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Murray said on WGR yesterday that Ennis does have a concussion.

One has to believe they will be taking a long look at this in the off season. The average time it takes to get a review done is ridiculous. The offside challenge/rule needs to be edited or changed. Far too many times they are reviewing the offside looking to see if buddy's skate is a 1/32 inch off the ice, even for a split second. Not to mention it takes 15 minutes. Your a coach, your team is up 3-1 with 3 minutes to go in the third. your team gets scored on making it 3-2. Every single coach is throwing the challenge flag calling for offsides! the play looks blatantly onside but, oh wait, this guy's skate might leave the ice. when it's all said and done who cares if it's a good goal or not, they've lost all their momentum. I've seen it happen to many times. edit the rule and make it so the skate can leave the ice and still be onside, or take out offside challenge. One has to believe they will be taking a long look at this in the off season. The average time it takes to get a review done is ridiculous. The offside challenge/rule needs to be edited or changed. Far too many times they are reviewing the offside looking to see if buddy's skate is a 1/32 inch off the ice, even for a split second. Not to mention it takes 15 minutes. Your a coach, your team is up 3-1 with 3 minutes to go in the third. your team gets scored on making it 3-2. Every single coach is throwing the challenge flag calling for offsides! the play looks blatantly onside but, oh wait, this guy's skate might leave the ice. when it's all said and done who cares if it's a good goal or not, they've lost all their momentum. I've seen it happen to many times. edit the rule and make it so the skate can leave the ice and still be onside, or take out offside challenge.

That article put a fairly negative spin on it. The upper section(300's) of the MTS center is the only section in which you can buy a ticket that hasn't already been purchased by someone else. So 300-900 tickets depending on how many sections the decide to open up. So it's still technically a sellout. which is almost always the case for every sellout team.

I know!! I feel bad complaining about a couple 92-94 overalls, but damn a 97 overall center and 95 overall Dman.. been playing to much be a gm

I seen that one coming. It is most definetly a valid argument. I think they are trying to come up with a long term solution for that, it takes time. When Winnipeg bought the Atlanta thrashers they were a pretty terrible team, now they are a bubble team that won't make the playoffs. None of that mattered because they knew what they had because they lost it before. They sell out and are passionate, even though they aren't icing a very appealing product. this is the case with almost every Canadian franchise. something to think about. I'm sure everything work out. Seems to be the way things are headed. Once Buffalo gets good again I have a feeling seats will be filled with blue and gold! We're on our way to being the new Chicago, fans from everywhere bandwaggon hopping on board. THE SABRES WILL BE FINE

Thanks for watching my back boys! I'm disagreeing with you, but I was trying do so in a respectful manner and still get my point across. I meant no offense to you Smell. Wasn't even implying you were naive! But I did say naive in 3 posts in a row. I'll cool it okay Nfreeman! Haha That's the argument. at which point does the FO start broadoning the horizon? When locals can't buy tickets to see there team because they're sold out to other fans, then that's a huge problem. In my opionion the responsability is on the fans, the local ones to be precise.

No no, just have to add sending Ekblad back to junior for another year, to the list of "good hockey moves" we've made the last couple years That's what I've been noticing too. Personally I'd go with McDavid Ekblad, with no disrespect to Eichel and Reinhart. they will lead us to glory someday But Ekblad is a beast. Defensive awareness off the charts

The dust is beginning to settle on this rebuild. the Sabres have their new core, or at least a few key pieces to the puzzle. Were headed in the right direction and its only a matter of time until we start making the playoffs. The Sabres lost the lottery, 2 years in a row. in my mind those 2 players, McDavid and Ekblad, are arguably the 2 best prospects at their respective positions in the last 10 years. That really stings, but I am pretty thrilled with plan B. I would not be the least bit surprised if all 4 players made their way into the HHOF. So let the discussion start here, who would you rather have given the choice of the 4?

I believe he didn't buy the team to make money, but if there is an opportunity to make money, one would be naive to think he wouldn't do it.

Sorry about the poor punctuation and grammar btw. Not a huge fan of smartphone keyboards

One would be naive to think Pegula won't do everything in his power to maximize every penny. you don't become a billionaire without doing whatever it takes to make $ So that's your story and you're sticking to it?

No, I was just saying to call you out so maybe you'd answer me! My bad I didn't realize that fact was irrelevant. After all he built a hotel and restaurants specifically for the leaf fans! It would be a shame if he never advertised it.

So that's the discussion here? whether pegula is openly inviting leaf fans or not? I guess I'm the minority here that doesn't see a problem. I mean really, I read the article (wonder how many of you didnt) and I fail to see any kind of conspiracy. even if I could slightly see the silhouette of the link that's being made, who cares!! Even if pegula phoned the guy up, I don't care of he wrote the article himself! I come from a place where the low cap team sells out! Very few opposing fans who couldn't be heard if they shouted. (when the shares come to town I get heard don't get me wrong!) The point I'm going for is, our owner isn't half the owner Pegula is. But if we had empty seats, he could fly out Vladimir Putin of he felt like it. it's like complaint about the president but you didn't vote! Get your vote in and go to a game or 2. Maybe it would be as loud when we score as when the leafs do

Try to look at it from a business perspective! People in seats=good Empty seats=bad Everything else is basically an irrelevent discussion. When they start turning away sabres fans, or selling out of area first. then this becomes a story. however is the arena is 99% full, and 98.9% are leaf fans, it's still not an issue. has to be a sellout crowd for this to even begin to matter I mean you're not selling out! Who cares if the guy going to the game is just there for a hotdog, to cheer the opposing team, or to sit in his seat and play pocket pool. he's doing more for the local economy and the team then most of its actual fans. that's where the problem lies. the fans don't have the loyalty. Leafs havent won a cup since Buffalo has been in the league, but they always sell out! Maybe the article is to challenge the locals!! Hey you don't want to come out and support the team? well I know a bunch of crazy canucks who will take those tickets. Just for the record. I know most of you guys even though you don't know me. long time lurker. But a few pages up thread I asked PA a question directly relevant to the thread. he viewed my profile but never answered! Why? Because it shot down his "theory" and he didn't want that. I have enjoyed many of your posts PA. but like I said before, i think, to a lot of posters you've lost some credability with all this

I have reading this entire thread since it started. I just don't get it! I find it amazing how many people rush to defend PA. LGR4GMs post was bang on. I thought all of your posts, SDS, were well thought out, and made perfect sense. Honestly, read the article, read PAs posts. you'd have to be crazy to think he's trying to have a legitimate discussion about hockey. Do you know what the Toronto maple leafs do when sabres fans show up in droves to the air Canada center? Neither do they, because they sell out!!! I don't care if Pegula paves the highway in gold in the FNC to SO! If we're not selling out who cares who is there! Stimulate the economy anyway you can. I don't get some people's ignorance on this issue. theres 100 posts that explain it perfectly up thread but some of you just don't get it!! Sure it's great to have discussion! But let's not sit here and discuss how Marcus foligno is the most skilled player on our team! Honestly you'd have a better chance of convincing me of that then the other bs in this thread. One more thing. I especially don't understand this, so someone help clarify it for me! I've seen a few people say "pegula only cares about money, not winning cups".. Those 2 obviously go hand in hand. win a cup, more fans, more money!! that's the way it goes

Wow boys... I don't post often, So most of you will skip over my comment like I never said anything and that's fine by me... Now I don't live in buffalo. I've never been to the FNC. I have a question for you PA, is it Pegulas fault that the Canadian fans are coming to the arena? Has it been happening since before he was the owner? Now this is just pure speculation, I'm no business man, but if I was, and I had just made a huge investment(harbour center) and I realized that "30-40%" of the people at the game were Canadian fans, I would probably do a little bit of advertising to the select market of which my investment was to reach. Yes,, teams do sometimes try to only sell playoff game tickets to the home crowd. That's because they are selling out. I've never seen a team say they'd rather have empty seats. Put the Pegula pitchfork away, you're only losing credability on here by reaching at straws. Pegula doesn't control who comes into the arena, if he wants to make a return off of some true fans(leafs have sucked forever and they still go to the games) then what's wrong with that?

Does anybody play boom beach?

I am appalled you don't have Risto in the all star game.

Thanks, very interesting stuff. I was on board with this since Regier but the wheels in motion.

Yah, I would be curious to see someone break down every traded player and who those picks turned into over the last 3 years so we could see how much we actually improved over our old core. We are definitely due for a bounce but I'd take getting away with a kicked in goal in the SCF over winning the lottery.Edit:fixed some of the grammar mistakes

Would you trade Thomas Vanek on an expiring contract for Matt Moulson, Robin Lehner and a 2nd rd pick? I don't think there is too many here who would say no! I agree looking at most of our trades I believe we overpaid, or at least seem to have at this point in time, but I also believe the place the team was in this year, was a terrible environment for prospects. Hopefully now we can show them a winning culture, or at the very least not cheering for them to fail.

I could see Murray talking to Winnipeg also, they have 10 defenseman under contract and I believe Josh Morrissey will make the team. I'd be happy to see Murray get a guy like Enstrom. He's under contract for 3 years at an AAV of 5.75M which is quite a bit but nothing that would cripple us. He's exactly .5PPG in his career, with 2 50pt seasons. He rarely shoots the puck and mostly racks up assists. If he started shooting I could see him getting 50 pts for us.

Anybody interested in acquiring Yandle? One year left on his deal at 2.625M(50% was retained by Arizona). 28 yr old LHD who doesn't miss time and is career Avg PPG is over .5. The rangers are too tight to the cap to resign all of their RFA's and could look to move Yandle. Seems like a good fit if we can get him for a decent price. However the Rangers gave up some pretty significant assets to acquire him so he may cost more then I'd be comfortable spending.

Matt Donovan

Both DUI and fleeing the scene of an accident, if convicted would give ROR a criminal record. A conviction for both, or either, could very well render ROR inadmissible to cross the border. Last time I checked crossing the border is an important part of playing in the NHL. This is definitely cause for concern, and should be treated as such. For those of you reading this and freaking out, I wouldn't worry too much. Professional athletes are often able to, somehow, plead these types of charges down to a misdemeanor. Dustin byfuglien got a DUI on a boat in Ontario a couple years back. Jarret Stoll got off on possession charges. I think that ROR will get off on these charges but it is certainly not the joke that some are making it out to be. Now if you all will excuse me, I'm going to grab a Timmy's coffee and maybe watch last year's WJHC, or maybe watch the 2014 or 2010 winter Olympics, sounds like fun eh?