shrader

There's a whole lot of years in that list of UFAs. I know they'll want to keep some experience around, but it shouldn't be too hard to move on from maybe even 3 of them. Granlund might still get some decent money, but the rest are at that stage where if they want to win, they should be signing team friendly deals. I completely understand if they want to chase the dollars instead though.

I hope Tooth applies.

And he laughed at you.

So I can’t be the only one who saw that coming a mile away.

Was Marchand the one who had one less career OT playoff goal than the rest of the list?

Are there any decent Finn free agents this year?

And he’s also doing weekly stuff on SiriusXM. I’m guessing that he likes the flexibility he has going right now.

I’m constantly amazed that people don’t understand this.

What a coincidence. It’s also the last year the Sabres made the playoffs.

Can we come up with some catchy slogan to put the A back in Byram?

I can’t help but laugh when I see a tshirt that says “Play harder, suck less” that has to be at least a 4X.

I was going to ask the same thing.

I’ve been listening to two kids scream nonstop for a week now while dealing with a nasty cold. Beggars can’t be choosers.

Barnes wire clothesline

It took a good five minutes before I realized there was a beer.

A Wimer Skoog sighting? That name always cracked me up.

So who is getting blocked in the retool thread? I hate when I miss stuff.

You should probably get into a habit of changing the batteries in your sarcasm detector at the same time as your smoke detectors.

Now I really want to see the different setups for each team.

Lindy is 65. Yeah, this is the end of the line for him. Jarmo still has some time left at 58. They can also go longer in that front office role than in coaching.

We get people asking in the middle of a giant thunder storm if that loud boom sound was gunshots.

It feels like the first time since that initial group of hirings (Craig Patrick and others) where he has actually tried to bring in outside help.

It’s not, but with a new and inexperienced owner, it’s an understandable approach. That’s all I’m saying.

I really thought they were going to focus on that “senior” side a bit more and go with an older advisor trying to step back a bit. Scotty Bowman did that a bit once he finally stopped GMing. Granted, a lot of that was for his son. But that’s pretty clearly not what this is. At 58, he’s only 8 years older than Adams. This is a guy who should have a good number of miles left on those tires. I’d love to be a fly on that wall and hear some of these discussions.

Housely was a coach on the rise, at least. He was going to get that shot somewhere very soon. Boterill is a ridiculous stretch. That would be the equivalent of being nostalgic over that one random peanut butter sandwich you had back when you were 6. I lump Nolan and LaFontaine together in my mind since it all happened together. That one at least makes sense as you’re just taking over the team and you want to try to show this connection to the fans. The rest up until last summer, I really don’t see it as them going out of their way to hire ex-Sabres. If that was the case, Perreault would have been wooed to some ambassador position or something.