Confirmed with Link: Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen Signed for 5 years 4.75 AAV

[Chainshot]

Getting some press from the league:

https://x.com/i/web/status/1841614136314085450

 

[TheMistyStranger]

6K on the warpath!

 

[Dingo44]

6K on the warpath!

He's ready.

 

[old kummelweck]

I liked what I saw out of UPL vs. the Kings. He looked more like the goalie they gave this deal to. I hope he may have turned a corner and be pretty darn good this year.

 

[Jim Bob]

Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen 2024-25 Stats per Game - NHL - ESPN

The 2024-25 NHL season stats per game for Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen of the Buffalo Sabres on ESPN. Includes full stats, per opponent, for regular and postseason.

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UPL has been markedly better since the calendar flipped to November.

Hopefully he can keep it going.

 

[Dingo44]

 

[Zman5778]

If we take out that abject disaster of a Montreal game........

In 7 November starts:

5-2 record
0.952 sv%
~1.15 GAA

Dude has been the very definition of lights out.

 

[Fjordy]

If we take out that abject disaster of a Montreal game........

And even then he wasn't completely healthy, the guy was a wall.

 

[VeteranPresence]

A lot has changed in three weeks. UPL has succumbed to the same suck that consumed the rest of the roster before him, and Buffalo is back in the bottom 3 again. UPL now rocks a 3.00 GAA and 0.896 Sv%.

With Levi the clear future in net, does it really make sense for the Sabres to hang onto UPL while they rebuild the rebuild? They're at risk of doing what the Ducks did with Gibson and wasting the value of a cost-controlled starter.

What teams could offer up a tempting enough package built around a worse goalie who can be a warm body for 50 games plus the futures/young players needed to make it worth it for Buffalo?

 

[Beerz]

A lot has changed in three weeks. UPL has succumbed to the same suck that consumed the rest of the roster before him, and Buffalo is back in the bottom 3 again. UPL now rocks a 3.00 GAA and 0.896 Sv%.

With Levi the clear future in net, does it really make sense for the Sabres to hang onto UPL while they rebuild the rebuild? They're at risk of doing what the Ducks did with Gibson and wasting the value of a cost-controlled starter.

What teams could offer up a tempting enough package built around a worse goalie who can be a warm body for 50 games plus the futures/young players needed to make it worth it for Buffalo?

What are you even talking about?

 

[slip]

A lot has changed in three weeks. UPL has succumbed to the same suck that consumed the rest of the roster before him, and Buffalo is back in the bottom 3 again. UPL now rocks a 3.00 GAA and 0.896 Sv%.

With Levi the clear future in net, does it really make sense for the Sabres to hang onto UPL while they rebuild the rebuild? They're at risk of doing what the Ducks did with Gibson and wasting the value of a cost-controlled starter.

What teams could offer up a tempting enough package built around a worse goalie who can be a warm body for 50 games plus the futures/young players needed to make it worth it for Buffalo?

Levi is not the clear future and trading UPL for anything less than a comparable goalie is franchise suicide.

 

[Zman5778]

A lot has changed in three weeks. UPL has succumbed to the same suck that consumed the rest of the roster before him, and Buffalo is back in the bottom 3 again. UPL now rocks a 3.00 GAA and 0.896 Sv%.

With Levi the clear future in net, does it really make sense for the Sabres to hang onto UPL while they rebuild the rebuild? They're at risk of doing what the Ducks did with Gibson and wasting the value of a cost-controlled starter.

What teams could offer up a tempting enough package built around a worse goalie who can be a warm body for 50 games plus the futures/young players needed to make it worth it for Buffalo?

When it comes to the issues on the Sabres.....UPLs play might be last on the list.

He's a legit starter in the NHL who is capable of stealing games. We should hold onto him until Levi proves beyond the shadow of a doubt he's ready.

 

[Fjordy]

A lot has changed in three weeks. UPL has succumbed to the same suck that consumed the rest of the roster before him, and Buffalo is back in the bottom 3 again. UPL now rocks a 3.00 GAA and 0.896 Sv%.

With Levi the clear future in net, does it really make sense for the Sabres to hang onto UPL while they rebuild the rebuild? They're at risk of doing what the Ducks did with Gibson and wasting the value of a cost-controlled starter.

What teams could offer up a tempting enough package built around a worse goalie who can be a warm body for 50 games plus the futures/young players needed to make it worth it for Buffalo?

UPL not problem, we're not rebuilding, Levi's not ready yet and he doesn't have any magic key to the starter in Buffalo.