DarthEbriate

It will be interesting to see who, of note, ages out before then -- or is everyone who dressed in the aborted tourney automatically re-invited?

In his 29 games with the Buffalo Sabres, Caggiula scored 4 goals. In his final 29 games with the Buffalo Sabres, Eichel scored 3 goals. (However, before he got hurt at the end of the 2019-20 season, Eichel was doing quite well.)

Olofsson has an elite shot. VO's injury has taken away his shot and VO without the cannon is a very responsible player. For a time, he was still picking up assists and PP time, but Tuch kicked him off the top unit and top line. Then, the points dried up. He's recently started to look good again. Before his injury he was attacking, playmaking, and as always carried his lethal shot. He was looking great and over a point per game. Since the injury he's either not recovered (more likely) or simply lost all confidence (certainly impacted, but even without confidence you can take a slapshot). Recently, he's at least started to fire the wrister again. I re-sign him to a really good 2-year contract. The Sabres have no issues with the cap in the short-term, and if healthy, VO can absolutely carry a line for a week or two at a time. If he's busted, fine, he'll move on or be a rental with some retained salary the year before we really need more cap space. 2 years, $5.5M-$6M. And if he proves it, great! Hopefully he's also been relegated down the lineup by up-and-coming prospects. Then, when it's time to re-sign Dahlin, Joker, Mitts, Krebs, and Quinn -- VO can sign to a bit less or get moved. In any event, he forces the kids to have to beat him out. That's a value in and of itself.

Levi would've stopped them all.

This is a fun question. This season, Tuch is likely to stay close to his current pace this season as he's PP,PK, and top line minutes. And although Quinn/VO could take some minutes away in the future I don't see either displacing him entirely the next 2 seasons. I can see Tuch reaching 40 this year and 60 each of the two following. Then, a dip down to 40/year the final two of his current deal. That gets Tuch to 240 points. Krebs... 20+40+40 over his entry level contract with plenty of PP time. That's 100 points. Can Eichel get to 340 points in 4 1/3 seasons? His best year he averaged 1.15 ppg. If he's fully healthy, on a stacked lineup the entire remainder of his Vegas contract, then he could handily break 400 points. But if we add 2 more seasons of Krebs on a bridge deal that sees him maintain PP time and pick up about 40 points/season -- then they would stay just ahead of Eichel by the time his current contract expires. 420 to 400ish. I also like to think I'm underselling Krebs' scoring potential as the team around him gets better.

Tuch with 2 more points. Krebs with 2 more points. We win this trade dispute. For today.

No annual pilgrimage to Vancouver this season, but I did go to my first Sabres vs. Seattle game. It didn't go so well.

GOOOOOOOALOFSSON! With the cannon... nope... just the easygoing victory. Way to bail out Toker after that gaff goal, gents!

Joker from downtown.

Great pass, Krebs. That was one in a million.

GOOOOOOOOOOOOLOFSSSSSON!

Hey! We just took it to their 4th line in their zone. Yay, Sabres! Now get a FO win and a goal.

Dahlin learning how to PK. But Joker's gotta clear that zone... he has more time for a proper Lydman Lift backhand.

It ended up being pretty exciting....

Thompson strikes back for the PK...

Fitz back for the PK

RJ explaining pop music to Ray are why they do work together as a pair some of the time. Nice backcheck by Tuch and the pickpocket.

Fitz and the forgotten Okposo

Lovely lovely lovely.

Some day we'll start dictating the action when their 4th line of all-over-30 guys is on the ice, instead of being intimidated and hemmed in by them.

Whoops. I was way off. I see.... the hat trick goal got poke checked by Montembeault and went unassisted. Still good game by Tuch, too. If Skinner shoots on the empty net Tuch could have had another. Too unselfish!

Skinner, why are you passing? First regulation win in MTL since February of 2016. The hell!

Is that 3 primary assists for Tuch?

Skinner^4

The Okposo slash? Huh. MTL announcers rightly say that's a make-up for the missed Thompson trip.