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Wrote him off or just plain forgot about him. I definitely had moments this summer where I forgot about him. Larsson will be an interesting player to keep an eye on this year. Two seasons ago everybody seemed to love the 3rd line of him centering Foligno and Gionta. Is he the 4th line center on this team? My memory is fuzzy on this but I recall he was upset with Nolan who had him on the 4th line. Will he have that attitude on that line or has he matured and knows the role he needs to play on the team? I'm also curious whose on his line this year? Does Housley replicate a line similar to what he was playing on before? Girgensons - Larsson - Pomenville? Fasching - Larsson - Pomenville? Will he play wing somewhere?

"You're telling me you like music and playing hockey too?

I hope it's somebody, anybody. I'm desperate to see some success on this team from anybody not named Eichel so uh...I'll take whatever I can get. Is there any way Kane or Okposo can surprise? What kind of numbers would they have to put up to surprise people in a positive way? What about Pomenstein? In all likelihood the surprise should come from a younger guy or on the defense and if I were to bet it'd be Antipin.

The Sabres and Penguins are 1 - 0 - 1 The Bruins and Devils are 1 - 1 - 0 Winner of the Sabres v. Penguins takes home the tournament title. Buffalo's prospects should have more skill considering recent draft positions. This will be a match of skill versus the "Penguins Process" supposedly set up by JBots himself.

Bailey just Kane'd that hard and made the team pay the price.

3 v 3 OT? Should be an interesting end. Let's put our speedsters out there and see what they can do.

Really wish this stream had replays but it's better than nothing.

I've been casually watching online. Really seems like the Sabres are picking up the pace in the 2nd and are carrying it over into the 3rd. I've barely heard Hirschier's name mentioned, has he wow'd anybody?

I want to see him score the first goal of the season for us. I agree with everything I see above and I wonder if he'll get an A on his jersey.

The answer is a coaching philosophy that the team can get on board with. That's what sunk the ship last year and until it's implemented that's the problem we're going to have. I have every bit of faith in the new coach and his staff. The pieces are all here what we need is the glue.

We can't consider him a center in the league until he starts playing center.

Depending how you define "better", Sam was better than Duchene last year. Sam had 47 points in 79 games to Duchene's 41 in 77. There's also a -20 point gap in plus minus but Duchene was on a team somehow worse than the Sabres tank at full speed so that doesn't seem fair to compare. Duchene's production will be tied to whether or not he gets traded this year. If he's moved and is put on a line with capable players he'll probably out-perform Sam (who I hope is centering a 3rd line).

The last articles i see posted are from Sep. 2nd. I've just assumed that there's not many articles lately as we've been surfing the asscheeks of the off-season and there really isn't news.

You keep the first unit the same. Don't fix something when it's the best. Our second unit will be better as well. Pommer will replace Gionta and Scandella / Antipin / Baloo will work the point which will be an upgrade to....I don't even remember? Franson and Kulikov? Franson and McCabe?

There's been a lot of talk here giving some players a clean slate now that the DDB shackles have been thrown off. This needs to be applied to Sam as well. I expect Sam to continue to improve. He's never going to be flashy but his presence will be felt.

There is not a chance in hell Duchene will be traded to the Sabres. Aside from not making much sense considering he has 2 years left on his contract and what we'd have to give up to get him, there's still the issue that Sakic wants to use this trade to save face for the ROR disaster that he somehow agreed to. I recall hearing around the draft that he was so stubborn with Duchene because he wanted to make up for that trade. There's just no way, no how that Sakic is trading those two players both to Buffalo

I have more hope in Bogo turning it around than Girgensons and the idea of him being on Jack's wing does not bode well with me. We need someone with the ability to finish Jack's feeds, like Kane, Okposo, or Nylander (unlikely as it is).

If there's one thing they shouldn't touch it's the #1 power play unit. I expect to see Scandella and Pommers on the 2nd Power Play unit. I can't say I've seen much of him as a player but the natural fit seems to put him on the 1st pairing with Risto and then let the bottom two pairings being rounded out by some combination of McCabe, Bogo, Antipin and Baloo. Gorges can feel important in the corner. This is all dependent upon him not breaking his ass on an open bench door in training camp.

Right, you'd think they'd want to consider their audience of Sabre fans by bringing in one of the most beloved back-up goalies the team has ever had. Also, Biron is an American citizen.

People actually liked May on the broadcast team? I am amazed by that. The guy constantly looked like a deer in headlights on camera and stringing together coherent thoughts seemed to be a challenge for him. I'm happy they're making this change. I don't mind Marty, and I think judging people by their accent is incredibly shallow. Marty seems to at least have a presence, which will be refreshing change to the black-hole of personality that May brought to the broadcast. I always got the feeling that May was there because he wanted to give it a shot. Marty has been working as an analyst/broadcaster for awhile now and the pre/post game show will be better.

I liked the part where the man got hit with the baseball.

I want to sign him solely based upon his name. I think RJ can have some fun with him. Say he scores at home, "THE PERRY STREET BUTCHER STRIKES AGAIN ON THE POOOOOOOOOOOOOWWWWWWWWERRRR PLAY." My money is not on him signing for reasons mostly being, "because Buffalo". However, I want to see if the Botteril effect is a thing. Clearly he has a plan of having young guns start in the minors and then have them come up and take control when he deems them ready. "Listen Will, this is what we did in Pittsburgh and this was how we won consecutive cups. Do you want to be a part of this here?". So maybe there's something there. I don't see him going to Vegas since they have so many D hanging around. I'm guessing he signs with a team not mentioned.

These trades have tank all over it and listening to Bean's press conference sounder so insincere. "I might have made these trades independently", that's such horseshit. You downgraded the talent on the team in exchange for people to be able to fill in the vacant positions in exchange for draft picks. GMTM sang the same tune about not tanking, etc. I believe the guy above who said Sammy wanted a trade. Can you blame him?

How does anyone keep up with the threads on the Bills version of Sabresspace? They're all 30 pages deep. Who has got time to read through all of that?

1 - It's going to be near impossible to be offensively worse than we were last year. No amount of system changes can make our offense worse. 2 - Housely's system? What do you know about Housley's system? We haven't seen HCPH coach a single game at this point.