darksabre

Well that would suck

With respect to Laine... Yowza.

Amazing. The place barely has seating. https://www.nhl.com/video/hockeyville-tom-donovan-arena/t-277350912/c-68899703

I mean, it's not huge. Probably like 3,000 seats? They've certainly played these games in smaller rinks. Didn't the Sabres do one in a rink that had like...a few metal bleachers?

This arena looks pretty big...

Ah, that's explains it.

Where are you watching that?

Robert Moses screwed so much stuff up it's not even funny. One man singularly responsible for all sorts of messes that we're still dealing with today and will be for some time. It's incredible that we still have things named after him.

I have this weird feeling we're going to see Jack sliding to the wing with kids like Mitts running center on the top line sometimes.

Not surprising. I think he has NHL speed. He'll be 20 in February so he'll be on the Amerks next year for sure.

It really would be too bad for you guys. He's a huge part of the leadership group on your team. The NHL is a better league when the Jets are good and losing Buff would really hurt that.

Were they middle-aged? I remarked to Jo during our road trip last week that middle-aged women are some of the most oblivious people on the planet in parking lots. There were three distinct occasions where one would just spin around from the back of their car and into traffic like a child not holding onto the shopping cart. Old guys in Air Monarchs grabbing their wives by the arm to stop them from getting run over is apparently a thing.

I will be interested to see Cozens against tougher competition.

Bingo.

There was other stuff mentioned about him "losing his love for the game". He sounds tired. I think retirement is a real possibility. It would explain why nothing has happened with the Jets yet. They might have known all summer.

Yup. And I expect the Sabres will do it too if things shake out right. There are a lot of parts still moving with teams in camp and preseason now doing evaluation. I mean, we just found out Byfuglien might retire and it's already mid September. That could be a huge catalyst in a week or two.

If the Sabres trade Risto and waive a guy like Sobotka you free up 6.425 in cap. Waive Okposo and you get another 1.025. There are ways to make some space right now. Maybe just enough to field a better team.

I think a lot is going to depend on players like Olofsson making the jump and how much room we have to bury players in Rochester. We're very limited by cap space right now. Next season they can go nuts because so many forwards come off the books. But it's a little more complex right now. If Botterill can get a player or two back in trades that are on RFA deals that could get us through the year. I just don't know what a guy like Risto really gets you for the cap relief he provides. The first week of October could be real weird.

I think there's more coming.

I understand the sentiment, but I think it's possible to cover up some of the lack of depth at center with wingers who can actually score a damn goal. We did it for years here under Regier. The problem we have isn't just with the center spine, it's with offense in general. Jeff Skinner is our only scoring winger. All of the centers in the world don't solve that problem.

Any discussion on Ullmark and the new coaching really needs to wait a few months. I think there's a lot to work on with his development and we aren't going to see any of the fruits of that for a while yet. Hopefully he looks better in January than October, which would be the opposite of what happened last season.

They dominated until the third and then took their foot off the gas and almost blew it. The Pens were playing mostly AHLers so it doesn't count for much.

Preseason. They got outworked by Columbus early and never really found another gear beyond simply neutralizing the jackets attack. They had more vets in the lineup and our vets didn't do much.

I'm hoping Ice Jerseys will have these for customizing because they do the best work.

I'm trying to think of who has stood out the most to me in this game. Probably Casey Fitzgerald.