Ruff Around The Edges
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6 minutes ago, SDS said:
Why should I believe that?
Well they say in most cases the truth is in the middle so I suppose we will never 100 percent know.
All I know is it seems because of a fluky decent start for the Sabres some fans have lost sight of the true cancer. Ownership. They still are a #@#@ stain in my eyes and have MUCH to prove to change that fact.
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Would Dahlin be best with Jokiharu?
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Dominik Hasek demanded to be traded and wanted to orchestrate the trade to the team he wanted and wanted to ensure the Sabres did NOT get a big return to ensure that the team that Dom was going to was going to be a Cup contender.
Eichel wanted to have surgery that has never been performed on a NHL player EVER to ultimately HELP the team he still wanted to leave, to get Buffalo a better return so he can still help he team he wanted to leave.
Just marinate on this for a bit.
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11 minutes ago, dudacek said:
Nine NHL execs give Lebrun their takes on the trade.
No surprise it’s a mixed bag - from Buffalo screwed up the timing and got a 3rd line winger and a prospect with questions, to Buffalo did as well as could be expected, Tuch’s a good player and Krebs could be a top 6.
Sounds about right.
Krebs is the entire key to the deal. No way to sugarcoat it.
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Dahlin's rookie year the forward crop was much better then now or in the previous two seasons.
Are offensive defenseman like Dahlin more co-dependent on having skilled forwards then the other way around? For example if you plop Dahlin on Edmonton now, how many points does Dahlin rack up this year?
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If there is one point that should be taken from this trade its this in regards to today's NHL:
Cap space IS King.-
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Greg Wyshynski is and forever will be a smug Sabres hater. I knew him from a Devils board way back before he became big time and he was always salty about Hasek winning Venizas over his boy Brodeur. Always take what he says about Buffalo with a grain of salt and more saltiness from him.
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Vegas just makes the most sense for Eichel at this point. LTIR, they can make the playoffs without him and Vegas can 'pull a Kucherov' come playoff time with Jack.
Vegas does have some assets that can be intriguing to Buffalo. I am hoping for Tuch/Krebs and a 1st in 2022 as the real prizes of the deal.
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1) Leading scorers - Goals, Assists and Points:
Goals: Jeff Skinner (26)
Assists: Rasmus Dahlin (38)
Points: Casey Mittlestadt (53)
2) Team record 23-53-8 54 points and #32 overall in the NHL
3) Team MVP Casey Mittlestadt
4) Team ROY Mattias Samuelsson
5) First Player traded Will Butcher
6) First player recalled from Rochester JJ Peterka
7) Surprising in season move (trade or acquistion) Sabres trade Olofsson
8.) Best surprise player Casey Mittlestadt
9) Biggest disappointment Dylan Cozens
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Jack doing neck rehab while bending his neck different ways as he was chugging beers?
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John Rigas might be considered a disgraced owner, but I miss his ownership over the Pegula tire fire by a country mile.
RIP John.
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The Sabres will not receive what they want until they allow interested teams to see Eichel's medical records.
But from the outside, it looks like the Sabres are closely guarding this information because there might be something in there that greatly decreases Jack's value.
Nothing will change until that information is made available.
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"And welcome to KeyTANK Center in Buffalo, for another night of Buffalo Sabres hockey"
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At times I liked their show but they have to change the name of that show now.
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On 9/11/2021 at 2:52 PM, Marvin, Sabres Fan said:
The last day when everyone thought of me as an American because I was born here was 10 September 2001. Since then, I daily see people looking at me with suspicion and fear. My wife was called a terrorist sympathiser at work. I had death threats put in my mailbox.
I had season tickets to the Sabres and Bills. Midway through the first quarter of the next Bills game, a security guard came down to me and a friend. He told us to signal for an escort if we wanted to get up. I had been on TV during the pregame and several death threats had been phoned into the Bills' main line. He pointed me to at least 10 guards at the top of the stairs.
At the first Sabres game after 9/11/2001, there was a fight near my section. The next game, there was extra security. A guard met me at the entrance to the arena and escorted me to my seat. I found out that three men had intended to grab me and throw me out of the upper bowl into the lower bowl. The ushers and men in the area defended me as a real Sabres fan. Then the fight started. The three people who had threatened me were charged with attempted murder. The people who defended me were not charged. The were extra guards in sections 312-314 the entire season.
When Bush 43 ordered the invasion of Afghanistan, I found out an old friend was working in Kandahar with the civilian population. When I told me Dad, he told me that his father's family's farm village from before India's partition was near there. He had me tell my friend how anyone can escape through the mountains into Pakistan if they were captured. Sikh temples throughout Pakistan were ready to house Allied escapees.
I will be honest. When I heard a plane had hit the World Trade Center, I thought it had to be fake. When I saw the carnage, I knew it had to be Bin Laden -- three years before in a news magazine, there was an interview with him entitled, "This Guy Is Dangerous." I also knew that my life was going to get worse. My Dad and I talked about me learning Urdu and Arabic so that we could go to Waziristan to kill Bin Laden ourselves.
Interestingly, Buffalo was the top 300 city with the fewest anti-Muslim incidents for the few weeks after 9/11. In the years since then, Sikhs, Hindus, Muslims, Baha'is, and others moved to the area from other parts of the country. All of the congregations of our local houses of worship doubled or even tripled within a year. People in several local immigrant communities were told that Buffalo was a good place to live because of this.
Reading your story made me angry inside, and angry against anyone that would look at you that way and also that your wife had to deal with being called a terrorist sympathizer, and the death threats, just made me so sad and angry towards these monsters that you and your family dealt with that. I pray for you and your family that those issues have subsided.
Someone like myself who was born and raised in New Jersey, saw the Towers smoke with my own two eyes, and lost a close friend from our town (he was 31 and in the North Tower, Floor 92) and the pain and devastation that followed for me and to a much greater extent, his family and close friends and our town, at that time and now I could never ever dream is mistreating someone just because they 'look like one of the terrorists'. Never. In fact I in many ways ensured I treated people with more respect and care after 911, because everyone of every gender, race, religion needed that at that time, and still does.
20 years later I live in California, and I went to a 911 memorial on Saturday, and when I saw my friends picture, all those memories rush back, all the sadness, disbelief, some anger, confusion. One never gets over something like that, you just learn how to to deal with it better.
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5 minutes ago, Buffalonill said:
League sources report that Jack Eichel and Kevyn Adams have been seen together at the offices of a well known relationship coach. Out of an abundance of respect for the privacy of the individuals we will not publish the name of the world famous marriage counselor involved. The sense around golf courses favored by NHL players is that Eichel and the Sabres are on a path to reconciliation. Eichel's new agent Pat Brisson is said to be preparing to call a press conference where he lays the entire blame for the friction on Eichel's former agent Peter Fish.
This was on HFB.
Personally I would absolutely love this to be true
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Isn't Brisson's son on Vegas? That's it, Eichel is a Golden Knight 😄
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3 minutes ago, Buffalonill said:
Just like Girgensons ? Or Cody Hodgson and so on.
When Jack is gone I don't want to see a captain on this team until someone get this team into the playoffs and becomes that person.
Stop just giving the C away for fun
I agree but in some cases now the 'C' is reserved for the most talented or most productive player on the team. The 'C' aspect is what counts in the locker room, in practice, meetings etc. And in some cases that player might not ever wear the C.
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Wait, Jack Eichel might be traded? I forgot at this point
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Find me any franchise in sports where the most popular name associated with the franchise is probably not a player, but its the play-by-play man.
I am glad that Rick decided this on his own and he is having a farewell tour this year.
Also, the last home game on April 29th 2022 vs Chicago is probably one that I would like to attend if possible, very likely and hopefully the Sabres will give Jeanneret an amazing send off that night at the arena.
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Buffalo will probably take it and pay whatever it takes to keep the Bills in WNY.
The part that annoys me the most is how badly Mike Florio loves this and needs this.
Screw him.
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The key here is too, while I an see some good things coming for the likes of Cozens, Mitts, Tage and others, what will the impact be on losing Sam (forget Jack). Was Sam that integral in the late season flashes we saw for the other players?
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1 hour ago, dudacek said:
Things that are thought to be true:
- Calgary wants Eichel and wants to ditch Tkachuk.
- The Blues want Tkachuk and want to ditch Tarasenko
- The Sabres want to ditch Eichel and they have a ton of cap space.
- Tarasenko is pretty much worthless at his current contract
Why not a three-way trade:
- Flames trade Tkachuk, Pelletier and a 1st and get Eichel and 2nd
- Sabres trade Eichel and a 2nd and get Pelletier, Thomas, 2 1sts, and the rights to Tarasenko
- Blues trade Thomas, Tarasenko and a 1st and get Tkachuk
Sabres would then retain salary on Tarasenko (who has an NMC) and flip him for more futures
Any traction?
I would say this: Not sure if this specifically this will get done, but a 3 way trade for Buffalo IMO seems to be the best course of action to satisfy what KA will want in a return, even if that means giving up a 2nd rounder: Since about only 20% of 2nd round picks play even over 100 career NHL games , I would be willing to do that all day to get what the Sabres want to get.
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Robin who?
Robin: Good for you that you are overcoming your demons and I wish you the best going forward: You are bringing awareness for mental health and for that we are all better for it.
As for trashing your former team years later publically: Bad form. Its weak IMO. He is in the rear view mirror for me as a Sabres fan.
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Let the tank commence