DarthEbriate

Nice! I look forward to the Palm Springs Baby Kraken having a competitive veteran lineup, and a prospect pipeline filled with NCAAers who project to 4th liners in five-to-six years on my local NHL franchise. I wish him well out here because these rainy winter months could use some quality hockey. I still like aspects of JBot's approach while he was in Buffalo. I don't like the execution. Based on timeline of events, I also dislike he was fired more for not firing people and not for ineptitude as a GM attempting to build an NHL roster.

Redemption: Hutton 1, Gold 1

The Miller Shutout?

Nice Thompson pressure with speed, wins the puck behind the net with size. Looking good today.

I don't want Mitts to get hurt, but I like Borgen today. His game is good for this team.

Hope Z doesn't miss any time. But Rieder, Thompson, Ruotsalainen could all be with Eakin/Okposo if it's anything more than a day-to-day strain.

54 and 45 on the same D-pairing... and neither an established player. And a 55 and a 44... We could mix it up just a touch for easier identification.

More pinching Dahlin, please.

Thompson's reach --- then the dangle, then the assist to R2. Nifty.

The RSS feed is something we should get a fair share of goal notifications on this year.

Staal with a good look from Reino.I couldn't tell from the feed chop on whether it was saved or missed wide/high, but those two will look good together. And now: Hutton with a good save on Staal on another Reinhart feed.

Haven't heard "atoll" in a long time. (a long time) It's good to have Sabres hockey back.

I'd gladly have Grier on the Sabres coaching staff (particularly if it helped with the PK prowess in any way) or also out here as part of Seattle's expansion.

@Zamboni, once again thanks for doing the research and making this list. I know it’s about to get exponentially more time-consuming as for rounds 3, 2, and 1, but I hope you continue with the series. It's super-rare to get a top skater (Gaudreau) and it's possible to get a good NHL goalie (Holtby, Grubauer, Shesterkin). But it would appear once per decade a team should be nailing a bottom-6 forward or bottom-4 defenseman who carves out a really solid NHL career (who can also bounce up the lineup for a few seasons). We got ours with Foligno, and hopefully again soon with Borgen or Bryson or Pekar. There's a good list of players here at forward and defense who've made significant contributions to their team (including some playoff heroics) or project to continue to do so. Forward: Weise, Nyquist, Cizikas, C. Smith, Foligno, Gaudreau, Donskoi, Pageau, Rieder, Anderson, Paquette, Athanasiou, Wood, Copp, Arvidsson Defense: Brodie, Ekholm, Vatanen, Slavin, Toews Of note, the Sabres trend with this pick is how often the 4th has been traded away. And look no further than this year where we packaged our 4th to move up to get JJ Peterka. And... as the WJCs are ongoing right now and Peterka looks great --- yes, make that trade everyday of the week.

Very strange; I hadn't seen/heard that yet. What a bummer. You never want to have an innocuous song get associated with a tragedy or an act of violence like this. I suppose we could hope that it gave the guy a last happy memory of childhood or some such, except that it wasn't sufficient to prevent the act. Of course, I've used the German version as Casey's goal song because he's good old Casey "City Center" aka downtown.

Alright -- a guy who can continue on the taxi squad after (if) the AHL opens and you need the prospects playing meaningful minutes. This is fine. Edit: Also, execute Order Twenty-Seven.

Good for him (in terms of skill and desire to play)! Although I can see the skipping homework as an annoyance from the parent's side of it. If he insists on crushing your non-chess soul, then you need to set up a handicap. Your bishops or rooks are also queens, for example.

More playing time in... whatever the AHL ends up being... for the kids. I was counting on Nelson to be a steady vet this (half) season.

Huh. I swear Dark and Light switched Home and Away designations since I last looked. I wonder if I switch?... Nope. All appears to be in order now. Home/Dark; Away/Light, just like jerseys should be. Must have been me misreading it initially. I'll take full responsibility for losing the colors and apologize to Lord @SDS.

I should love Dark Mode. It's my side of the Moulson. But @SwampD is right, SS Home One mode is the way to go.

Every word of what you just said is correct.

League-wide, yes. The owners should want players making tons because that means the league revenue is higher and the owners make their equal amount. But you know on the individual team level each owner is happy to pay less and get someone on a cheaper contract, even if just because of a possible LTIR or buyout. As you noted on the previous page, the Sens got Stepan and $2M remaining, and not Point's $18M remaining. It's the perception of it.

What if we don't make the playoffs? But it's a whole 'nother year! It's only one shortened-season more. This training camp, we'll make enough on the rookie crop that I'll be able to trade for some more picks, and then you can go to the playoffs next year.

If that's from the Pitt article it's really odd. It seems like they would have listed Kahun among our key losses. I'd say Larsson, Kahun, Johansson, and Simmonds as they had defined roles or were acquired as a future for the team. That said: Hall > Kahun. Cozens > Simmonds. Staal > Johnasson, and Eakin > Larsson (offensively only). So all-in-all we're improved.

Even better would be if Hutton comes in lights-out and in February he's 8-0-1... and then he just plays average hockey the rest of the year and coasts to something like 13-5-2. (And Linus is similarly average and ... do some math, carry the one... 18-14-4.).