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Only 2 games into this season, and last season doesn’t count?

When I wrote the post Samuelsson was listed day to day, Kesselring is out week to week. That leaves the 6 healthy D as Dahlin, Byram, Power, Timmins, Bryson and Metsa.

For us old timers from the 60’s Dan darragh former QB passed away.

Guess Metsa deserves a look, I just don't think this is the time of the season. Hope he surprise me in a positive way. When can we expect to see Kesselring and Greenway playing games?

https://www.thefourthperiod.com/oct-2025/tuch-contract-talks-put-on-backburner-says-agent smart move. I interpret this as we’ll wait and see who’s who in the zoo going forward.

Agreed, no way Bryson clears waivers, right? SMH. Free RJ.

That trade itself is reason enough to be fired ,add to that all the other reasons Adams should be shitcanned down the road and he’s still Terrys fav. I don’t get it.

They've played two games. Not sure there is much of anything you can draw a conclusion from after that other than the sample size is far too small.

Lyon revenge game 🦁

The Florida Panthers are coming in off a 2-game losing skid. Look for a nice first period where Florida outshoots Buffalo 17-5 as they need to get back on track. That will bring Sabres fans back to reality.

Caulfield scores with 19 seconds in the game to tie and 2 seconds left in OT to win for the Habs. As I posted in another thread I think they have a good chance to win the division. They have a lot of firepower.

Wonder just how hard Ron Francis is laughing every time he gets done having a conversation with his buddy Kevyn on the phone or facetime or zoom or whatever?

I’m telling you it’s Adams thinking he’s being clever

If Samuelsson is healthy, he plays. Until he's re-injured, of course. But then why bring up Metsa? Just send down Johnson. Geertsen can play defense in practice. You're home and then at Montreal, which is nearly as quick to drive from Rochester as to fly. You can get Metsa or Novikov in a heartbeat. So instead, the logical thing is to take Metsa away from the Amerks (when they already have Dunne up) -- and the possibility that neither plays if Greenway is a go.

Union would have a problem with it if they sent him down with an injury or illness that he had aquired while on the big team.

They hosed all 3 western teams (LA, California, and Vancouver). Vancouver played in the Smythe, LA in the Norris, and the Seals in the Adams. Guess they didn't want to hose Minny, KC, nor St. Louis by putting them in an all Pacific division. And they did kind of split the footprint between the 2 conferences. The Adams (Buffalo, TO, Boston, and CA) was with the Norris (Moe-ray-all, Washington, Detroit, Pittsburgh, and LA) in the Wales Conference and the Patrick (NY, NY, Filly, and Atlanta) were with the Smythe (Chicago, St. Louis, Minny, KC, and Vancouver) in the Campbell Conference. So the Wales got the Eastern Great Lakes teams plus Washington, Moe-Ray-All, and Boston and the California teams; the Campbell got the Central TZ teams; teams near Joisey; Atlanta; and Vancouver. Everybody except those 3 were either in the Eastern or Central Time Zones and there were only 4 in even the Central Time Zone. Everybody was East Coast or Great Lakes and NOBODY wanted 3 trips out west. Back then, much like now, the owners really didn't care whether or if their rivals could compete. Heck, if Vegas didn't give $500MM to join and Seattle even more, they'd've been just as successful out of the gate as all the other expansion teams that came before them.

But there was only one backup to worry about last year. As always, it goes back to Adams and the man who hired him and continues to love and employ him despite all evidence showing he still hasn't learned enough to be effective or efficient at his job. I'm sure he's economical. They had a goalie with 500 games played experience ready to provide average backup (tandem) goaltending. And that guy whose career numbers are equal to UPL's best season in which he was excellent for half a season? They waived him immediately upon returning to the States after the Prague games. Adams had an offseason plan to pair the new starter with a veteran. And then he abandoned the plan immediately. It was shown that Luukkonen wasn't at the same level he had been the end of the previous season and Levi wasn't ready. And their defense still included Cozens, Quinn, Power, Muel... etc. and a new system under Ruff. And they went with two inexperienced goalies instead of Reimer. It was the people in charge of personnel who don't understand teambuilding and roster construction... again. If Reimer had been retained and provided his usual .900 goaltending, instead of Levi's numbers in Oct/Nov, and if Ruff had allowed Reimer to split the games instead of just riding UPL forever once Reimer had been re-claimed off of waivers... they probably are 4-5 wins better. And if one of those wins is against Montreal (0-3-1), maybe it's the Sabres sneaking into the playoffs. ----- Fast forward. This season, they might finally get it. Once again, it's a veteran goalie with career numbers better than UPL's career (though not as good as Reimer's). But there's no reason for Lyon not to be a tandem goalie with UPL. Let Lyon play. Send UPL to Rochester for a conditioning assignment. Play Ellis once every 4 games so you see what he can do and you don't burn out Lyon. Get the goaltending right. For once. (then fire Sheevyn anyway.) Ellis should play Monday in MTL and at TOR next weekend, and he should already know when he's going to be in net.

Lyon has been good, but he's never played this much before in his career. They will burn him out or get him injured this way.

Johnson and Bryson have bother been awful. Metsa might be more Kesslering-esque than those two but there's a big defensive hole until we actually see Kesselring.

In the book Ballparks it talks about how baseball owners in the early 1900s would spend their own money to make extravagant palaces for their teams to play in. Sources of pride that were a part of an owners legacy. We’ve since lost the plot in a number of ways.

I haven't watched Detroit yet but Montreal looks pretty good. They have improved from last year. The extensions to upper management have been earned there.

I wonder if Johnson is hurt or sick and it was a better way of dealing with it vs IR. Lets see if he plays with the Amerks this weekend.

It’s Adams thinking he’s being clever sending Johnson down because he’s waiver eligible

I know. I have referred to the Sabres as the Seals many times. Someone in the NHL Front Office had the bright idea to move Seals into the Adams division, which essentially put them in the East Division and the East Conference. As if the travel wasn't hard enough for them, they loaded them up with more games against many of the better teams. Looking back they had cool jerseys but their wacky owner (Charles Finley) made them wear white skates one season. The players hated it.

Wins. Always wins.