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Yep. Rapp takes Poyer's role if he can't go. (Another great signing by Beane.) And Jackson steps into the starting rotation, but not sure if Benford keeps his normal spot and Jackson fills in for Tre or of Benford steps up with Jackson the 2CB. Elam becomes the 3. And as somebody else mentioned, Ingram likely gets elevated to the 53 man roster. Fortunately, the team is hitting a stretch of middle of the pack/ good offenses and will have some time to evaluate whether Jackson and Elam are good enough to take on the added responsibilities before the trade deadline. Jags, Gints, Cheats, Bucs is a way easier stretch than Iggles, Chefs, Pokes, Lightning Bolts is going to be. Even if they will need to upgrade at CB, White being out shouldn't be costing them games at this point. Plus, the D-Line that has been getting pressure like crazy will soon have Von Miller available if they need to take it up from '10' to an '11.'

Kind of fitting that they're buying Fanatics branded jerseys. They MIGHT last long enough to last throught the entire 8 or so months the relationship likely will last. Fortunately for them, they won't leave any forensic evidence that they ever were Chef fans. 😉

At least you weren't one of a handful of people in America that missed Don Beebe's stripping the ball away from Leon Lett. Just sat down in the sea of Cowboy fans because just couldn't watch the Bills give up more points that the Patsies had done against the Bears. When my buddy started cheering, popped back up but missed the best part.

Probably not. Just saying that IF they're going to get anything for him, it'll be from a team like Tampa that is pretty far back in the waiver claim queue. And still am hoping at this point that UPL is the guy they try to sneak through waivers but fear it'll be Comrie. Comrie isn't ever going to be a #1 (at least not a reasonable one) but he can be a reasonable 2. UPL MIGHT POSSIBLY become a 1 someday, but right now he isn't IMHO a serviceable 2. He needs to play too often to be the 2 and he's nowhere nearly good enough to get more than every 1/3 game.

Still expect if Tampa is interested they might be willing to trade for him. Will depend upon what other goalies are expected to be sent down (UPL certainly won't be the only waiver eligible guy getting sent down, but there won't be many that are intriguing to GMs), but if UPL is Tampa's target could see them offering a 3rd for him to make sure they don't have to worry about 18 other teams ahead of them putting in a claim. (Buffalo's ahead of them too, but obviously won't be putting a claim in on him themselves.) Ummm, Isn't that what 3 scoring lines and a non-scoring line is? 🤔

Really don't see this team having a top 6 and a bottom 6. They're going to have 3 scoring lines and a defense 1st line that should be able to pot a few of their own. So Greenway playing with either Mittelstadt or Cozens will result in essentially the same ice time as he would with the other. Just at home, when Granato has the last change he'll likely face slightly tougher matchups and on the road when he doesn't he'll likely face slightly easier matchups. (Just expecting opposing coaches to try to test the Cozens line early if his W's are a 2nd year Peterka and a 1 way Olofsson. Expecting they'll be up for it. But if Tuch is on Mitts line, that is the line that will be treated as the 2nd line. (Definitely by the opponents, possibly by Granato; he seems to worry less about matchups than other coaches do, but it'll be interesting if that still holds now that the primary goal is winning and development is the 2ndary goal.)

Thought his comment was more regarding having Christmas stuff on sale before September even ends.

Thought it was, but wifey not happy that yours truly had a coupon for it last week.

Yeah, and personally don't like Jokiharju with Power. 😉 Granato has been considering Greenway - Mittelstadt - Tuch something to look into for a while. If he keeps that together, and expect he will for the next 2 games, no idea on how well it will work so no idea on whether it will stay together for the trip to the Island then unless Olofsson has already been declared the 13 or 14 that's where he goes. No way he plays with Thompson and Skinner. Plus, considering Cozens will be on the PK and likely the PP1, there is a bit of sense to having him center the "3rd line." He'll still be getting more ice time than Mittelstadt overall.

Whether Johnson supplants Stillman as the 7 now or later, Stillman is at worst the 8 on this squad and he will be the designated press box sitter when all are healthy while Johnson continues to hone his craft. Having the '05-'06 season still in memory, there is no ####ing way anybody should be happy to see Stillman go away. Losing Clague or Bryson for bupkis also wouldn't be a good look, but neither is getting claimed and they are at best 9 & 10 on the depth chart. (They could slide to 10 & 11 by the time there are 3 D out at once.) Personally, am still disappointed Lyubushkin is gone. Wanted him and Stillman rounding out the top 8 while Johnson cooks some more in the A.

Really, against Mahomes and the Chefs the refs finally decide that Sauce Gardner holds guys? That wasn't remotely as egregious as the stuff he routinely gets away with. Cost Zach Wilson the opportunity to puke all over himself 1 more time or find a way to get to OT again.

The effects of McDermott bringing his attacking style of D from Filly and Carolina and getting away from Frazier's bend don't break D cannot be understated IMHO. The D-Line getting after people and his willingness to bring Milano or White or Johnson too keeps pressure on the QB and keeps him out of sync. And Von Miller can come back anytime now. Hopefully White's achillies injury won't cost him the whole season. He's been looking like the Tre of old.

In a warped way, sadly, yes.

Benford went back into the game when White went out. So, how soon is now? 😉

Had a copy of Pascal too. Way more efficient than Basic.

You honestly think he'll beat out Levi?

Same. But it also had an external floppy disk drive, a dot matrix printer, and a 13" b&w TV for the monitor.

Not much those 3 could do on the 3rd goal; Johnson and Bryson looked like warm butter trying to resist a knife defending the rush. They have to give the F's a chance to get into the play.

A very legitimate case could be made that that is in fact the case. Nice call.

Btw, pretty sure am done with this discussion (at least for now). (Can't say it with 100% certainty, because that's like firing up the Bat Signal for a particular old poster based in NW PA.) It is a really depressing topic and doubt anybody is going to change anybody else's opinion about this subject. And there is no reason to be focusing on a subject this negative when the Sabres are on the verge of entering another golden era.

And again, personally do not expect to ever see the team moved. But, a deep pocketed potential owner could bring the league to court if they refuse to honor a sale agreement worked out between 2 willing parties. Or, an owner playing 3D chess would agree to buy the team and never never ever cross his heart consider moving the team, get the purchase approved, and then a couple of years later unfortunately be forced into declaring bankruptcy and get the clause voided. Once it's voided, the league either acquieses to the petition to move the team or they get sued and the team moves any way (hello Los Angeles Football Raiders). Do not expect the team to ever move but am not willing to say there is no way it could happen nor that it never would/will happen. When people with really deep pockets want something to happen, oftentimes it does. (And Balsillie was an idiot. He put his cards on the table and the league was never going to approve him as an owner. Had he held his cards closer to the vest, the Pens and Wings might be working up a great rivalry. Of course, with as much of his fortune tied up in RIM, he might not have been deep pocketed enough to force the move had he been more coy about his actual intents when making his initial offer on the Pens.)

Didn't say it necessarily would be the Pegulas as the owners that are looking to declare bankruptcy to remove that condition from the earlier sale. And, considering the caveat that was in the sale agreement between Golisano and Pegula, you are mistaken about whether Pegula would have to have the Sabres declare bankruptcy to sell to an owner that wanted to move the team.

Whomever owns the team at the time if they want to be able to sell to an owner that would move the team. Wouldn't be terribly difficult to do were one determined.

Maybe. But this is his 4th game in 7 days. He's used to back to back games and then having 5 off days. Am willing to cut him some slack as he's soon going to be back to a regular schedule of typically 2 games on a weekend with a Wednesday game added to that rotation. Have said before and likely will say it many more times this season: Devon Levi is going to make this D look a lot better than it is. UPL would've given up 9 today and Comrie likely 5 or 6.

When being asked to be the #1 D-man paired with an AHL/NHL tweener going against another team's top line; why yes, yes he does. He's looked much better before today. But this is one of those burn the film games. Don't know. But would seriously consider paying it. REALLY wanted them to find a way to move up and grab him that draft. Still imagining what could've been: Dahlin-Jiricek; Power-Samuelsson; Johnson-doesn't really matter. (Mix and match the top 4 however you want. Doesn't really matter.) Would be an all-time challenging D and they could keep that together for years.