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Did they not tell Price who they'd picked?

The scouts in the NFL don't travel to the draft. Nor does the owner nor the GM. They're all esconced away in their team's "war room."

The talking heads just said that they see a similar trajectory for Fantilli like Eichel had. Guess they expect him to force his way out of Columbus by '29. 😉

Keeping with @North Buffalo's Looney Tunes theme does that make Arizona's management a bunch of Ultra-Maroons?

You sure it didn't? You sure it didn't?

Kind of ironic that the year Nashville hosts the Draft, Chicago has the 1st overall pick. IIRC, Chicago is just about Nashville's biggest rival. And, not entirely sure that Chicago knows Nashville has an NHL team. (Kind of like the Whalers and the rest of the Adams Division back in the day.)

And Olofsson with 50% retention should be very easily dealt. ~$2.4MM for 1 year wouldn't be limiting at all on what the Sabres can do - Dahlin's, Power's, & Mittelstadt's next deals don't kick in until next year.

Looks like somebody'll have to. Maybe they figure Stone's already had his in-season vacation time so somebody else gets to take on his role this year.

Except the inflection point was either the Eichel trade or the decision to once again re-rebuild. The team is on an upward trajectory. They'll be in the mix of legit contenders for a long time and depending upon how the next 2 or so weeks go, that could be opening up as early as this season or as late as 2 seasons from now. Right now am an optimist and expect Adams to be accelerating the entry into that contention window. And, not that it matters, but it's cool that you do expect the team is very close.

Looking like the question is now moot if the rumors of Hannifan to FLA are accurate. Personally, would prefer them getting Graves over either of the other 2 because the acquisition cost is only money. Pesce would probably be the better fit of the 2 you asked about but even though that's the case expect my choice of the 2 would be Hannifan. Can't really give a good explanation for why other than him being younger.

Good question. Too close to bed time to decide that right now. Will try to remember to come back to it tomorrow.

Sabres might be able to get 2/3's of that basically for free. Can't believe Gibson is going to bring back much of a return with that contract and his last couple of years of play. Could Comtois become another Granato defective player whisperee?

Certainly will regret knowing, but merely out of curiosity, wtf does your avatar look like a blowfish in a tuxedo spitting water?

So, do the Sabres end up with Pesce or Hannifan (or something off the board) with that 1st rounder and is it Smishev (sp?), ASP, or some other D-man that turns into the kid that almost immediately replaces his production/play making both teams HUGE winners in the deal?

On a Tuesday night in October? What's so special about that day? It's about 3 weeks after Canadian Thanksgiving and about 4 weeks ahead of US Thanksgiving.

Certainly will regret knowing, but merely out of curiosity, wtf does your avatar look like a blowfish in a tuxedo spitting water?

Absolutely. Glad he wasn't in on that. Expect the 6th was an overpay.

Of course he will. And he's not worth the headache for even 1 season. My 2 cents. YMMV.

I'm in. My thought is to tell people now that we'll be doing one again and if they want in to PM you (or me if you don't want the "flood" of PMs). And if people haven't indicated they want in by say end of July (or August, not sure how far out your group is doing its ticket draft) we just get as many tix as we have interest for by then.

Remember, they usually give out t-shirts on home opener and fan appreciation (last home game) nights.

So LA wants to be saddled with him for 8 years? Guess good for them. Better them than the Sabres.

@pastajoe White are HOME games.

5 of the 1st 6 are at home. Don't like that. The Sabres will be flying out of the gate regardless of where they're playing. Would like to sop up some extra road wins before the rest of the league realizes the season's started. (Of course, the way the team played at home last year, maybe this is a good thing. Get those extra home wins before the rest of the league realizes the season's started. 😉) Da'faq you talkin' 'bout?

Really thought somebody would've gotten that one in about 15 minutes with him having been the former Amerks coach and all.

Was sure he tortured our nights for at least 600 (and he did if playoffs are included) but because of the original lockout he didn't quite get to your threshold. And as people seem to have moved on from the other question, the answer was longtime Amerks head coach Randy Cunneyworth. Roughly 17 years between goals for the Sabres.