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Only way that happens, IMHO, is if Adams is really comfortable with the one that stays as the backup, he REALLY doesn't want to roll with the 3 headed goalie monster redux, AND he doesn't believe Comrie (&/or UPL, whoever is odd man out) could clear waivers.

Presuming a vet goalie is brought in, it is almost definite that one of UPL or Comrie gets traded. Would expect that UPL is more likely to get traded as he has more upside so presumably teams would want him more than Comrie. And as he has more upside would expect it would be less likely for him to clear waivers if he were the 3rd goalie left in the or-gan-I-za-tion. A 2nd or 3rd is most likely what he'd be worth if he isn't part of a package for 1 of those 4 pieces the Sabres should be looking for (top 4 D, veteran goalie, another 5/6 D, & vet 4C that's good on faceoffs and PK). And pretty much only expect 2 of those 4 pieces brought in though am still hoping Adams grabs all 4.

Very good question. Had 2 of the 3 (one is painfully obvious) but missed on the 3rd guy. The guess for the 3rd only played 78 games that year (plus all the playoffs).

Actually, as I'd said upthread, he is the player that the reference source used had indicated was the 8th player that had played at least 80 NHL games and all with the Sabres. But that was incorrect, as Davis had played 11 games for the Wings over 2 seasons over 3 years prior to coming to Buffalo.

Nope, it was pointed towards "really, Mac Davis was the QB in North Dallas 40? Wtf was the casting director smoking that week? And more importantly, who decided to give him his own network show?"

They are. But the comment was more directed to the idea that both the coach and GM need to be under contract far enough into the future that neither is thinking about how great it might be to be working in some other city. Coaches are cannon fodder far more than GM's are. Having a coach locked in through the following season (or possibly longer) will (or at minimum should) keep him from looking for his "dream job" if his current one doesn't fit that bill. And GMs need to have enough skin in the game that they don't start mortgaging the future of the team for a slim shot at all the lottery numbers in the power ball working out. Trading some of the future for enough tickets that he can get the 3 number daily lottery to work out is an entirely different story. Am perfectly fine with that in most situations. He should be trying to win now; but not by doing something so moronic as taking Aaron Maybin in the 1st round. (And if he thinks bringing in the next Maybin might save a tenuous hold on his job then he should be canned. Not saying he's doing that; but when there's no job security a guy might try something like that.)

FTFY. 😉 Yep. Been thinking that same thought for a while.

Thought he was a 60's singer and was host of a talk show, not really a variety show. Though the 'X' was for Mike Douglas never having played for the Sabres much less being the answer to the trivia question. 😉

This year it was. But IMHO the 2nd round is usually the best of the 4. You have 2 fairly closely matched teams typically and you've only begun the stocking the walking wounded brigade. Getting further out, you start having attrition and exhaustion take their tolls; and the final can be excellent (Boston Chicago) or more likely it'll be a mismatch.

Turns out there were only 7 that met the criteria. The reference had neglected to mention that the one that had been believed to have been the 8th had actually played a handful of games for the Wings prior to coming to the Sabres organization. Sorry about that. The 8th player we were looking for was Mal Davis; but he does not qualify having played 11 games for Detroit at the end of the 70's / very early 80's. So the 7 were: Gilbert Perreault - 17 seasons - 1,191 RS games with 90 more playoff games; Craig Ramsay - 14 seasons - 1,070 RS games w/ 89 Playoff games; Bill Hajt - 14 seasons - 854 RS games w/ 80 playoff games; Hannu Virta - 5 seasons - 245 RS games w/ 17 playoff games; Gates Orlando - 3 seasons - 98 RS games w/ 5 playoff games; Pat Kaleta - 9 seasons - 348 RS games w/ 12 playoff games; Casey Nelson - 4 seasons - 93 RS games w/ 0 playoff games. If somebody that got 1 or more of the answers wants to come up with the next contest; have at it. Have a good one relating to the HHoF that will be a lot easier if they don't have one. And if somebody wanted to say that there really were only 4 that fully met the criteria, it would be hard to quibble. But am sticking with there being 7 for now.

They aren't getting to a point where the NHL's playoffs end in March. Which is the only way the NHL is avoiding playing games during the baseball season. Football pulls way more viewers / attendees away from hockey than does baseball. They aren't going to go up against 4 months of football + a month of NFL playoffs when they already hate going up against 3 months of football + playoffs.

That's an oxymoron, right? Like jumbo shrimp.

Then am even more onboard with drafting a Russkie that falls.

Only 75 NHL games. Didn't meet the (arbitrary) threshold. And Rick Astley was a late 80's or 90's thing. Nobody was getting Rick Rolled in the 70's. 😉

It traditionally opened ~October 5. They like avoiding a bit more of football season and the baseball stretch/playoffs. Even when Buffalo was an actual NHL team but before the waiting list formed, weeknight October games were hard sells. Imagine how much tougher a sell they are in non-traditional markets. Am expecting mid-October starts are here to stay.

The Sabres have an actual NHL team at present and prospects out the proverial wazoo. If they can get a guy that was in the discussion for top 3 minus the politics in the 1st round or get a guy that would've been drafted a round+ earlier minus the politics; reach for the stars. The crud in Ukraine won't be going on forever (well, maybe the graft, corruption, grift, & etc. might; but the war won't) and these kids are "property" of the team that drafts them for 4 years. When everybody else is selling, if your pockets are deep, there is a great buying opportunity.

Thought that the year after the post-lockout year. And it finally could be. But will believe that wraith is finally dead when it's been burned and had its ashes scattered.

Well, after Adams adds Hannifin, pretty sure they're going to have a guy playing on his off hand about 45 minutes per game. 😉

No market for Ristolainen? (Boy is that an ugly contract.)

No biggie. Honestly wouldn't have known if you were there or not. Tend to be focused on what's going on on the ice and don't really notice who's in the stands. Probably an artifact of going to the fishbowl (too d*mn old to be getting teeth replaced); too tough to look through 2 panes of glass. 😉

If anybody gets a chance to play in the 11 Day Power Play, do it. It's a blast. And it raises a LOT of money for some very good causes.

IF Calgary is retooling, and they seem to be. What would it take to get Hannifan AND Tanev? Will assume that @Brawndo's ask of Olofsson and Jokiharju would be the start of the package. What else would be needed? That would have the Sabres top 6 very solid and they'd be able to bring in another UFA in the 6/7 mold to have pretty much 10 deep between actual NHLers and tweeners and they MIGHT be 8 deep in NHLers. Still would prefer Graves and 1 of those 2, but just curious what people think it would take to help Conroy facilitate the continuation of the mass exodus that began last year with Gaudreau and Tkachuk getting out of Dodge.

Another hint: the remaining player's name is strikingly similar to a bad 70's singer that had his own short lived variety show that decade.

Danke. Which is ROUGHLY equivalent to the Sabres calling up Amerks this year. Would expect there to be a fair amount of fluctuations in the # of callups year to year. But hopefully with the Sabres continuing to be one of the youngest teams in the league, they will continue to have good luck injury-wise which should flow to the Amerks as well, at least to a degree. (If the Sabres don't call up 10 Amerks, the Amerks don't need to call up 10 ECHLers.

Da'fuq?