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Kyle will likely sit two as well. We aren't trading a guy we just signed, or Vesey whom we just traded for. Reinhart wasn't bad after the 1st McCabe and Montour were ok

Risto, who knows Johansson is due to him being a vet

I think Mitts needs to have some time to grow into his slightly larger size. His D awareness is a bit better though

Well, if ROR didn't want to stay here then we were already in trouble.

Nothing says he hasn't tried. The price may just be ridiculous.

Feed cut, then was re-initialized by Sabres with our broadcast. The Krueger video popping up though was very odd lol

Hate the helmet thing, loved to see helmet-less players get a goal occasionally. Not fond of the shoot in with freeze rule either as it will potentially create situations where a team will take a shot from beyond the red line, have one guy race to the net and effectively put the goalie in a catch-22.

Mad someone from Hamburg I’d like to keep the skyway

Eichel was out there maybe a tad too long based on his play in OT but in the end he's still our best overall player at this time.

New guy 3 were on Johansson

Yup, sometimes you need a save from your goalie and in this game there's not been many from our two.

I was too young to truly remember the whole event but I remember my teacher rolling a TV into the classroom and later going home very confused about what was going on.

That would be terrible, Roslovic is a future 3rd liner and Perreualt is a 3rd liner. I’d rather have Kase in that case. id also rather have Risto than Faulk due to his far larger use on the team. He brings physical play regardless if he’s producing offensively.

Im beginning to hate Carolina more and more. Can they just stop jumping in front of us.

I could certainly see WPG or ANA being interested in Risto if they deal Laine. WPG would have more assets to use and capspace ANA would have a Finnish guy who might need a friend ?

? The coaches stand behind the player's bench as #freejame said. Only in Russia are the benches in front for some strange reason. ----------Coach----------- [====Bench======] --------Boards------------

To be honest I'm starting to wonder if there's a spy in the Sabres front-office tipping the Hurricanes off. 2nd or 3rd time now they've seemingly jumped something we were working on.

Then why no Ryan Miller or an edited Winter Classic jersey? Plus why use Housley's picture from his Calgary days? It makes 0 sense

No way would I do that as Buffalo; Laine is literally a one trick pony with questionable work ethic. Not to mention he wants ridiculous amount of money.

Forgot Mitts

I just hope they don't move the Bills downtown as it would just ruin the feel of Bills game days and over-encumber an already badly designed city highway system.

The only way I take Henrique is as a cap dump with Kase and it being 50% retained

Here's an interesting scenario I thought of Ristolainen & Girgs for Rakell & Kesler(50%) + a 3rd in 2022

I'm getting the sense that this massive number of RFA's is causing anything that may have been done since the Draft to be put on the back burner. Is this our roster come opening night; I'm certain a guy will be sent to Rochester to get under the cap at least.

Someone put the old Sabres-Sens Brawl's entire game on YouTube Why am I mentioning this here? Because this is where culture and skill meet. Culture has become some kind of amorphous buzzword but what it really should encapsulate is the unity of a team's players. Skill is vital to a successful team but so is this unity where everyone from skill players to 4th liners play for each other and fill whatever roles they need to for the betterment of the team. Just look at Drew Stafford, he was never a truly great player, and never was all that physical but when his teammates were attacked he would fight anyone to stand up for them. One thing that worries me about trading Risto is, beside Eichel being known to get rough with those who try to hurt Reinhart, our sheer lack of any physical presence and our lack of non-physical players actually playing out of their element when the situation demands it. If Eichel or Skinner were headshot by a grinder who on this team would actually chase said player down? Its not a fact of winning the fight; its the showing that you give a damn and no one goes after our captain or one of our stars. Now you don't want them to fly off the handle, but in the situation above you need players throughout the lineup to play just that much more physical. That doesn't mean we need grinders and fighters; it just means we need the guys like the Shearys and Veseys to throw a body check and not play scared. I disagree, a good culture will make a mediocre team good. It's when a skilled team, that has a unified front, comes to the ice that you see Stanley Cup contention. Culture is the mortar on the bricks(players) which forms a wall. Winning and success is said mortar drying and solidifying. A skilled team with no mortar is merely a pile of bricks; it can stand on its own but give it enough of a push and it will topple. The Sabres problems can be summed up as having badly made bricks, nice bricks, limited mortar, and little to no dry weather.