Brawndo

A 4th and 5th perhaps? With Montreal flipping him for a second on deadline day?

He is absent from practice today

And For more fun, just wait until we see who the Amerks, rumored backup goalie is tonight

The simplest way to protect Borgen, is to protect him. Dare Vegas to take either Risto or Miller. That’s either 3.875 Million or 5.4 Million in extra cap space this offseason. Add that to 34.5 Million in space already available along with a hopefully expanded analytics department, a better team can be put on the ice. Jack, Olofsson, Cozens, Lazar, Risto, Miller, Bryson, Tage, Zemgus, Okposo and Eakin are signed for next season. With Sam, Borgen, Jokiharju, Dahlin and Mitts as RFAs. There is room to improve.

Jerry Forton has been with the Sabres since 2013-14. He was an Asst Coach his first year, a scout for the 2014-15 Season. He was promoted to Asst Director of Scouting for the 2016 and 2017 Drafts. 😬 Then he moved to Director of Collegiate Scouting until now. So He survived Botterill axing GMTM’s Staff and the Great Purge of June 2020. How do Forton manage do this? He has Most Favored Status from Pegula. Crowe has three years experience as a Pro Scout so he is back where he belongs. Jason Nightengale who mentioned he revamped the Sabres Draft List after Botterill’s Staff was fired. The Player who Botterill would have drafted at 8th Overall was Marco Rossi. Quinn is a nice player, but His Metrics are among the worst on the Amerks. Now compare this to @LGR4GMFavorite Seth Jarvis, who dominated the AHL before he returned to the WHL. Quinn should be a very good player for the Sabres, but I have a feeling that Rossi(assuming he recovers from Covid) Lundell and Jarvis will have more productive careers. Elliotte Friedman was on the Instigators this AM and was asked about reorganization of the Front Office. He mentioned Forton’s Promotion and that someone mentioned to him the Sabres need to find people who love the team or have a strong connection to the team. He mentioned Dudley and Scott Luce from Vegas. They probably won’t be available until after the season, but they would be a hell of a lot more exciting than Forton and Crowe.

Promoting from a scouting department that already sucks, great move

https://twitter.com/llysowski/status/1375200280401301510?s=21

This should open up more trading partners for the Sabres

GOALOFFSSON

Mother *****

Rasmus Asplund out for the game

Oops

I think Scott Luce’s Contract is up with Vegas after this season

Both Dahlin and Jokiharju had good rookie seasons and regressed significantly under Krueger over two seasons. I want to see what both of them can do under different coaching. Risto has one year left on his deal, his metrics are back to where they have been in previous seasons. He’s a good candidate to shake up the core and it’s extremely unlikely that he re-signs in Buffalo. The issue is he falls into the most favored Sabre Zone with the owner, so he gets protected for the wrong reasons. As far as him being a 2022 Trade Deadline Piece, if the Sabres are sellers at the deadline next year, the organization is well and truly *****.