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the greatest fans from Hockey heaven need a way to pay for their season tickets, and now that the Leafs are back to being good selling those games pays for them........

Everyone confuse (or associates) being bad or rebuilding as tanking. Teams are bad, and those teams usually sell off assetts to help rebuild, but today thats always called tanking Tanking is when a team goes into the season without intending to compete and intentionally tries to be the worst in order to obtain the #1 overall pick. The Pens being in poor financial position and selling off assetts to avoid bankruptcy does not mean they were tanking, and as you said, no one tanked for Crosby because it wasn't possible since the lockout occured that year.

They were so bad they made the playoffs in 2013 and were an epic 3rd period collapse away from knocking out the Bruins......... Theres nothing wrong with speeding up a rebuild and using picks to obtain good players The problem is that they lost out on the reason for the Tank (McDavid), and TMs drafts weren't able to obtain anything of real value. The prospects he drafted (along with most he traded away) really aren't all that awe inspiring or special TMs biggest problem, was that he didn't know how to trade from a position of power. When he saw something shiney he gave whatever they wanted to get it. Lehner was no where near worth a 1st, Ottawa was in a position where they needed to move someone. He should have been able to obtain what he did in the Kane trade for half of what he gave up. The entire NHL knew kane was done in Winnepeg and the Sabres were the only team that would take him of their hands while he was out for the remainder of the season. O'Reilly was also known to be out in Colorado, but that deal was atleast a little closer to being a reasonable deal. He overpaid for FAs (although that may have had more to do with getting them to Buffalo) and failed to really obtain any diamonds in the rough. And in poor coaching hires and its why they are in the mess they are in.

From this team? Well they are playing the Great McElhenney....... probably just trying to stand in the way of where the shot is going......

I think they need to pass it a little more on the PP.....

Watching Robin Lehner play, I cant believe Tim Murray wasn't being fought over when the Sabres let him go.... How were teams not banging on the Sabres door to get him at the deadline?

Lol, the tsn guys were just talking about how Lehner isnt helping thw Sabres with his softees.... A Nylander just did something to help the Sabres.....

wasn't ROR good at them on the Avs? that's the problem, this team struggles to score so it makes things worse having a goalie who doesn't make a few extra saves when needed. The better goalies in this league make the few extra saves when the team needs them to when they are struggling. How many feel comfortable that Lehner can hold a 1 goal lead for them to get a win? He isn't the only problem, but he still is a problem

That hit looks more like he was surprised and crapping his pants... Of course it's Marchand so chances are he saw Duclair late and with first instinct tried to get out of the way then at the last minute remembered who he was and desperately tried to make a hit

The key with Lehner is that he isn't the worst (most nights), but he isn't great either. Hes not the reason they are where they are in the standings, good or bad Today you need a goalie who can stand on their head and keep them in games when the rest of the team is struggling. Lehner hasn't shown he can do that. On a stacked team he may do enough to not cost them games, but he isn't going to steal wins when the team isn't playing well

I thought it was protected for the top 10 according to tsn or sportsnet. They said that Ottawa might give them it this year to protect next year's pick that wouldn't be protected and could also be top 10

Who would have thought that in a collision between a player and Bobby Ryan, that the other player would be the one leaving the game injured and Ryan would be back on the ice later.....

Lehner might want to spend his off-season training to be an NHL goalie instead of MMA and trying to be a psychopath. He will be lucky to find a KHL job next year

i wanted to know who let the snipper into the 300 level Looked like he had bee shot from up there when he went down. Watching the replays and playing beer league goalie myself, I can see both sides of this. At first I said he was out of his crease and no interference. Then some replays show he is still partially I the crease so interference could be called. Then I remembered it's the NHL and none of it would matter cause they will just flip a coin and call whatever. The goalie interference call in hockey seems to be their version of the catch rule in the NFL, no one really understands it, its not clearly written, and they never seem to get it right.... and which half? Left or right? top or bottom? Front or Back?

Are the handful of Sabres fans who didn't sell their tickets to Leafs fans going to make some noise?

I would bring him up for next season but as the #2, or maybe a #1b in a tandem Let him earn his way into the #1 role and take it from someone

It was a given once an owner was interested and a place was available. NHL wants TO be in seattle

only because TM gets over excited and gives up too much to get what he wants. He overpaid in the Kane deal, everyone knew Kane had to be moved and only the Sabres would take him out for the rest of that year and could give them something to help that year. What makes the deal bad is that they couldn't re-sign him and had to move him.

Well the Rangers can go out in the off-season and sign FAs to help out if that's how they want to go. They normally have no trouble signing the top FAs...

you have to have other teams willing to make a trade for those players, why is anyone giving up assets for Moulson? Nolan was already available when the Sabres picked him up. The rest are done a dozen players that teams could probably find players close to their caliber on waivers. Kane was way over hyped here in Buffalo. He was a good player with a damaged locker room reputation. He isn't and elite player

money talks and if the NHL is paying........ Fans were turning quickly in TO, they needed this and the league needed Toronto to turn things around to help their Canadian TV deal. The NHL wants TO to be good.

Didn't they say they were willing to retain salary in a deal for Kane?Might be that even with retention teams weren't willing to give up better picks or prospects for him. They would prefer to lose cash/cap space this year then a valuable pick or prospect

Sabres most likely get their 1st the year after without protection. Seems to be how it's been done in the past

Conditions will be on lottery and maybe how far they go in the playoffs. Won't be on re-signing as SJ appears to be saying that Kane is only a rental and won't be signing an extension

this is even slower then usual, the deadline seems to be getting slower every year but this one in comparison seems to have fallen of a cliff