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For me it is Evan Rodrigues...he has blossomed into a pretty good player for the Penguins and I can't help thinking he would have really excelled under DG. Career high 43 points and 19 goals this year, probably could have put up similar numbers here.

I don't want another 40 year old goalie.

Hoping we get a goalie and one or two additional pieces to help accelerate the rebuild. Gotta be the right fit, we don't need anymore random FA signings that end up playing the worst hockey of their careers here What are you hoping for in FA with the cap space available?

So here is why I think with their current lineup they are much closer to the team from end of February onward: 1) Ridiculous amounts of injuries, especially to goalies killed us for quite some time. Having to trade for a goalie because you have 5 injured and have no backups left in the entire organization? Are you freaking kidding me? Middlestadt and Samuelsson were out for much of the early part of the year as well. 2) The additions of Tuch and Krebs as well as the return of the injured players around the same time made a huge difference. Team went from scoring 2.67 goals per game to 3.2+ goals per game since the end of February. The more they played together, the better they gelled with each other. 3) Owen Power is going to be an absolute man child for us next year. 4) Additions of Quinn and likely Peterka further bolster the scoring on this team, which is already showing signs of being at minimum league average in that department, if not above average during this timeframe. 5) Assumption is they will find a goalie to help out since all current options save for UPL are terrible(yes, Anderson actually sucked...he just got a lot of goal support most nights). This will by default make them better than they were at anytime this year. 6) Tons of cap space(40.3 million is the most in the NHL) allow them to find one or two quality FAs to further bolster the team and accelerate their development. I fully expect this team to be in the playoff race going into the last few weeks of the season next year. I don't think they will quite get there but they should be very close.

Sighing as I think of listening to Dan Dunleavy for the next decade or more.

Me as a software engineer

Guess he's an AHL lifer. Must really suck to be an elite AHL player and never really get a chance in the NHL

Just randomly looking at some of the AHL players and noticed the AHL points leader with 101 is a local product from Williamsville...nice! Does he project to the NHL or is he an AHL lifer like Gage?

61 points in 45 games...dude won't be there next year to terrorize the AHL

Okposo is captain by default, he doesn't need a C...everyone in the locker room respects the hell out of that dude.

Great way to send off RJ...a Sabres win in oooooooooovvvvvvertime!

Ullmark was always getting hurt for multiple weeks at a time every year, so not sure it was such a bad thing that he left.

I am not buying this really. Anderson's metrics were terrible. Among the worst in the NHL. What really happened was we got Tuch and Krebs, Mittlestadt came back from injury around the same time and we got some other guys back as well. The goal scoring went from an abysmal 2.67 to over 3.2 goals per game since March 1st. Basically we started scoring a lot more which made the bad goaltending not seem as bad as it really was because we won in spite of it.

Apparently they already were on the golf course? Hopefully they have one good performance left in them tonight. Building is going to be packed for RJ's Last Call and he deserves a better send off than last night's effort. Didn't watch the game last night with the NFL draft going on but I didn't miss much it seems. Did anyone punch Brad Marchand in the face? That's always the first hope I have when they face the Bruins. I literally hate him as much as I do Laviolette

Guess it's another game they don't have it.

That article is fantastic! And even the O'Reily trade is looking pretty good with how Thompson has developed.

Haha, well what should have been GW drives if the defense got it's head out of it's rectum.

Not really. Philip Rivers will likely get in and he had less playoff success than Allen has already had. Allen has the highest all time passer rating in NFL history in the postseason, has had the only perfect offensive game ever in NFL History, playoffs or regular season, against NE in the divisional round and likely had the greatest 2 game stretch by any QB in NFL history against NE and KC with a ridiculous 149 passer rating, 9 TDs, only 14 incompletions and 2 GW drives within the final 2 minutes of the KC game. Additionally, he also has numerous accomplishments already where he is the only player in NFL history to have done it, or is on a list with 2 or 3 all time greats. If Rivers gets in having none of those things, which seems likely, Allen getting in would be a mere formality. There has never been a QB like him in league history. Elite at both running and passing, with most likely the strongest arm ever(according to Sports Science measurements it wasn't even close---Allen threw the ball so fast they thought their radar gun was broken because nobody had ever come close to throwing a ball with that velocity), and the ability to beat a defense with his mind also. The greatest defensive coach in NFL history in Bill Belichick literally has no answers for him and simply told the host of his show that "he is a real problem". He has not forced the Bills to punt in over 2 games now. Belichick was so impressed with Allen after the playoff game he came to the Bills locker room to seek him out to talk with him. Not sure how many players Belichick has ever been that impressed with to do that for but I'm guessing it is a pretty short list.

Anyone who thinks Josh Allen isn't a superstar at this point should probably be banned from ever working on TV again and most likely must be brain dead. Dude is a first ballot hall of famer if injuries don't derail his career.

Did the same with Okposo...he had his first 20 goal season with the Sabres and his most points as a Sabre and he has looked nothing like the player that was often useless under RK and Housley

What am I missing here...he has 62 points right now and has had 63 3 times, including the first season with the Sabres.

They are flying out there today...ugh!! Can't wait for October! Since beginning of March(27 games) they are scoring 4+ goals almost 50% of their games...that's pretty freaking good

It matters because this team is starting to figure it out and realizing they can actually be pretty damn good...it's like they reach a certain point where they don't expect to just to be in games, they expect to win them...and I think it's starting to happen for this team. It's a huge mindset thing, and it will pay huge dividends heading into next year when they come back with the mindset already in place and ready to build on it.

I haven't cared about baseball in maybe 20 years...it's a dying sport with the average fan in their mid 60s. I took a tour of Fenway when I was in Boston, it was really cool. Got out to the green monster and they talked about the famous jumping bean home run and why it was caught on camera, etc...then he talked about the heartbreak of the series... Of course growing up a Mets fan I had to chime in about Bill Buckner hahaha

We claim to be hockey town but are almost dead last in attendance ahead of only Ottawa?? Pretty pathetic. I know the team has not been good for much of the last decade but this team is definitely worth the ticket the last few months...hopefully fans come back once this team becomes good over the next few years. I get why they have gone away but it still is really disappointing to see Arizona out drawing us by over 2K "fans" a game. https://www.espn.com/nhl/attendance/_/sort/homePct