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Lots more people with lifestyles to maintain.

Without NHL goaltending, the rest of this season is lost to even player development. This team (or any team, really) will rapidly lose hope. And then they are done.

I’ve missed hockey for 10 seasons.

Would it be full if the team were good? I would be ALOT fuller, no doubt in my mind. COVID kept me from contacting Taro about his tix last night, but if the team were good there would have been alot more than me in line for those tix, and all the other available tix. COVID is reducing the size of the market right now, but not nearly as much as the lousy team is reducing it.

I thought I read that he left after taking a puck in the mask but I see today that Falloon collided with him.

Gotta be a concussion, right?

It is habit forming. You’ll find yourself tuning out games earlier and earlier, yet monitoring the game day thread.

It’s dollars and cents to them. You’ll get fantastic operational efficiencies like video scouting.

I loved his game, but I suspect his off ice issues do carry over into the room.

Fortunately I wasn't jaded yet and was rabid for those teams. You learn....

I'm trying not to point and laugh here...... There was no hesitation. I don't think it could be as simple as faking that he knew who the guy was. He had to have thought it was about a different person.

My goodness. That forward group is tank worthy.

He had to have thought he heard a different name. Right? Right?

Genuinely surprised by the interest. High risk, reasonable reward. Teams be desperate I suppose.

Treat it like the Stanley Cup. Start w 1 puck. When it fills up with signatures, glue on another puck. Lather, rinse, repeat.

Now that the workday is over, expanding on my thought here. Scotty, an HOF'er, had the following in his drafts. 1979 #11 OAL Mike Ramsey, a legend in Buffalo. 1980 #20 OAL(Steve Patrick) and several mid to late draft hits 1981 #17 OAL and a poor draft. Hannu Virta was a success, but went back to Europe after 5 seasons. 1982 three 1st rd picks including #6 OAL, and two 2nd rd picks. Housley, Cyr, Andrechuck, and the infamous Timo Jutila came from this draft. An embarrassment of riches. Two HOF'ers FFS 1983 three 1sts and two 2nds again, including #5 and #10 OAL. Barrasso, Lacombe, Creighton, Tucker, Puppa, Ruutu, and Krupp. Holy *****. That's alot of good NHLers. 1984 had a "normal" selection of 1 in each round. Andersson, Sheppard, Halkydis all had respectable careers, albeit as role players. 1985 another "normal" draft. By now the drafts of 82 and 83 are having an effect on the NHL roster. Added Johansson, Hogue, Reekie. More respectable NHL'ers. 1986 was Scotty's last Sabres draft, and the start of a string of poor drafts in general by the Sabres. But an absolute haul from the last 4 drafts couldn't get out of the first round of the playoffs in an era where 4 out of 5 teams in each division qualified for the playoffs. I am absolutely in "show me" mode. This song has been played before. Obviously, a good prospect pool is better than a poor prospect pool. But I'm well past hopium.

Ugh. Nothing good comes from Private Equity ownership. Bank on it.

A whole bunch of us are old enough to have seen Scotty Bowman collect an obscene number of good draft picks and have it fail. Am I hopeful for these kids? Sure. That’s about the extent of the emotion though.

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There is no small amount of niave and idealism there. Its not a bad thing though. We’ve all been there.

It’s like Logan’s Run or something.

I don’t either. Dahlin isn’t a forward in defenseman’s clothing. He’s an offensive defenseman.