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Not convinced they "know" teams will give him that. But it does seem the PA is telling them somebody will and wants him to hold off from signing for anything less.

Could see him wanting to keep him around, but depending upon who's injured/ close to ready, he might not have the luxury of doing that. He's got 3 players out that might not be someone he wants to put on IR (Luukkonnen, Samuelsson, and Kulich) and if at least 2 of them are day to day but not ready 10 or so days from now, then he might not have the luxury of keeping Geertsen up. Do expect he'll see some action this year; and again, do believe Ruff would like to keep hm as a spare from day 1; but not convinced that makes sense as he'll likely keep Johnson and Bryson up (presuming Samuelsson doesn't go IR) leaving only 1 healthy spot in the press box. If Kulich's injury drags or if UPL is close but not quite ready; there's no room for Geertsen. (And am expecting Greenway to start on IR.)

Spencer Brown was clearly missed. Both of the 1st 1/2 sacks were likely due to him being out - the 1st one Jordan simply abused Van de Mark and the other one, Torrance got caught cheating too much to his right expecting to need to help Ryan and the stunt left him in no man's land. The good news is that apparently they were close to having Brown play today so he should be in against the Cheats next week. And, getting 31 points in a game where you were awful for an entire 1/4 without getting any particularly short fields until the very end, even against a bad team, is pretty impressive. As for the D stinking against the run, hopefully getting Hoecht into the lineup will help with keeping RBs to get the outside. Bosa's a great pass rusher, but he wasn't quite there on at least a couple of long Kamara runs. And the other guy hopefully will help too.

With Samuelsson injured, real good chance for Johnson to start the year in the top 6. Actually prefer that to Jones taking that slot all things equal as Johnson's still on the upswing and Jones is what he is.

Johnson - Mrtka Novikov - Komarov Metsa - ??? He'll gain more playing 20 minutes per game vs men than he would playing 27 vs kids. MHO. YMMV. Plus he's getting used to a potential future partner as a Sabre.

Cool. Did not realize that. Then he should be Ra-cha-cha bound. Sorry @DarthEbriate. 🍺

Figured they were down 2-1, gave up the empty netter and then scored very late in garbage time. So, other than the not scoring in true garbage time, nailed it. 🙄

Sending him back to Seattle does him little good and yes, Ra-cha-cha would be better for his development. But, until the NHL & CHL rework their transfer agreement then 18 yo's like Mrtka & 19 yo's too will have 2 options - stay in the NHL or play in the CHL. The AHL isn't an option, though with the most recent MOU to the CBA, the league and players agreed that it's in both their best interests to have the NHL try to get it modified for 19 yo's at least. EDIT: The general concept holds, but Mrtka apparently isn't caught up by the NHL-CHL agreement.

Personally, expect he'll pass him on the depth chart (if he hasn't already) but that unless they have 2 injuries on D they'd rather have him in Ra-cha-cha playing so expect he'll go down rather than Bryson if they keep 8 up on the big roster. He is still waiver exempt to be sent down. So, unless they're on an extended road trip doubt he's up if he isn't in the top 6. But interestingly Puckpedia has him listed as being an Amerk right now. Pretty sure that's incorrect as they're also showing Östlund and Georgiev as Amerks already too.

Kulich has an injury that was supposed to just be a day or 2 thing IIHC.

Lescyshyn and Kozak still up with the big boys. Figured Geersen would still be up. Didn't expect the other 2. 3 goalies still up too. (That not surprising considering Luukkonnen hasn't played yet.) Also Östlund and Dunne still up. Figured Dunne would still be there. Didn't expect Östlund.

Norris seals it. 5-2

Winning faceoffs on the PP does help them avoid their stupid 80' drop pass. Which is a good thing. But maybe Appert did learn something. they did not use the 80'+ drop pass on any of the 3 entries they've attempted this PP after clears. And they actually got into the zone with control 2 of the 3 times. Didn't get any more shots after the 1st flurry, but that wasn't because they couldn't get control back in the zone. That was just on poor shot selection.

Don't break Norris today. At least he hopped right back up. Sabres going to the PP.

Not sure what you're trying to argue. The Sabres ran their #1 PP unit. Against C-bus, they ran their #1 unit minus Tuch. They now have 1 goal to show for it. Yea.

Cossa's an NHLer? Seider isn't playing, Holl isn't playing, Compher isn't playing. AHL goalie behind ~1/2 of their normal PKers. Sure, they brought their A team.

Well, it went through Tuch. But it seems they are getting used to each other.

Against AHLers, great tonight. Last week, not so much. Expect the Rags to be that kind hubristic?

Norris being a great teammate. He could've scored the goal, but wanted to let Thompson get his 2nd instead. 😉

How far behind is your feed? It's easier to do when you're actually at the game. 😉 Just sayin'. (No idea how he normally does it.)

??? Delay of game for Cossa playing the puck outside the trapezoid.

Dahlin, please get off Lyon anytime now.

He shouldn't have tried to play the puck to Dahlin. Just cover it and take the FO.

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And for very young guys, contracts are 1/3 guaranteed. For old guys with some special circumstances (primarily when the contract is signed) they are 100% guaranteed.