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What, you weren't at the meetup? So, YOU're the mofo we forgot to invite. Knew there was somebody. 😉 Eh, never happened last year. Hopefully one happens this season. We'll see. Fewer weekend games than usual to choose from this time.

Interesting. Wondered why you chose a character who's supposed to be a Yank played by a Brit; starting to make sense now. Suppose being a Scot is close enough.

Umm, wouldn't that be 98 - 0 if you're making a tribute to Senator?

These are Jason Karmanos selections for the Amerks. (He's the GM of that team in addition to being the AGM for the Sabres.)

Well, you realize that they take their slogan "all the bank you'll ever need" seriously. And, though you may WANT additional conveniences such as multiple transactions within a single ATM transaction you don't NEED that. And they don't give you one more thing than what you need. (That's the unspoken part of their motto. All the bank you'll ever need and not one thing more.) They are quite the utilitarian bank.

LaFontaine DID pick his destination. He was 100% on board with the trade or it would never have happened. Same goes for the Hawerchuck trade to Buffalo. His best buddy in the world, Scott Arniel (who was Hawerchuck's best man, and Dale was his), convinced him that Buffalo was a great place to play. And they were really excited to be back on the same team again, well, at least until they found out Arniel was going back to the 'Peg in the deal. But due to who he was and what he'd meant for the Jets franchise there was no way they were sending him to Buffalo if he wasn't on board with the change.

Presuming the CHL agrees to that change to their agreement with the NHL.

November 1 Caps - November 2 Cheatriots December 27 Iggles - December 27 Bruuuuuns Not a weekend but a Sunday Monday November 16 Bucs - November 17 Eulers

Umm, Granato isn't the coach anymore. The Sabres gave up THAT portion of their contrarian-ness. They no longer win a majority of their road games and lose a majority of their home games.

But, if we didn't have to make a separate trip to and from the rink literally every other day for over a week FOUR separate times, we MIGHT actually show up at the games. Was really looking forward to getting to 25 or maybe even 30 games this year. Went to 24 or 25 last year. But might be hard pressed to make it to 10. Just simply can't do that much driving during the week in that short a timeframe. Am way too busy to pull it off. The crazily frustrating off-season just keeps rolling along. 😞 (And, yes, realize you were joking, but... .)

NA 26 yos taking league minimum 2 way deals rarely end up being career NHLers. This is a Karmanos signing for the Amerks.

Yes, 7 of 11. Ooops. Thanks for the catch. 🍺

Yes, @Brawndo said they were turned down by one potential Wilford replacement and he also said something about they looked into 1 other possible coach change candidate but personally don't recall any details of that one. BUT there can't possibly be only 2 available coaches out there this spring/summer that would be better than Marty friggin' Wilford. And, while technically talking to 2 people that aren't currently in the organization IS in fact "trying," doubt anybody here would have considered that to be even close to acceptable on stall cleanout day. Bob Woods was (and afaik still is) available. He is a master at designing and running a PP. Going after him should've been a no brainer. The team IMHO is SLIGHTLY better than it was prior to making the Cozens trade. Bring in another vet or 2 and it would be marginally but perceptibly better on paper. Make 2 - 5 coaching changes and the team would be ACTUALLY better than they were at that point in time.

8 Thursdays including the season opener and the only home game in February. 5 Mondays. 6 Tuesdays (3 of those in March). 6 Wednesdays. 4 Fridays (only 1 of which falls after the calendar flips). 10 Saturdays. 2 Sundays.

4 home games in 7 days November 17 - 23 5 home games in 8 days with btb in the middle of that Jan 10 - 17 5 home games in 8 days w/ btb to start it off March 7 - 14 and ending with 4 home games w/ btb in the middle of it from March 25 - 31. Don't know what the STHers did to piss them off, but they clearly aren't happy with us. This schedule stinks for out of towners. Guess either relatives will go to a lot of games or will be selling a lot.

Looks like only 16 weekend home games and 6 of those come in 3 sets of weekends (1 Friday & Sunday; 1 Friday Saturday; and 1 Saturday Sunday). Not exactly making it easy for those that don't live in Erie/Niagara Counties or Fort Erie to attend a lot of games. And BOTH Loafs games are weekend games.

Saturday November 8 and Monday January 19.

7 extra road games in December and 4 extra road games in February. Play 0.500 from after December 1 through the end of February and they'll be ok.

4 extra home games from March 1 on too. So, presuming they're still better at home than on the road like they were last year, they're setting themselves up for a fast start and a strong finish. CAN'T have the typical January-ish collapse that they've set themselves up for. IF they're within 4 points of the playoffs the moring of March 1, they're making the playoffs.

They'd better get off to a fast start - 7 of 10 11 October games are at home. (And only TWO of those are weekend games. #### me now.) They'll have played 6 extra home games before the big western road swing also of 6 games. (Yeah, Filly ain't west, but the next 5 on the trip are.) Like that 3 of the last 5 are home.

Blue is a VERY good and seriously underrated album.

Not only that, but the amounts that can be in signing/reporting bonuses drops to 60% of the total contract value on September 16, 2026 too. The tweaks to the system are all fairly minor in the grand scheme of things, but for individual players whose contract status hits just right those are much more than just tweaks.

Cool, at least one person actually reads these. 😉 Gave serious consideration to dropping him from the list, but left him because he was pretty much the 1st big 1 for 1 hockey trade of the Pegula era.

95th percentile height 20th percentile weight If she were a guy, she'd be a Sabre. 😉 Good for him. Wish them well.

After years of having $8MM+, getting under $5MM is progress. But personally do expect them to bring in at least 1 more F which would put them likely at ~2MM in cap space. Which IMHO IS acceptable. Don't fully trust Adams to be able to navigate getting down to where the Tampas and Vegases of the world live. And if they held the $2MM or so all season, they'd be able to bring in ~$5MM worth of ST salary on the books. What could a $5MM player done for them 3 seasons ago. Won't get on Adams case for having ~$5MM in space (realistically) right now because we're still 2-1/2 months away from puck drop. And there are still at least 2, if not 3 or more, realistic options of how they can spend that money on players that should make them better. Will it make them enough better? Wtf knows? Wouldn't have money on it but maybe, if we squint just right, maybe.