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He never held there

They just made out for it on a weak holding call

Byram saved a goal. Not sure how he didn't get called for covering it in the crease (didn't look that closely at it, maybe the puck was outside the crease when it was under him) but still 2-0 Sabres.

If I'm Tuch's agent I hold to a ridiculous ask and see how the season plays out. Tuch can keep saying "I love Buffalo" "I want to be in Buffalo" and "I'm not thinking about it. My agent will work all that out." If the season tanks he can walk into that big free agency class, save face, and have all his options available. If I'm the Sabres, I wait to see how the season goes and if I can't get a reasonable deal done I just play out the season. If it is not looking like playoffs I move him for a haul at the deadline and begin the new new re-rebuild. If the Sabres give him a huge overpay they are screwed no matter what happens. They are in a tough spot and a full rebuild might be the only way (potentially) out of it. Nobody wants to hear that but if your only option is to continually overpay or look like a league farm team constantly having players walk you'll never get anywhere.

Well, hopefully should it come to that, and not wishing it on Bobrovsky but should it come to that, am hoping that preseason vs a mix of NHLers and AHLers isn't the same as playing vs NHLers. If it takes FLA falling off due to injuries to sneak the Sabres into the playoffs, so be it. Had Fasching not kicked a goal into the net that counted, FLA might very well have missed the dance the year they lost to Vegas. Would be poetic somehow that their run ends with the Sabres sneaking past them.

It's not impossible; Power will always have the inherent skating and offensive chops though. Mrtka definitely has more bite in his game and the advantage of likely getting whatever amount of time he needs to develop. His rookie season he showed a bit more gusto and had some great defensive positioning

It's early but he looks more at home that Power ever has.

Radim Mrtka will be better than Owen Power

They have Daniil Tarasov as backup. I watched a recap of a preseason game where he played and have to say he looked great.

Mrtka: "this NHL is easy."

Cossa who? 😉

Sweet!

Mrtka from Helenius. Rosen takes the hit to move it up ice. 2-0 Sabres.

Nope. Makes no sense. Two completely different players with different histories.

Norris was 78% on faceoffs in the game Tuesday.

6 of 9 so far on the draw with the 1 win directly leading to the goal.

ROR sure, Eichel only was pretty good at draws by the end but he was still a solid faceoff guy at least.

It would be a huge improvement if Norris can be the faceoff guy they’ve been missing since O’Reilly and Eichel left.

Not endorsing the song in the lead. None of them are particularly good goal songs. But Chelsea Dagger is a great goal song and can't see ANY teams coming out on the ice to it. Just sayin'.

Gives an indication that, as many here have suggested, that they're planning on having Mrtka spend this year in Junior. Not surprisingly the Norris line has been tilting the ice in the Sabres favor. Dahlin off the draw. 1-0

For those negging on this (not Brawndo): Is there somewhere else we expected them to play?

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Benson - Norris - Thompson Zucker - McLeod - Tuch Quinn - Kulich - Doan Seems that those will be the opening night lines IMO from preseason so far. I don’t think I love the Quinn Kulich Doan, I’d rather shelter Kulich a little more still