GDT November 30th Sabres @ Blues 8pm MSG, ESPN+

[Big Guava]

3 minutes ago, Scottysabres said:

I vaguely remember Granato saying they learned to play offense last season, they were going to learn to play defense this season. When does that start exactly?

And he's wearing that nose and glasses disguise, it has to be......

They had been for a while and it caused their own offense to dry up and they went from the 2nd or 3rd highest scoring team last year to the 26th highest scoring team this year...

 

Then they seemingly went more run and gun and now it's gotten way too loose goosey this game.  Wouldn't be so bad if they actually scored on any of their 10 really great chances off of them tho, we would be in like a 6-5 or 6-6 game.

Edited December 1, 2023 by Big Guava

[Crusader1969]

Ummmm. Pull the goalie might have been an idea there 

[GoPuckYourself]

Whos in charge of this power play? It's an absolute joke.

[Doohicksie]

JJP never met a shot he didn't like. ❤️

[Brawndo]

Cozens 

[Broken Ankles]

4 minutes ago, erickompositör72 said:

I'm not a UPL defender (still think Levi should be our starter)...

 

...but which ones was he supposed to stop, according to fancy stats?

 

Genuinely curious

Most of them. Expected goals is 2.11. 

[Thorner]

11 minutes ago, JoeSchmoe said:

Advanced stats say 2.1 exGA. UPL let in 6.

But what could he even do

[Crusader1969]

Just now, Broken Ankles said:

Most of them. Expected goals is 2.11. 

Are you actually watching or just looking at a chart ??

[Thorner]

8 minutes ago, erickompositör72 said:

I'm not a UPL defender (still think Levi should be our starter)...

 

...but which ones was he supposed to stop, according to fancy stats?

 

Genuinely curious

Goalies also able to make difficult stops. This just in. 

[Brawndo]

JJP

[spndnchz]

Pull the goalie!

[Thorner]

5 minutes ago, Crusader1969 said:

That's why you can't watch a game solely through a spreadsheet.  
the team in front of him has been a unmitigated disaster tonight. 
 

 

And UPL has been bad 

[Doohicksie]

[7+6=13]

The bad at some point has to stop being this bad.

[Broken Ankles]

1 minute ago, Crusader1969 said:

Are you actually watching or just looking at a chart ??

I’m watching…..bad play all around, including the goaltenter. 

[Crusader1969]

Down by 3 with 8 mins the go.  Why wouldn't you pull the goalie ?  

im not one to want to fire DG at this point but I'm sure it's gonna happen after the season if things don't get substantially better by the end of the season 

[Quint]

 

[lowsabre]

Even if we had some great goalie, there's only so much of bad plays they can weather

[thewookie1]

Off the pipe

[BullBuchanan]

wouldv'e been sick had Dahlin scored that dinger.

[Taro T]

Well, now only down by 2 with 200 seconds left.

Pull the goalie again.

[lowsabre]

lock in guys, come onnnnnnnn

[Crusader1969]

1 minute ago, Broken Ankles said:

I’m watching…..bad play all around, including the goaltenter. 

I would have pulled him after the 3rd goal.  BUT I also think the team in front of him did him zero favours 

[Thorner]

5 minutes ago, Crusader1969 said:

Are you actually watching or just looking at a chart ??

I honestly can’t believe this is a thing in a 6 goal game

people actually don’t understand goaltending or how differently they are treating other positions 

UPL has been bad. Other facets have been too. That’s it 

St. Louis Alamo here 

Edited December 1, 2023 by Thorny

[GoPuckYourself]

Oh no we have another clapping coach.