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I doubt Power goes to Rochester, but who knows.

https://hfboards.mandatory.com/threads/disallowed-sabres-goal-wasnt-offside.2859631/page-2 A bit of ways down Valet has a Blackhawks goal with the same circumstances that was ruled a good goal. Check that video I just pointed out

Would that not be based on what the linesman deems then? It sounds very gray area-ish. Clearly the league loves to crack down on the rules by the book when Buffalo gets hurt by it but when do we ever get the benefit of the league?

Biron had a better picture that clearly shows the play being onside

Olofsson pushed the puck over the line from behind the line. He doesn't touch it again until Dahlin has actually reached the blueline. In that case it would be inconclusive and thus a good goal as that was the call on the ice.

Yup, I even after picture evidence, the Sabres should issue a general complaint to the NHL seeing as it was the league office not the refs who made the call.

He was onsides, look

To be honest perhaps Adams will stay GM in order to be a figure head and media guy whereas Karmanos takes care of the more GM work without the stress of media scrutiny.

Not a great start but the first 2/3rds of last year were more on Krueger than Adams

Regier: Girgs Murray: Okposo Olofsson Asplund Botterill: Thompson Mitts Dahlin Miller Skinner Jokiharju Bryson UPL Cozens Murray Adams: Cagguila Butcher Hinostroza Hayden Anderson Dell Tokarski Subban Tuch Hagg *Pysyk* Bjork Eakin

Pretty much this, I expect him to augment this team this upcoming offseason; for instance getting a competent pair of goalies to at very least carry us to our next goalie. And bringing in a vet Dman who can mentor Power, Dahlin, etc. (Letang would be my preference, give 2x9mil) Then compete for the playoffs; I doubt we'd make it but I want a competitive team akin to Detroit this year.

Technically, there's a good chance both asked for more money than what they received on their 1 year deals, and would of prevented us from signing Taylor Hall. We know how much of a failure Hall was but at the time it seemed to be a pretty solid risk - reward to get the team to playoff contention. Ullmark signed for 1x2.6mil before last season. His minimum would of been rather close to his contract he got this year. So lets say 4.85mil for 4 years. Reinhart signed 1x5.2mil for last season. His multiyear contract was assumed to be akin to 5 to 7 years at around 7mil. (Florida taxes brought it down to 6.5 mil) That would be 4.05 mil in additional cap we would of had to find. As of Nov 1st last year we had just shy of 3.5mil in cap space. Unless we could of got Hall at a cheaper price, fans would of rioted had we extended Ullmark and Reinhart and made the Staal trade without anything else.

I guess the best way to describe it would be a soft internal cap; I don't feel that Adams wouldn't be allowed to spend on making the team better. Only the Pegulas don't wish to spend money for spending money's sake.

It will be interesting to see how the Rutherford influence takes shape there.

Good to see Krebs stepping up with Quinn missing with an illness. His goal was really nice. Peterka is everywhere, both due to his play and the announcer's mistakes lol.

Peterka made an effort play to race back and prevent a 2v0 from happening after Laaksonen blew a tire.

This city is cursed; nothing we do ever works out.

I want it on Twitter and I want the NHL shamed for cheating Sick of us being screwed on goal/ no goal calls

Go get Bishop Adams, take Khudobin too If that’s the price. Between all of these old injuries we should be able to cobble up 82 games worth of starts

This more recent time, we didn't exactly have a ton to tear down; we had a wooden shack on the beach lol

I just want to add that goalies not only have the longest incubation period but also are wildly difficult to get a read on; even when they play in the NHL. Every year, without exception at least 2 or 3 goalies play way above their career average and a few others tank for little to no reason at all. Some goalies are incredibly streaky (Bryzgolov), some are pretty much one hit wonders (Tim Thomas), some take the league by storm and then pitter out (Murray) Binnington was a mediocre at best AHL goalie forced into the NHL due to injuries and suddenly took the Blues to the Cup and has retained a bit better than Murray.

What exactly do you want him to do? Getting a solid goalie is far easier said than done. Should we trade our 1st for Gibson? Railing on something only can be tolerated for so long unless you have a strategy that doesn't mortgage the future. None of us are happy with the results; but no GM, even the greatest GMs, can make players appear out of thin air.

Benning has been bumbling around there for almost 7 years now. (He was hired in 2014) Signed a myriad of awful contracts and made multiple bad/questionable trades. I honestly feel bad for their next GM who'll be trying to fix a roster with a supposed civil war going on while having almost his entire roster under contract . Just look at their CapFriendly.... I'm not saying they're terrible but the last 2 years they've merely piled onto a roster that had 1 good run during the COVID playoffs.

Can’t blame Adams for this really; Eichel requested out when he was hired effectively. You can pin that on ownership and Botterill but Adams really had little chance to stop his truck from careening over the edge.

Still don’t believe Adams refused to offer Ullmark a fair contract. Presently he is overpaid by the Bruins. I don’t accept Vogl’s claims over the multiple differing reports of 3x5mil which was a very fair offer. He was a solid goalie whom was injured at least twice a year. Paying a guy 5 to 6 mil per year to play about 25 to 30 games is honestly bonkers. In my opinion our goaltending situation would be about the same with Ullmark still here when you add his typical injuries. We would have a better ceiling goaltending level but if he played 12 games before getting hurt; we still be in the crisis we are in now since Anderson isn’t coming out of nigh-retirement to backup. Thus we’d still be left with Tokarski, Dell and UPL. (I doubt we would of acquired Subban if Ullmark were still here.) Our record would be a tad better but we’d also be paying our goalie 5+ mil for about 30 to 40 games max. I don’t disagree we need a goalie desperately but who’s to say many goalies were even interested in coming to Buffalo. The longer this goes the less likely we will be capable of acquiring a competent goalie for a reasonable rate. And I’m not interested in trading a 2nd for a rental goalie.