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Was 50 here in Okinawa this morning but warmed up a bit. Summers are mild compared to hell.

Anyone know of a list by team of who is on the trading block?

Third of a three game trip. A win tonight may be the sign the Sabres are turning things around after hitting rock bottom in EDM. NS will take us to the promise land tonight. Edit: Must win!! Dahlin Dahlin Dahlin Dahliiiiiiiiin

With the player requesting a trade is it safe to say the return could be lower? The team won’t attract players to come to Buffalo if they just make him sit and at this point the right thing would be to trade him. So it’s a situation where they sort of have to which reduces their leverage on a return. Unless his improved play has teams calling then disregard this post.

Well we wanted JBott to do something.

Because he hit the net and not the boards. Lol.

This is why I forbid my son from eating too much soy.

Maybe. I don’t watch enough of Calgary to definitively compare the two but I was impressed with what I saw. Let me look at the advanced stats. ? I’m kidding by the way.

Yeah he can be a game changer but Gaudreau (spelling) is almost mesmerizing. He holds on to it and never stops moving. Imagine if we had both.

That’s how you move a puck on the power play.

He’s out there. Making big circles and blasting the boards with pucks.

In the first period, after Jack missed the net, Ray said that’s the difference between a good and great player. Broken clock is right twice a day.

What did he say?

Did Rob Ray tell Skinner to stop arguing with the ref about the offsides call? If so that’s funny, to me.

If he means slow down how fast they make plays I’m not sure that’s possible unless they go backwards in time. Risto practically lives behind our own net, they still use the drop pass on the PP and Jack ties the puck to a string dragging it around until someone slaps it away. I’ll buy what he’s selling when it translates on the ice. There I go being negative again.

Reading some of my recent posts I realize how negative I have been. Sabres need to use some speed tonight. If they get space like they did in EDM they have to capitalize.

I guess we’ll see.

That’s why I said Phil stays the rest of the season.

This game is pretty important IMO. Second of a three game western road trip. If they lose but beat VAN it’s still a disappointing trip (1 out of 3). This is a chance to turn things around against the 1st place team in the west. Most importantly I think this game will show if the Sabres have any heart. If they lose a close one it gets written off as a good team coming out on top. If they win it’s a sign maybe they have what it takes to turn it around. If they lose big and lost big to EDM, their is something wrong more than a team going through a rough patch. I think JBott sticks with PH for the rest of the season. If they maintain a losing record one of them goes.

Sabres lines per Twitter: Skinner-Eichel-Reinhart Sheary-Mittelstadt-Thompson Sobotka-Rodrigues-Pominville Girgensons-Larsson-Okposo Dahlin-Bogosian Pilut-Ristolainen Scandella-McCabe Beaulieu-Hunwick

What I got from it is someone tried to assign a number value to each player’s worth encompassing various aspects.

Hey everyone. Last GDT some of you had a question on the player ratings in the lineup. Below is a link that explains it. If you think this deserves its own topic let me know but for now I will leave it here. https://www.corsicahockey.com/nhl-player-ratings-explained

Ballsy move NS. I don’t think anyone wanted to do the GDT. Cudos my friend. Onward to whatever happens.

Not seeing the downside by trading any of the three. We have Dahlin and Pilut is coming along nicely. Mitts is not a 2C so there’s an upgrade. Sam is not a make or break on the first line and I believe he was drafted to be a center which he is not. PHI has issues and may be looking for picks to rebuild. A high end pick might lower the value of whatever player we add to the deal. Aside from less than a handful none of these guys are off the block including the three you mentioned.

Sheary-Mitts-TT together in practice. PHI places Weise on waivers.