Thorny

Not a bad spot. We still have 3 points to play with in our back pocket

Called it

This is our Stanley cup

Heck of a feed from Pietrangelo

No way - Byram isn’t a problem in-so-far-as-he’s-masked-by-dahlin: Ekblad is actually good

Half the reason Bryson is is because he plays with Dahlin If 3 of your top 4 is Dahlin, Ekblad and Power you need to be able to make that work lol

They should shoot for the rebound more often when there’s a driving winger

Wish we could see Norris

Dunleavy: “goes off a body in front” ..you mean a tic tac toe passing play?

Greenway is on top and Krebs / Quinn switched

It’s only one more season

Derp ^

Eichel

16-1-1 would get us to 89 points and above the current line of 88. - - - i cannot believe the line is only 88 lol

But the beyond blue and gold of him calling Adams!

Can probably afford to move on from Byram if we got Ekblad

I agree - but Cheveldayoff is quite an experienced GM and Adams a rube - the Sabres’ failure to see contextual differences and adjust accordingly would in this case be relevant in so far as it would support the idea they’d be less likely to identify Adams’ firing as necessary, at all, based on their shocking dearth of self awareness

Can promote him to senior advisor Ruff

An hour of wolves, and shattered shields when the age of swords comes crashing down. But it is not this day.

I’d trade it if I could

Where do I sign

We only want associate to the GMs who want to be here

No, you avoid the D man because thinking you know with anything close to a certainty that an 18 year old kid is going to end up better than this other 18 year old kid ranked almost equally as a prospect, in several years down the line, is utter hubris, devoid of any semblance of logic. You avoid the D to avoid trading power for pennies on the dollar. The prospect/player immediately loses value once you “drive them off the lot” - Power is in the midst of his development curve, let’s sell low and time travel back the process and keep those expectations low! Said no one. Josh Allen to Manuel isn’t an analogous comp and your use of it proves my argument. The fact you are not only equating that ridiculous of a gap to the two, but forecasting it as a certainty renders your argument null pass: Folie à Deux

At the end of the day, it’s very likely Power continues to develop in a meaningful way, due to several strong indicators like draft pedigree, raw attribute, usual aging curves, usual aging curves for D men SPECIFICALLY, and what we know of how the overall sabres environment affects young players. Draft pedigree alone is reason enough for me to advocate for him. Yakupov is the exception not the rule. For all the frivolous, shot-in-the-dark, poor mathemical-odds avenues the sabres management continually pin their hopes on time and time again, I will happily, happily settle for resting on the odds of a first overall pick figuring it out. I can live with that bet, particularly relatively