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Think whatever you want, but he offered to match what the Bruins offered. Ullmark told him he had to beat that offer (just like the Bruins had to beat the Sabres original offer).

He did learn something. There is more of a demand for guys that have shown glimpses of being able to handle a starter's workload than he realized. He also likely learned that if you really are willing to go to $Y for a guy that can shop his services, it's really dumb to only offer $X.

Taking a look at how few tix are available for even the Yotes game, expect they are close to where they were w/ STs prior to covid hitting. Wouldn't be surprised if they're back around 12k STHers.

The same as prior to it. The Sabres SEEM to have done a very good job of scouting during the covid years and seem to have ended up with more prospects from then than most squads. This tourney gives confirmation to that observation. Now, they need to actually develop most of those prospects. Expect they can & will, but it isn't a given & will take some time to prove out. (And if they haven't/don't solve the goaltending puzzle it won't really matter at the end of the day.)

They expect Comrie to breakout, but don't expect Dahlin to do so as well? How, does the goalie "breakout" without his #1 D doing so as well? (Unless they're either defining top 10 breakouts much more loosely than they should or claiming Ras already broke out, that doesn't jibe.)

Between a Rock & a Hyde Place. 😉

Imagine what Granato Taylor could've been.

How the heck did that shot from the point get in?

100 points would need all the stars aligning. 90 is doable if Comrie is a legit starter & the team stays healthy.

Since we already had a winner, reopened this one up. All hail Andrew!

Taking the over would seem to be about as close to a no brainer as one gets.

And like that, last week never happened. Everybody in the survivor pool is back in. Congrats again to @Andrew Amerk. Well done.

Yes, later today I will reset the group and we'll do this again. @Andrew Amerk, you might want to screen shot your victory soon because i'm not sure if week 1 simply disappears after the league is reset. Also, congratulations on the championship! Great call. I'm still alive in 1 other league that I made the last second change of picks but even in that 1 there are only 3 people left.

Yep.

If the Donkeys don't win tomorrow night, @Andrew Amerk will be the champ of our survivor league. If they do win, it's a 3 team race.

25-32 goals. 50-55 points. He'll be glued to Thompson's wing. He'll be better in the D-zone than we expect, but still won't be good there.

Yep. This is quite the tell. Am far less certain Sheahan stays up barring training camp injuries. (Still not convinced they keep 14 up but don't see any way Hinostroza goes down. Bjork can't be happy as he's pretty much guaranteed to be an Amerk. (As if THAT changed. 😉 ))

Adding insult to injury, in most years this day WOULD'VE been the home opener. Hammer & nearly 80k others would've thrown him one heck of a party. Anyways, HBD Fearless Leader.

Why not? This ain't baseball & we don't care if they can't get dates. 😉

Nah, right Casey. The truly amazing thing is he'll do it while only playing in 24 games. 😉

Nope. He's a centaur. Unicorns don't have arms.

TIL. 🍺

Or, can you imagine they don't feel strongly 1 way or another whether he plays in the tourney but have (or don't have) a bunch of guys that they'd like to get a baseline on their performance versus other prospects with the same experience level that they want (or don't want) to see in this format that they decide whether or not to play him based on that? "We've only got 5 D for this tourney not counting Power, do you want to go through the hassle of finding a 6th or play him?" "Well Cozens broke his finger in a freak accident in one of these, we# better bubble wrap him and find a scrub." If they had relatively as many D prospects as they have F prospects, they might say "we typically have guys play in this the 1st time they're eligible to do so, but considering he's already D+1, a lock to make the 2nd pairing, and we have 10 other guys to look at in just 3 games, so screw it, give him a few extra days off." Like you said, it just doesn't matter. So, if they don't feel strongly 1 way or the other, the #'s could help shape the decision.

Am expecting it'll actually go in the opposite direction. Granato loves him some Jokiharju. That's the hope. Really expect that he should be Power's primary partner as he should let the kid do his thing without forcing him to cover for his partner's D miscues too often. Expecting Granato will prefer the additional offensive upside of Henri's game on that pairing but really don't expect that it'll be as necessary as Lyubushkin's D-prowess will be there. We shall see.

App State just beat the Aggies. Michigan fans everywhere rejoice at no longer being the only ones.