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Not intentionally. (Thus the deletion more or less immediately, as what youd meant finally twigged.) It's been a long week.

Anybody else psyched at the fact that Friday will be interesting all day as the Sabres MAY actually be looking to add for the 1st time in seemingly forever? Trade deadline day used to be such fun and it has been a non-event around here for years.

Not at all. Just find all the back and forth on Ukka Pukka Dukka no longer has anything to do wiht the thread and could probably fit better into one of the several threads about the goaltending in general or UPL specifically. And, don't really care that the discussion has turned away from the thread topic. Yours truly is one of the worst offenders around here of that offence. Just found it interesting and worthy of comment. MHO. YMMV.

Agree. But if the Snarks are shopping Karlsson they'll want some sort of high end kid to replace him.

Whenever he wants. But realistically that'll be the day after NU's season is over.

Just checking, the Sabres did WIN this game, right?

And if ANY of them actually has two actual GOOD games in a row, give that one a back to back and see where things go from there.

Couldn't see how they could include him with no extension in place.

Except they CAN'T trade him at the deadline next year unless they're scuttling next year's playoff run if they can't get him to sign a LT deal. He has no choice in signing for at least 1 more year. Can't see any situation where the Devils wouldn't match an offer sheet.

Does Portillo have ANY value at all? Really not expecting it.

Presuming they can work out a LT extension with him. Otherwise they've bought ~107 RS games, ??? playoff games, and a $9MM cap hit for ???

Yeah, Rittich is no Hellebucyk.

Said he is day to day with an issue he'd been playing through. Am speculating the Paul crosscheck did some damage.

The Hinostroza pass was set up by Mittelstadt's work behind the goal line and a nice look to Hiney at the boards. Though it was a 2ndary assist, it was a nice play. He also didn't get an assist on the Hiney goal, but started the tic-tac-toe-toe play.

And while right now everything is so fluid, thought it was / is kind of neat that at least at this moment in time, the Sabres are in the top 1/2 of the league officially. They have the same # of points as Calgary but would have the tie breaker over them were they in the same division/conference.

Be interesting to see how much they ended up giving up. Last night the HNiC guys were saying they doubted there'd be an extension in place before a deal would get made.

Because some people's selective reading doesn't seem to notice any of the posts decrying turnovers or the like.

So, when the hair went it all went under the skin between his chin and shoulders? You'd think they'd have a cure for that by now.

Asplund. They've been having very long meaningful conversations every game lately.

As of Friday they can have as many bodies on the roster as they want. Expect there is a very slim chance he gets sent down, but would more expect that nobody on the current roster goes down.

No prob. (But the mods have been fixng a few of the really bad ones.)

Trotz is a great coach. Will be interesting to see if that carries over to the other side of management. Not a slam dunk it will.

Yeah, the tablet has been wonky since it updated last weekend. Normally catch it when it is doing that, but not always. Sorry about that.

Can't send Asplund down. Somebody would claim him.

Have said it elsewhere, but nobody is getting sent down at this point. Tuch won't be back until after the trade deadline. (The one slightly possible exception is could see a very outside chance that UPL gets sent down.)