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Expect he'll probably sign. Also expect he'll get some action this year and look good supplanting Bryson / Clague but expect that will be the 1st chance in the NHL sugar high. Expect you're right that he's in Ra-cha-cha next year with a callup at some point.

There's a reason a lot of the players favorite away venue is Vegas.

The question to ask that won't be asked is which goalie was the odd man out? Considering how little action he gets, expect it was Comrie, but not positive.

If they draw the Canes they're toast. If they draw the B's, it'll be a good series. They match up better against the better team of the 2 division leaders.

And Myers went late 1st round for a reason even though he was even bigger than Power. Myers was paired w/ Tallinder his rookie year & that was huge for him. When Hank left Myers took a huge step back. Power played against men at 18 in the Olympics and played well. Power has been the better player on his pairing almost the entire season, he hasn't been getting support, he's been providing the support. Apples and oranges.

If Granato pulls UPL after the 3rd goal and the lazy ref actually sees the puck is lying loose on what should've been the Sabres 1st goal and it could've been much different even though they didn't play the 1st 10 minutes. They have to be better the 1st at home. (No Schlitz Sherlock.)

You do realize that you can go back to earlier in the broadcast and watch on a delay on ESPN+ just like if you DVR'd it.

Kept waiting for the dog to bite his face off. Glad that didn't happen.

Signing. And agree that NCAA UFAs don't pan out beyond bottom of roster gus very often. There's usually a reason they made it to UFA status and it isn't typically because they are trying to get a business starte while playing hockey and going to school. And not meaning to have put you on the spot. Wanted to understand your original comment better.

19-20 is right around an NHL 0.600. That will be fine to keep from falling too much further back when somebody gets hot.

Probably a wise policy as when those agreements get reinstated, the original contracts will likely go back to being enforcable. Can't see Adams getting the ST benefit at the risk of losing a player when he's more into his prime.

The flip side of that is he needs to decide which of current roster can be moved for greater value and opening up spaces for some of this developing talent and keeping under the salary cap. Not a big issue yet, but will be one by next off-season and possibly at that next trade deadline before it.

To the bolded, absolutely. He and Comrie did a B&G Insights for the STHers a couple of months back and while Comrie with ridiculously long legs for a man his height was putting his feet on the cross beam of the bar stool he was on, Power had his toes on the ground. He is nearly Tage Thompson big.

Such a strange feeling to actually have an NHL quality organization to root for. They have more than 12 NHL quality forwards and even at this time 2 prospects that could / might also be NHL ready. They have 5 legit NHLers and 2-3 more 7-8 D with some more prospects not in the AHL. They have a few NHL goalies, though very possibly no true #1 but also have one fo the 5 best prospects not in the NHL. And then they have several high ceiling prospects that are 2-3 years down the road. Not likely they all hit, but even getting say 3 of them to hit and the holes that develop on this team can be filled. It actually doesn't suck to be a Sabres fan at this moment. What a nice breath of fresh air.

You think his decision will effect them getting more NCAA D?

If they bring in Meier that would seem to be the case.

You including Johnson in that total?

Eichel and Stone have both missed 13 games and have 17 goals. Smith hasn't missed any and has 19. Marchesault and Carrier have both missed 6 games and have 17 and 15 respectively. Yes, Carrier has 15 goals in 50 games.

Can't do that. Adams would need to go to him. Or Zoom/ Teams him.

But most of that has already been used up. Per Puckpedia they have $8.7mm in cap space after moving Stone to BF-LTIR.

IF they take 24 points over this stretch, they are the team the others are chasing. 19-20 points keep them solidly in the mix.

If HE wants to drive to Buffalo on his own, there's nothing stopping it. But even if he's there, is he going to be going through his normal pregame rituals? Will he have adequate time to stretch & get dressed before playing with no warmup? But if they tell him to come to Buffalo to be activated, they're paying him his NHL salary for the day, putting him up in a hotel, and they are either IRing Clague or sending somebody else down if they still have 6 other healthy D.

They have 6 healthy D at this point. If they put him on the road right now, it is a callup and somebody has to (on paper at least) get sent down. Should somebody get hurt during the warmups, he could theoretically get called up but practically it can't happen.

Whether it was a "throwaway" or not, and there is no ####ing way it is viewed as a throwaway in WNY where people can only watch it on ESPN+ you still have set up a near 3 week span with no evening games watchable on TV in the home market. That is horrible planning. ESPN is using this as a way to goose its ESPN+ Subscriber base. Which is their perogative, but it still stinks.

Umm, is the answer that you look at the schedule and see what other games are going to which network and at what times games are being played? This wasn't decided in a vacuum.