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If so both should be drawn and quartered for treason

I do get a kick out the Bills' press release not mentioning the Leafs. Effectively they were alluding to connections with the other MLSE properties but not with the Leafs which is at least nice.

Toronto, their fans and franchise as a whole just perturb me. Every Win = Greatest Team in Hockey Every Loss = Worst Team in Hockey or they are being cheated (Unlike most, they will insist on it far longer than most. Essentially they see every Leaf like Zach Benson when it comes to penalties)

A couple sprinklers were triggered and broke the line

To me +/- is only relevant beyond 15/-15 If a player is a +33 on the season he’s very likely to be good. -33 would obviously entail the opposite. However I wouldn’t use that as a great or dependable decider in regards to stats. It’s good as a quick glance judgement but rarely do players sit at either extreme

Between July 15th and September 5th tend to be the dry times. Aside from a rare trade and arbitration cases; there isn’t much going on in hockey then.

Historic and recent Cup Winners, doubt they’ll have a ton of problems unless they go like Detroit. I’d limit NMCs to 30+years, so if you sign 7 years from 26 to 33, he could have clauses any year in which he’s 30 prior to the deadline.

Better not mean a 3-headed monster or Lyon getting waived like Reimer

He's vindictive and is in bed with the party at large, he is rather hypocritical and overly shares his opinions on Twitter. So just a typical swarmy politician. I've met him twice as well as his Deputy and both give off a degree of "Holier than thou" energy in person. Like its all for show and they actually loathe you for daring to touch his hand. Granted I work in govt and can see some of his and the party's handiwork first hand. Let's just say the party's will is what really runs the County and not what any constituent wants (Just wanted to add the Republicans here are seldom much better)

If we are firmly in a spot at the deadline, go ahead. Otherwise if they trade it, miss the playoffs and then their pick wins the lottery the city will likely burn.

The 2026 1st isn’t on the table, period.

Few if any besides maybe SJS and Chicago

His analytics would say otherwise; plus you can add 10 to 15 pts to his total if guys would just bang in pucks he gets to the front after he digs them out of the boards.

My guess is they'll announce Pegula is buying the stadium with some degree of KeyBank involvement

The problem is there are about 3 teams actually selling and the rest are in either holding or buy stances. Could we beat an offer for Rust or Rakell, sure; but I sure as hell wouldn't bother because they'll be looking for our unprotected 1st or a protected 1st and Helenius.

The Devils defense was an enigma that year based on future performance. Graves is a complete train wreck in Pittsburgh. Brendan Smith has always been a depth dude from his first games in the league. Severson spun his great season into a large contract with Columbus before falling back to his typical level. He’s very good just not his contract level good at signing. Marino has been a great Defensive Player so I’m unsurprised by him Hamilton’s defense leaves much to be desired but is still a dynamic player when healthy.

Well where is this real goalie coming from? I’ll take UPL over the grab bag approach and I’m not dealing high end assets for a long term contracted goalie as they are an enigma. If you keep UPL’s confidence up, he tends to play solid and much better than most other options.

All I’d change is Zucker and Greenway’s wings and would expect the Sabres to at least start with Kesselring with Power. I think Doan overtakes Greenway by game 15 barring injuries. If not for his injury history I’d say he’s effectively in a Bot6 + PK role and Doan makes him somewhat irrelevant however I’d rather have both than neither. I do agree though I would of done 1 yr or 2x2.5/3mil

Effectively, we came to the plate with 2 outs and a man on 1st who after a pitch got caught stealing thus ending the inning.

My question is how do we know they haven’t done all they could? From the outside we can certainly pick them apart but how do we know that we aren’t just ***** this offseason thanks to a combination of a lack of good UFAs, NMCs/NTCs, a general dislike among other players/coaches/management candidates, etc? While I don’t think they’ve exhausted every search or turned over every rock to anyone’s satisfaction; that doesn’t mean they aren’t doing anything. I can’t quite wrap my head around how you are even a fan of the Sabres or any sports team for that matter. You want to take the hardline logical and cynical approach to everything and fandom is neither at the core of it. No matter the hopeless situation that may appear; fans will always find some means to make cheering meaningful. Your need to give anyone here a cynical diatribe about how we are delusional about this team because we want to manufacture hope is just not needed. It’s akin to telling a Stage 4 cancer patient, “yeah, you’re going almost certainly die” and even when you’re likely 99% factual with that statement that doesn’t mean you’re required to tell them that. You aren’t their doctor, you are just the person’s acquaintance from across the street. Maybe we even deserve some divine providence at this point; we’ve been royally screwed so many times and yet somehow never get to fall ass backwards into even a semblance of success.

Well rarely do you see anyone garner kudos for standing firm on the idea of “innocent until proven guilty” when accusations are dished out. You only either get hammered for not doing anything, hammered for not doing something fast enough, or ignored/ridiculed for acting at all.

There was plenty of people demanding Araiza be released even before we had all the information

I'd be happy to see it but I'd imagine the media would crucify us

I can't imagine the Sabres doing it; the PR would create more hand wringing than they'd deem acceptable.

Was unsure where to put this: Found out today the Sabres built a 1mil sauna in the locker room for Eichel during that scramble to placate Eichel. Was honestly not surprised