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There are likely trades we don’t know about. A few teams made deals with Vegas at the trade deadline before their expansion offseason and nobody knew. But also: teams learned from the massive Vegas mistakes, it appears.

Trades with Seattle can also happen after the roster freeze

I don’t think anyone would remember it in like three years.

There is a full zero percent chance that we couldn't get AT LEAST, in the absolute worst-case scenario, a third-round pick for Risto before the expansion draft ... so if we expose Risto and lose him for nothing Adams should be punched in the nuts. But Risto will be protected. And he probably ends up back on this team.

Considering he won't even acknowledge that Jack Eichel exists I don't think there are any quotes indicating he wants to move him.

Hard to deny how badass some of this is.

If Eichel is gone I think this is definitely true. And I don't think it'll necessarily be a bad sign, he's just really ***** good when he's on.

I agree completely, nerd. Definitely take it very seriously.

Graves is worth more and that takes one team out of the Risto sweepstakes.

Nerds

If only analytics people actually believed data was “just another piece of the equation.”

This is the same speculation we’ve all covered already it’s just aggregating rumors.

The more I look at Minnesota the more obvious it is that they're not going to include Fiala in the deal. He's a good, young forward for them who should still be relatively cheap and because of their cap situation that's going to be big for them. More realistically, I think they try to get us to take a few smaller cap hits like Cam Talbot and Carson Soucy. I could see a deal looking something like Talbot, Soucy, Rossi, Greenway and 21 for Eichel, Johnson and a 2nd or 3rd

A few impressive plays in the mix there. - The assist at 1:40 is a beauty. Forward is walking in on his opposite wing and he hits them with a pass that could not have been better. Player pots it. He makes it routine but I don't remember the last time I saw a Sabres defensemen make that play consistently. - The forced turnover at 2:03. He's protecting the net on the PK as the opposing player skates in the corner. Player picks up speed behind the net but Power recognizes the play, shifts sides of the net, poke checks the puck, gives the player a "***** you, sit down" shove and quickly gives a perfect outlet pass to move the puck up ice. He turns his hips at 2:05 still several strides away from where the opposing player and he will eventually meet. His teammate has the puck at 2:08. In less than four seconds a player on the PP is removed from the puck, sent to the ice and his team is moving out of their own end. Textbook. - Assist at 2:27. Same as the first note but this time he's doing it in stride after taking the puck end to end for another perfect pass to a finisher. - Assist at 3:02. He skates well along the blue line, getting all the action heading in his direction but quickly turns the puck back to his cycling teammate and it results in a goal. - Puck control at 3:14. Puck is dumped into his end. He gets it under control and with a player all over him skates it around the net and out of his zone, leading to an offensive opportunity. - If you're not impressed by the goal at 3:27 you're high. You're not going to find a ton of "impressive"/"eye popping" plays out of a defensemen. Part of that is by design of the position they play. But there were definitely some good plays there.

UFAs can indeed be protected.

So is Sopel admitting he knew about the sexual assault and failed to act himself? Hold them all accountable.

I love that first quote. "I have contacted the organization being investigated to inform them that I am willing to cooperate with them on the independent review that is independent of the organization that is being investigated that I am communicating with."

Did they play BYU every game?

This is a slugfest. Some weird no calls tonight but I don't think it impacted the result in the end.

Sometimes the best way to get momentum is to inject a good PP.

Some of it is not, right? Indeed it does.

I think Tage might have another level. I don’t WANT to lose him but right handed defensemen are harder to come by.

I’d rather lose Tage Thompson than Will Borgen.

If he had zero power play points last season he’d have been tied for fourth on the team in points.

Sorry, I forgot. Does the power play take place in some non-regulation nebulous?