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There is always hope. Nothing can be accomplished without it. Expectation, on the other hand, is low. As a fan I always have hope.

Well the Elite D group just took another hit. Kesselring is out week to week with his injury. Projected D group pre-season Dahlin Byram Power Kesselring Samuelsson Timmins We are literally down 50% of the projected starters on D as Byram returns tonight. Tonight's D with Dahlin resting Byram Johnson Bryson Timmins Komarov Mrtka with Lyon and Georgiev in goal as UPL is also out week to week. Correction: Mrtka is ill and Mesta will be playing in his place.

I got excited to get back into watching hockey a few years back. This team stunk so much I barely watched last season, are we terrible yet again?

Yes. I think he is.

Per Lindy Ruff

As far as moving him, absolutely not! He might not fit the preferred profile from a stylistic sense but that doesn’t mean that he won’t be a core player for us. If he was out on the market, teams would be lining up to get him. I just don’t understand the hostility to him. (I’m not saying that you fall in that category.)

By the way, future Sabre Gavin McKenna and his Penn St team play ASU tonight on the NHL Network at 10pm

Quinn might fit the Peterka role perfectly, in that he’ll offer the same perimeter play and lack of defensive zone commitment at the position.

Taxes don’t cover all of our expenses. Not saying healthcare for illegals is the whole cause for the national debt but reallocating ICE’s budget is not the answer. There’s a lot of people crying about healthcare for illegals but I don’t see anyone being as vocal about the garbage VA. After 20 plus years and counting of war, a lot of vets get dog $hit VA support but yeah let’s cry about the people who crossed into the U.S. illegally. How about we reallocate every penny that previously supported healthcare for illegals to better healthcare for those who took the fight to Al Queda, Taliban, ISIS, and their proxy groups so that those unwilling to do so didn’t have to.

Mmmm…… lunchtime

Interesting. Using this one for a look at radically different forward lines. Minor thing that shouldn’t affect opening night, according to Ruff

Is Benson injured?

Great,… now I want a ham sammie.

It's hard to pronunciate words with ham sammies in your craw

Anything Adams says, I tend to think the literal opposite. He's such a freaking turd that I have zero faith in his words. We have an "elite" D corps... Ok buddy... Marty Wilford much be an "elite" coach then. We have an elite ability to get injured and an elite ability to alienate the fan base maybe we should add that word to Triple E.... Economical, efficient, elite... And episiotomy, aka, what half this team needs.

Hits is a meaningless stat. It tells us nothing about how a player plays under contact.

It’s fun getting on a plane and hearing a “go Bills” from the cockpit.

Why would we protest what was done under the constitution?

Significantly. While hits are not a perfect illustration of physicality it does help illustrate the difference in physical engagement from both players. Byram had 75 hits to Powers' 26 last season.

It seems to me those who are almost 'perma-negative' about the team and just want to complain about everything....they are ANTICIPATING an 'injury excuse' before it even happens. So if it does, they can say 'told you so'. I'm not worried about it. As others have said, most of the injuries seem to be the day-to-day type that may very well not even be any kind of issue a week from now when the season starts. Plus, there is a difference between an 'excuse' and a 'reason' to me. If you are going to say the team misses the playoffs because of injuries, and that is a direct result of negligent training or preperation by the team...then I'll listen to it as an excuse. But if they miss the playoffs because key players are injured that mostly come under the 'random' type injury...then we may not like it..but that would be more of a 'reason' than an 'excuse' to me.

Is Byram more physical than Power? Bryson? Johnson?

I’ve read somewhere that Power was taught to tone down the physical side in youth hockey because his size attracted a lot of penalties. Physical play is more that just hits and penalties, it’s also about leverage and position, and those things still require you to be strong and to physically engage with your opponent. He needs to use the body (and sometimes his stick) to move people and block them out of making plays around his net. He needs to take advantage of his size and reach. If he ever figures this out he will become a very good player. @dudacek mentioned Talinder. He was not a big hitter but he was still a physical player that used his size and strength for leverage. He engaged his opponent in the way that Power should. He also sacrificed taking a hit to get to the puck first and had the ability to shield the puck, take the hit, and still make a breakout pass so the team could transition to attack and the guy that hit him was now behind the play. Bill Hajt was amazing at this kind of game. Fans complained that he didn’t hit or fight much. Those fans probably never played. Hajt played 13 season and over 850 regular season games and no Sabres coach or GM wanted to trade him. They don’t have fancy stats on Bill, but he was + 340’ish for his career. Not too bad for a 2nd pair most of his career. If Power wants to get stronger and engage physically he will be very good someday. Some of it is a mentality.

I disagree. I do not want my tax dollars going to pay for Healthcare for illegal immigrants. I support ICE and what they're doing. I don't believe trump will come close to hitting the deportation numbers of the Obama administration. I don't remember people protesting ICE or deportations under Obama, I guess they didn't have the proper motivation. Or maybe it was a lack of funding.