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If I were Kevyn I'd take video of all these iffy calls and send them to the league's officiating office and ask for explanations as to why those are penalties. For instance there's the double minor yesterday when all Benson did was skate faster than the other guy before he got hauled down. Don't protest, don't whine, just ask for simple explanations of the violations... you know, to help educate the players. I think the league would realize how badly they're missing things and send a few emails to certain referees.

Correct. I saw that word salad and scrolled right on by. To pick a Pegula paycheck.

The Red Wings are doing what the Texas Rangers did in baseball: Big youth movement but added key vets. Result: World Series Championship. (Over the winter they reassembled their pitching staff but left their position players largely intact; their vet middle infielders are great, growth will come from exceptional, mature rookies busting into the lineup: Evan Carter late last season and Wyatt Langford this season.)

What I'm seeing here is more than any other team, Florida should be the Sabres' target: Learn to beat Florida and this will be a playoff team.

Everyone without a physical disability. GOD I hate when people make this statement.

Blurgh.

Krebs, SHOOT DA PUCK

Fn A, Joki, just give the puck away.

le sigh

I don't get why, honestly.

Sabres started out on three quarters of a power play this period and they're getting outshot 0-7.

The real Sabres showed up this period.

Fire EJ into the sun.

He skated around Kulikov.

Are you blue colorblind? Why is that a penalty on Benson????????????

The only quality I was comparing between the two is the ability to agitate the opponent.

My reaction to that: @PerreaultForever saying, "I meant to do that" after scoring an own goal. 😉

5-1 Sabres: Thompson: 3 goals by the ten minute mark of the first, Krebs adds another before the period is out. Cozens gets one at the start of the third and the UPL shutout bid is spoiled by a Power own goal that gets credited to Sam Reinhart.

You're extrapolating quite a bit there. At this point you're not debating this with me, you're debating this with a straw man of your own making.

No. If they pull upsets for the rest of the season, get to the playoffs and win a series.... then Donny can stay.

There was a tweet yesterday that showed a clip of Skinner jawing at a ref. From that 2 second clip, a podcaster (former ref Tim Peel) and Roenick went into how Skinner is always complaining and the league, including his teammates hate, him, with Peel proclaiming at the end "He was an @hole." I replied that that's what I want players on other teams to say about players on my team, and in Skinner's case he's at his best when he's agitating. When people talk about Skinner's value, they talk about how he's a one-way player, he's a goal scorer, he's got unique skating skills, but one thing people forget is he's one of those players that can really get under the skin of the other team and that definitely helps the Sabres in intangible ways (and tangible ways like drawing penalties). The player that strikes me the same way is Zach Benson. He still takes too many penalties himself, but you see opponents try to put him in his place and he bounces right back up and doesn't back down. It's that same Skinnerish attitude.