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You do realize that you keep suggesting to people what to post and what not to post. Relax a bit.

Marchand is a great player. Perhaps the greatest player I would never want on my team. Like I said, IDGAF how good he is. I have standards for players and the classless need not apply.

I agree with the second paragraph with that caveat.

Östlund should be in over one of Dunne or Geertsen

Baby steps. It's so fun to watch them have a defender backing off at the blue line, then drop pass back to center ice, and have to hold up to avoid the offside, only for the next skater to take the puck -- with speed, but now having to dodge their own player to enter the zone. Then get hung up on the now-stopped defender, and lose it to get chipped back down the ice.

It’s probably coincidence and not causation but the boys played tough Saturday. Maybe it had nothing to do with Geertsen but I’d like to see if it’s a thing. He’s not good at hockey buts he’s a big boy that knows his role. Maybe it makes the Quinn’s and Power’s of the lineup more confident to stand up for themselves and their teammates. Something is different. Not sure if it’s Doan, Timmons or some of the other new guys but they are sticking up for each other like we haven’t seen in a long time.

No Malenstyn or Bryson for the morning skate. UPL and Greenway on the ice.

If there's no consistency, it's just another "this is how we win." But -- Doan, Benson, Zucker, and a handful of others can drive that consistency.

Blergh. He's been good on the PK with Kozak.

The problem is if you don’t give Komarov and Novikov a chance in the NHL, you’ll never know if they can hack it. I think both should be given a shot sooner then later. They add attributes that could help us win over Bryson, who know will never help us win. As to Rosen, I think he can help in the top 9. I disagree that he has to be played in the top 6, especially if he is responsible defensively.

The issue being that only Krebs and Kozak are currently healthy (unless Greenway dresses tonight).

Lyon is the starter

Injuries aside, between Krebs or Kozak and Malenstyn/Greenway/Danforth they can make a good enough fourth line. The first and second lines are the ones that are suspect.

I never said best players, I said players that can help them win and you gave all the reasons I would for why Rosen isn’t up. They aren’t building a fantasy team. Rosen only helps if he’s good enough to crack the top 6. As for Bryson, while I think a couple of those guys might be better, there is no proof of that. I like Johnson but he hasn’t played better when given the chance. The others are all maybes and the two Russians are definitely better off waiting to find out. Waiver exemptions or not, if the team thought any player would help them win over another, that player would be up.

1st your assuming this organization is trying to win. They aren’t. If they were, we’d have better goaltending, better D and guys like Danforth, Geertsen, Malenstyn, Bryson, Johnson, and UPL and Georgiev wouldn’t be on or near the NHL roster. GMs often leave “better” players in the A in favor of more experienced players. GMs invest in players, such as Quinn, and then have a hard time admitting they were wrong. Do you really feel like Byrson is the 7th best D in this organization? I’d take Jones, Novikov, Komoarov, Johnson and Metsa over Bryson, yet somehow Bryson remains a Sabre. Sometimes waivers exemption keep players up or down as well. Is Ellis the 2nd or 3rd best goalie in the organization? Possibly, but he’s never played an NHL game but since he is not waiver exempt he remains in Buffalo as Adams is afraid they’ll lose him if sent down. Levi is waiver exempt and was sent down without being given a real shot at the roster. I think your real question is are the Sabres leaving guys in Rochester right now would could help the Sabres win now and if so, why?

Rosen has never been worth much as a trade chip. He has developed slowly but steadily, which really doesn't amount to excitement/trade value. If he is actually breaking out this year (tbd), I would argue that management actually played this right by never moving him. Chances are if they traded him... they would have gotten back a similar poorly performing prospect that wouldn't have amounted to much. Or he would've just been a throw in for a larger trade.

These people are sad

FIFY.

Is it? I have to defer to you lol. This video is crap, tho. It just was published but still talks about a small videoboard. And wasn't the sound system recently updated? Same for lighting in the past few years. I like the place and continue to ask in TP fashion: what has KeyBank Center done wrong?

If the ups are more than the downs, then you have an obligation to continue on for the benefit of the audience. 😀

Great sports nite…MNF TB @ DET, ALCS Game 7 SEA @ TOR, BUF @ MON Lot of flipping will be going on. 😂 Haven’t watched much of the Sabres…maybe I should stay away. 😂

I just want them to get to .500. Then it’s like a fresh start for the rest of the month. Let’s just right the ship and move forward.

A couple of things in Rosen. 1) all his points are on the power play 2) history is full off AHL stars who couldn’t translate it to the NHL. If he can mimic VO and turn his defensive game into an asset, he has a shot, otherwise he’s Jody Gage. 3) do you really think the coaches would purposefully keep a player down if they thought that player would help them win?

If I would have made my comment about the owner pep talk when we were playing another team at a different location, then my comment would have been gratuitous and annoying. That isn’t the case and wasn’t the intention. Just continue posting with no inhibitions. It’s better that way. 🍻

Almost.