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But they are already ahead in their rebuild

Enough about the Sabres. The other team that played last night is pretty bad, as well.

Really depends on what he gets traded for. Keeping him solely because he's older though is dumb, you're trying to solve a problem while ignoring another one.

I don’t love the term of 7-8, but the dollar values are all skewed from years of a flat cap. The 2024 cap was $88MM. 2026 cap will be around 107MM. 2027 cap even higher. So a contract for Tuch in 2024 dollars of 8MM is right about 10MM in 2026 dollars. It is essentially the same percentage of the cap. For me, it comes down to his trade deadline value. He will be the most coveted pending UFA given his style of play and current AAV (not to mention the first crack at signing him to an extension). You may be better off spending 10MM on what you could acquire with him than on him. Just know that he is one of the boys and leadership will need to be acquired to make this contract extension make sense.

Awesome. And we remain the youngest or second youngest team in the league. And the beat goes on.

Forton, nightingale, devine etc

If he blew it all up today (fire Adams and all the coaches) I would back him. At least it would show me he cares. And there might be a hope to salvage the season, however small. Maybe I’m overreacting a bit after 2 games, but it just looks like if they do nothing and try to ride this out it could get even worse. Worst. Owner. Ever. Sell the team, Terry.

^ This, I would hire DeBoer as a coach

Good for them, if so. But does anyone have any reason to think that even by random change the chucklehead silent owner would luck into smart hockey folks? The dim leading the dim isn't working, and Captain Yacht doesn't want anyone who will tell him he's a dunce.

They probably hooked him up to IV antibiotics and have been doing cultures to verify the infection is gone, must have been bad and they needed to nip this thing quickly. I don't think this looks good on the training staff and wound care - but we have enough to bitch about

I think this board is going to really like Klepov.

The scary thing is that the plan was thought to possibly be: promote Adams/Lindy once their contract ends, bring in Jarmo and Appert, etc , ... Its only two games but it sure seems like the players might be trying to influence another outcome.

Adams back, every single coach back, and ending up with $3MM in cap space after seeming to not get equal value in the Peterka trade lead to this off-season being extremely disappointing. Then not having Kesselring nor Benson available to start the year and losing Norris before the 1st game was over simply compound it. Lyon actually looking like the Swamp Cat version of himself with all the rest of that, even though it's a pleasant surprise, is simply a waste at this point.

I think I hate this team more than any of the previous iterations. There's no juice. No exciting new player that I am excited to watch. Just nothing. Some of the least inspired, milquetoast, passive nonsense that gives me no hope for this season to be anything but lost

... he was hospitalized for it Ruff said Wednesday

I knew he took a pick to the face, but jeebus, a week and a half for an infection?

I don't know about the off ice stuff, and you make good points to mention it because it is important. What did he learn from Okposo? That is most likely his blueprint for what an NHL captain looks like. Which gets into how few truly effective veterans our kids have played with. The Sabres blew the whole captain thing when they picked Eichel over ROR in my opinion. As for Dahlin, I can only go by his on-ice effort and his willingness to play hard.

Interesting conversation here on Sabres Twitter. Among other things, Geersten’s installation seems to suggest that Lindy’s lost his grip on coaching in the modern NHL.

He does? How do you think he handled the lockerroom after the first period? After the game with the coach torching the team? What is he doing today? I don't know the answers. I guess I might be surprised.

Took a puck in the face in practice, the cut became infected. Someone posted he could be ready for Ottawa on Wednesday.

Any update on Benson? Did he catch the native flu or is he just allergic to his teammates?

Good points. And if Tuch was still in Vegas, or in Florida or Colorado, he would be a solid contributor, but not a leader or a franchise anchor. Paying him as such in Buffalo would be another error. I would like to keep him at the right price as the team is lacking skilled veterans. I keep saying that Dahlin, Thompson, and Tuch all have to do the things needed to pull this team out of the funk. Dahlin is the only one that consistently shows that leadership attitude.

20 games tops, and if it’s looking like another playoff -less year, then anyone who has the rot of this team on them and has never won a thing, should be moved along. The problem is our GM will get absolutely torched by his peers.

It’s Tage. He cannot be the culture setter in the room. IMHO.

Lindy would have his usual doghouse players he’d bench for showing up with bad hair. Jason Woolley, and Geoff Sanderson come to mind, while his favorites could do no wrong. Timmy Tin-man, Miro Satan, Richard Smehlik, etc. etc. Ruff was clueless then, as he is now.