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Blümel was put on waivers by Boston, Buffalo should have also claimed him. https://www.eliteprospects.com/player/272376/matej-blumel

Can someone telling me why I’m looking forward to this when I shouldn’t be? I’ve been training myself all summer to be pessimistic and disappointed. It’s not working.

Friedman’s 32 Thoughts today mentions that Roy and Pominville thought Erhoff and Leino contracts messed up the Sabres room.

It's a Masochist reunion

Also, as the pool of top UFA's shrink (supply) so does the teams with the will, or money to sign them (Demand). If Connor chose not to sign in Winnipeg, sure there would be more supply with him on the market, but the also would be more demand (Winnipeg now looking elsehwere to fill that hole.) Every free agent signed, even with their own team, impacts both supply and demand at the same time in a salary cap league.

They are not a very deep team. They have one good defensive pair. The third and 4th lines don't inspire confidence. The goalie can only do so much. I think it will be another long year for them.

Delaware North they’ll do better this season. https://www.wivb.com/sports/buffalo-sabres/sabres-add-new-food-options-for-upcoming-season/

... Stale hot dog buns, dry pizza, old popcorn, low quality and expensive beer, broken cup holders, urine on the restroom floor, paper towels that don't dry, can't put my size 12 1/2 shoes on the floor when seated in the 300's, always get the seat next to the fat guy ...

Don’t know how to feel about this. My gut tells me it’s a solid move, here’s to hoping it doesn’t end up splattering all over the bowl.

As is tradition, I’m here expecting the best. Better defensive pairs and more mature forwards = the loss of Peterka’s goal scoring. The Sabres haven’t had a hard time scoring goals. I’m here in the hopium den expecting Tage/Norris production to light it up and pushing Tuch to RW2 as a driver to a second productive line on a playoff team.

This explains it. That is a smart move for them.

They’ll straighten it out against the Sabres.

Rags looked like they either don't grasp Sullivan's system yet or want no part of it. All the experts predicting their resurgence might have it wrong. Too early to say obviously but they looked bad.

Yes. We already know Dahls & Bo are great as a pair. Assuming health, Kess & Power are a huge upgrade over Muel on the same pair. Timmons is an upgrade over Clifton and whomever. He did say that this may not be enough to cover for shoddy goaltending. But it’s a much better template than they were working with last year. Hope is a ***** strategy, but this is the path toward improvement. As Travis said, getting league average goaltending with this defense core = hopium.

There's a flaw in your logic. As the pool of UFAs hitting the market shrinks, the cap space available on the market also shrinks. There's a unique offset this offseason. If Tuch signs with Buffalo b4 July 1, he can sign for 8yrs, however if he goes to UFA to sign elsewhere, he can only sign for 6.

People really don't seem to understand how markets work or the concept of supply and demand: Pool of top UFA's hitting market shrinks = Cost for Tuch goes up. It does absolutely no such thing.

He also said the we are in a world of trouble with goaltending and it doesn’t matter how good your defense is with a goalie situation like ours.

I don't know how much the comparables will matter...but Kyle Connor: Younger than Tuch, less career injury history, about 100 more career goals, 200 more career points, multiple 40 goal seasons, almost 50 goals in 2021-22......3 points shy of a 100 point season last year.. If he gets 12m, Tuch shouldn't get anything over 10m per year.

If Kyle Connor signs for the alleged 12mil x 8 years that's going around, that puts a hard cap impo on what Tuch could ask. But we shall see. At this rate, 10 x 6yrs would be exceptional and 10x 7yrs livable.

Kyle Connor is extending in Winnepeg 12 million AAV on a long term deal, reported by EF. no confirmation of years yet this should mean Tuch can’t eclipse 10 per season as Connor is a much better player

Correct. It’s past time for incremental improve or for “entertaining” hockey. It’s win now and nothing else matters. Unfortunately Adams gave us 4 blocks of Swiss cheese to man our goal.

Let’s hope the stagnant lifeless product gives us television fans something to cheer for. I haven’t spent any money on this team in years. In fact I think I’ve made money off of this team selling stuff in recent years

Nope, the league doesn’t release whether multiple claims were made.

If only the team shared this attitude. We have Schroedinger’s backup. We don’t know if he’s a #2 until we open the box. That’s a fun situation for a team with a 14 year playoff drought. The worst part is it’s still an improvement over Georgiev.

Is it crazy that I think I feel more comfortable with Lyon-Ellis right now rather than UPL-Georgiev