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I mean I am not sure if this team realizes they haven't made the playoffs in like 8 or 9 years but they should probably start acting like it and not like they just made a deep run and all they need are a few depth signings. Adams has been there as Beane literally transformed the Bills in 3 years into what will likely be a perennial playoff team, I hope he took notes.

Huh??

It's a 1 year deal.

How did he pull this one off?!? Johannsson makes 1.5 million a year more!

Cancer does suck...my Mom died from it as well... the unfortunate truth is, it's the ultimate form of population control...

Nobody is promised tomorrow...therefore send not to know for whom the bell tolls...it tolls for thee..

Sabres were in Montreal when the season got cancelled. If that game would have been played and the season cancelled the next day, it would have been to determine who made the playoffs... Kind of crazy when you think about it.

You should look at Hockey reference dot com and go to NHL Draft and you can sort each year by points and it shows where they were picked...it also shows all the prior stats all the way back to junior and foreign leagues for all years

Pastrnak didn't really have much production so I don't think in that case there was anything to ignore...

Maybe...but I mean how accurate are scouts in top 20 picks? Maybe top 3 or 4 they are very accurate...maybe more so than any other sport, but I mean you have Pastrnak taken 25th, Larkin taken 15th, Point taken 79th, Aho taken 35th, Barzal taken 15th, Connor taken 17th, Konecny taken 24th, Boeser taken 23rd, Debrincat taken 39th, Robert Thomas taken 20th... These are all good to very good players, some near stars that have way outperformed many of the players taken before them in the same draft...my question is why do the Sabres never seem to be able to find any of these players(other than the flyer they took on Olaffsson)?

I was just going by what I have heard a few times from guest analysts on WGR...other than Lafreniere I don't really know a whole lot about this year's crop of talent.

Apparently after the first few guys there isn't really much difference between someone at 5 or someone at 20 this year...might be worth trading down if possible...

No. He was tried there for quite some time and failed miserably. Wing is where he belongs. He can't handle the extra responsibilities of a center.

Unless you are a software engineer...and then you will probably be unemployed for about a week and get a raise and a better job to boot.

The problem is unlike the flu this can leave life long damage to the body even in people who have fully recovered. Organ damage, blood pressure problems, blood clotting issues, as well as a whole host of other things they keep finding... It isn't just deaths they are concerned about, it's also the much higher rate of people who suffer permanent damage to their bodies from it.

They now believe it is a blood vessel virus which is why so many people are having serious blood clotting issues and other blood vessel related issues... Many of the people who are on ventilators can't breathe because their lungs are filled with mini blood clots...

I think you mean pique not peak.

Where there is smoke there is fire? Unless the Sabres come out of this with an absolute fleece job with the Bruins severely overpaying there is no way they should even consider it. https://www.nhltraderumors.me/2020/06/blockbuster-rumor-boston-bruins-to-make.html?m=1

What did the scouting staff do to show that bolstering it to 22 people was worth the investment? Finish dead last a bunch of times and barely above dead last a few others? Regier did pretty well using mostly video scouting back then and there is far more capability with it 10 years later. I can't say anything bad about it, it kind of was overdue in my opinion. Clinging to the "we have always done it that way" notion just because that is they way scouting staffs have always been run doesn't make much sense when you have those results to show from it.

I hate to think like that but is it possible Eichel might actually be the problem with the team? GM's change, coaches change and players change...Eichel is still here and we have done literally nothing since he has been here... When do we start looking at him as being the issue? Does he rub people the wrong way? Create a fractured locker room in some way? Are others not buying into him as captain? I don't know if any of this is right or if Eichel is the issue but we need to at leat consider that he might be...

Pack rat much?

Maybe they did have the candid conversations, JBOT said one thing and they agreed with it then he came back and said "Well, I rethought this and here is what I want to do instead" and they were like "Nope, we don't like that." Or maybe JBOT wasn't being completely honest with them in regards to what he wanted to do or the full scope of it. Could be a lot of reasons behind the change.

So looting and rioting somehow does? Or does it just act as an easy excuse for criminals to engage in criminal behavior under the guise of "protest"?

Wow...that is exceedingly rare to kill someone that young...usually you hear about them being asymptomatic or getting COVID-Toes

I think my title is more descriptive, maybe change the title to actually reflect what is the main topic of discussion?