DarthEbriate

Allll the IPAs. Although nowadays they're all hazy.

Should we worry about Asplund then?

By my charts: Kane, O'Reilly, Skinner, and... at the time... the Force Moulson. Some mid-to-bottom line/paring players have been fine for their role as well: McGinn, Bogosian, DesLauriers. The only "projects" that have actually become better while with us since 2014 are: Larsson, Lehner*. Jokiharju should join this list but so far we only have a baseline season, and I'm hopeful as well with Kahun, but I can't include them yet. There's an entire roster's worth of names that trended flat or downward that we've acquired in that time. *Lehner was getting better with us the first year, then tailed off, but is now solid again (glad he was able to get his life together).

I do not agree with this sentiment.

International players, too. They've been able to create a (for-the-moment) safe bubble by taking their health and the health of others seriously.

That's what they said about Frolik....

Kane can sign here as a UFA to help win a(nother) Cup as a swan song at $1-2M/year. Unless .... unless both players waived their NMCs and Chicago could be convinced to take Skinner for Kane, straight up... nothing extra. Then I'd consider Kane.

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This. They had a great core and then movement-claused themselves in between a rock and a hard place when the kids exceeded expectations and are ready to surpass their predecessors. From a Sabres perspective --- pounce on them, but do not overpay. It's a buyer's market on TBL and others up against the cap.

I want Bubo on the screen. Maybe when an opponent takes a bad penalty. Instead of playing the Dragnet theme or some such.

I'm going to say 50/50. The flat cap will already be addressed by teams this season, so there won't be panic in preparations all at once. Teams (hopefully) learned from the Vegas expansion and will be smarter about it --- no one is going to give up a Marchessault AND trade Reilly Smith for a 4th, for example. And on our side --- we'll have Peak Eichel (TM), Dahlin entering the beginning of Prime Dahlin, a goalie of some caliber, and Cozens with a year under his belt. 2021-22 Sabres should be fun.

Can I just say that I hope Seattle's hockey club gets as useful and nice a fan forum as Sabrespace?

Also, for what it's worth, octopi are some of the coolest animals in the world. The octopus in the Seattle Aquarium used to escape, get into the main tank, and attack the sharks. They're pretty sweet. And if octopi took down Galloping Gertie (not true, it was wind and design) --- that's pretty nice. And they make gardens! Note: the S logo is the homage to the Seattle Metropolitans.

Rum sales increase 5000% in Seattle! (not a fact, yet)

Per local radio, kraken created the most buzz on social media, despite the Sockeyes winning the Seattle Times poll. And from the introduction -- octopus is really the angle being played on kraken (so a Nordic kraken), not the Clash of the Titans titan kraken. This works with the very, very large Swedish population of Seattle's origins.

Hmmm... naming colors fun: Deep Sea Blue, Ice Blue, Boundless Blue, Shadow Blue. And.... Red Alert!

The secondary is nice, though. You've got an anchor, and inverted Hartford whale tail, a Space Needle, and a harpoon head --- all in one. It's pretty sharp design.

The colors are very Seattle sports.

True. But the Canucks also have logos of skate blades, big Vs, and hockey sticks. So... it's a push.

So... on a plus side, now they can blast Laurence Olivier yelling "Release the Kraken!" endlessly. And everyone will watch stop-motion animation on the jumbotron.

Not my personal favorite. I liked more of the PNW fish (Sockeye, Steelhead, etc.) rather than the Greek mythology, but it's a neat little tentacle in the logo. Edit: Ah, they're playing up the octopus as the kraken, not the Perseus/Andromeda (And Bubo!) kraken.

Tsunamis, too!

^^ B--tches aside, pigeons (while in every big city) have nothing on the murders of crows here in the Seattle metro area.

Geoducks was one of the names in the competition back in the original name thread -- and I believe Evergreen State College no longer uses it or that college folded... my memories are fuzzy on that. And everyone loves geoducks out here. Especially tasty sauteed with some wine and butter, but it also works as sushi. Going by the video: no one suspected the Seattle Ice Ferries!

Every little bit helps. Our division is filled with juggernauts for the next 3 seasons and any little bit helps. Get Ottawa to take Cernak. Get us to pilch Johnson as a patchwork 2C while Cozens grows. Something will work something along the way.