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This is wild. I'm glad to be spending this night refreshing twitter and reading commentary live on Sabrespace. We should make a pool on when a deal is struck. I'm optimistic. I say in the 2am hour...

Per multiple reports, owners have left the meeting 13 minutes after returning from dinner.... lol very bizarre.

LOL... someone just texted me this a few minutes ago, as me and a few pals already take deadline day off from work and we always realize we did it for nothing.

I think you're rushing Armia a bit too fast. He's currently sitting out in Finland with a concussion. With the North American game being more physical then in Finland, and him having a concussion problem, i would suspect Armia will play in Rochester for a extended amount of time before he comes up to Buffalo.

They won't start this early. They'll need about 10 days of training camp, but it will take a few days for all the paper work to be signed before they even start camp. Doug McLean said he's heard if a deal is reached in next 24hr, they'll try to play a 58 game season, starting December 22. I also from other media on twitter that they may hold off until early January (2nd i believe), and play a 48 game season.

Great news. While I think the owners/player meeting will get all the pub, i think the Monday secret meeting is what sealed it. They knew they had to play and realistically, they needed a deal done before mid-Dec if they wanted to play a single game this season.

I hope they do this Monday classic Sabres night a tradition even beyond the lockout. Not during the season but during the summer months.

Must be watching other teams then the Bills.

Thought this was interesting. I copy and pasted this from Buffalo BlueandGold facebook page. I hope they dont get upset at me stealing their ######.

Awesome. I mean, if we agree to draft i will be there but if we do a vote to postpone or keep it, i vote postpone it.

nobody, set the draft to "offline draft" then we wont have a draft day. Then, once an agreement is made, change it to "online draft" and we'll pick a new date. I really don't feel like drafting next week.

Why the hell is Jaime Langenbrunner a Sabre?

Sabres drop from #11 to #60? Yikes. The posters they need to be interviewing for this story is PA and DeLuca.

Whatever happened to "once a Sabre, always a Sabre"? I have no problem with Jay McKee or Danny Gare doing this kind of stuff. In fact, i'd always want Gare to be out and about doing this kind of work, he is a "Sabres legend" after all, and his number is hanging at First Niagara Center, after all. But, if it makes you feel any better, when the tour goes to the St. Catherines hospital tomorrow, they will be joined by Cody Hodgson. Or is he also not good enough?

link- http://www.azcentral.com/members/Blog/SarahMcLellan/171463

Cool topic. One of my favorite Sabres traditions is the way they hand out jersey numbers. I heard this story about 10 years ago so all the details may not be true, so someone may fill me in, but the Sabres, like some other teams, have Rip Simonick pick a "nascar" number for a unproven player. Once a player proves themselves, they can change to the number they had originally requested. For example, Tim Kennedy held up #13 at his press conference when he first signed, but wore #58 when he first was called up. Myers selected #3 but got #57, though, with his hot start, he felt it was good luck to keep it. I just think it's cool that we make the players earn that jersey. Like, getting a "nascar" number isn't exactly making it. Once you become established, you get to pick your number. I heard Gerbe had picked #19 but Connolly was #19 when he was allowed to switch so he stayed. Not sure what the story is with Ennis. Most players change, but not always. During the Golisano era, they stopped using this method because the high ups (probably Quinn) felt the youth movement would sell more jerseys if guys like Vanek, Roy and Pominville get to pick a number. Like i said, i heard the story about 10 years ago, so i may be off, but that's the basic idea.

Ditto. The team should be pretty stacked. I imagine Cody Hodgson plays there too. Besides that, I usually make it to 1 RIT game, so i'll probably attend 1-2 more then usual. During the last lockout, my buddies and I went to see a London Knights game (Corey Perry and Sabres prospects Dylan Hunter and Adam Dennis). That was cool, at the time, i had high hopes for Hunter and my buddy thought Dennis would become a future #1.... how things changed since that lockout... lol

Thanks. So they'd be a good fit for the Webster rink.

http://www.thegriffincanisius.com/canisius-planning-to-play-at-webster-block-1.2889419#.UED__5YwWfV Canisius is planning on playing at one of the rinks. How many people are going to fit in that arena? How much does Canisius even draw?

So, Pegula was in Darcy's ear during the draft when he drafted Zack Kassian, Brayden McNabb, Marcus Foligno and Maxime Legault...? C'mon, i realize there is a big hatred towards Darcy Regier here, but let's not make him out to be some kind of a joker who got lucky that some oil tycoon needed to whisper to his ear that he needed to add grit to the roster.

Why? While i never do wear any of my old jerseys (goathead, butter knife or slug), as they sit in the back of my closet, but i have no problem people wearing them. After all, they are all Sabres jerseys.

Have not played the demo. But i am pretty excited for this game to come out. Also, Dominik Hasek has been added the the "legends" roster which is pretty cool.

Link- http://www.bizjournals.com/buffalo/blog/alphabet_soup/2012/08/tidbits-from-the-webster-block.html?page=2 In all the news of the Webster block development, some actual Sabres news came out too.

We have as much of a chance of signing Shane Doan as a KHL team did if they decided to offer Doan a contract, just for the sake of offering him a deal and making a headline in a local newspaper. It's pretty clear Doan does NOT want to play in Buffalo. http://www.buffalonews.com/sports/sabres-nhl/article1022846.ece If there was even a slim hope, you know Pegula would force Ted Black and/or Darcy to speak with Doan and his people on a semi-consistent basis. http://prohockeytalk.nbcsports.com/2012/08/27/penguins-gm-doan-has-made-it-clear-he-wants-to-stay-in-phoenix/ Pens also losing hope. But from sounds of it, Doan and them are actually speaking. Doan used us for the contract terms, nothing more, nothing less. Time to move on.