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No skin off this kid's arse.

Umm, you realize this isn't the '21-'22 season where they had some games with only 4k or so in the building? The building is going to be 2/3's full on poor attendance nights and will have several SO's/close to SO's. (If your 1st sentence was misunderstood, apologies.) A few years back they looked into possibly reconfiguring the seating, particularly in the lower bowl, but they weren't really looking at SR sections. The radical idea they were considering was converting the lower bowl between the BLs into high end "seating" where there'd essentially be high tops (similar to the bar area in the 200's behind the Sabres net) with full service for people that bought those seats. Kind of a cross between the Panthers all inclusive packages between the blue lines in their lower bowl and that bar area. Would be a little surprised if they ever actually went that route as there would be a LOT of current STHers displaced from their current seats and however they decided to reallocate seats they'd wind up with a LOT of unhappy customers.

And could see him grow into more of a leadership mindset as he matures as well.

But the guy who looked great as FLA's backup the year before (Lyon) ended up in Detroit and had a rather up and down year IIRC. FLA may be wishing that Stolarz was back this year; but so might the Loafs be.

It worked briefly with Hutton, until injuries doomed that attempt to find gold in a pyrite mine. So, naturally, they HAD to take another crack at it. Not that upset that they tried to find gold in the pyrite mine; more upset that when it obviously didn't happen they didn't move on from the pyrite they'd mined.

Dude, no way your name would be Doohicksie; it'd be Hicks. (Maybe Hicker, but almost definitely Hicks.)

Well, either that, or their faces will melt off. Really, could go either way.

Don't know if there's an electronic copy of it and certainly don't have time to look for one. But it was in an old THN YiR issue (probably '90). He and some stripper w/ a name like Busty Lamour (Chesty Lamour?) dancing in the reds behind the visitor's goal line.

Will give you the rappeling. But, dancing with non-particularly well endowed cheerleaders is NOT the same (technically) as dancing with a VERY well endowed stripper.

Technically, Pominville.

Actually, Granato said it several times that Mittelstadt was a leader, especially for the young guys. Pretty sure there were a few lockerroom interviews that players themselves mentioned that too.

How can he be the "ultimate" when he was never in THN's Year in Review dancing w/ a well endowed stripper in his team's home barn? How can he be the "ultimate" when he's never rappeled from the rafters to the ice? Sabretooth is THE ultimate.

Very nice effort from the kids tonight. Seemed they ran out of a little bit of gas late in the 2nd period and through the 3rd, but they still had enough to overcome the rough penalty call against Helenius that lead to the Otters 2nd goal and pull it out in OT. If they can get a split in their final 2 NHL preseason games, or dare we say a full sweep of all 4 games, and they'll be rockin' friggin' brass bowling balls heading into the AHL season.

Tuch wearing a letter at home at a minimum is a no-brainer. Expected that when was expecting co-captains.

So THAT's where the Toker ended up.

Maybe your wife could give her some smokeless like Skoal or Copenhagen for her next B-day? Give the lungs a break while still getting her sweet nicotine rush. 😉

Presuming the info on the Sabres website is correct, yes, they are.

Eh, good for him. Really thought they'd go co-captains the way they've been rolling Tuch and Dahlin around together. (Guess not.)

Good. Maybe it'll put a chip on their shoulders.

It's a high risk, high reward start to the season. Of course, on the flip side, they most likely get a 1 game look at Levi in a league game before deciding on whether to keep him up (which seems to be the plan) or keep Reimer up and not risk losing him via waivers.

And the Bills were going to be trash because they traded Diggs, lost Davis, lost Morse, lost Poyer, lost Hyde, lost Floyd; didn't bring in any big names to replace them and would absolutely 100% take a step back. And it's early in the season, so those predictions can still prove to be true; but through ~18% of the year even with the entire starting middle 3 out on injury and the duo expected to be starting at safety all out with injury they've flat out destroyed 3 opponents. So, personally, don't expect those predictions of Bills doom to come to fruition. Just because something is "consensus" doesn't mean it's correct.

Considering 1/2 of the Sabres D are former #1, #1, and #4 overalls, and about 1/3 - 1/2 of the F's are 23 or younger, and both goalies are 25 (26?) or younger it seems we generally are used to really young guys being in really major roles. But a guy from literally the end of the 1st round not being a full time NHLer in only his 2nd pro season (and he had ~1/2 a season up on the big club last year) on a team that's already too young starting the year in the AHL doesn't make him a bust. Have said it's interesting (and mildly surprising) that they chose Clague instead of Johnson, but when you figure that if Clague is a game they're down 3 D-men, can see where Ruff would rather have a veteran tweener than a comparable (at this time) to slightly better kid getting thrown into the fire.

Until it's proven otherwise (and it either will or won't in about 10 days) am still expecting there to be co-captains with Thompson and Cozens rotating the extra letter. Fwiw, the 3 guys of the 4 guys mentioned above that have played in the preseason have all worn an A so far in the preseason. Samuelsson did not even when Tuch skipped the 1 game.

Eh, they're getting a 3rd preseason game. And pretty sure the league is mandating some PR junkets out of the whole thing. Presonally would prefer they weren't going on this trip; but the league in its "infinite wisdom" 😒 decided they'd go over the pond.

When the game wasn't coming on over at the Sabres website tried to watch it on ESPN+ just because. The game was there (1 of only 3 NHL games yesterday on ESPN+) but couldn't watch it because it was blacked out in the Sabres market.