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Considering the log jam of F's currently o the team and that his ELC will slide another year if he plays 9 or fewer games in the NHL next year there is a very real chance he'll be stuck in Ra-cha-cha pretty much all year next year. Still expect there's a significant chance we see Savoie make the team out of TC but only get his 9 games also sliding his ELC contract an extra year. They did that to Quinn and Peterka last year. Your thought that Rousek has a better chance of being a Sabre next year than either of those 2 has merit when the ELC slide gets factored in.

Cheapest seats will be $25/game (remember you have to buy 3 preseason games at that price as well). Cheapest 100 level seats will be $55/game. Most expensive seats will be $135/game for rinkside and $130 in the 200's.

FYI, looking at the pricing on the website, the Sabres will have 3 home preseason games. Which stinks because they aren't NHL hockey but rather 1/2 NHLers and 1/2 AHLers.

Didn't mean an offer to be in the NHL but an offer to be on an NHL deal (essentially making him that team's 3rd goalie).

Maybe sometime in the 2100's. Until then don't want to see them ever win another playoff series. Getting to the 2nd round gives them too much of a likelihood of ending their streak of never making the SCF since the league expanded in '67.

Who knows? With the Canes wearing 6 different unis this season guess anything is possible.

Could be as simple as they got word that some other NHL team was thinking of making him an offer. (Not positive, but pretty sure that AHL deals get supplanted when a player gets an NHL offer.)

No. As have stated a few times this past week, since the tablet installed an upgrade last weekend, it has been wonky. Usually catch it before posting, but not always. Sorry about it. Realize all that extra whitespace is annoying.

Wouldn't that be something if Krebs could be even 85-90% of what Peca was.

So, is this a promotion/attaboy for Hauser as he was on an AHL deal before? Seems strange the timing of it.

Why?

Makes sense. They aren't going to have any salary to mention (other than Jones) after Kane and Toews are off the books.

For whatever it is worth, Adams just sent an e-mail out to STHers that makes it seem that at most there will be very small tweaks to the roster this week. Talks about building the right way and building to win sustainably. None of that should be surprising. Just putting it out there for whatever it is worth.

The realistic goal should be 6 out of those 8. Anything less than 4 will be a significant disappointment.

Please note, the reaction was for the 2nd part of the post, not the 1st.

Bummer. Like McCabe and he is a player that the Loafs don't have.

Make it a Loaf fan and you may be onto something. ;)

If the novelty wears off for the players then they won't be still winning 90% of those games and scoring 6+ every game, so yes, would care. ;)

If the Sabres went to them full time, the novelty would wear off. Have a lot of good memories of the Hasek years which were primarily in B&R and they've been fun to watch (except for the rescheduled Filly game) in B&R but their colors are and should be BLUE and GOLD.

March 4 was originally scheduled to be Filly, but when the Christmas storm was due the Bolts game got moved to that date to keep their players from getting stuck in Buffalo over the holiday.

1st Q - Out of the conversation for top 6 with everybody healthy? Absolutely. Off the roster? Comes down to whether the team trading the Sabres a legit 3rd pairing guy later this week needs a body coming back. 2nd Q - 50-50. Which is about double the chance would've given him coming into the season. His biggest issue is confidence and keeping a clear head after giving up a bad goal. That is completely correctable. (But as Lehner has shown, not necessarily for everybody.) He's for the most part stopped giving up the goals over his shoulder and through the 5 hole, so he is improving. Getting rebounds under control is the next big thing he needs to fix. That is something else that should be correctable. After that, be a little better at reading the play and he'd be a good starter if he can fix all of that. Hes only 23 which is very young for an NHLer, so he has time on his side to get it figured out. (WE would like him to figure it out today, but for being an NHLer he has time to figure it out. And if Comrie can become what they'd hoped he'd be, then even the Sabres have time as Comrie could be the starter and UPL the backup while waiting for Levi. Interestingly, or not, Comrie is very likely determining on whether UPL ends up in the full LT plans as their need to upgrade him might result in them needing to trade UPL to make the ST goaltending upgrades they need to take the next step next year.)

So, is this board his source? Pretty sure we've been saying that since the summer. ;)

Jost took his spot. Don't believe that Granato hates him, but this team is built to score goals. Asplund doesn't help there at all. And with Krebs improving and Jost being added, he isn't winning a bottom 6 C role. He'd probably be better than Peterka right now, but with JJ getting scoring chances lately, they're going to let him work through his rookie wall that he's hit. What other winger might he even be considered to be put in in front of? Everyone else, including Hinostroza does things either better than Rasmus or does things he can't do or both. And with the F's being so healthy, he's found himself in Comrie's boat. Can't play well enough in limited stretches to earn play in additional stretches where he'd possibly be able to get into a rhythm.

Rumors are Gibson already nixed a trade to the Sabres this past summer. Would be shocked if Adams were still interested in obtaining him. The rest ?????

One other item not mentioned is that the team's lack of defense includes more than a bit of a lack of shot blocking. With as little as they do, and with as few injuries as they have, two of their most significant injuries were due to blocking shots. And IIRC, Samuelsson also was affected by a shot block too. The defensive style this team plays is as you say in large part by design.