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Gonna be a run on contracts that blow peoples minds today and look like bargains in 2 or 3 years. Might be in Tuch’s best interest to follow Byram’s lead and sign for a year or 2. Still think Power’s contract has the potential to look like a major steal at the back end.

Article was posted 20 days after the arrest. To me that fits with the brass meeting the day after to figure out what to do, and Jarmo saying "I know a guy".

Story also says both sides leaning toward long term, sense is that this gets done, but nothing is imminent. It's basically about the rising cap and what's fair under the re-setting market.

Athletic analytics model has an interesting take on this in terms of the depth chart and where the Sabres rank in terms of other guys in those slots around the league 1) Dahlin 82nd percentile 2) Power 31 3) Kesselring 55 4) Byram 64 5) Timmins 83 6) Samuelsson 93 Model says Mule/Timmins is an elite 3rd pair and Power is the only weak link standing in the way of the unit actually being elite. https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6655759/2025/09/25/buffalo-sabres-2025-26-season-preview/

I'd say he's over-qualfied and probably had aspirations of a higher role. But he's certainly a better player.

The way I see it, Bryson's role is to fill out the fourth-pair in practice, get spot duty on the 3rd pair in case of short-term injury or poor play, and act as a safety valve if Jones and Johnson suck, all with a smile on his face. I'm sick of him too, but he's as qualified as anyone for the role.

Very interesting, thanks for posting. Also interesting that it includes top 30 centres ranking and Tage ranks #11, even as the acknowledge his positional shift.

Sabres preview coming up right now on the Fan hockey show. https://www.sportsnet.ca/650/ Not expecting many bouquets given their previous commentary Just listened to 30 minutes of excitement about how promising the Leafs are.

Not arguing your point, but Georgiev posted an excellent 2.51 and .919 3 seasons ago, and a "better than the others" 3.02 and .898 2 seasons ago. He was god-awful last year.

Jarmo guy. No job title yet, but he was a development guy in Columbus. Maybe picking up some of Mair's duties? https://www.hs.fi/urheilu/art-2000011515504.html

Gotta say that despite all common sense, the thought Georgiev might catch lightning in a bottle has entered my mind. Sure, it’s been while I stumble along in a preseason hopium daze after watching him look rock solid in one easy preseason game and reading about how focused he’s been in camp. He was awful last year, but OK the year before and excellent the year before that. Hes not good, but he is capable of playing good. Hes 29 with 150 NHL wins under his belt and a .903 career save percentage. Just seems be a handful of out-of-nowhere goalie stories every year around the league. Why can’t it be us for once?

Fairburn reporting McLeod added 16 pounds in the off-season

The strategy is apparently no single player, it’s carving 50 off the goals against. So, Lindy?

41 shots against total in 2 games? That’s unexpected.

Georgiev 2 periods, 16 shots, 16 saves Levi 2 periods, 11 shots, 11 saves Lyon 2 periods, 14 shots, 13 saves So UPL will clearly be backing up in Rochester if he gets healthy, but how will the rest of this shake out? Especially if the Sabres are so good defensively the goalies never actually get tested 😜

Listening to the Columbus radio feed “that was only a matter of time,” Sure sound like it’s been all Sabres

The fact that they won't make this available to folks who want to watch and are willing to pay always baffles me.

Marty said last week that he's skeptical Benson is talented enough to play with Norris and Tage. Said today he thought they lacked chemistry in the weekend scrimmage and will be watching them closely today.

Does it really matter? 😁

Tuch is out and was pencilled in the bumper.

Hockey fits hard rock and metal IMO

Whatever they pull, it’s going to be up to the team to create the moments that give it synergy.

He's talking about the Adams tenure defence being characterized as Rasmus Dahlin and a bunch of bubble guys.

So much this. I know it was only exhibition last night, but it was cool watching a game where you're not clutching the armrest every shift Dahlin's not on the ice.

Lindy was very clear a few days ago that he thought Mule was out of shape last year and just as clear that is not the case this year.