Mustache of God

How about a Ron Rolston division?

I commented before I saw you said it'd be a great filler for the July 1st - September X wasteland of hockey news.I support that idea.

This is a fantastic idea, however, I propose this tournament can't be held until the team makes the playoffs.

Development camp starts Wednesday. He's going home after development camp. Could you imagine though? "No, i prefer not to participate in a camp with inferior players"

I hope Pu and Pekar play on the same line someday.

Woo! WE DID IT LADS!

Do they hand out gift bags each time someone scores in that league? Why is he given a gift bag? I've seen this clip a bunch and am always baffled by the end of it.

I don't understand how anyone can still be advocating for Lehner. He's a horrible goalie. I don't care that he can stop a lot of low risk shots, so can any other goalie. Lehner consistently let in short-side softies and I've never seen another goaltender bite so hard on a first deke and get so sprawled out of position and burned so often. Then there's the shootouts. Anyone whose watched him play can tell you his stats are meaningless. Not to mention the locker room presence, blaming Toronto for fixing games against Buffalo, I recall a Karlsson quote after Lehner got traded saying "it's nice that guys can finally relax around here" . The guy is a fragile headcase. He also once wore a helmet with Trumps name on the back so he can go get . Good riddance.

They're not suggesting 7 overall for Reinhart straight up, are they? There'd need to be another piece coming back, right?

My initial reaction is "if you have to ask this then they're not legit" Rumours abound this time of year...

The more the idea of ROR going to MTL is floated the more I'm warming up to the trade for no reason other than Bergevin is a proven trainwreck of GM and I think JBOTs can do some serious fleecing. I don't know enough but MTL to float any proposals but I'd hope ROR would not be the only sabres heading that way (send them Girgs, or Larsson who can both play cetner with Montreal needs).

Vanek is a more productive winger than Larsson, Wilson, Girgensonson, Pominville and Rodriguez (maybe not for long, he's trending upwards and is more versatile and he'd be the last on this list of players for Vanek to replace). Adding Vanek and having him push out one of the above would boost our offensive production, which this team is desperate for, and upgrade the team. I still think there's a lot of action to be had in the next two weeks and my hopes are JBOTS makes some moves that have better wingers coming to this team and we won't need talk about adding Vanek as the needs have been addressed.

Only 106 days until Sabres hockey.

Pominville was 6th in scoring on the team last year, his rope is longer than Moulsons was at the start of last season. I'm hoping he's relegated to the 4th line but we're going to have to wait until the free agency / draft day trades shake out to see where we can expect him next year. McCabe I can see going either way. I have no opinion on Olofsson other than I know he can shoot...let's see how he looks at development camp.

I signed up for this as well...figure I'll support some content and hopefully it's rewarding. $40 for a year of coverage doesn't seem that bad.

I was picturing more of a butt-goal scenario but I'm willing to adjustment my fantasy to a deflection that boops off casey's butt, then careems off Dahlins butt and dribbles in.

Dahlin will score the 1st goal of the season this year.

Will he stay on the 3rd line all season? Does he get saddled with Larsson/Girgenson types or will he play with people who can help him produce. Does he get Power Play time on the 1st unit? Does Dahlin play on the 1st PP Unit? I like the idea of Sam in front of the net, Dahlin on the point cycling the puck between Casey, RoR and Jack. The points will come for Casey, for sure, I'm curious to see how well he plays C in our defensive zone. Realistically I think we'll see Casey start the season the way he finished his dry-run this year, which was 5 points in 6 games. 24 games into the season he'll be sitting at 20 points. There will be mentions of the Calder, however, the grind of the NHL will catch up to him, and from games 25-65, his production will pull a "Fall '17 Reinhart" and dry up. He'll find his game for the last 20 games or so and will finish the season between 45-50 points. Or he starts hot, stays hot, goes supernova in the playoffs and takes home his first of 13 Conn Symthe Trophies and helps ROR, "fall back in love with the game and also with Casey". also: I'm expecting Jbots to make some moves around the draft/FA period and hopefully the roster will have a shakeup.

If I'm Dahlin I'm asking lots of questions about the "pee-pee slapping" policies.

ZERO, but only because he snaps the bar in half with his super human strength on the first attempt.

We've already learned the hard way trading away a 1st round pick for a goalie was a terrible idea, and Murray justified that by saying "he's an RFA so we have some control for years". Trading a 1st for 1-year of a 7m schmillion dollar goalie is, in my mine, insane.

Lehner is the embodiment of Murray and everything he did wrong with the team. JBOT, in making this his team, is painfully aware of that and I can't foresee Lehner being back here in October. The thought that I'll never see him bite on a deke and immediately get burned, let in a softie for not covering a post, and watch him attempt a shootout is a comforting thought. Barring the near impossible scenario of the Sabres landing Tavares, ROR should be kept on this team, but not be given a letter. We've been fed a false narrative that he's an excellent leader in the locker room. I haven't seen any evidence of that, rather, he just likes to shoulder the blame, put it all on himself. Put the C on Jack and then the A's on whoever earned them (I have no idea on the locker-room dynamics so I won't pretend to know who deserves the As). CJ Smith is the type of player we should all be rooting for as the success of next year will require some prospects being able to make the jump and put up some sort of consistent production. I hope he's one of these and if he does this out of camp or on a call up remains to be seen.

My guess is the Tavares spectacle plays out in the same manner as Stamkos. It's going to come down to the wire, speculation will be had, rumours flying this way and that and then he stays with his own team. On the other hand, I'd love to have JT. Would him coming here have any impact on Eichel being given the C? How would that work in the locker room?

If JBots could somehow convince Tavarares to sign here and then trade ROR to upgrade the blue line...that'd be a f'n coup. Probably the best case scenario imaginable, however, I just can't see Tavarases coming here.

Hopefully he starts the year in Rochester to get some seasoning before having a shot at the NHL (unless he blows away everyone in camp). I think Antipin should have started on the farm as well (i'm guessing the agreement he had with Murray was to not play in the NHL so Botteril had his hands tied). As Pilut is his guy I'm convinced there's an understanding that Rochester is his stepping stone.