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Different style of play, but see him being similar to Briere in that my expectation is he remains a C but ends up best playing w/ a W that knows how to play the C position and helps get the job done by committee. At his size, just don't see him doing well trying to outmuscle somebody along the boards.

You mind showing us where in the initial post (or any of the subsequent ones either for that matter) that he responded to it was ever stated that UPL would be brought up to play 20 games over the course of the year? And, it is likely that they'd rather have him getting 60 games in the A than 40 in the NHL. BUT if he outplayed Anderson AND Comrie falters to Huttonesque play, you really think they're going to tell Okposo, Dahlin, Tuch, Cozens, et al. that it's better for UPL & them for him to stay in the A after earning a callup than for him to bounce up and help them stay in the playoff hunt? And BTW, this is ALL assuming that UPL's ONE good game is necessarily sustainable. Not a given at present. But it would be great if it is.

Victor Goalofsson would like to say 'hi.' 😉 Really believe leaguewide there will be significantly more guys drafted at the tailend of the '21 draft that end up having legit solid NHL careers than from most years because in many ways scouting that year will turn out to have been as much of a crapshoot (or more in certain ways) than it was in the '80s. Wouldn't be surprised to still see more late rounders make it from this year's draft than in typical years either as the D-1 baseline is flawed for many of the guys drafted this past summer.

Nope. Perreault is one of the very few that didn't get traded. Death, taxes, & the Sabres trading away their captain are 3 things you can count on. 😉

Playing 40 games ISN'T really backing him up. It's platooning. And expect he'd get way more out of 40 NHL games than 60 AHL games. It's likely moot anyway as UPL probably isn't there yet. (Thus the IF in the OP.)

Pretty sure we & the Sabres are all expecting that. But if he ends up Hutton, a platoon with an actual capable UPL would be superior to watching Anderson slowly fail over 40 games. (And if he ends up Hutton AND UPL is the same we saw last year, Anderson's last year will NOT be pretty.)

The Sabres prospect heavy roster primarily outplayed the Caps prospect heavy roster & deserved the W. Depends if Comrie can handle 55 games or only 40.

Savoie is going to be fun in a year or 2. Motor never stops.

Nice writeup. The things that stood out to me was UPL playing great in the SO. He played well in the 1st 60 but was really at another level in the SO. Was pleased with his game. IF he can play like this, Mr. Anderson might find himself an Amerk. Would not have expected to even entertain that possibility based on his play last year. Would love to be wrong about him. Kozak isn't going back to Junior. Kulich really could get a handful of games in the NHL this year. Pilut started slow but played well overall. Still think he's one of the 8 come October.

Should've been 6-4 then. Caps broadcast called it 5-3. 4-3 for the OT win & apparently 1 more for the SO win.

Sure, why not. They're 1-0 already. 104-0 baby!

Don't forget both had very good to HoF level GTing & above average D to go w/ those roll 4 line squads. If Comrie can get there, it just might work. 😉

It was one of Krueger's keys. Granato must've learned that from him. Ducks.

You telling the couple of thousand people that paid a couple hundred to sit in what were premium seats that they now won't be able to see anything but the Bills sideline? Other than that, it's a brilliant solution.

Easy solution. Don't read Bills forums for 24 hours after a loss. It's not like they've been Meccas of objectivity after losses in prior years. And complaining that forcing 300 lb men to stay in the sun for 3 over hours with only a 15 minute break when it's almost 90 with 70%+ humidity, no air movement, and no shade shortly after noon is a tragedy waiting to happen isn't making excuses for the loss. The league made changes to what's acceptable in training camp & practices after the Korey Stringer tragedy. Are they going to wait for another tragedy before they make additional tweaks? Something as simple as either pushing the game start back to 4PM or letting the players into the locker rooms after each Q could prevent the sunstrokes we saw. As for the game, it was a perfect storm of injuries, weather, & execution and even with all that they were within 4 seconds of either half from winning. Can't wait for the Ravens game.

What's really annoying is coming hard the 2 previous plays both resulted in negative yardage.

The heat index was over 100 degrees. That is just based on air temperature in the shade and humidity levels. That DOESN'T take into account the fact that having the sun beating down adds to it & being in a partially enclosed bowl added no air movement as well. There is no way it wasn't effectively 120 on the field. The Fish could at least go to the sidelines and get into the low 100's. The "cool zone" misting fans don't do a whole lot with the sun beating down & it effectively being 120. The Bills players were stuck in it all game. Fishies were cramping up as well. Because they could get out of the sun they didn't suffer the sunstroke injuries as well. So, what exactly were the trainers & the engineers supposed to do? Bring a 40' long ice tub the players could sit in while on the side lines? Anecdotally, when playing floor hockey in a 120 degree gymnasium would routinely lose 4 lbs over 90 minutes while downing 40+ oz of Gatorade and sometimes 8-10 lbs. That's routinely netting sweating out a 1/2 gallon & on rare occasion even over a gallon. How much hydrating can you do in 6 days? Not that much.

There is that. There is also the fact that a lot of early season Gulf Coast SEC games are played at night and also, not many have a humidity of over 70% when it's nearly 90 out with no clouds in sight. It was a "perfect storm" of conditions essentially making it like they were playing in 120 temperatures.

No. Tommy Sweeney was inactive. That was part of the O's problem with having the ball for 40+ minutes. They only dressed 5 WRs and 2 TEs so they could have 8 DBs. Once Kumerow went out, Davis who was clearly still bothered by the ankle had to play most all the snaps. After Jake went down there was only 1 spare TE - Morris & 1 spare WR - Crowder. Cook took some snaps from the slot they were so thin. You're confusing Sweeney with Tommy Doyle who is a lineman. But even there they were playing Mancz in the 4th Q and he was on the practice squad on Saturday.

How often in September? They play those home games at night for a reason. Korey Stringer died in conditions less severe. Players were getting sunstroke. It wasn't just cramping up. They could easily have played this game at 4PM & the 2nd half wouldn't have had the sun making it effectively 120 on the Bills sideline AND on the field for the entire game. And, having a little tent providing shade helps a little, but there is a huge difference between that where the air just beyond your canopy literally 4 feet from you in all directions is getting beaten down by the sun and being shaded by a 140' long 40' wide covering. Guarantee it was at least 20 degrees cooler on the Fishies sideline than on the Bills side or on the field. Again, players were literally getting sunstroke. That is excessive. Your body doesn't gain much relief by sweating when it is that ridiculously hot & humid. (89 in the shade 72% humidity is a stadium with completely still air & the sun beating down on it.) People are pointing out that the Fish put an obviously concussed Tua back in the game. If the Fishies don't care about the health or safety of their own players it shouldn't be surprising that they're perfectly fine putting the visiting team into literally life threatening situations. (Again, Korey Stringer died in less severe conditions.) And even with all that, and all the mistakes and the injuries and the bad luck (and you make your own luck to large degree) if the game were 4 seconds longer the Bills very likely win that game. Fishie fans are celebrating today, and they should be, their boys won. But Cheats fans were doing so last year as well after a game the weather played a huge factor in. And they were convinced their boys were clearly better than ours and told us about it for a month. How'd it work out when their boys met ours again in more even conditions?

Allen didn't lose his mind. It was the 2nd missed snap between 2 guys that rarely work as a battery. This was the exact opposite of the wind game last year. Between injuries, conditions, & bad luck they lost by less than a FG. The Bills will be fine.

Forwards could be fun. D & GT is scary.

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Not sure about Canada, but as @LGR4GM stated, the game will be on NHLN (DTv 215DTat 2PM showing the Capitals broadcast. It will not be on MSGa1 (DTv 635-1) nor on the Sabres website nor Facebook page.

Yep. For preseason. Looks like that was about 1/3 of windows price which is nuts unless the Sabres are back up to 12k or so STs (charging us STHers nearly full price for preseason gets them some legit $'s for those games but it just seems scummy charging that much when both teams will have at most 1/2 an NHL roster & the visitors won't play any of their stars (they usually put the top unit in their own home games to try to half arsed appease the home fans; wasn't all that long ago that preseason games were given to STHers for 1/2 price to 1 game & the other 2 (or so) were free). Just couldn't take more than 1/3 of the price for them because at best the game is worth 1/3 of what the Sabres took.