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Gonna take more than a year to get Jackson ready. Cam would be #1 in this year's class as well - size, mobility, arm, college stats, and national championship.

Nash and Grabner sitting tonight

Agreed - Newton completed 66% of his passes, 30 TDs, and only 7 INTs his lone year at Auburn playing in the much tougher conference than Jackson. Cam was a no-brainer at #1 whereas no one sees Jackson as a #1.

Ok, who are your core players ? Eichel, O'Reilly, Okposo, Risto, McCabe ? I think the Sabres would trade Risto in a heartbeat for the right return. Same with Reinhart.

He is certainly part of the on ice core currently. I don't know anything about another core unless you're referring to players with long term contracts.

Good post and I agree with everything except for the bolded. I consider Pominville to be part of the problem now, both 5-on-5 and on the power play. He is relatively useless and I don't know if he's tired and/or just has given up. I know we've got him for one more year, but if he continues on this path, he shouldn't even make the roster next year.

If Doug Allen suited up as #40 and Robin Lehner sang the national anthems, would we be any worse off ?

I have a 14-year-old that's addicted to Skyrim and gets extremely angry when I ask her to stop playing. No racist stuff from her though as just about all of her friends are from other countries including her.

Trade him and Doug Allen to the Irish Tenors for Ronan Tynan

Wasn't he 1st pair Winnipeg when we got him ?

Bogosian is supposed to be a #1 - McCabe 3rd pair

Bogo likes Phil - can't fire him. https://twitter.com/NHLNetwork/status/966014593863598080

All on Risto ... a supposed #1 defenseman making a beer league play doesn't cut it.

So it's all on Lehner and nothing on the D ? No correlation at all between poor defense play and a higher GAA ? I recognize that Lehner is deficient in some areas, but he has also had some very good games.

Seems everyone on the board is pretty down on Lehner but a question ... Lehner is currently 36th out of 49 in GAA .. how much of that is directly attributable to Lehner's bad play and how much to piss-poor defense by the Sabres ? If you put Lehner on the Bruins, would his GAA be around the same as Rask's ? If we shored up our own defense, would Lehner be better ? The Canadiens pretty much suck this year and Price's numbers reflect that. I think most of us would take Price in a heartbeat even though he's now 30. A lot of folks thought Fleury was done and he's close to leading the league.

I don't see him coasting - he had 9 SOG today and 4 hits - mixing it up some with Tom Wilson.

Post awareness day

Pretty sad ... on a weekday morning/evening at rush, would take about 1h45m to get to downtown ATL - about 25 miles. Floors look great - I'd have to do some painting though and remove any old lady wallpaper.

Infuriating from Housley ... “Give them credit. Good teams find ways to score goals. I do like how we responded in the 3rd. That’s how we have to play for 60 minutes.” We've just hit 60 games - really Phil ?

Risto thinks he's Bobby Orr

Allen could very well be Rodgers in a few years. Who knows ? Did you think Dak Prescott would be as good as he is now ? The answer is no one knows until they hit the NFL and some envision Allen as the next Elway.

I don't think any of the QBs selected in the 1st round this year will be starting right away so they'll be sitting just like Rodgers did.. And you said Rodgers was projected as the top pick - by some I'm sure all - not all. Allen is also projected by some to be the top pick.

Replace Allen's name with anyone in this year's draft and some have Allen as the top pick.

You mean like Aaron Rodgers ?

I'd wager that the scouts have every piece of game footage available of both Jackson and Allen. I also have to believe that the Bills' scouts will do their due diligence on all QBs available and be prepared to make the correct decision for the team. With that being said, if we don't trade up and Allen falls to 21/22, I'd be taking him. But he won't make it that far down. My opinion only.