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True dat. (Providing it's not Comrie that goes down.)

Yeah, the management team definitely seems to favor trying to select & develop offensively gifted D-men. Considering there's a lot more of the true (or at least primarily) defensive D-men around and good ones can be picked up as UFAs for under $3MM / year 😉 ; they might be onto something there.

IMHO, depending upon how Granato deploys the skaters onto the 2nd - 4th lines, and again hopefully it changes based upon opponent, rather than just having 2 & 3 getting balanced ice time, all 3 of those lines could be comparable. And truthfully, could see Lybushenko & Jokiharju getting similar ice time too. With Dahlin & Samuelsson getting the lion's share and Power being a solid 3rd in ice time shortly into the season, if not right from day 1.

With Skinner, Thompson, Tuch, Asplund, Mittelstadt, Olofsson, Cozens, Okposo, Girgensons pretty much locks to be in the top 12 on opening night and Krebs, Quinn, Peterka, & Hinostroza vying for the other 3 spots; and with Dahlin, Samuelsson, Power, Jokiharju, & Lyubuskin pretty much locks to be in the top 6 with Bryson, Pilut, Fitzgerald, & the 3 tweeners vying for the 6th spot; and Comrie & Anderson between the pipes; this lineup when healthy might actually finally have ALL 20 spots filled with ACTUAL NHLers and if the don't IMHO at most they're only shy a 6 D, 12th F, or backup goalie (or some combination). And this is with Adams still having nearly 3 months & $19MM in cap space to fill those last holes/ all depth. It seems this will at most be the 2nd time since the Pegulas owned the team and possibly only the 1st time since then that we've been able to say the entire game night lineup is comprised of NHLers. Which is a good thing to finally have once again. Were there any other Sabres teams since we were told there will be suffering that are this deep? Ottomh, can't think of any.

He's taking it in Rubles. With the exchange rate, it will be. 😉

Beat me to it. 🍺 Stanley Cup Finalist to 32nd out of 32. (There were some other changes too, but Price was the biggest difference by far.)

There definitely won't be 8 100 point teams unless the East teams pretty much treat the West teams like they did back in '67. Can't see there being that much dominance cross conference though the East will will the bulk of the matchups. All the top East teams took at least as small hit on paper (not sure that's true for Carolina & the Rags, haven't seen their moves, but expect it will be for at least the Rags w/ them losing Copp & their backup goalie) & most of the has been have improved on paper. It should be fun to watch this year as there will be a lot of good hockey in the MMArena this year.

Like @gilbert11 said. 😉

Yeah. Everyone is mentioning the Otters, Wings, & BJs as additional competition for a playoffs spot. But Joisey has made some nice moves this off-season too. Going to be much easier to make the playoffs in the West IMHO. Moe-ray-all & Filly are the only 2 pushovers left in the East. (MAYBE the Aisles drift down to that level too, but doubt it.)

They have 3 2nd round picks so they have a lot of ammunition for restocking the D pipeline. And if a 1-2 year stopgap or 2 waiting for those reinforcements is/are necessary to fill in the 3rd & 4th pairings, those guys are pretty much always available for anywhere from Adams favorite FA price tag up to the Fitzgerald price tag. Barring major injury, they don't need to replace any of the top 3 & likely are set at 4 as well. It's a concern, but IMHO it's pretty much where C was last year. 1 draft later & that pipeline should be deep enough. Fully expect we can say the same about the D next August.

Per the Sabres website, yes.

You think he's making the show?

Apples & fish sticks. 😉

Unless he wins a job w/ the parent club out of TC. 😉

Guess it IS 5PM. We can hope, but it's way more likely Comrie is legit.

All your 1st 3 rounders, that don't have other contracts/ NCAA aspirations, should get signed quick. The ELC contracts have very little range on base salary & it's really only a question of how many bonuses to make them eligible for.

Absolute no brainers. Now let's hope they show up sooner than later. Kulich's trajectory will be interesting.

He actually looked good IMHO when paired w/ Bogosian or Rostolainen prior to getting injured in his 1st stint. But he definitely earned Inky's derision after he came back that season. Don't have a clear picture of his play that 2nd year, but pretty sure he didn't play much w/ either which would make your impression accurate. There were several partners he did not click with.

OK. So, he seems to think (reasonably) that the clock was stalled while he was in Russia. (Again, I haven't looked into that nuance before, so will accept that as being correct unless we hear otherwise.) Really think he dropped a "1" before the 5 games to trigger the need to clear waivers. As he played 33 NHL games in '18-'19 and 13 in '19-'20 which puts him at 46, 15 shy of his 61st NHL game. Which would likely make him waiver exempt 1/2 to almost the entire year provided the Sabre D stays relatively healthy.

Let the rejoicing begin, @Doohickie. FTFY. 😉

Probably. But don't recall it.

Not sure how you're getting that. He was considered to be 23 for waiver purposes at his 1st contract which puts him 3 pro years or 70 60 NHL games away from needing to clear waivers. He's got 46 NHL games under his belt. Honestly not sure if the 2 KHL seasons count as he wasn't "loaned" there nor uner an NHL SPC, but expect they do count. So, expect he would need to clear waivers due to 4 years pro experience. But if not, he should be good until his 25th NHL game played this season.

Barring any other D being brought in, pretty sure the top 8 that will stay up are: Samuelsson - Dahlin Power - Lybushkin (sp?) Bryson - Jokiharju Pilut - Fitzgerald. Maybe one or 2 of the tweeners beat out Larry or Casey but not expecting it.

That's NOT Inky's definition. 😉

Yeah, is it? (Guessing not, as that was the hangup last time. But who knows.)