DarthEbriate

Gah. Almost two shorties courtesy of work by Benson.

Oh great, the former Amerk who calls 4:1 penalties against the Amerks has made it into the NHL. Just wait until the Sabres make the playoffs and he's the new Bill McCreary. I saw a city in McLeods!

It could be worse.... .... it's worse. This league needs better composite sticks.

And I want that to count as a goal because I want the Sabres to have that goal count for them in the future... when they aren't awful. Not that they'll have 4 players in the opponent's crease anytime soon. But it's the principle of the concept of aggressiveness vs. interference.

Grieg touches the goalie, Kozak tackles him. But I don't want that overturned. Lyon got a chance to reestablish and find the puck.

That's a goal.

Timmins, Power, and Tuch on the crease, and the only one who takes his guy down is Kozak.

Dahlin - Byram need to work on their communication

Quinn Solo says: I call it luck.

Benson on the half-wall, Zucker in front of the net. What's this, an Appert-coached power play?

I was going to KeyBank Center to pick up some power play converters!

How do we solve a problem like Pegula?

You know what they say. The greatest ability is the ability to count. One! One game played by Norris. Ah, ah, ah.

Did they waive Ellis back to STL already or are they going to carry 3 goalies for a couple months again? And let two of them rot while Ruff runs Lyon into the ground?

We had a Rastrick at one point. It made that single game pretty awesome. And if the Sabres played every game with the energy of Team Crystal Light, they'd win the President's Trophy.

Josh Norris and JBD revenge game!

Don't see it in the thread... Lane Hutson signed an extension 8x$8.850 (signing bonuses bulked up in the first three years). It will kick in for his age 22 season. Dobson signed with MTL for $9.5M in his age 25 season. Dobson had a fantastic age 24 season with 70 points. But thus far, that is his outlier season by 19 points. (51, 49, 39). Hutson's rookie season was 66 points. Why is Hutson taking so little cash with the cap rising? Does he think his rookie season will be his peak?

For this regime of the franchise wins are chaos.

The Sabres don't have a Huberdeau to go get a Tkachuk. Maybe Cozens could have fetched more if they'd have waited until the draft/offseason. And they definitely don't have a Barkov or Bobrovsky in-house already.

That's our hope. He won't fire his super-yes-man and friend. But maybe he will just not re-sign him. Meanwhile, there's no plan beyond "wait for Power to reach age 25" so that he becomes good defensively with a chEEEap coaching staff, and everyone will be happy to be here.

Slow clap, slow clap. Slow clap-clap-clap. Let's gooo Buffff a -- what the hell. Malenstyn's 2nd, too.

Now, justify the 2nd as a sweetener.

Condensed schedule for the Olympics this season. If Norris' injury recovery is the projected 8+ weeks, he's going to miss 24+ games (Dec 1 return). So... there's your max games played under 60 (and he's got 1 already).

Note: They made the playoffs in 2011, losing to Leino and the Flyers, leading to the UFA signing of Leino. Pegula is 1-for-15. However, they have never made the playoffs in a season in which Pegula owned the team at the start of the season.

Hoping your owner wants to win at sportsball is not a strategy.