You were saving that all night, weren't you?

***** ***** ***** ***** ***** *****

Seriously ***** this *****.

These refs just suck.

Nope. 4-on-4. Sonofabitch

TB should get the extra penalty on that.

*****

He's playing a regular shift. He's just playing his game, which is to be invisible until he scores. He has made several good defensive plays but no one notices those.

I gotta believe he practices that. He scores a lot of goals from there.

The chemistry on that line is becoming very strong.

Why was that icing when Skinner was closest to the dot?

He's at least what Curtis Lazar was for us. Muel is just so quietly good defensively.

That was a major league hook on Dahlin as he crossed into the Bolts zone and... no call on Hedman Only after Jost showed up.

Jost is a revelation. He's the perfect center or that line.