thewookie1

Bastard

Dahlin's flub wasn't a bad play just a badly executed one that likely is the result of exhaustion. Then literally everything that could go wrong goes wrong with Huberdeau falling thus blocking Skinner, Jokiharju coming high and inadvertently cutting off Dahlin who loses his footing and can't get back to Bennett. The Sabres deserved better, they are fighting like cornered rats though so I like seeing that. I liked seeing Tuch doing what he could to get Dahlin to get away from Bennett at the end.

5/6 if he plays in the WJC in August

SO do we try to convince Power to PTO with Rochester and then sign 3 years on ELC to avoid him coming up with Dahlin, Jokiharju, and Mitts contracts?

It was 2-0 and then 3-1; we never led by 3 during the game. I think everyone here is angry we lost; many of us however want to find the good parts in their performance. Earlier this year they were ran out of Carolina. This year they blew a lead but their fight never ceased and they forced Carolina to play at a very high level in order to beat us this time. We played toe to toe with them until they tied it and still threatened until their lead goal in the 3rd. With their lead Carolina did what they do best in playing a heavy forecheck coupled with aggravatingly lining 4/5 players at their blue line and clutching & grabbing anyone entering the zone.

#### the Hurricanes and their 15 fans. They don't even deserve a freaking franchise. Infuriating game in the 3rd, between Buffalo's non-existent powerplay and Carolina playing forecheck forecheck and then everyone lineup at the blueline and grab anything in a white jersey

I'll certainly give you partial credit there.

I have no problem with their color commentating, just something about their pbp makes me think of a grade school lecture

I'm sorry but I cannot stand women pbp announcers. They just don't sound right, their highs are too shrill and their lows are either barely audible or make them sound like a woman pretending to be a man for a joke. Carolina looked for blood but never found any

Denver was a hair better but Michigan got jobbed by the refs. 0 PP opportunities... seriously when they gave Denver 3 of them?!?

So what’s the deal with airplane food?

It would appear as if nill has been hacked since I’ve never seen him actually positive about anything before lol

It could just as easily be thanks to Pysyk being a vet that he’s giving Butcher a game here and there to try and salvage his career Yes

Strangely the year we won Dahlin I was watching a random anime. The main female lead was named Zero-Two and her catch phrase was Darling but sounded a bit like Dah-Len so I actually made an offhand prediction that because we were 0-2 in draft lotteries that we were destined to get Dahlin to which we did lol.

Seems like Levi really likes to become well done before moving up

That may be too short of a turnaround for Power if he plays the championship game

I'd treat Okposo akin to Anderson Give him the option over the season if he'd like to go Cup chasing if we aren't close enough to make a playoff appearance ourselves. Regardless I'd tell him that the door is still open on >3.5mil contract for 1 year and again in the further future at lower cap hits. And when he chooses to hang up the skates; he'll have a job either in the Sabres organization or Harbor Center. Guy is a warrior and a great influence on the younger players. As long as he can give some degree of on-ice production and mentors the young core he has a home with the team.

I still like UPL but it would be akin to using Helle as the stop gap for Levi/Portillo hence my willingness to make him available in that trade.

No way on a top 10 pick. I’d give them FLA’s 1st and perhaps UPL for Hellebuck

The Sabres could try what a few teams have done. Offer Olofsson 4x4.5 mil but then also give him the option of a 1x9mil contract with a planned latter deal of 3x3.5mil. Helps us with the cap floor and gives Olofsson a bit more money while helping the team in the long term

Wish I could of got a banner but people horded them. Great game through and through, even Terry took the boos like a pro. Id guess either Okposo or Tuch have a C next year

My guess would be Tuch based on his upbeat personality but also willingness to tell a player to shape up in a civil manner. (I remember someone mentioning this happening earlier this year)

This whole point grinds my gears because it is fully based on hindsight. Also even if we retained on Hall I doubt they intended to trade Swayman away.

Drury was a dick, but also backed up his dictatorship with his background and play on the ice. He practiced what he preached. Additionally he had Briere and others to balance it out. Telling a guy who’s French-Canadian to not speak French for interviewers is plain idiotic

Ok I do feel our biggest issue is goaltending but that is arguably the hardest position to guess at. Goalies get hot the drop; play terrible except 1 year where they win a Vezina; and sometimes a bit of both and more. Look at Anderson in Carolina, he looked cooked in Toronto just this past year. Where did the Hamburgler go after his miraculous 30 game run he had in Ottawa? Murray won two Cups as a rookie and then imploded within the next 5 years. Choosing goalies to fill in holes is like one of those aggravating fair games where you toss rings at bottles and try to get them to go around the top. Drafting them is almost just as much a crapshoot seeing as goalies can take anywhere from a year to a decade to actually come into their own. Analytics can help, but even they have serious flaws in truly predicting goalie talent. Im not saying Adams shouldn’t even try; but I certainly won’t crucify him if he gets a seemingly good goalie to hold the crease for a few years only for them to flop