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I don't stream. I try like hell to avoid taste-predictive algorithms. I still look for new music (in an ad hoc, hunt and peck sort of way). And I enjoy listening to familiar material. I find that bringing intention as the listener is essential to appreciating music. And I find that buying the music that I want to listen to helps me have that intention.

Not saying that this was a consideration with Byram, but it applies. Was listening to the PDOcast talk with Barkov's agent and they brought up how next summer is serving up a unique circumstance in terms of contract extensions due to the new CBA. Basically, there will be a window between July 1 and Sept. 15 2026, where anyone with one year left on their deal is eligible to sign an 8-year contract with their current team. After Sept. 15, it drops to 7 with their current team, 6 with anyone else. After July 1 2027, when they hit free agency, the longest deal those players can sign anywhere is 6 years. Byram could have millions of dollars in incentives to negotiate an extension, or a sign-and trade next summer.

PLEASE let the home home opener be against one of the 4-5 teams with a worse roster than Buffalo. I want to be able to enjoy 1 game this year with the kids.

I'm borrowing a vehicle, while the deer dance damage to my car is being (haggling/approving game, between the shop and my insurance provider) repaired Said borrowed car HAS a built in CD player!!! I had NIN's Pretty Hate Machine on for yesterday's commute Today, it's Dr Demento's, Covered in Punk compilation (Brak does a wonderful rendition of Suicidal Tendencies' "Institutionalized") 😃 It's absolutely BONKERS, in the best possible way 👌🏻 While I appreciate the conveniences associated with digital tech, IMO there's no beating physical media, ESPECIALLY when it comes to music. ¡Viva nostalgia!

Cool, at least one person actually reads these. 😉 Gave serious consideration to dropping him from the list, but left him because he was pretty much the 1st big 1 for 1 hockey trade of the Pegula era.

schedule's out? not yet - but apparently sabres open against the rangers at home 10/9.

Like I said.

I think Utah reminds JJ of the Bavarian alps of home. He can sing ‘Edelweiss’ and frolic in his lederhosen all along the Wasatch range.

I guess there should be a level of naivety there. He played there last season, but they had another game in Minnesota two days later, so they were out of there right away. He didn't have any time to experience it.

He liked Buffalo too before he lived there 😈

But he did choose to sign that multi-year contract there.

That's not exactly how it works though. Alex Nylander was a CHL guy too, but since he was "on loan" (I forget if that's the proper language) from his Swedish team, he wound up in the AHL immediately after being drafted. Mrtka was with a pro Czech team last year too.

There’s an evil part of me that wants the Sabres to be cutthroat enough that this played a role

All the clauses really muck it up. On the oldest teams in the league, everyone has clauses or is like 25 and under and is viewed as part of the future.

Ok, going to try and use a bit of optimism. Dahls and Byram were one of the top 10 defensive pairings when they were together last year 5 on 5. They were top 5 in most advanced statistics! If Timmons and Kesselring improve over their replacements, our defense could be a plus for this team. We know the Sabres can score. Even with JJ gone, those goals could be made up with the current team as is. I think we are sneakily a better team based on the moves that were made and KEEPING Byram. The question is can they keep up with the rest and make the playoffs with what they have. I truly believe they can if the defense plays to its potential. Dahlin and Byram make the goalie play a lot better when they are on the ice. If the other 2 pairings can do that i think our netminding is better this year!

I don’t know that it’s McKenna behind the cap space The Ducks roster moves don’t look like tanking, neither do the Sharks or the Jackets. Certainly not the Jets. Pittsburgh and Calgary still have assets to sell if they’re resetting. Maybe Chicago? I think it’s mostly math: the system hasn’t reset yet to the extra money available. The teams with space are the ones who weren’t able to exercise their plans. The players teams would have spent big on signed early and or left money on the table like Marner and Ehlers. nobody is giving McTavish or Byram contracts out of line with their comps just because they can. And there are only so many Jeannots and Dvoraks out there to overpay

He's a CHL player, so age 20 -- until the new CBA kicks in and then he could be assigned at age 19 with an exemption. He joined Seattle in the middle of the 2024-25 season.

There are a bunch of bottom-third teams with a suspicious amount of cap unspent... and only a scattered RFA here or there. If the cards fall right, they'll stay within striking distance of San Jose/Chicago for the McKenna fest. In 2014-15, five teams completely bottomed out for McDavid. As a result, good teams scored more points. The playoff line was high: 97 points was the #16 playoff seed. The Sabres need almost everything to go right to get to 90 points. How do we feel about 97 if a half dozen team are obviously in on the tank? It'd be very on brand to have their "best season ever" under Pegula and still miss out on the playoffs by 5 points because a bunch of common opponents weren't trying. It would please and justify Adams/Pegula as incredible progress and we're on the right track. That is, until the following season has snap-back regression (in 2015-16 - 93 pts in the east and a silly 87 pts in the west to get in) with all teams trying again -- and the Sabres back to the mid 80s to fall a few points short.

Just when I thought the team couldn’t get any lower, I listen to Clifton. This team is rotten to its core and it starts from the top. Everyone knows they do not need to be accountable so it’s just mail it in season for everyone involved. Depressing but the story is unfolding and the problem starts at the top.

Maybe I'm just old, but that post confuses the hell out of me.

TACO I laughed my a$$ off the other day when he said he has “stopped so many wars.”

Too lazy to read. Is he Rochester eligible? I have no idea exactly when he crossed the ocean.

and you hope that somebody (players) will hold the others accountable for playing that way... especially if Lindy actually has options to go too that say I want you to play this way you arent so these guys are getting the ice time... hard to do when you literally have no one to point to and put out there... if there is improvement it will be because the mix of players is more conducive to two way grittier hockey and better defense.

I get the rest of the list, but Ott? Man, there's a career that fell off the face of the earth the second he left Dallas. I don't really think that was a Sabre effect, but more of a "this guy is toast".