2020 Playoffs: The "First" Round.

[darksabre]

Just absolutely terrible hockey towards the end of that one. Fun stuff!

[Eleven]

2 minutes ago, darksabre said:

Just absolutely terrible hockey towards the end of that one. Fun stuff!

After 120 minutes, my expectations go down.

It's so great that the game started at 3, though--who among us could have watched a 2am seventh period?

[darksabre]

MFT Bruins just got a real weird one in their favor. Mrazek had the puck covered on the ice with his glove and then has it hacked out from under his glove right to a Bruins player who puts it in for the goal.

Guess it's open season on goalies in 2020.

Carolina comes back with a shortie breakaway goal for vengeance

[WildCard]

Canes are being outshot 21-9 at the start of the 3rd. Don't see that often from Carolina

[bob_sauve28]

2 minutes ago, WildCard said:

Canes are being outshot 21-9 at the start of the 3rd. Don't see that often from Carolina

Bruins putting it together. They might have started slow but being an older team they might benefit from the long rest before the playoffs 

 

Hope not 

[Eleven]

All I can get is the Boston feed.  I really don't like listening to Jack Edwards.

[WildCard]

NHL doing their best to rig this for Boston. Idk who my announcer is but he's railing the refs and it's great

[darksabre]

I think a lot about what might have been if the Sabres had picked Bergeron in the same draft as Vanek. So many bad players picked before Bergeron.

[ubkev]

100% Holtby's fault.

[Marvin]

4 hours ago, darksabre said:

I think a lot about what might have been if the Sabres had picked Bergeron in the same draft as Vanek. So many bad players picked before Bergeron.

Bergeron went in the mid 2nd (#45); the Sabres first two picks were #5 and #65; we had traded away #35 to Nashville in a slew of trades that got us Jochen Hecht and Dan Paille.  More to the point was missing out on Joe Pavelski (7th) and Dustin Byfuglien (8th).  This kind of ex post facto wishing might look great now, but in 2005-6, we had the up-side.

Edited August 12, 2020 by Marvin, Sabres Fan

[Thorner]

11 minutes ago, Marvin, Sabres Fan said:

Bergeron went in the mid 2nd (#45); the Sabres first two picks were #5 and #65; we had traded away #35 to Nashville in a slew of trades that got us Jochen Hecht and Dan Paille.  More to the point was missing out on Joe Pavelski (7th) and Dustin Byfuglien (8th).  This kind of ex post facto wishing might look great now, but in 2005-6, we had the up-side.

I’d rather have Vanek than Byfuglien by a non negligible amount, personally.

Edited August 12, 2020 by Thorny

[Marvin]

2 minutes ago, Thorny said:

I’d rather have Vanek than Byfuglien by a non negligible amount, personally.

Clarification: We could have had both Vanek and Byfuglien (8th round) / Pavelski (7th tound) if we had valued them a bit differently.  I would not trade Vanek for Byfuglien either.

Edited August 12, 2020 by Marvin, Sabres Fan

[nfreeman]

3 hours ago, Thorny said:

I’d rather have Vanek than Byfuglien by a non negligible amount, personally.

Not me.  

[SHAAAUGHT!!!]

7 hours ago, nfreeman said:

Not me.  

The 2001-2002 Sabres needed offensive, not defense.  We had puck movement and ruggedness from the back-end already and a good crop of young dmen in Soupy, Kalinin, McKee, and Tallinder.  The Sabres needed a scoring forward (Vanek) and ended up getting their own two-way scoring center and captain when they traded for Chris Drury in 2003.  

[Thwomp!]

Already looking forward to the Jackets-Lightning in a couple hours.