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You missed the (attempt at a) joke. You said your parents paid for you to go to Sabres games, then asked how many Leaf fans could say likewise. No idea how many Leaf fans your parents sent to Sabres games. Cool that you've made it to a bunch.

No idea. Just how generous are your parents? 😉

Back before COVID hit, they were looking into arena upgrades. Could be they expect his background in finance would help them move that forward?

It IS unexpected to have almost 0 F injuries this year (Girgensons is usually good for missing at least 10 games if not 30-40 all by himself) but not completely implausible. Young guys are far more resilient than guys in their 30's and this team is crazy young once Anderson is discounted & the team significantly changed their practices to focus on minimizing injuries & also the duration of them. Really do hope they move on from Hinostroza sooner than later.

Next year is almost definitely the last year before the cap jumps another $4-5MM. Dahlin's deal won't kick in until the cap has jumped. Would really like to see him at $10MM per for 8 years, but expecting $12MM per is far more likely.

Bummer. Realize the team needs the W, but the upside of Comrie getting his head on straight seems significantly bigger than the downside of possibility losing the 2 points if Comrie doesn't come around. Expecting the win if anybody better than PTR is between the pipes. 😉

That's the hope.

Hoping for $10, but he can't sign until this off-season. Could easily see it being $12 by the time they can actually sign him.

Any word on whether Comrie or Anderson is between the pipes tonight?

Day-um. Luke still runs that? Thought he retired after Paul sold the rink a few years back.

Not liking that as it's going to drive Cozens deal even further above Thompson's. Would really like to see Cozens inked soon. (Like yesterday, soon.)

Anybody know anything more about this guy? Realize Ted Black was a bit of a goofball but hoping he's more like him than a Doug Moss (or Russ Brandon). Sabres don't have a particularly stellar track record w/ hired COO's/ Team Presidents, do they.

On 1st glance thought the ranking description was at the bottom of each write up like you'd interpreted it; but the huge listing of players at the end were clearly under 1 heading. Went back and saw the heading above Dahlin's write up. Problem w/ pulling text from articles; sometimes without the formatting they can get interpreted strangely.

When Power is out w/ Clague he spends the bulk of the time on the right side. Pretty sure Granato has no issues w/ sliding him over to that side. Right now he stays primarily on the left side because Granato continues to pair him up w/ Jokiharju. If Johnson signs and they decide he'd be a better 2nd pairing guy than Henri, fully expect they won't let handedness interfere w/ the plan. (But Granato LOVES him some Joker, so not expecting that pairing to go away any time soon.)

That's because he isn't rated as borderline elite, that was Cozens heading. Dahlin's heading was (& is) elite. Pronman puts the tier 1st & then the players in the tier under it.

The Hinostroza move seems inevitable. The slump in play coincides w/ stealthily (or not) carrying a healthy 24th player on the roster.

That was awful. But still got a chuckle.

No need to almost guarantee it. They absolutely don't factor it into market size. AFAIK, they've never included it even though OTA broadcasts are accessible on either side of the river.

Likely closer to $10MM. But, yeah, it is impressive how much trouble these guys can find themselves in w/out a solid team of advisors watching out for them.

Stinks that we don't get credit for any of the population on the NP. It's like docking KC for people living in it's suburbs in Kansas or Cincy for people in Kentucky.

Good. Then an opportunity to vie LT as a 2nd pairing fixture should be a no brainer for him & his agent.

Yep. The great diaspora still bleeds blue & red.

REALLY hoping Dahlin gets an ASG invite. Would just be wrong to have a Norris candidate such as himself sit home. HATE the way the league is choosing the rosters this year.

If he or Power can play on the right side, he can be a 2nd pairing guy here and easily get 22 minutes/game if not 24. And though he'll never get PP1 time when all are healthy, he MIGHT supplant Power on PP2 if they decide to make Owen a key PKer when he's done filling out. Being a key piece of a Chicago cup run style D or a D-centric Nashville team could be enticing. (Maybe he does want to have a shot at being the top dog, but he'll necessarily be on a weaker D if he is.) The Sabres really do only have a few gaps moving forward & those gaps (except possibly/likely goalie) aren't at the top of the lineup & there's a lot of highly rated prospects available to step in when new gaps arise. Don't know why he wouldn't want to be a part of it, but definitely have blue & gold colored glasses to view his situation.

It's possible. Hope you're wrong because they've got 2 more weeks of 4 games/ week & after the AS break they have pretty much 3.5/week until April.