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Considering the position he plays and his shot, I don't really have a problem with handing the compensatory pick over to Kevyn.

I saw him freeze the puck only three times, on clean catches in the glove or into his equipment. The goal allowed was after he failed to control a rebound. The concern I have with him is rebound control.

I'm guessing too much arm swing/upper body movement.

but let's not wreck ourselves during a meaningless challege game, yeah?

When it's the end of the production shift and no good names are left:

All gung ho and ready to go.... but this is his first game contact. No matter how good he feels, there's always that first hit.

The deal has been announced but is there a date for implementation?

So do we get SHL games as part of ESPN+? 😄

I will say that I was pleasantly surprised by the Sabres win against 1OA and with the Sabres using 2 goalies they just kinda threw in there. I may be overextrapolating but it tells me that the Sabres lower level prospects are actually pretty high quality (Tyler Kozak for instance).

Cautiously optimistic on Bloom:

Yeah, I didn't want to project the extra exclamation points as trying to make you sound histrionic and not mentioning the concussion was a clear omission on my part. I'll try to clean it up next time. You're right, something bad *could have* happened, but Slafkovsky was fine. We'll see how Bloom does. But at the same time, if you're going to have a real scrimmage between squads from other teams, some of this is to be expected and Slafkovsky is going to have to take a first hit sooner or later. Probably better to absorb one from some random ECHLer than from a full-grown NHLer. In Slafkovsky's case, he's hopefully learned something from that.

But he could have been hurt! And it could have been Power! did I do that right, @Curt?

Nice shot, Tyson!

My lord you're absolutely correct.

Looking good on the PK.

Watching via the FB feed. I have my McAfee VPN on, not sure if that's part of it.

And Anderson aside, the other signings were clearly grasping at straws, bringing in bodies that no other team considered NHL level goaltending. Aaron Dell had a good start to his career in San Jose before tailing off. His year with the Devils before the Sabres picked him should probably have been the end of his NHL days. Malcolm Subban is an .898 career NHL goaltender and I don't see that getting better in the future. They were both on a downward trajectory. I would have rather seen them give Michael Houser an actual shot at real NHL time to be honest. Comrie has limited success, but he does appear to still be on his upswing.

Right on. I think this is one of the early analytics moves. We'll see if it's successful. Tbh given that they team really doesn't have any young goalies in the system that are NHL ready I'd rather see them take a flyer on an up-and-comer who didn't have a path on his current team than to chase after the success of a proven goalie who might have already peaked and is on the downslide, but still commanding big money.

Paxlovid seems to be working. I'm not sick but I'm not well.

But that's not really an option, is it? I was just countering the point made that Comrie was .905 trash. Maybe he's not consistently a .920 goalie, but he's trending the right way.

So I'm on Paxlovid now. A little metallic taste in my mouth (as some people warned about). The nurse at the dr's office recommended lemon drops and they do mask the taste.

A conservative assessment. I think it's likely that he's better than the others.

Last season: Ullmark - 158gp, .917 sv% Comrie - 28gp, .920 sv% That's exactly what happened last season.

And I'm okay with that. Sports is results based. Until they have a body of work to be proud of, no one is going to think they are any good.