darksabre

If the Sabres don't make the playoffs this season I'm becoming a Gritty fan. Not a Flyers fan. Not a Sabres fan. Just a Gritty fan.

Yawn

I hope this is just classic "feeding the insiders stuff", but I really hope they're not going to keep Risto around. At the very least he's gotta be just about sick of being here anyway. But they gotta pay Dahlin and other D men and Risto's salary doesn't fit. I'd rather keep Miller.

Thomas Jefferson fan, eh?

Just gonna bump this one

😂 Imagine thinking the NYT is left leaning

I'm assuming it's Karmanos.

I just recently turned over some shirts in my sleeveless t-shirt collection. Tearing the sleeves off a shirt is pretty satisfying.

I'm only talking organizationally, not players.

Wouldn't it be something if the Sabres gutting everything down to the studs and then building it back up actually worked?

I'd be happy if our team was Montreal next year though

They just can't get anything going. It's wild. Price is making heroic saves but it doesn't matter.

I think the team wants to trade him but only if they can get the right return. I don't think Jack ever asked to be traded.

Because he doesn't have the leverage

I still don't think he's getting traded

Montreal's biggest issue right now is getting second and third opportunities. They're one and done on getting shots to the net and it's just not good enough against a goalie who basically always makes the first save. Tampa is dominating in the middle of the ice.

Come on, I want OT

I would like the Sabres to be confident enough in him to give him the Chabot deal. I think that's the only way you get the value from him you need. That makes me very uneasy.

It's all going to come down to timing. How confident are the Sabres locking him in long term right now? They would be wise to not wait, imo. Because I think if they bridge him and he goes off they're screwed. They're going to have to pay him and he's not going to take a discount like Hedman did. How much you wanna pay for it?

I'm not that convinced on Doughty anymore. Seabrook and Keith aren't in the same league as Dahlin should end up being. Hedman is possibly the only good example of a franchise D man actually making a difference in the last decade and he took a hometown discount to do it...

I have no concerns about Rasmus being an elite defenseman. The question lies in how much that is going to end up costing us. I've expressed before that I believe elite defensemen are often overvalued by teams at the expense of the rest of the roster. Erik Karlsson's career has been a total waste of money. Shea Weber has been and will continue to be overpaid. Drew Doughty? Brent Burns? Great hockey players to be sure, but none of them are pieces that I consider essential to success.

While I am drawn to Occam's Razor in most circumstances, I don't think it's quite that simple here. I'm sure "riding the hot hand" might have been part of the decision, but there are most certainly other factors involved as well.

Well, the point I'm trying to make there is that if you're worried that the Pegulas influenced a coaching hire because they were worried about what their reputation would be if they didn't hire a guy with previous head coaching experience, that appears to not have happened here. It's one angle to look at it from.