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Y'all are assuming that the contract is insurable. Given his history, I doubt even Lloyds would write the policy.

I'd send Östlund down, bring up Helenius to play center and move Greenway to the 4th line where he belongs.

The Sabres are 4-4-2 this season so far They started 0-3 Won 4 of the next 5, thus 4-4 and now have lost two straight on OT, thus 0-0-2

4-4-2 10pts

I'd like to revise my earlier response. Given what I've seen over the last 2 games, no this team isn't real yet. Good team find away to win with leads in the 3rd period.

Where are all the Power defenders now?

If Doan and McLeod are in your top 6, you aren’t a championship caliber team.

Apparently Ruff and I are on the same wave length.

Peterka has 9 pts in 10 game, a 72 pt pace. All his points are at EV. Doan has 3 EV pts in 9 game. His other 3 pts are on the PP. He is on about 49 pts pace. Doan adds a compete motor we need in the bottom 6, but he doesn’t drive offense like JJP. Frankly I wish we had found another way to acquire Doan, but he is not a better hockey player than JJP.

If we are in a playoff position on Dec 1 you can start to hope.

Why ? This is a very fair question and it’s reasonable to keep the best D first pair together since it’s working. The reason I reworked the pairs was to help Dahlin and Power defensively. Both have struggled so far this season in our zone (not a surprise w Power, but shocking with Dahlin) and I wanted to get them someone to help defensively.

…. and behind the Sabres lousy defense. That illustrates why UPL isn’t good enough. We are getting good play from Lyon. Let him run with it if he can.

What you’re saying is UPL is the best of an all time terrible lot featuring Comrie, Anderson, Tokarski, Dell, Reimer, Subban, Hutton, Houser, Johansson, and Levi. His xGSA is also buoyed by his one good season. What’s his xGSA without that season. -25, -30, worse? UPL is a below average goalie who needs to be moved so management can see if Ellis or Levi is the longterm answer in net.

Kesselring may be ready for action with Metsa being sent down Dahlin Samuelsson Power Timmins Byram Kesselring Maybe 3 evenish pairs?

What's his GSAx for his NHL career and his AHL career? My guess is that those numbers are piss poor as well.

He is going to make an appearance again and soon whether we like it or not. Adams invested big $ in UPL (as usual after only one good season) as part of his "rebuild plan" and he's going to try to make the failed investment work. Sorry but that is the truth. The best we can hope for in the short term is that he craps the bed again and forces Adams' hand.

Leave him on the side of the road and hope someone picks him up. The truth is we are probably going to have to eat a large portion of his deal to get him moved.

As they proved last night by playing UPL after one rehab start instead of leaving him in Rochester the full two weeks. Adams will say that UPL needs a few starts to get in a groove. Unfortunately, the Sabres don't have that luxury.

Why the Power dislike? Simple, the kid remains terrible defensively. He keeps making the same mistakes that you gloss over. For every good play, there are 4-5 bad ones. Yes, UPL had no business playing last night. He was bad and the Sabres should have left him in Rochester as long as possible. He is not and has never been a good pro goalie. The contract years was a career year unlikely to ever be repeated. Time to move on. However, his deficiencies don't excuse Power for being a one dimensional offensive D who we are overpaying by $4 mill a year; money that would be better allocated elsewhere.

I wasn’t able to watch the game after the first period, but wasn’t surprised by the results especially with UPL in net. I hate that we coughed up a 3rd period lead. Power losing control of the puck in OT that lead to the breakaway was par for the course. I’m over both UPL and Power. We can do better, especially for $13 mill of cap. Power gets a life line when Kesselring returns, but UPL has to be on a short leash if Lyon and Ellis continue to play well.

Don’t worry. They won’t. The Sabres will win one before the Leafs do.

Cheap shot by McCabe

That was a sorry fight. What was McCabe doing?

Someone wants to make the Olympic team.

Not really. Average age was 26. I also wonder if the D pairings had hurt Dahlin a little? Truthfully, I think he’s been fine, as have the rest of the team of late.