Doohickie

Do not adjust your set.

Now just lose the smiling idiot, Duff. Don't need 'im. Pound for pound, the BEST player in the NHL!

But we've got BRYSON! Seriously, Bryson has been pretty solid in relief of Kesselring.

An apt summary.

Very small sample size but I think Norris is the trend breaker.

I keep wondering why we have the #6 Benson and the #9 Benson....

Doohickie reporting for dooty! I guess I owe you this and this

So we have no backup D if someone gets a hangnail during warmups. We'd have to skate 13-5. I think Kozak might be okay in the 3rd D pair.

I think it's basically a wash between the two, so Lindy gave preference to seniority.

No Kozak, eh?

Impossible. None of the middle names are Lee or Wayne.

Yep. In the US,

Back in the day they always started at 7:30. For me in the central time zone it gives a bit more time to finish up with work, walk the dog and pick up dinner.

....dating back to 2013.

The Ravens own the tiebreakers over the Steelers, but fell behind the Steelers when the Ravens lost on Thanksgiving. Now that the Steelers lost too, the Ravens are back in first by virtue of their tiebreaker advantage.

Yeah, Östlund is gonna be a good one. He is definitely in the Sabres' future plans.

I won't be surprised to see Tage back at wing, but his defensive play won't really be the reason.

That's amazing. Benson totally would.

Maybe I should start following my local team more closely.

In program management, cost and schedule variance at the 15% mark of a project's timeline are difficult to overcome. So if a project is overrunning at 15%, barring some radical change, the project will end in the red. I think the Thanksgiving benchmark is a similar thing: By November, a team is what it is, and barring a radical change, that's hard to alter. If there's any hope for the Sabres, it lies in the fact that the Sabres to this point have lost more games to injury than most teams. If they can get healthy and stay healthy (looking at you, Josh Norris), maybe they can overcome the slow start.

No, it's the other way around: UPL has the lower GAA with a similar Sv% so UPL is facing fewer shots.

I had an error in the post you quoted and corrected it, FYI.

hooray we won And one who seems okay with mucking it up along the boards.

According to the numbers, we don't know that UPL and Lyon aren't "it". I think Ellis still represents the Shiny New Toy so everyone is flocking to him. I feel the same way emotionally; I like him. He was a good pickup. But a year from now will he be the new whipping boy? Who knows? On the completely other hand, it does show that the both Lyon and UPL could be the help a team with weak goltending needs. They're not as awful as Sabrespace likes to think. But really, that's the problem: based on those numbers, we've got three pretty good, not great, goalies. Out of 78 goalies in the NHL stats, our goalies are ranked 36, 39, and 47 in terms of Sv%. As a team, we're ranked 21 in Sv%. Maybe it's time to move one of these guys and get something that will improve the team in front of them, now.