Taro T

Danke.

Out of curiosity, where did you find preseason stats? Saw individual game recaps that the numbers could be parsed from, but didn't see any sites that had them compiled. (Didn't look hard for them, but did a quick search and didn't see them.)

Could be. But which of those 6 that Inky has listed ahead of him gets bumped to play him? Stillman is an NHL caliber D man and Clague is a true tweener. Johnson and Novikov will be playing every night because much to Amerks fans chagrin, the A is a developmental league 1st and foremost and those are the 2 prize D prospects. Cecconi was the only D-man that knew what his side of the blue line looked like some nights, and Metsa is probably going to get a lot of ice time himself from the propsect perspective. Guess Cecconi could be odd man out, but as the only defensive true AHLer, maybe not. Prow was leaned on last year. But could see scenarios where he's literally 7th on the depth chart many nights. Which makes Davies 8th.

He's very experienced in the system that McDermott runs (having played it for years in Carolina). He's only being brought to the practice squad. Until we see him lining up for real snaps am hoping that he's here to help guys like Elam and the PS guys to get up to speed quicker and to help any other adds to the PS to get up to speed quicker. Aka, see him as a player coach more than an answer as a player. (That's the hope at least.)

Quite the coup by Penney's to be the sole supplier. It seemed every kid playing organized hockey and most of their parents wore one back in the day.

And this is one more contract that Adams seems to have gotten right. He seems on the right track with so much of what the team needs to do to be a true contender; which makes the GTing circus soooo frustrating.

When @tom webster started this thread and it looked like $80 over 8 was going to be the contract, said that was $2/yr less than this kid expected for the full 8 years. (Thought they'd've had to drop to 7 years to get the AAV down to $10.5 or $11. This is a very good deal for the Sabres, and considering that Dahlin seems to like it here and also really seems to want to win, would say it's a very good deal for him too. Tip of the hat to TW. It took longer than expected, but he nailed the term and was within 10% of the the final $'s. Way closer than many of the so called "experts" were. (Looking your way Mr. Peters. 😉 )

He's only 18, so people won't believe it until he's gone over and above, so to speak. 😜

You stated that much more politely than many here would've. 🍻

In your binary world, there may only be 2 answers. 😜 But, in the future, should you hope to have a person ignore a question you pose, probably shouldn't pose the question in a post responding to the other poster. Just sayin'. 😉

Yuck. But at least he knows the system. Would rather have Wallace back if the Stillers aren't outrageous in a potential ask for him.

Nice that it's official. But pretty sure it was defacto official the moment both Biro and Rousek got demoted. 😉

The answer would likely vary for many depending upon whether they were asked that question prior to the last draft (or even at the trade deadline) or now that we've seen what he could be. There is no way ANYBODY (including the Sabres brass, considering how many times they attempted to move up) expected Benson to be available at 13. And given he was available at 13, might he have been available at 17? OR if he would only make it to 13, would the Sabres (with or without a 1st rounder, which presumably went in the package to get the player that pushed them over the edge but not necessarily) have been able to come up with a package good enough to get up to 13. (The Sabres would've been drafting 17 had they been able to keep their 1st rounder and ended up the last seed in the dance while getting eliminted in the 1st or 2nd round.) Considering how that draft went, it isn't absolutely impossible that both items (Sabres making the playoffs AND landing Benson) occurred in that alternative reality.

Amazing what a difference a year can make. Prow got a lot of ice time last year and he's a spare part now.

Wow. Good news for you. Scheifele not overly surprised with. Did NOT see a Hellebucyk extension. Guess that significantly changes the calculus about what extent of a rebuild/retool is necesary in the near future.

Please, anything but that. They're worse than Loaf fans when you get 'em in mob mode. 😉

When he was making his push for bringing MLB to Buffalo, small/smallish market teams like Pittsburgh, Minnesota, Oakland, and Montreal were thrirving. KC and Cincy were usually up there too. By the time the Expos were toying with PR, that was no longer the case. (Though KC did come out of the muck briefly about 8 years ago.) Can't blame him for seeing that as a no win / no hope situation.

And, while not unexpected to see management willing to adjust their plan when the facts/situation change from what was expected, it is very nice to see it actually happen. That's what good leaders do - they alter their plan when the facts underlying the plan are different than what they were expected to be. The plan certainly seemed to be to give Benson a taste of the NHL in camp and then send him back to the WHL knowing what things he'd need to work on to make next year the true audition for whether he'd stay in the show. But he just showed such a mature game, that they have to at least give him his 9 games and then take it from there. One more item to like about Adams & Granato and the rest of the talent evaluators. This time THEY passed the eye test.

Agree with most all this. The one wildcard that personally still haven't fully come around to is still am not convinced that the "backup" plan wasn't a realization that the team even if it somehow snuck into the playoffs in the last year or two still wasn't ready to legitimately compete for the SC so he wasn't all that upset at the team falling short of where fans wanted it to be the last 2 years because that meant acquiring higher end prospects that would soon (not immediately) but soon be able to support the young talent he'd already brought into the fold. (And except for Anderson in the past and Johnson this year, ALL the talent he's brought it has been young. Even Tuch is in the early stages of his prime.) Hoping that's too cynical, but it would explain why true upgrades between the pipes didn't arrive in the interim from when Ullmark left through to now that Levi appears ready to take a shot at grabbing the reins.

Don't know what Ted Black was thinking with the Turdburger. If he really wanted a lot of gold on 1 side and a lot of blue on the other, he could've had the designers work off this concept. Significantly different than the primary sweaters of the time and yet pretty sharp in its own unique way. Take the gold pocket edges off the front, put the SABRES from the back over the smallish logo on the front, put the numbers where the logo on the back is and put arm numbers under the 2 arm patches and you've got a winner. Can keep the button effect on the front without actual buttons there.

Would personally have it Power, Mittelstadt and then in the off-season work Jokiharju and then Krebs. Expect that't pretty close to where Adams is at, but we shall see.

And there was much rejoicing! When Clifton gets acclimated, sure move him up to (preferably) Power's pairing or even Dahlin's. But while that's happening, he CAN'T be on the top pairing. Glad Don Granato saw that. Expected he would and did, but it is nice to know it officially.

Join the crowd. 😉

The $11MM is $0.5MM higher than everybody would've been extremely pleased with. Considering this guy is going to be in the Norris discussion for all the 9 years this contract will take him through, it's a good contract. He left money on the table and the team will still be able to add support pieces around him. Both sides should be happy with where it ended up. Now please lock up Power and Mittelstadt.

Maybe for water, they would let people keep the cap on. For pop, (at least up in the "cheap seats") they definitely didn't let you keep the cap and it annoyed the guy that sat next to us to no end. So, he came up with the work around.