GDT: Edmonton Oilers @ Buffalo Sabres 3/6/2023 at 7:30PM EST on ESPN+

[JohnC]

1 minute ago, BlueAndGoldTankCommander said:

Haha we will be there Friday!

If you had the same record with a soccer team the pre-game drunken hooligan fans would beat-you up before you got inside the stadium. Assaulting for the purpose of displaying loyalty to the team. 

[JohnC]

19 minutes ago, K-9 said:

Last few? More like the last 10. Zero goals, 2 assists (both against LA on 2/13) and a minus 9 in his last 10. 

Just because of your display of lack of confidence in the player he is going to score a goal. Would you mind if I politely and non-sneeringly say I told you so? I'm predicting he will score a goal in this game. Trust me, have I ever been wrong? 🏒

[DarthEbriate]

Weeknight, 730 PM start time, home game, not in goatheads, against one of the biggest names/top-end Canadian teams, trap game because tomorrow is the real game against NYI.

Don't let this be another Toronto/ROR debacle. Show up as a team tonight from the start. Play defense. Don't make me yell "wake up!". Be ready for it.

[Zamboni]

I’ll be at this one tonight with the wife. 
 

Sabres win

Sabres … 5

Oilers … 4

 

Greenway, Cozens, or Power with a goal

[inkman]

12 minutes ago, DarthEbriate said:

Weeknight, 730 PM start time, home game, not in goatheads, against one of the biggest names/top-end Canadian teams, trap game because tomorrow is the real game against NYI.

Don't let this be another Toronto/ROR debacle. Show up as a team tonight from the start. Play defense. Don't make me yell "wake up!". Be ready for it.

It won’t be a ROR debacle unless there is someone on the Oil that played for the Sabres and we unceremoniously got rid of due to losing their love for the game, while returning a complete superstar in the making. 

[Claude Balls]

1 hour ago, bob_sauve28 said:

 

Wow, didn't realize Connor was so smart! 

[DarthEbriate]

4 minutes ago, inkman said:

It won’t be a ROR debacle unless there is someone on the Oil that played for the Sabres and we unceremoniously got rid of due to losing their love for the game, while returning a complete superstar in the making. 

Evander Kane making a surprise return to the lineup?

Like in a wrestling event --- he comes charging out of the dressing room midway through the game with a folding chair in hand.

[Claude Balls]

I think I gotta pay the $7 for one month of the ***** ESPN+ garbage stream to listen to Bucci and Callahan. No way I'm gonna miss Jordan's debut. He's either gonna score, check someone into the 8th row, or just beat the living piss out of someone. Might be worth the few bucks.

[Thorner]

On 3/4/2023 at 9:18 PM, Thorny said:

Yost

 

On 3/4/2023 at 10:49 PM, Turbo44 said:

No way in the world Yost is sitting - he’s paying extremely well and may have been the best player on the ice today

 

On 3/5/2023 at 7:57 AM, Thorny said:

Whoops, I wasn’t intending to say he should be sat. That’s my bad for not following the conversation. Truth be told I was just looking to say “yost” with y

@Doohickie@PromoTheRobot

 

Even when I’m not trying....

[DarthEbriate]

1 minute ago, Thorny said:

Even when I’m not trying....

Spring training has retired baseball managers on your mind? 🍺

[K-9]

1 hour ago, JohnC said:

Just because of your display of lack of confidence in the player he is going to score a goal. Would you mind if I politely and non-sneeringly say I told you so? I'm predicting he will score a goal in this game. Trust me, have I ever been wrong? 🏒

Feel free to say I told you so any way you'd like. I’d like nothing more tonight. 

[Pimlach]

1 hour ago, DarthEbriate said:

Weeknight, 730 PM start time, home game, not in goatheads, against one of the biggest names/top-end Canadian teams, trap game because tomorrow is the real game against NYI.

Don't let this be another Toronto/ROR debacle. Show up as a team tonight from the start. Play defense. Don't make me yell "wake up!". Be ready for it.

Will half the crowd be Canadians cheering for McDavid?  I am thinking it will be.  

[kas23]

4 hours ago, inkman said:

And this is why you trade for Jacob Chychrun.  

So he can be the injured one?

2 hours ago, bob_sauve28 said:

 

He knows when to Respect or be pnwed

[Believer]

1 hour ago, Claude Balls said:

I think I gotta pay the $7 for one month of the ***** ESPN+ garbage stream to listen to Bucci and Callahan. No way I'm gonna miss Jordan's debut. He's either gonna score, check someone into the 8th row, or just beat the living piss out of someone. Might be worth the few bucks.

I am a Center Ice subscriber so see most games except ESPN+… Paid less than $10 for one month of ESPN+ in March… Saw the Bruin and Lightning games… Will see the Oilers and Islanders back-to-back… Great deal…

[PerreaultForever]

If we play like we are capable of playing this is a very winnable game. Edmonton has King McDavid and can score but we can score too. Their D is weak and their goaltending is average at best. This should be a wide open game with lots of offense. If we get reasonable goaltending and stay out of the penalty box (as their PP can be deadly) we can win this playing the type of hockey this Sabres team has been built to play. 

Not sure if or where Greenway will play but I'd like to see him up with Cozens for at least a look. 

Edited March 6, 2023 by PerreaultForever

[RochesterExpat]

2 hours ago, ... said:

"You ever seen a grown man naked?" 

~ Mike Harrington to Sabres Jr Reporter (probably)

[K-9]

6 minutes ago, RochesterExpat said:

"You ever seen a grown man naked?" 

~ Mike Harrington to Sabres Jr Reporter (probably)

Do you like gladiator movies?

[LGR4GM]

I fully expect Olofsson to have 2g and still end up -1 tonight. 

[LGR4GM]

3 hours ago, Mustache of God said:

 

It's a bit of a moot point because Jost is banged up which is why he's sitting, BUT, if he wasn't sitting I'd be a strong advocate of sitting Oloffsson for a game in the hopes of sparking something to get him going. 

It's a stretch to flat-out call him not good when he can realistically hit 30 goals this year. His problem is that he's a one-dimensional player who becomes ineffective when he can't do his one-dimensional thing, and my patience with him wears thinner each game his non-factor streak continues. It's usually at this point where he turns it on and will put up 8 goals over the next 12 games or something and I think, "damn, Olofsson is so good, sometimes I wonder why I want him traded" and then he goes cold again and I think "I wish KA would trade his ass."

This is all a long winded way of saying he's the most polarizing player on the team for me. If we get back to a point where our non-IR forwards are all healthy I'd like to see a rotation of that 13th forward, sitting VO (unless he picks it up), Peterka, Greenway and / Hinistroza depending on performance and the opponent. 

It's a stretch to call a guy with -19, worst on the team not good because he has 23 goals? That means at best he's been on the ice for 4 more goals than he's given up. I might nat stat trick later to see the actual split. He's got a good shot, and that's it. 

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3 minutes ago, LGR4GM said:

It's a stretch to call a guy with -19, worst on the team not good because he has 23 goals? That means at best he's been on the ice for 4 more goals than he's given up. I might nat stat trick later to see the actual split. He's got a good shot, and that's it. 

A net positive is a net positive. It's like saying each time it snows "at least it's not a blizzard".

[That Aud Smell]

16 minutes ago, LGR4GM said:

It's a stretch to call a guy with -19, worst on the team not good because he has 23 goals? That means at best he's been on the ice for 4 more goals than he's given up. 

Wait a second. Is a resident #fancystats person deploying +/- as an arbiter of a player's quality?

[bob_sauve28]

Ok!! 

 

 

[LGR4GM]

12 minutes ago, ... said:

A net positive is a net positive. It's like saying each time it snows "at least it's not a blizzard".

I looked it up. VO has been on the ice for 52gf and 51ga. So you are right, he is technically a net positive. At 5v5 that looks like... 26gf and 41ga or a -15 at 5v5. Bryson who this board hates, is the only player worse at 5v5 with a -19 goal differential. 

VO is a pp specialist who is a major liability at 5v5 and should be moved on from. Jack Quinn can take his pp spot, or really anyone else we want. 

[K-9]

1 minute ago, bob_sauve28 said:

Ok!! 

 

 

Way to jinx it TCB. Now he’s gonna go off tonight. 

[LGR4GM]

2 minutes ago, That Aud Smell said:

Wait a second. Is a resident #fancystats person deploying +/- as an arbiter of a player's quality?

His fancy stats are really bad. Hinnostroza is the only Sabre with a worse xgf%, HDCF% only has Krebs and Hinnestroza as worse. HDGF% is the worst on the team. He's got to go.