darksabre

I thought the same thing.

If there's one thing we're good at, it's complaining.

It almost sounds like a chemistry thing from Johansson. The new A wants Sobotka on his line...

I'm expecting under DeLuca 500, so something like 6-5-2.

Ain't that the long and short of it. This is how I always feel when I watch other non-Sabres games. It always feels like those teams, even the bad ones, are playing the game in a fundamentally different way than the Sabres have been for quite some time.

Yup. I have a Nummimen with an A

Especially when those 4 goalies are going to have good teams in front of them.

That's really high given that they're both under contract next season for a total of 8.75 mil

Only 3 divisional games though, which is for the best.

All of those home games excepting Arizona look pretty tough.

It's a little interesting that the new guy is an A though. I don't put too much stock in it, but I admit I put a little stock in it. For all the talk about Risto being a professional and working hard in camp, you'd have expected him to get one.

I should clarify that I'm the one doing the wishful thinking and chastising myself for it for exactly the reason you put forth.

Intriguing

It wasn't necessarily to get under the cap, it was to get as close to the cap as possible without going over until the LTIR move for Hunwick was applied today. Now they can come back up while other guys go down and there are no cap issues.

Wishful thinking that he has a scoop on a trade or a waiver move, but probably not yet.

That's good news. But I wonder how many more shots like that Allen can take before he has to give it up. I just don't see them turning him into a QB who slides.

They probably would have announced that he was going on LTIR if he was. They must not think it's necessary at the moment.

Looks like it.

Yup. It's a massive project that they probably started too late. I don't blame the artists too much, I'm sure they did their best. It's the client (the NHL/their media team) that is the problem here.

You're too kind. This is why I'm your advocate lol

It's largely unfinished. There are multiple different styles going on from hyper-detail in the faces to extremely basic graphic design in the environment, jerseys, etc. The perspectives are really janky on the poses and a lot of them don't look like they utilized any reference. It almost looks like they had two different artists work on it, one illustrating the heads, another doing the more graphic-design based stuff. The end result is sloppy.

Staggeringly bad work once you start really looking at it. This is the kind of stuff the NHL should be paying Josie to do.

Caps - Blues is where it's at.

Your roster doesn't really look too bad, but Kaapo Kakko is a weird choice given he's literally never played a game in the NHL. It might work out though. Roope Hintz is a reach but with good upside. I'm not seeing too much of a log-jam in your roster schedule-wise so it might make sense to just let it ride for now.

It's funny, autodraft usually does a pretty good job these days, but I think the way our GMs draft kinda screws with it. Sabrespace GMs are, uh, creative.