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I’m shocked that Hasek never did this.

I don’t Twitter, but I listen to their podcast. Don’t recall them being especially down on Dahlin’s potential. Could just be my memory though.

Portillo won’t be a FA in summer of ‘24. He’ll be a FA in summer of ‘23.

I’m guessing that the cost of a physical advertisement on the boards dropped significantly, they probably aren’t pissed about that aspect of it.

Not sure about that. They changed out Gadreau, Tkachuk, and Gubranson for Huberdeau, Kadri, and Weegar There isn’t necessarily a drop off there.

I don’t believe that Chad was ever of the opinion that Dahlin was forever broken or anything like that. I believe that in this tweet he was just trying to express that the improvement in Dahlin’s play over the last year has been extreme.

I love this draft.

Murray took a gamble that Vesey would sign and paid a pick for a couple month exclusive negotiating period. Vesey was not drafted or developed by the Sabres.

This post is factually incorrect. When does Levi become a free agent? Not until the summer of 2024. How many times have Sabres lost an NCAA player they developed to free agency? Only once.

I think that they need to play a game where they actually outplay the opponent. I still think this team will be better than last season (80+ points), but I doubt they are drastically better.

Yes, someone on the internet edited in the headband. I’ll explain the joke. It’s a TB12 headband. TB12 is Tom Brady’s line of sports nutritional supplements or whatever. Tom Brady is like 53 and still playing in the NFL. Craig Anderson is also old.

https://frozenpool.dobbersports.com/players/tage-thompson#lines Stats are here. Maybe I should have phrased it as “Thompson had more ES points without Tuch on the ice than with him on the ice.” 50 ES points, 24 w/Tuch, 26 without. Both things can be true. When was Thompson paired with Tuch, around game 30, right? Thompson had 8 of his 26 ES goals before Tuch. So he was on pace for something like 21 ES goals before Tuch joined his line.

I think it’s going down the wrong path if people are formulating the idea that Thompson NEEDS Tuch to be productive. Last season, Thompson had more even strength points without Tuch on his line than with him. Skinner-Thompson-Olofsson scored an lot early last season.

Skinner-TT-VO worked early last season. Could put KO with Mitts. He is like Tuch minus the speed.

Imagine if Buffalo signed a goalie to a 5 yr $5M contract, then he allowed 4 goals on 11 shots before being pulled in the 2nd game of the season.

“Krebs leads the team in face of percentage”??? 81.82%??? He has taken one face off. What is actually is is the Krebs leads the team in % of shifts starting with an offensive zone face off.

If the movie is to be believed, the duty of nicknaming was delegated to the Assistant Coach.

The ones who haven’t already……

I’m not saying you are wrong, but I just wanted to point something crazy out. Gretzky had a stretch of 6 consecutive years where he not just led the league in scoring, he did it while having over 65 points more than the next guy. Insane.

Thompson threw two noticeable hits in the last 10 mins of yesterdays game. His contract extension hasn’t kicked in yet. He’ll live up to it next season.

Why are they the cone heads? I don’t think it’s a very fitting nickname.

Perhaps he took up day drinking? 🤪

Lots of complaints about sloppiness, turnovers and defensive miscues. That’s pretty standard for the first month of the NHL season league wide. Teams often don’t have their systems fine tuned and the games are a little more open. It should get better with more reps.

It’s a long season. You are going to tire yourself out.

Exciting game. Great win. Two points.