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There's very few things I'd let our 2026 first leave for. Our 2025 first though... that's a different story.

What's the purpose of the AHL?

I’m not just talking recently or even the Pegula era; I mean as a whole. This city genuinely seems to have bad luck. For me, the 2026 1st is a hedge against complete darkness. 1. I don’t trust Adams to make a good enough team to feel confident we’d make the playoffs. 2. Our 1st being owned by another team only to win the Lottery is far too possible and Buffalo-y not to have happen.

Dave, Phish,moe., Umph, Mumford, Lumineers,Tedeschi Trucks, Gin Blossoms, Govt Mule, Blink 182. Hoping to squeeze in Weird Al.

The problem with this team is the problem with the organization. We are a bunch of boys playing against men. We are smaller skilled that cannot handle a physical forechecking game. This has been our team for 20 years. Look at the final 4 in the NHL playoffs. 3 of the 4 are heavier physical teams. The one that is not lost last night to Dallas. When this organization finally opens its eyes and can see we need to play big boy hockey, they will start winning again.

As a whole our organization has been inept. The caliber of ownership a franchise has permeates throughout the organization. When you live by excuses you fail by them. A generation of failure is a generation of failure. The record can’t be explained away by making lame excuses.

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Don't read Trumps big beautiful bill. It has punitive punishment for blue states and also strips blue states of massive amounts of funding. The tax breaks for billionaires ate insane. The medicaid work requirements and deliberate obstruction there will results in hundreds of thousands of excess deaths. We'll be less educated, sicker, less informed... but hey at least gun suppressors will get deregulated and Trump gets more power while adding 3.7 trillion to the US debt. There's no reason for Blue States to remain.

The timing of the news he had died was eerie. I had just seen John Ratzenberger (Cliff Clavin) on a show (Poker Face) and wondered what George was doing. I also just watched White Men Can’t Jump (Woody Harrelson) the other day.

disagree. You make your own luck. No season has been lost because of bad luck. It's been bad decisions by management and bad rosters.

As a whole our teams have always been unlucky

I mentioned Cuylle because Rags have cap issues and he's there as an RFA they might not think worth keeping if he got offer sheeted. I see him as a 20 goal guy with an edge. Power forward. Not Jeannot. A thing we are lacking in though. I disagree with this "we are unlucky" narrative. Sabres make their own bad luck with bad decisions. Injury stats are boosted by trading for injury prone players. Zucker, Greenway, Norris all had injury issues before they ever came here.

Not what I'm expecting. If you go back to where I first posted it you will see I said it's not going to happen. No chance. It was put out there as dream of what would be possible for a good GM with the assets and cap room Adams has. If you look at the Sabres objectively they have a luxury position to make moves compared to other teams. Other teams have no prospects to trade if they've been all in for years, no or few picks, few desirable players to unload without damaging their rosters and often little to no cap space. or one or more of those issues. Sabres have cap room and a treasure chest full. NOT getting it done takes an extreme amount of ineptitude. and that ineptitude is what I expect. I'm not doing the math but remember you would shed Norris and Byram. Other teams get these things done. Teams with taxes too.

I hedge my bets We are the Murphy's Law of the NHL. With how our luck goes either via injury or the like we'll end up within 1 pt of a spot but end up 10th from the bottom. Then proceed to win the lottery. Also I don't trust Cuylle to be a great player worth that risk; he reminds me way to much of Jeannot who had 1 20 goal year and looked like a super player only to fall off a cliff Keeping Tuch is a priority

It's a fun roster, but I don't think it remains cap-compliant given the Buffalo Tax that Adams/Pegula have caused for this team through their decade of ineptitude. They have $91.056M cap space to work with after the Skinner buyout (90.3 if Samuelsson is also bought out). To join Buffalo, Bennett needs low 1C money and term (7x$8M) for his one career payday -- on the worst of non-contenders. Likewise, Marchand is not taking some discount here... so 2x$7M+. To ensure getting the Rangers to drop Cuylle means going over the 7.1M threshold and that 1st,2nd,3rd trio. At least $6M for the Top 4 RHD and $5M for the goalie (minor $ increase from UPL, who'd have to be traded). I may be a bit low with the UFA estimates. It definitely requires bridging JJP and McLeod, and probably sacrifices Tuch long-term for just a couple seasons of end-career Marchand.

Levi is tiny

This is what happens when you don’t have a balanced team. Not enough defense for Edmonton

What a choke job by the Oilers to give up 5!! unanswered 3rd period goals to turn a 3-1 lead into a 6-3 loss.

Coincidentally, the third period was by far the best period. The first two were snoozers.

Just a bit of 3rd period collapse, eh folks?

The McDavids may have to activate Jeff Skinner.

3-1 to 6-3 Ouch

Just keep giving Dallas PPs and they may stand a chance.

This is the correct answer. Laval is the better team. When the Amerks can matchup lines with last change at home, we saw two one goal games. But the Amerks need some puck luck or an otherworldly goaltending performance to beat Laval. The talent gap is noticeable.

Well……Laval was the #1 team in the league…..so not a huge surprise.