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The eye test says both: Bryson and Georgiev can go. Johnson won the #7 and personally, I'd keep Kozak as he can give you better, more versatile forward minutes as center or wing -- he's a Danforth type. I know Ruff loves Geertsen, but ... you have to dress him every game to actually be able to use him as a deterrent, and that's hardly likely because a 5-minute forward is almost useless in today's regular season games. (Florida/Tampa's silly exhibition over the weekend was exactly that -- an exhibition. They'll be civil in all the games that matter where their top lines are dressed.) Plus, Geertsen is hardly a deterrent -- Noesen won't be intimidated by him. They'll do a faceoff-based fight this season and that'll be the end of it.

West Edmonton mall can accommodate hundreds of palm trees.

Not sure but he was probably around 10% for a good chunk of that first big deal. Interesting that Crosby has never been the highest paid player in any year of his career. Leaving a bit on the table helps them win 3 Cups imo.

I actually agree with this 100 percent. Gives UPL a month to hopefully get healthy and then if he comes back and is lights out, we can try and waive Ellis. and if UPL is bad, then we run Lyon and Ellis, I frankly don't care, the best goalie is playing period

I think this claim gives us a timeline on UPL. He’s out long enough for St Louis’ waiver rights to expire (was it 30?days that taro mentioned) and then we go from there. I fully expect the Sabres and Georgiev to part ways.

You 3 give me hope. I just don't have a good feel for what this front office has in store.

They're going to dress three ***** goalies instead of two?

And I wonder how much of that is under the table from the teams.

He’s the next shoe to drop. Probably as soon as Thursday when Power is cleared to play. The next one is the interesting piece; Who goes first when Greenway or Kesselring is ready: the 3rd goalie or the 8th defenceman?

Man, this is going to be one crappy ride, ugh. That roster just screams come stomp on us.

You give Ellis a day or two to get settled and then that more than likely happens with Georgiev.

I'm surprised Kozak hasn't been waived to Rochester yet. He's not a guy that should get claimed because every team has 1-2 Kozaks. But if a team is dealing with injuries, I could see it being 50/50 of losing him. He's not going to score but he does the little things right and is positionally sound. We saw how much calmer the bottom 6 looked when he was in the lineup last year vs., say, Lafferty.

I think they will, if Power is G2G for Thursday, that is exactly what I think will happen

I can’t see any circumstance where that isn’t the plan unless the both play and Georgiev is dramatically better. Why would you claim Ellis otherwise?

Idk, they have more info. They may have thought there was going to be a chance of a longer issue and wanted insurance. Seriously they should waive Georgiev and keep Ellis.

Yikes. Will 85 points be considered an overachievement?

To a dark place this line of thought will carry us.

Yes, though if you waive Ellis I'm suspecting STL takes him right back to Springfield where they intended him to go. Which makes it even worse that they knew he was day-to-day and was going to be ready to play in the preseason.

You're making a leap that they didn't know about UPL just because they didn't report it.

Is that some Eastern thing? 😁

I'd waive Georgiev and keep Ellis.

It's not in hindsight. The timeline is: 9/11 - Sabres sign Georgiev. Luukkonen is reported to have an undisclosed injury and unknown recovery timeline. They signed the goalie before they had the information. 9/13 - Within 48 hours, it is reported that Luukkonen has a "tweak" and is considered day-to-day. That's no reason to have already signed another backup goalie. You already have Lyon -- whose career numbers are better than Luukkonen's anyway. And you still have Levi who can clear waivers and should be ready to take in some NHL games this season with any injuries to UPL/Lyon because that's his job as #3 in the franchise. And you can see if he's made the progress you want to see. You still have a week to go before your first preseason game. Shortly after that, it's known that Luukkonen won't miss the beginning of the season and is already ramping up to play in the preseason. So -- you wait until 9/13-14 when you have an actual diagnosis on Luukkonen, and then offer Georgiev (or Reimer - who didn't sign with his PTO with Toronto until 9/26, or another random guy, ... Houser!... ) a PTO to help you with the camp workload. If he shines, great, then offer him the 1-year deal knowing he's destined for Rochester. And no, it doesn't matter that Luukkonen either re-aggravated the same injury or got a new injury during the preseason game. They still didn't need to do anything beyond a PTO (of Georgiev/Reimer) because they had Lyon, Levi, and the waivers claim windows of this week. Or trade for a real #1.

Damn, listening to Lindy’s presser (which happened before Ellis became official) he is not happy with Lyon or Georgiev. After listening, I’m convinced this pickup is a clear indictment of the camp Georgiev and Lyon have had and the team’s lack of faith in them. They must have really been committed to Levi starting in the AHL.

I put this together in US$ (sorry, local currency here): I found the % of league average to be interesting. Note that Curry's number includes some of him owning a stake in some company.