Isles with another OT loss lol
OT menace Pavel Zacha wins it against the Wings
OT menace Pavel Zacha wins it against the Wings
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Whaddagoal
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Mgd31
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The Islanders are 9-10-7. That’s just frankly hilarious
ESPN+ making a big deal of Boston being 5-2 under Sacco. They’ve played Utah, Detroit x2, Vancouver (loss), Islanders, Penguins (Loss), Montreal.
I’m not declaring things fixed there.
I’m not declaring things fixed there.
VoidCreature
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Sabres fans get to watch their team blow a 4-0 lead while Jack Eichel and Sam Reinhart, who have both won the Stanley Cup and been to three finals with two different teams, are top-6 in NHL scoring. Buffalo has 0 players in the top 50.
I don't know if there's a worse run franchise in all of professional sports. I feel for their fans.
I don't know if there's a worse run franchise in all of professional sports. I feel for their fans.
They also broke RoR's spirit and had to move him only for him to win a Conn Smythe, Cup, and Selke right away.
They have the longest playoff drought so yeah hard to argue they haven't been the worst ran
Emperoreddy
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I am glad to not be on Ruff's wild ride anymore
They are going to be crap for years. Lou won’t admit that they need to rebuild. They have crap for a prospect pool with no real stud talent coming up.This season plus last two / three islander seasons reminds me of Lou’s last few years with us. He refused to rebuild and spent assets on band aid fixes / retreads / bargain bin hunting . Worst thing that could happen was the false hope of being a true contender the one year they had a decent fluke run in the playoffs . Lou thought he was closer to winning than they actually were. He went all in and has depleted their assets to try to make a futile push for the Cup . I am not bashing Lou . I am forever thankful for the three cups we got . But the Islanders are going to be a middling to bottom team for a looooong time .
Whaddagoal
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Supposedly Dahlin got injured by the 3rd and didn't play much, can that really tank the whole D corps?
Buffalo's defense? that sounds about right.
They are a bottom 5 team without Dahlin.
Their other 5D tonight were Power, Byram, Bryson, Jokiharju, Clifton. I mean like you obviously still shouldn't cough up a 4 goal lead but that's f***ing brutal
Emperoreddy
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Seems Buffalo fans don't have a lot of nice things to say about Dahlin and even less about Powers.
Man what is happening up there?
Man what is happening up there?
Whaddagoal
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Seems like a overly brutal outcome, lol. I will have to check the condensed game highlights.
That's almost historic 5 straight goals to lose in regulation (although let's say 4 straight in a single period).
We gave up 5 vs. Tampa(?) it or caps, but we didn't have a 4-0 lead.... Ouch.
Dahlin hate is silly. He's fantastic. Power's always been overrated. He's perfectly solid but nothing special.
On the year the Sabres have a 56% xG with Dahlin on the ice. It's 44% without him. He and Samuelsson are the only 2D that crack 50% this year. Samuelsson at 52% then it drops to the 47s or worse for the rest. It's also not like it's because they've been playing together. They only have 15:36 together this year. Samuelsson only has 13 games this year. I'm curious on their record with vs without him. With him it gives them 1 great pair with Dahlin and then another good pair with Samuelsson then only the 1 bad pair. Without him you've got 2 shit pairs
ZachaFlockaFlame
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He's kinda their Nemec in terms of overhyping him a little more due to draft position to versus how good he actually is. Yeah, I don't get the Dahlin hate whatsoever. He's been amazing since he got drafted there in 2018.
Whaddagoal
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Wasn't it Dahlin who ass-reversed checked Nico pretty hard, the previous season or season before?
Edit: yes it was.
That was a borderline dirty, now that I saw it again
just watched the Zacha OT goal, absolutely horseshit no-call on Pastrnak right before, yikes
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Whaddagoal
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Kevin Bahl and PP goal doesn't compute, but very eye opening..
What has he become??
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I haven't seen Calgary this season but Bahl's generic stat line looks great.
21:35 ATOI #3 on the team
9 points - 1 goal 8 assist
+6
He's also their #1 PKer in TOI
He also has a surprisingly low number of PIM's for averaging over 21 minutes a night with 6 minutes
Coleman, Sharangovich and Bahl I'm going to have to catch a few more Calgary games this season.
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TheBeerNerd
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The issue with Buffalo and most of the other teams in a perpetual rebuild is that they don't have an identity to build around. That's the first step any team needs to take, and then they need to make moves to reinforce that. Remember, Shero mentioned "run-and-gun" when he took over from Lou, and Fitz followed that up by stating he wanted to build around Hischier and Jack Hughes. Obviously, Shero had flaws in his roster building, but Fitz has been doing a much better job, and he's been able to tinker around the edges when he needed to (see this season by wanting better goaltending and more skilled toughness).
Can anyone here tell me what the Sabres are supposed to be? The Ducks? The Sens? What is the "Yzerplan" besides just a buzzword? For God's sake, the Sharks have been more impressive than all of those teams. They've bought in to something over there and it shows. None of those other teams are anything other than a collection of mostly young talent.
Can anyone here tell me what the Sabres are supposed to be? The Ducks? The Sens? What is the "Yzerplan" besides just a buzzword? For God's sake, the Sharks have been more impressive than all of those teams. They've bought in to something over there and it shows. None of those other teams are anything other than a collection of mostly young talent.
Whaddagoal
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I saw he was doing better in early check of the season, but didn't realize he was getting that much ice time and scenario situations.
MachoDiablo
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That's a pretty fair take, I think; obviously long rebuilds can happen to any organization (hello, us!), and sometimes it's because you don't know what kinds of players might be available to you in the draft at a given high position or whatever and how it's tough to attract targeted free agents when you suck, but hockey's a sport with so many moving pieces on the ice that the sooner you can get a group of players to buy into a system, even a somewhat flawed one, the better.
You can succeed in, say, baseball with a lineup of guys aiming for individual glory; it might cost you in the playoffs, but you can make it to the postseason as a club that's a bit inconsistently built as long as the talent and production is there. Can't get away with that nearly as much in hockey.
Now, speaking of out of town, Sirens also have their second game tonight, at 7 at Montreal; still kind of miraculous they beat Minnesota in their opener.
