Eleven

You ARE the wet blanket. What are you talking about?

Bryson with a really nice shift. Wow.

By "trap," maybe they just meant "home"?

I'm all for riding a struggling opposing goalie, but chanting "Elvis" at him after this performance (so far) just seems cheap.

Maybe 5 minutes. Now I've refreshed--but I missed the goal in the process.

My ESPN + must be behind by two minutes or more.

WTF is this...

This deadline is freaking crazy. There are about four teams blowing everything they have for the next several years. And then there's Washington, which is all schizo.

Toronto, Boston, and Rangers are loading up on heavy artillery and Carolina just got a pop gun.

HE'S STILL CURIOUS ABOUT THE UNKNOWN 3RD TEAM LOL

The "count" happens at noon daily, no?

Yeah, and Stiffler or whatever his name is might return to his Florida form on a better team. Who knows? What I do know is that there is a clog in the forward pipeline while the D pipeline is almost empty.

Mr. Carlson, maybe.

50 contracts in a season and 23 on the roster at any given moment (pre-deadline). Anything that pushes Bryson further down the chart is a good thing to me, I guess. Would I have traded Thompson for him? No. But this future JAG is as fungible as they come. It's really not wasting an asset because he's not really an asset. He's just kind of there, like a book on your shelf that you haven't picked up in 20 years.

Let's flip this around. What is it that you see in Bloom that makes him someone that the Sabres shouldn't trade in a situation like this? Or is it the principle of the thing? Because it seems like most of the rest of us don't see anything special there.

CapFriendly has them at 44, but that's w/o Houser and this guy and probably one more. You don't have to count--it's right up top on the team page--but you do have to verify that CapFriendly has everything.

That's all Stillman is meant to do--replace Bryson and drive Bryson down the chart. Again, on this team, Bloom is nothing special and certainly not untradeable for D depth. Four years ago? Maybe. But it isn't four years ago anymore.

Based upon the number and nature of the forwards ahead of him in the system.

So is Bloom, in this organization. But why do this now?

We knew that.

ok...

Not I.

It is, as long as the owner and fans are prepared for the upcoming drought.

Yes, and I am having a lot of fun watching Tampa, Toronto, and Boston recklessly spend what little currency they have. The Sabres are going to be in good shape soon, relative to those three.

After three years, the league will pressure them to change up so they can sell more stuff.