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Lehners main issue was he would make a whole host of great saves and then let in a shot from the point with nobody in front of the net that a high school goalie could have stopped... And that he couldn't stop a goal in the shootout to sabe his life...dude has the worst save percentage in shootout history in the NHL.

Nice! Starting to make some moves...Dahlin and Eichel are two nice pieces that will get a lot of players wanting to play with them...

Reinhart...I got a feeling he might be the snake in the room

Wow...thats a really reasonable contract consideing Chad Johnson got $4 million last year

Sabres wanted 3rd overall pick from Habs but they weren't going for it... A deal almost came through with Habs trading Pacioretty for Isles 11th or 12th pick and then immediately trading that for O'Reilly but ended up not matwrializing for whatever reason.. Wonder if they still end up moving him now or not before the season... https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.yahoo.com/amphtml/sports/report-habs-almost-traded-pacioretty-landed-oreilly-draft-day-blockbuster-173555659.html

And they won multiple Stanley Cups because of the players they got in those drafts...whats the problem?

Oh really? Because he picked Dahlin? What GM in their right mind wouldn't have? That is because Sweden has a legendary training system that begins when the players are 7 and 8 years old and continues until they end up leaving...Craig Rivet and Matt Ellis were talking about how crazy it is on the Instigators about the stuff they do over there...their training systems allow players to become better players than equivalently skilled players from other countries. They basically went over their overall hockey model with a fine toothed comb starting with young players and how they develop them and put together one of the best if not the best development programs of any sport for any country in the world. Some of these ideas are completely different from how the rest of the world does things, but they put a lot of time and energy and got a lot of very knowledgeable people together to build this from scratch basically. It is really starting to pay off now however, as Sweden does very well in most tournaments and their players typically play very well in the NHL... A lot of their training is off the ice...doing hurdles, running up and down steps of the arena, running up and down hills, etc...then even when they get on the ice, a lot of their time is spent doing "skilled" things like stickhandling. Rivet said they got on the ice and all they did for the first 15 minutes was stickhandle the puck every day. https://www.nhl.com/news/swedens-new-look-hockey-model-paying-dividends/c-598251 https://www.hockeycentre.org/Portals/3/IIHF_docs_HDC_2013/Henrik%20Haraldsson%20-%20Sweden.pdf

Oh really? You sure you didn't mean that the other way around?

Why would we want to resign guys that did nothing for us this year and helped us finish dead last?

Because they got an exemption.

He came from an athletic family, so that likely helped too...his Dad played hockey in what would be like the AHL in Sweden and his Mom was a professional Bandy player(basically soccer on a huge sheet of ice with skates and sticks with big curved blades), so he was probably skating as soon as he was walking.

Except when they can make a bunch of money. Couldnt the Native American Casinos do this without any need from the state? As far as I Know they are a sovereign land within the state

Absolutely...and not only is he electric offensively he is also pretty good defensively as well

This is a huge and landmark ruling by the Supreme Court...ruled 6-3 that the 1992 Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act, a Federal Law banning sports betting with very few exceptions, was unconstitutional in its overreach to bar states from enforcing their own sports betting laws. They said Congress can make the decision if they want but the law cannot and overturned the prohibition on sports gambling... Huge implications in many states that will now open up sports books(including N.Y. who is likely at the front of the line)...maybe not for the NHL specifically but for all sports in general.

Vegas in the conference finals and are a real threat to win the Stanley Cup...they will certainly give either Winnipeg or Nashville all they can handle and then some

Dahlin has incredible speed and silky smooth moves...he looks like Eichel skating through people except he is a defensemen..he kind of reminds me of Phil Housley a litle bit...

I'm not sure how they did it, but Las Vegas is a pretty damn good team....they come at you in waves, they are relentless, they out work you, they are fast, they make tremendous plays with the puck...this team is good enough to win the cup. How embarrassing is that for a lot of teams in the NHL(including the Sabres) who didn't want many of these players? I don't think any team in the history of sports as an expansion team in the modern era has been this good in their first year...this team is the real deal and if they win this series they will give the Jets or Preds all they can handle in the the conference finals...

Maybe you should just call him Candy Cane since you cant spell his name properly. Its Kane.

It happens almost every year in the playoffs...Buffalo is he #1 hockey market. And this doesn't even take into account all the people watching the Hockey Night In Canada Broadcasts either.

You must be crazy to think these people are making $15-30 an hour. They are making less than minimum wage once factoring in all their expenses and costs. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-uber-wage-study/mit-study-that-found-low-pay-for-uber-drivers-to-be-revisited-idUSKCN1GF0RL medium pre-tax profit is $3.37 an hour...far cry from the $30 you are talking about

Pretty much sums up their last 5 seasons... Someone on the Sabres needs to get crazy with the Cheese Whiz...

Pretty much the best thing that could happen in this game happened...both Nylander and Middlesatdt off the schneid

Depends what era you are talking about. If you are talking about the early to mid 80's then no, it isn't even close and never will be again. Hockey does more to stifle its offense than any other sport. While other sports place huge value on scoring and increasing it via rule changes, hockey places huge value on defense, goalies and reducing it via rul changes and allowing the God awful Left WingLock/Trap to be played routinely. Even going back to the early '90s there were routinely 9-12 players scoring over 100 points in a season with 7-10 more above 90 points---as late as '92-'93 there were 20!!!! players who scored at least 100 points that year. The fact we have set the bar so low for what constitutes lots of points in a season is ridiculous. I mean for Christ's Sakes Benn won the scoring title the one year without even hitting 90 points...that is ludicrous.

For the rest of this year? Maybe 3 or 4 points with a goal in there...

Ehh...Sabres fell flat on their face after taking a 2-0 lead...Middlestadt looked lost for much of the night basically skating figure 8's and making poor puck plays, but made a nice move down the center of the ice to get open and had a pass put on his tape to split a few defenders before either missing the net on a backhand in close or having it saved...it was hard to tell from the camera angle...he also got an assist for basically winning a draw... Its only his first game but you can tell he is going to need some time but has some tools to work with