Sabres @ Leafs - Jan. 15th, 7:30pm - TSN, SN 590

[2badknees]

Gardiner with another solid defensive game.

 

[ZBBM]

JvR, Lups are both sick in converting shootouts

That weight shift dekey thing + rapidfire release is deadly.

 

[GhostofPotvin29]

All those years of shootout frustration is being righted this year.

 

[Kin]

Eh, would have preferred the ROW but I'll take the point.

 

[bustaheims]

1 save on 5 shootout attempts. Quality entertainment.

 

[ZBBM]

All those years of shootout frustration is being righted this year.

You're not kidding.

For the record, however, SOs still suck.

 

[2badknees]

For the record, however, SOs still suck.

QFT

 

[bustaheims]

All those years of shootout frustration is being righted this year.

The irony being that their poor shootout results in the past have kept them out of the playoff, while their excellence in the shootout this season could end up doing the same.

 

[Tigger]

A video of the Moulson goal - from above it doesn't looking but it kind of does from the side, though is all the puck over the line?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJoxY9etmm0

Those angles look to me like it didn't go in.

Me too, weird.

 

[Jeremiad]

All those years of shootout frustration is being righted this year.

You're not kidding.

For the record, however, SOs still suck.

Amen to that.

 

[drummond]

All those years of shootout frustration is being righted this year.

You're not kidding.

For the record, however, SOs still suck.

It does but it keeps the Leafs in playoff hunt - this was 8th extra point earned thanks to shootouts

 

[Jeremiad]

For the record, however, SOs still suck.

QFT

Quantum Field Theory?

 

[Highlander]

I called it the other day.. in a shootout we are the "Toronto Gunslingers"?  Well be your Huckleberry!

 

[2badknees]

You know who never gets enough credit? Gunnarsson.

Phaneuf should give him half his paycheque.

 

[moon111]

Sportclubstats.com.  Odds of making playoffs should be up to 24.9%

 

[Tigger]

But I've just got the feeling that Franson is going to want big money, and his foot speed and play this year hasn't impressed much. He's got points though, so my thought is that he isn't going to ever look better when he's on the block.

I've also started to think about who we could acquire in a trade to replace Franson if he were traded.

I want to keep Phaneuf, Rielly and Gardiner for sure, but the rest I could live with trading, provided the returns are good.

Is Brennan worth bringing up from the Marlies?

Franson would get a 2nd round pick maybe and Fraser a 4th or something?

Is that what people think, Franson worth a 2nd? I don't know, I'm asking, but I'd think more.

 

[Jeremiad]

Sportclubstats.com.  Odds of making playoffs should be up to 24.9%

Really? It's still that low?

 

[bustaheims]

Is that what people think, Franson worth a 2nd? I don't know, I'm asking, but I'd think more.

Maybe a little bit, but probably not a significant amount. They might be able to get a later round pick or an okay prospect included. Unless there's a team out there that really really wants him, that's about what he's worth. He's a PP specialist who doesn't skate well and has some serious issues on the defensive side of the puck.

 

[2badknees]

Franson+Kadri = Ryan Nugent Hopkins.

Get it done, Nonis.

 

[bustaheims]

Sportclubstats.com.  Odds of making playoffs should be up to 24.9%

Really? It's still that low?

Every other team realistically in the race holds the tiebreaker and have at least one game in hand.