Hutton and Ullmark as the Goalies is why. LOL. You don't honestly think they are the real deals, do you?
Why not? Why can’t this tandem be the real deal?
Does writing LOL in giant letters make you more confident or make you believe what you’re saying is going to be true. Need I remind you, you said buffalo was going to be a bottom 5 team? Why can’t you be wrong again. I know you just think these are a couple of scraps but ...if you just took the time to look who they are and what they’ve done, maybe I wouldn’t have to spell it out for you. But I guess people don’t see what they don’t want to see. If your wanting to be informed, ....this will be a bit lengthy feel free to skip it if your one of those guys who doesent care about reality and just blindly wishes players aren’t good.
Hutton is already mature enough and shown enough to prove he’s ready, how long will it last, who knows, he is no kid At 32 maybe he has a few excellent years in him which is what he’s signed for. Do you think the blues miss him? I sure do. Last year he played an entire half (essentially half w/38 GP in that season with the best save percentage in the entire league at 938.00) and people said he wouldn’t be able to do well in Buffalo. Well.....is he not pushing seven straight wins and a 920 save percentage playing in 18 games already. It’s not just his numbers it’s the quality of saves and timely saves, and the miraculous saves. It’s made our defenders jump into the play and they’ve combined for over 50 pts already. It’s also made our forwards more confident to take chances. Linus Ullmark (5-0-1 ) undefeated inn regulation this year had over. 930 seven percentage in a handful of games and all I heard was small sample size. Well he’s doing it again and was along with Tage Thompson of all guys the only two reasons we won the last game. This isn’t some fluke backup here....this is a potential future #1 for us that the sabres have developed properly in the minors for years never rushing him and just waiting for lehners contract to finish. In the ahl not only did he do well but he went to back to back all star games. And if neither work out long term, there’s always the Finnish world juniors stand out we already signed this past summer in Ukka Pekka Luukkonen. I do wonder though if laughing at the goalie crop is some kind of subconscious the leafs used to have an unbelievable goalie crop and now Buffalo does , maybe deep inside it’s one big .....“HOLLLY Mackinaw what turn of eveeeeeentssss!”
So despite your LOL....if you took the time to watch more then One game....the Goaltending looks pretty good on Buffalo right now and to Be honest the defense is only going to get better too.
I know Unlike Toronto we don’t get half hour segments on every little forward and defensemen on the sabres in Canada like there is on the leafs and while they all yell dermott ozhiganov , ....We have two of the very best defensive prospects out there right now in Pilut and Samuelson. The latter is a monster with leadership tattooed in his veins, the first was a SHL standout a scout called “more nhl ready then Rasmus Dahlin” he put up better numbers there after All...... And just how is he fairing right now in the ahl? He’s tearing it up ...I believe at last look leading all dman in points and plus minus amongst other things. Few forwards could also be used right now but we’re talking about the back end. So I don’t need to mention insignificant things like having three first round picks this year we got for getting rid of all the headcases this summer. Pilut should already be on the team and with bogosian becoming a pleasant surprise, and all the others emerging ....don’t look now but it’s all of the sudden a respectable defensive group.
You know what though? This won’t last. There’s absolutely no way this team is going to finish in the top 5 or even top two in the division unless lightning strikes, pun intended. But we’re ahead of schedule right now the same way we probably were no where near as bad as we finished last year. Things happen, but if you took the time to learn about the guys you’re clearly and obviously doubting for no reason. (As my info shows above) Maybe the doubt would erase..... Maybe you wouldn’t laugh. And maybe, finally ....you wouldn’t be wrong?
