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Great show at River Works tonight. And a great crowd. Not really the metal crowd I was expecting. More of a party crowd. They were wild and having a ball. Nothing but smiles in the mosh pit. And Gwar is some weird ass ***** live. Like probably the weirdest thing Ive ever seen live.

It's like a 94 year old grandpa finally realizing what the internet is.

Depends on what we can sign him for and how long. Maybe R Johnson, Rosen and a 2nd. If they add Schneider to the deal I add Byram.

Agree to disagree 🤝

I'd pay it to get out of Power's contract and add toughness. The loss in offense can be made up by having a better defender and have 3 more mil to keep adding. If they don't have interest in Power, I'm not sure how Samuelsson becomes attractive. He's less bang for the buck, less upside and injury prone. They'll get much better offers, IMO, but I'd have to purposely fake my excitement if I was the Sabres GM. Wait, you have to take more than 2 seconds to say yes or you'll scare them off. I don't think we could trade Samuelsson unless we gave a team more than just him and didn't ask for anything back.

I feel like this is a wee bit of an overpayment. Also not sure they’d have any interest in Power. How about Samuelsson & Rosen

Didn't say he was a burner. But he was fast enough to not just be effective but actually good in the NHL. AFTER the injury, not so much.

He was slowwwww before that lol

Power and a prospect. If Miller would agree to a 4 year extension at under 6.

A KFC Biscuit?

Well, when your knee gets blown out, it kind of affects your skating. Thaaaaannnnnks Zdeno. Hamel was having an excellent rookie year, until ...

Actually, Denis Hamel is an AHL hall of famer. He ranks 11th in AHL history with 338 goals, topping the 20-goal mark in each of his last 10 seasons in the league, and totaled 651 points in 850 games. Add in 192 NHL games to that to boot. He excelled at everything except speed. He was like Murray out there, but had NHL everything else. https://ahlhalloffame.com/denis-hamel

Max Pšenička measured 6'5" and only 185lbs. Dude is a RHD that has some muscle to add but he is big and has physicality. I would skip Mrtka and gamble on Pšenička at 39.

Finally. Here's the full height and weight measures. https://thehockeywriters.com/2025-nhl-combine-heights-weights/

I’ve seen plenty of Bruins fans say that, maybe not always reaching the playoff level but 9th/10th in the Conference. Dahlin’s injury isn’t the sole reason we missed but certainly was part of it. Devaluing to that of a mere excuse is falling far short of the impact his injury from Training Camp to near January was in reducing his effectiveness when he played. Not to mention his 10 game IR stint coincides perfectly with our losing streak. Hell, the game he left in, we had a 5-1 lead and in the 20min he was gone they blew the game in regulation. Dahlin’s injury can be both a large factor to missing without discounting the sheer ineptitude that was shown while he was gone. No player should be so important to a team that his injury leads to zero win effort in that time. That streak soured me on Byram and made me start to genuinely question Power’s level of Dman. Both can play great offensively but with Dahlin out neither stepped up to fill the gap. I only give Power a small bit of a mulligan because he had stepped up as a rookie when Dahlin missed a game against Tampa and Power played one of his best games that year. But it does feel a tad worrying that Power’s willingness to make contact and his defensive IQ has cratered more each year. His shot has gotten better but otherwise he’s regressed in defensive situations. As for Byram it all but made him a passenger; with Dahlin he’s great but otherwise he’s a liability. No matter how great your top pairing is, neither player should have such a dependence on their partner that if one goes down the other goes limp like a puppet without a puppeteer. Your #2 needs the ability to cover the #1 role for some time when the situation arises. Power already has the role of #3 Offensive D locked in and his play doesn’t falter regardless of partner. He’s good offensively, bad defensively. Byram while more physical seems more often than not incapable of playing with any other Dman aside from Dahlin.

That's exactly what happened. Murray refused, which hilariously led to him being fired.

Darcy was a good trader.

If an injury to one player turns you into the expansion Caps that would suggest the GM is historically bad (spoiler alert: Kevyn is in fact historically bad).

LITERALLY the exact same as Garth Snow, and it was because both of them knew they were in no way qualified to hold a GM position and understood people would take advantage of this to try and rob them blind.

Do we have prospects desired by other teams? Rosen and Östlund seem like similar type players in that they are not big or physical, but have some scoring abilities. I doubt they would trade Helenius and I am not sure about Wahlberg garnering trade interest. Sabres seem to like a certain type of player. I could argue that Rosen, Östlund, Kulich, Quinn, and Peterka are all similarly sized, not physical and better offensively than defensively. We need more diversity in terms of player types.

And the new video board is prone to hacking with porn videos.

Big moves and trades coming?!?! I’ll believe it when I see it. I might feel differently if the team showed any willingness to fire some assistant coaches, but since they’re all still there….why should anybody believe any significant player moves will happen?

round 2 -- Theo Stockselius (BIG Swedish winger who destroyed j20 as a 17 year old all year) or Nestrasil

One aspect of that multifaceted situation was that he was not allowed to have the procedure he wanted to have. In hindsight, he was right on this issue. And circumscribing the situation that goes beyond any individual player is that pervasive dysfunction creates a climate where players want to get away from. This disarray in the organization’s been going on since the Pegula era began. And the consequences have been damaging.