Post-Game Talk (GBU): The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly - Upon Further Review... Two in a Row! Sabres 3-1 over Penguins, 1/6/24

[Chainshot]

The Good -

- Luuu on breakaways? Yep, Luu on breakaway.
- PKing was good even if they gave up a 5-on-3 against. Then again, the Pens PP is worse than Buffalo's.
- Fourth line key shift for the 2nd goal.
- Benson-Mitts-Greenway had a strong game.
- Review calls going their way? Yep.
- Robinson should be in the lineup.
- Johnson stinging Malkin in the slot late in the game.

The Bad

- The five-on-three was death-and-taxes predictable.
- Murdering the glass.

The Ugly

- Sid crying.

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[TheMistyStranger]

Catharsis, in a single post (please don't troll their thread; it's just nice to see other teams have posts like this instead of us)

Post-Game Talk: - Pens get Sabred by Buffalo

Just yuck. So many things were frustrating in this game.

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[My Cozen Dylan]

Curious to see the fancy stats in this one. It simultaneously felt like we got caved in and yet played well.

But 2 points is 2 points.

 

[CaliSabresfan24]

We're on a streak baby!!
G:
UPL
UPL
UPL
Overturning goals like there is no tomorrow

B:
Power
The PP per usual

U:
I really dislike Letang

 

[Dingo44]

WE WON TWO IN A ROW - IN REGULATION!
Scored an EN too!
UPL was sublime!
Great win!

 

[SharkInABoloTie]

They may never lose again!

 

[Chainshot]

Curious to see the fancy stats in this one. It simultaneously felt like we got caved in and yet played well.

But 2 points is 2 points.

The NST heat map looks like a paddling.

 

[NotABadPeriod]

WE WON TWO IN A ROW - IN REGULATION!
Scored an EN too!
UPL was sublime!
Great win!

(it wasn't an ENG...Dahlin scored before Jarry could get off the ice, so technically it gets charged as a GA to Jarry...)

 

[BFLO]

G: Uber Pecker

B: It took until January 6th to win back to back games for the 2nd time this season

U: Home stand coming up. (I'm going to Sharks game)

 

[Dingo44]

(it wasn't an ENG...Dahlin scored before Jarry could get off the ice, so technically it gets charged as a GA to Jarry...)

Empty-netish

 

[joshjull]

 

[TheMistyStranger]

Empty-netish

That's my fetish!

 

[BFLO]

Curious to see the fancy stats in this one. It simultaneously felt like we got caved in and yet played well.

But 2 points is 2 points.

The NST heat map looks like a paddling.

Pens took it to us in the 1st and 2nd. UPL stood on his head. We took over in the 3rd. Ugly for us overall

 

[Chainshot]

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Pens took it to us in the 1st and 2nd. UPL stood on his head. We took over in the 3rd. Ugly for us overall
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Nice to see them goalie someone.

 

[Ace]

Goalie never actually got off. It’s officially just a regular even strength goal lol.

 

[Vito_81]

Stole a W tonight. Makes up for one of those moral victorys earlier in the season where Buffalo took the L, but deserved better.

dare I dream for 3 in a row!?!

 

[allsilverdreams]

It seams the more UPL plays,the better he gets.
Keeping my fingers crossed that he or Levi is out answer.

 

[RobRayzor]

Last time Zemgus had a game winning goal:

 

[BFLO]

Goalie never actually got off. It’s officially just a regular even strength goal lol.

Jarry was closer to being in his net than UPL in that OTL to CBJ.

 

[Uberpecker]

They may never lose again!

That's a fair and realistic expectation.

 

[Matt Ress]

Dahlin increasing hìs goal lead on defensemen

 

[ValJamesDuex]

Curious to see the fancy stats in this one. It simultaneously felt like we got caved in and yet played well.

But 2 points is 2 points.

 

[goach]

First star to challenges! 3 for 3 last couple.

 

[HOOats]

G
UPL big boy game. If he actually owns the Pens that's a fun twist. Also like that he got a little loose but was able to recognize and correct it in-game.
Every line struggled in D zone, but I liked the Mitts line overall. Mitts is a rock. Greenway burns his legs to contest routine stuff all the time. Benson still playing so solid that it's getting routine.
Pens hitting at least three posts, two goals overturned. A month of this team's luck in one game.
I liked some individual stuff from Tuch, Quinn, and JJ
Random 4th like goal to send a crowd of Saturday night yinzers home bummed is *chefs kiss*
I thought Rayzor had a good game

B
Didn't really like Tage's game at all
Or Dahlin's or Power's
Didn't really like Cozens game
Our shooting just isn't good this year. Now it's everything high.

Six game homestand: two gotta haves (SJ, CHI), two division games (OTT, TB), and two Western challenges (SEA, VAN). Fair to think that the next two weeks are the season, or at least their chance to salvage it. Gotta have 10 of 12 points, 16 of 20 counting the last four games.

 

[Jacob582]

G
UPL
4th line. so no okposo (needed)
All 6 defensemen
Most of the forwards

B

Mittelstadt lost 13 faceoffs
Peterka - low energy when playing defense

U
pen fans whining because illegal goals are taken away.