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My guess is Ellis is being transferred elsewhere and Wilford is at the whim of the new Head Coach

Perhaps Pegula finally decided to put a fire on Adams' ass to do something or resign

I personally feel bad for Granato because he seems like a great guy but from a team standpoint that was very much needed to push beyond development central.

It would be nice if you wouldn't blatantly ignore Dahlin and Muel in having some jam to their games. Yes, in general our defense is on the soft side but just ignoring Dahlin, who literally was within a handful of hits of Clifton all year, is outright biased.

My guess based on the press conference times will be that the majority of assistants are fired and a vet coach is hired to be an assistant along with other new people.

Cozens has had issues this year but he’s also had god awful puck luck, complete reverse of last season, so getting a couple goals today makes me happy.

Benson on a great ply by everyone on that line

The season was well summed up in this game to be honest. Back and Forth with the other team looking dominate at times but the Sabres did counter-punch effectively. Killed off a questionable 5min PK Score 1 PP goal Gave up a SHG Power made a clutch save twice behind UPL We had a puck 2/3rds over the line only for a Panther to use his hands to pull it out last second Kill off another PK Have a failed PP attempt Screwy OT Florida scores due to their best center stripping our 2C and passing it to our former player who's fresher than everyone else who easily skates through the Sabres and scores.

Now that we know you had a brain fart, I can’t help but imagine this

Murray will always be known as an overspender, regardless of the facts due to his tendency to throw assets at particular players he wanted to get. For instance, trading 2 2nds for Fasching and Deslauries was very unlikely to pan out. 1 very raw player and a guy switching from D to F. There was potential there but we already had and continued to bring back Bailey and Baptiste which created a logjam in Rochester which was in dire need of a center. The other major example was the Evander Kane and Bogosian deal seeing as he traded two NHLers, a 1st and then some for an injured head case who was literally being shopped around and a disappointing injury riddled defenseman + a throwaway goalie. Effectively it felt like they should of been able to get Bogosian for Myers straight up and that they traded a King’s ransom for a guy WPG wanted to be rid of.

So Arizona/Phoenix with an expansion team while Utah gets the Yotes f I'm reading this correctly.

I wouldn't go as far as to say we are coached not to hit but I'd guess it is far from emphasized to finish checks. My guess is most of the players are effectively coached to not "chase hits" or potentially hurt their positioning. Additionally I don't think hitting holds anyplace in Granato's strategy specifically. Unlike Vancouver who said they run around hitting people the first 10 minutes purposely. All hits by Sabres players tend to be either personality/emotionally driven or inadvertent. Thompson is an emotional hitter, you see it when he's angry or desperate. Dahlin both has a persona that likes to hit as well as a tendency to hit with emotional motives but not not exclusively in that regard. His running over of two guys at the end of the Detroit game were emotional where as his typical hits are more just his way of playing. Clifton hits a lot because he likes to hit; for him no emotion is needed for him to get pleasure causing pain. Tuch is in a very similar place as Thompson only he'll hit people more naturally due to his style of play.

Oh boy

I don't fully disagree, only with the bolded. While it was in part a shot at Eichel it was also a true statement about a few different players. From Leino to Berglund to ROR to Eichel we've had a number of players who have said their happy to be here only to run out the door at their first opportunity or just stop trying to play altogether. "Most players don’t have a NMC." While from mathematics standpoint this is true; a large number of the type of player we are looking for do. We aren't looking for 4th liners or pure castoffs. Likewise some high end players never received any NTC/NMC since they are effectively locked in there for life. For example, Aho and Svechnikov. Aho however will have a full NMC starting next season. Robert Thomas and Jordan Kyrou are a couple more examples; the likelihood of them being traded is slim to none. The players we are looking for are the guys in that middle range, defenseman akin to 2,3,4 and higher end 2nd/3rd line players who can play a role and thrive. The issue is many of those players have NTCs as a deterrent to being dealt at the deadline. Since a team can far more easily eat 2mil on a 2x6 mil contract to pick up better assets than they would eating 4 mil of a 4x8mil. The dealing team isn't going to have any interest in 4 years of retention while the other team cant afford the 8mil cap hit.

I give Dahlin credit for diving to get his stick over the line

You must be real fun at parties, ever heard of enjoying a nice distraction of a rival in a sudden collapse

Can’t exactly be angry at that deflection

I’m disappointed, I had always hoped @Spoonman was a literal spoon with eyes and @Doohickie was an object which we didn’t know what it was called

Win out and we'll end up at DeLuca .500 which would certainly sum up this season. Mediocrity; highs and lows but we were never good enough to run or bad enough fall apart

Not sure how Dahlin doesn't fit your standards; he has a lot in common with Doughty Also Larkin is completely different from all the rest listed.

True, granted that proposal was a month ago

I wish terrible things for Kane and Lyon for the rest of their days, find some witch doctor, we can all pitch in. Top line played well Benson played well, Quinn looked awful, Cozens seemed to stop being a rumbler after his fight which is concerning. 3rd line was effectively Krebs and Skinner taking turns being relevant but never simultaneously. 4th line did its job fine. Dahlin was great, and deserved a far better ending. Liked seeing him wreck Compher and Edvindson; I love when he shows his edge but he can't do it often seeing as he kinda has to be their best Dman in every aspect most nights Power was ok and then he took a puck to the face Bryson was small but ok until he took a stick to the eye Clifton played fine Byram was a rollercoaster of somewhat good and bad Jokiharju, who has had a bounce back year yet again sees to crumble under pressure. Like the team itself mostly crumbles but he's like the poster child for making absolutely inexplicable plays in clutch situations. He's a reverse Justin Williams. UPL was solid, could I complain; sure but I can't exactly fault him for giving up a goal to arguably the best American player ever.

Now we’re down to 4 D

Well ***** him

Buffalo luck at its finest Also ***** Lyon, he’s always in our way