GDT: Sabres @ Wild 5PM EST TV:MSG Radio:WGR550

[RoyalOverNavy]

BTW, those North Stars throwbacks were sensational.
That made for a GREAT looking game.
I consider the Sabres road (white) set the best of the non-Orginal Six team sets.

 

[5 Minute Major]

Guys, in case you didn’t hear, I have officially broken up with Jeff Skinner. We’ve been separated for months, almost the entire season really. I’m just making it official. He’s all yours.

So, he hasn’t dressed since the big break up?

 

[Chainshot]

I see Faber got the "best defenseman on my team so I'm on for all the important stuff" -3 tonight. As a Sabre fan, we know all about that with Risto and Dahlin.

 

[ValJamesDuex]

I’m a joker, I’m the OT smoker!

We need a midnight toker watching this team

We should make the playoffs now!

Nah, who am I kidding, we have no chance.

up to 1.1%

 

[sabremike]

This just in: The furious Giraffe Gods have taken their vengeance on John Hynes for taking a goal away from Tage by smiting him with a canker sore.

 

[Tatanka]

Time for TT to be off PP1. We saw what going to net does and not just tonight. The PP should be 22 89 and 24 crashing the net with 2 of whoever getting pucks into the house. The perimeter nature of the flow w TT out there for the onetimer is killing the PP. It also bleeds into 5v5. Toe Blake Eddie Shore

 

[ValJamesDuex]

BTW, those North Stars throwbacks were sensational.

Denis Maruk flashback

 

[BowieSabresFan]

Time for TT to be off PP1. We saw what going to net does and not just tonight. The PP should be 22 89 and 24 crashing the net with 2 of whoever getting pucks into the house. The perimeter nature of the flow w TT out there for the onetimer is killing the PP. It also bleeds into 5v5. Toe Blake Eddie Shore

Well, that’s certainly a hot take.

 

[Tatanka]

Well, that’s certainly a hot take.

Not really. The Ovie office crap doesn't work. The league hss adjusted. Yet they keep trying it instead of exploiting a size advantage to work pucks low.

 

[ValJamesDuex]

 

[MarkusKetterer]

von Barnekow-Lofberg

 

[buffalowing88]

BTW, those North Stars throwbacks were sensational.
That made for a GREAT looking game.
I consider the Sabres road (white) set the best of the non-Orginal Six team sets.

Damnit, I came here to post the same exact thing!

Also, between the jerseys at the Stadium Series tonight and that Wild/Sabres pairing, I'm getting the most aesthetically pleasing (well at least for the jerseys) day of hockey in a long time.

 

[Buff15Sabres]

Not really. The Ovie office crap doesn't work. The league hss adjusted. Yet they keep trying it instead of exploiting a size advantage to work pucks low.

I mean he did score a goal tonight on the PP from that spot. (Taken off the board by being an inch offside 30 seconds before the shot).

 

[ValJamesDuex]

Anyone have UPL's numbers in his last 10 ? They must be pretty damn good (top 5) right ?

 

[Tatanka]

So he didn't score and we still have the 27th ranked poerplay. Got it.

I mean he did score a goal tonight on the PP from that spot. (Taken off the board by being an inch offside 30 seconds before the shot).

 

[Zman5778]

Owen Power, easily......honorable mention to Peyton Krebs

 

[RoyalOverNavy]

Anyone have UPL's numbers in his last 10 ? They must be pretty damn good (top 5) right ?

It will take more effort than I want to give to determine the top 5 question, but what I did find out ...

Since giving up four goals to the NYR on December 23, Luukkonen hasn't given up more than three in a game since. And he give up three goals only three times.

That covers 13 games. All starts.

 

[NotABadPeriod]

Jacob Bryson. 7-1 when in the lineup!

 

[Zman5778]

Anyone have UPL's numbers in his last 10 ? They must be pretty damn good (top 5) right ?

Top 5? Try top ONE.

Since January 1:

UPL: 12 GP, .943, 1.60
Helle: 12 GP, .942, 1.67
Daccord: 15 GP, .933, 2.14
Skinner: 13 GP, .930, 2.01
Markstrom: 13 GP, .927, 2.35

 

[Djp]

 

[HOOats]

Hate that Cozens stole that one from Greener, but of course I want us hammering it in every time. Our Minnesota boys deserved the goals.

Only watched the 1st and 2nd before literally falling asleep

UPL very well could be playing in the Olympics in two years.

So he didn't score and we still have the 27th ranked poerplay. Got it.

Well, you were talking about effectiveness. And challenge or not, the play happened with MIN trying their best to stop it. So it's a particularly strange night to advocate for Tage's removal from PP1 when we saw an example of how effective it can be with some actual puck movement.

 

[Chainshot]

This just in: The furious Giraffe Gods have taken their vengeance on John Hynes for taking a goal away from Tage by smiting him with a canker sore.

John got herpes from a giraffe? Wow.

 

[BowieSabresFan]

Not really. The Ovie office crap doesn't work. The league hss adjusted. Yet they keep trying it instead of exploiting a size advantage to work pucks low.

So your take to fix the pp is to take Thompson off of it? I can think of two other people to maybe take off of pp1 that would remove some of the overplaying on Thompson. Better puck movement would help too.

Taking Thompson off of pp1 is well down the list of options to improve it, so yes, it is a hot take.

 

[Ralonzo]

I'm still pretty effing sour about everything in the damn world. The Sabres late asspull changed my permafrown briefly into a surly grimace.

Benson had a pretty rough 3rd from what I saw. I hope UPL lives to spite me claiming he'll never be a quality NHL goalie.

Now get off my lawn. Life is pain.

So your take to fix the pp is to take Thompson off of it? I can think of two other people to maybe take off of pp1 that would remove some of the overplaying on Thompson. Better puck movement would help too.

Taking Thompson off of pp1 is well down the list of options to improve it, so yes, it is a hot take.

S.E.P:

Skinner Ends Possession

 

[slip]

Jacob Bryson. 7-1 when in the lineup!

If a statistician wants to explain the difference between causation vs correlation, this is a good place to start.