Who's your best penalty killer? It's your goalie. If you're in the top 5 PK, chances are you've got a good goalie, and there's no better way to build a solid team than from the net out.

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This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.
--Emerson

I voted pp....b/c pp goals in the post season is huge....even if you have an avg pk, but a top 5 pp you should have the advantage

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"It is more about them than it is about the team...Cannot play with them, cannot win with them, cannot coach with them. Can't do it. I want winners. I want people that want to win." - Mike Singletary

Tyler Myers - Future captain of the Buffalo Sabres, and future Norris Trophy Winner

Manning the machine gun on the Tyler Myers Bandwagon - just in case any teams have an idea of prying him away from us (3 GM's shot already)

Connolly/Roy - 2 goals in the last 47 playoff games

PK without a doubt.

With lockdown penalty killing, you can commit grievous hockey crimes with impunity.

Example: Oops, I slashed Ovechkin's knees and got caught, my bad. Good thing we have a great PK!

Mike Grier

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Hold my beer and watch this...

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"Go out and run 'em."
- Lindy Ruff, 23 Feb. 2007

A PK is more important, because it's more reliable no matter who the opponent is or whether it's regular or post season. A good PP can be shut down by a good PK and in the playoffs, with more urgency from the PK, PP goals are harder to come by.

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"Go out and run 'em."
- Lindy Ruff, 23 Feb. 2007

If only teams could stop taking penalties...I've yet to see it though.

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"Go out and run 'em."
- Lindy Ruff, 23 Feb. 2007

This response is everything wrong this team is doing in a nutshell. My hats off to you Godzilla for seeing this. You are correct, we tried this before, it did not work. I agree, we need scoring, whether it be from existing roster members or those that must be brought in. This team is close to the half way mark in the season and alot of people are being lulled into the false security due to the teams record. This won't last, whether it be in the regular season or the playoffs, its a recipe for failure. The goal is to win a Stanley Cup, not just make the playoffs.

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Lord Stanley's Cup is what its all about.
Mr. Pegula, your destiny awaits you sir.

No, that recipe didn't fail in the past. It remains an unfinished series. They still must complete overtime of Game 6. And if Buffalo wins that game behind the stellar goaltending of Hasek, it goes to Game 7.

Ham

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I won't re-hash the famous no goal incident Ham. I think the point to make is Miller is not Hasek and although he is having a career year he hasn't been that game changing factor in the past to the extent Hasek was. Whether or not he can be remains to be seen, to me anyways its an untested theory until we can get into the playoffs and give it a go, but to date we have no data to go off of on Miller with a defensively minded team. He certainly blossomed a little later than Hasek did, not by to much, but enough as far as age goes.

With that in mind, I really don't see it as a winning system, not with the arrayed talents on other teams on the offensive side. 1 game against Pit isn't enough for a real analysis as of yet, and playoff hockey brings a new atmosphere as well. With some of these teams having experience on the successful side of the battles it is a stretch to say Buffalo will fair well, not without some additional fire power.

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Lord Stanley's Cup is what its all about.
Mr. Pegula, your destiny awaits you sir.

Win.

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No, I realize Buffalo's biggest weakness at this point is scoring. They've got the defense, and they've got the scoring. I don't know if the current team can really kick it into another gear offensively. Curing the PP ails would do wonders, methinks. But I think this current edition of the Sabres is more geared towards playoff hockey. The question remains, will the gritty, no-nonsense Sabres show up in the post-season, or will they try to win with flash and dazzle. They've shown they can do the former and do it well. They've also shown they will revert to the latter, and that leads to the scoring droughts.

Ham

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