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Maybe you're right. Let's see how they are after a 6 game winless streak.

Not really. He needs at least one of Anderson, Comrie and UPL to hit, preferably two. I think UPL is very close to being a good NHL goalie, even a starter or at least a 1B. If Comrie can carry the water and Anderson doesn't suffer any early injuries, I could see Comrie as 1A, Anderson as backup, and eventually UPL filling a 1B role, looking something like Boston's Ullmark/Swayman tandem. If Andy stays healthy the Sabres may trade him at the deadline (if he's agreeable) for draft assets to a team that needs help in goal going into the playoffs.

10000000000000000% disagree that the culture is changing slowly. It changed. This is a different team culture than what we went into last year with. I think @PerreaultForever's concept of culture includes not just the attitude of trying to be better, but also an attitude of expecting to win every game. I think both are aspects of culture, and compared to the Jack years of cliquey locker rooms, the culture has clearly changed, but while the relationships are better, @PerreaultForever also wants to see that firm belief that they can win every game before he calls the culture change complete. I think they "hope" to win every game, but don't "expect" to win every game at this point, or if they expect to win, that expectation is still pretty fragile. So in a way I agree with both of you: The culture has clearly changed, but it's still a work in progress, subject to setbacks, and far from complete.

So which are they? They want to be the team of the last 28 games no doubt, but we'll see how they come out of the gate. Will they stumble or will they come out the way they ended the season? I think most observers not tied to the team believe they will stumble. The long suffering fan base is hoping for a continuation of the late season surge. That's really the question for this season and we'll all be watching closely for an answer.

North Central Texas as in.... Wichita Falls area?

That warm rush is you peeing your pants. Please go change.

/not jest

More importantly, they won the faceoff, which they did more often than not: Krebs 1/2 50% Quinn 1/3 33% Cozens 10/15 66% Hinostroza 2/2 100% Thompson 9/16 56% Asplund 4/10 40% Savoie 5/9 56% SABRES 32/57 56% Nice to have the advantage at the faceoff dot, eh?

Oh of course. He'll figure it out.

I think he was going faster than he realized and ran himself out of room. He needed to just wind up and shoot instead of deking. He's not McDavid.

Now that right there is a top scoring line.

Sabres winning faceoffs at a 53% rate.

https://www.nhl.com/sabres/video/live-sabres-vs-penguins/t-277437090/c-40474303

I think Thompson wins on the sheer hardness of his shot.

He'll get waived, no one will pick him up and he'll go down to Rochester. he's under contract for this year.

Ukko Pekka Luukkonen is looking great so far.

Amerk fodder.

Murray-Asplund-Weissbach: Future 4th line?

Mid-season form on that shot by VO.

Ack Quinn, you need to bury that!

Video feed and Audacy are way out of sync, by minutes. SHARE THE LINK!