darksabre

One comment I want to make is that I no longer believe Anaheim makes sense for us as a trade partner. It looks like their season is kinda going the same as ours: lacking forward depth in a way that any problems with defense are moot. The best they could offer us is probably players like what we already have filling out the bottom of our roster: plugs or unseasoned kids. They can't afford to give us much more for any defense we send their way, so I think Botterill probably shouldn't be looking at them as a trade partner. LA makes a lot more sense given their contracts/cap situation. They're the only team besides Minnesota that could be labeled as "obviously rebuilding", but Minnesota is in a less flexible space cap-wise. I wish we could include San Jose given that Meier would make sense given the rise of Labanc, but they have too much money tied up on D anyway. We could offer them picks or prospects but we need to clear cap somehow. I still don't think the Jets make any sense as trade partners. They're doing okay and would probably be happy to just sit tight.

Probably. Though I think this could be a month of streaks. It could get ugly... Carolina - L Ottawa - W Chicago - W Minnesota - W Boston - L Florida - L Tampa - L Calgary - L Toronto - L Toronto - W

The Sabres are 9-6-2 and have lost 5 in a row. They're 1 game above Deluca 500. They've lost the first 4 games of November and they have 10 left. They need to stay at or above Deluca 500 to have any chance at being relevant in December, which means they need to win 5 of the next 10. They built a cushion in October but I'd rather not use it all up this month.

Quality of competition seems to be a factor. I think it's hard to out work better teams if you're just not good enough.

Nice cop out, are you running for office? ?

The Sabres don't play until Thursday, which makes this week a good time to make some moves. Does it happen? And if it does, what do you think the trade ends up being?

Botterill needs to make some moves. We just cannot go through this season with the roster as it is. Still too many plugs filling out roles in the bottom 9. The defensive depth we have should be satisfactory but we need some better forwards. We see the D pairings regressing as the forwards stop being effective and opponents figure that out.

At the very least you can update your resume in real time lol

Amazing

This deserves to end in a tie

This is such a Bills Browns game

Why was Poyer trying to tackle Tre?

It's truly a battle of incompetence

Josh Allen deep ball is basically a throw away play. It's completely useless.

You'd probably have to make the season shorter to fit all the travel in, which I'm fine with. Let's go back to 60 games.

I voted yes because I think it's good for the foreign players to be able to play in their home countries. I think we forget sometimes how far away from home these guys are, and it's good that the NHL should try to recognize that.

I mean, they kinda don't have a choice.

I can't even get excited about this. There's too many names on here that make me just go "meh"

We have to make another move to make room for him though if he's going to come cheap. I'm not trading Risto for him, ya know?

Toffoli makes me nervous but he has 8 points and good possession metrics on a bad team and he would be our 7th best forward so I'm in I guess.

I've been against the Jets as a trade partner but their current situation on defense is untenable. I don't know who else in the west has offense they can give up to get defense. Maybe San Jose?

This team is going nowhere fast if it doesn't find some more talent somewhere. I'm not watching this lineup for 65 more games.

Let me know when this team is worth watching. I'm tired of this.

This game sucks.