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Lines below are from practice yesterday. Perron should be back in. Parayko still out. JB50 starting. Long story short, same lines as last game

Dread_Pirate_Westley wrote: Thu Jan 09, 2020 11:58 am Lines below are from practice yesterday. Perron should be back in. Parayko still out. JB50 starting. Long story short, same lines as last game

Dread, do you know why Perron didn't practice?

MattyIce wrote: Thu Jan 09, 2020 12:21 pm

Dread_Pirate_Westley wrote: Thu Jan 09, 2020 11:58 am Lines below are from practice yesterday. Perron should be back in. Parayko still out. JB50 starting. Long story short, same lines as last game

Dread, do you know why Perron didn't practice?

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MattyIce wrote: Thu Jan 09, 2020 12:21 pm

Dread_Pirate_Westley wrote: Thu Jan 09, 2020 11:58 am Lines below are from practice yesterday. Perron should be back in. Parayko still out. JB50 starting. Long story short, same lines as last game

Dread, do you know why Perron didn't practice?

I believe he was creating fake email addresses all morning to vote himself into the All-Star Game.

Dave's a mess wrote: Thu Jan 09, 2020 12:32 pm

MattyIce wrote: Thu Jan 09, 2020 12:21 pm

Dread_Pirate_Westley wrote: Thu Jan 09, 2020 11:58 am Lines below are from practice yesterday. Perron should be back in. Parayko still out. JB50 starting. Long story short, same lines as last game

Dread, do you know why Perron didn't practice?

I believe he was creating fake email addresses all morning to vote himself into the All-Star Game.

Brouwer got him with that lead pipe. Brouwer for MVP!

MattyIce wrote: Thu Jan 09, 2020 12:21 pm

Dread_Pirate_Westley wrote: Thu Jan 09, 2020 11:58 am Lines below are from practice yesterday. Perron should be back in. Parayko still out. JB50 starting. Long story short, same lines as last game

Dread, do you know why Perron didn't practice?

According to Jim Thomas, it was just a maintenance day for DP57.

ROR must've been miserable at practice with those two on his wings.

Dread_Pirate_Westley wrote: Thu Jan 09, 2020 12:44 pm ROR must've been miserable at practice with those two on his wings.

Will he start to lose his love for the game and the crash his car into a Tim Hortons!!!!????!!!!

Sorry, I was temporarily lost control of my mind to a cloaked Sabres fan!

Parayko was at the Billikens game last night just laughing and having a good time.....didn’t look hurt to me. I bet he’s pulling an Adam. Oates and wants his contract reworked

Looking forward to more Mikkola tonight .

The Sabres don't have a single piece of their return for Conn Smythe winner ROR in their lineup.

The Blues' projected lineup:

Jaden Schwartz-Brayden Schenn-Jordan Kyrou
Zach Sanford-Ryan O'Reilly-David Perron
Alexander Steen-Robert Thomas-Tyler Bozak
Mackenzie MacEachern-Ivan Barbashev-Oskar Sundqvist

Vince Dunn-Alex Pietrangelo
Jay Bouwmeester-Justin Faulk
Niko Mikkola-Robert Bortuzzo

Jordan Binnington will start in goal; Jake Allen will be the backup.

Healthy scratches will be Troy Brouwer and Jacob de la Rose. Vladimir Tarasenko (shoulder), Carl Gunnarsson (arm), Sammy Blais (wrist) and Colton Parayko (upper body) are out.

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The Sabres' projected lineup:

Rasmus Asplund-Jack Eichel-Sam Reinhart
Michael Frolik-Marcus Johansson-Conor Sheary
Zemgus Girgensons-Johan Larsson-Kyle Okposo
Jimmy Vesey-Curtis Lazar
Lawrence Pilut-Rasmus Ristolainen

Rasmus Dahlin-Colin Miller
Brandon Montour-Henri Jokiharju
Zach Bogosian

Linus Ullmark will start in goal; Carter Hutton will be the backup.

Healthy scratches include Scott Wilson and Evan Rodrigues. Victor Olofsson (lower body), Jeff Skinner (upper body), Tage Thompson (upper body), Vladimir Sobotka (lower body) and Jake McCabe (upper body) are out.

Dread_Pirate_Westley wrote: Thu Jan 09, 2020 2:23 pm The Sabres don't have a single piece of their return for Conn Smythe winner ROR in their lineup.

Buffalo's urgency to get rid of they guy that was most bothered by losing will never ever make sense to me. They sure better hope those draft pics pan out.

I wish the STL Post have coverage like this...nice to get a perspective from both teams, including quotes from both coaches. Props to Mike Harrington for a good pre-game article:

"ST. LOUIS – For a team desperate to get points, especially on the road, this is not the best place for the Buffalo Sabres' first game away from KeyBank Center in the new decade.

The Enterprise Center has always housed a good team and now it's the home of the defending Stanley Cup champions. And whether they've been big winners, a middle-of-the-road club or a bottom feeder, the St. Louis Blues have given the Buffalo Sabres big trouble here in the shadow of the Gateway Arch.

The Sabres are 0-5-2 in their last seven games here and have not won in St. Louis since a 5-3 victory on Dec. 27, 2009. It's one of their four worst current road droughts in the league. They've been outscored, 26-10, and been held to two goals or less in all seven games.

*****
SABRES CURRENT ROAD DROUGHTS
City Record Last win
Chicago 0-7-3 Jan. 10, 2007
Washington 0-6-2 Nov. 22, 2014
Dallas 0-7-0 Jan. 15, 2009
St. Louis 0-5-2 Dec. 27, 2009
Philadelphia 0-6-0 Oct. 27, 2015
****


Last season's game here was a microcosm how the season changed for both teams. When the Sabres took the ice here on Dec. 27, 2018, they were 15 points ahead of the Blues in the NHL's overall standing (47-32). The game, a 4-1 St. Louis victory, came a little more than a week before the Blues changed their season by calling up goaltender Jordan Binnington from the minor leagues.

Starting from that night they met, the teams had a 38-point turnaround – St. Louis finished with 99 en route to its eventual run to the Cup and the Sabres finished with just 76 and sent coach Phil Housley packing. St. Louis was 31-12-5 in that stretch and Buffalo went 12-28-5. Yikes."

Read more: https://buffalonews.com/2020/01/09/buff ... uis-blues/

Let's GO BLUES!!!

Thomas is really good, Jack Eichel is really really good

Nice to see Thomas get another goal. It was a good wrister. He has good shooting instincts, so it will be good if he can learn to shoot more.

Thomas is starting to become more and more confident shooting. He's not a natural sniper but if he can be a threat to score 20-25 each year you've got yourself a #1 C there IMO.

Saying it again, Thomas is really good

Bozak, driving towards the net pops in a fine feed from Thomas!!!! Blues lead 2-0!!!

Buffalo fans getting a good look at the prospect they all wanted to acquire in the ROR trade while the one they did acquire bounces between the minors and the NHL this year

Isn't Bozak on a goal streak of like 5 games?

Mikkola gets his 1st career assist off that!

Please no let down. Let’s get a cruising victory.

Thomas is almost magical in the way he seems to always deliver the puck so that the shooter has nothing to do but fire the puck.

ratonmono wrote: Thu Jan 09, 2020 7:40 pm Mikkola gets his 1st career assist off that!

The more I see of Mikkola, the more I think he's a good one. If not before, I think he may be a starter next season.

Dunn just had a real nice defensive play. Lots of good footwork to get on the correct side of Eichel. Eichel had to pass it off.