I’m going to keep this on the ice. The thought occurred to me that the Sabres fan who told me their whale-in-heat voiced announcer was dying or retiring a couple seasons ago may not have been as reliable a source as I had hoped. So keeping it on the water, here’s an overly analytical look at the first five minutes of last night’s game. The five minutes that all the ‘come on boys!’ are about, that are supposed to set the tone for the night. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ We’re opening the game with Gagne-Richards-Carcillo and Pronger-Carle. As much as I want Carcillo to be top line material he’s not. He holds his own out there but I can’t help but think it’s Scott Hartnell’s fault for not turning into a $4.5M player that we don’t have six top 6 forwards on the top 2 lines.

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