Buffalo Sabres starting goalie battle is coming between Alex Lyon and Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen
The Buffalo Sabres brought in goaltender Alex Lyon this offseason, who has had better production than Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen over the last three seasons. Will he unseat UPL as the team’s #1 goalie and play the most games in 2025-26? Sneaky Joe looks at how the Sabres may treat the situation early in the season, what happens to UPL if he loses his job, and how Devon Levi effects this mix.
Plus, new jersey numbers for the Sabres, including Zach Benson and Josh Norris. And what a recent report about Connor McDavid says about his future plans, going into a contract season.
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20 Comments
Unless we have a competent D, it doesn't matter who is in goal
Go Sabres
I'm not counting out Levi yet… goalies take longer and he's still young.. UPL I've given up on… his numbers.. with the exception of 1 good year.. flat line.. no change, from ECHL, AHL to NHL… with 1 aberration… I don't care who plays.. but they need to play better.. and right now… it's a GIANT QUESTION MARK…
Who cares what # ,s players are gonna have ,me I don't care who's gonna be our starting g ok I'm interested,maybe Norris is trying to make us forget about sir gets paid to much
If 6 was good enough for Schony then its good enough for Benson.
I got a Benson for xmas last year!!!! Fuck me!!
Go Sabres
I've never been a big UPL fan and I was never a Ullmark fan neither. Both those goalies play a similar style. Ullmark is good in the regular season and will never be a playoff goalie same with UPL. Anyone who is saying Levi is a bust doesn't know a dam thing about goalies. It took Ryan Miller 3+ years to develop and it took Dustin Wolf 4+ years to develop into a top NHL goalie. Levi is going on his 3rd full season. So what he had a bad series against Laval the whole team was sleeping.
yikes
Why the hell didn’t they go get a new goalie…ugh
Would it make sense to go after McTavish and what would it cost us?
Lord Timmins about 2B gettin' busy with Lord Kesselring and his Majesty McLeod 25-26 ya heard? 👍 🏒
Benson stinks, who cares what number he is.
Where's Helleson? 🏒
Dan Everett ❤s Pat Kane 👍 🏒
I'm leaning more toward Benson wanting to flip his goal scoring upside down. He has the vision and IQ so that wont change, but his goal scoring needed to do a 180. Most (if not all) players have some degree of superstitions) so this would be right in that wheelhouse. UPL might want to change his number. I think him putting 1 on it has had the reverse effect.
Out of all the weird ass #'s players wear you think 6 is weird 😂
UPL will be the starter. I dont think Levi will ever be a #1 in the NHL. He isn't big enough. I do like him but them is the facts.
Yes you are correct, #6 is mostly a D man number. Although Ron Ellis , yes Im OLD , wore #6 for the Sewage pit make me laughs aka the leafs , and he was one of the best two way forwards of his time . Another forward from the 70s that wore #6 was Pierre Mondou of the Habs.
Goaltending aka UPL will be much improved this season with the much improved D with the additions of Timmins , Jones( im expecting Bryson to be put on waivers) and Kesselring .
Benson should talk to the Sabres store about paying for all his jersey number changes.
Im assuming and 🙏🙏 Josh Norris is 100% healthy now , aka fully recovered?
Any Tuch contract news ?? Get Paul Hamilton on this 😊