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No Malenstyn or Bryson for the morning skate. UPL and Greenway on the ice.

The problem is if you don’t give Komarov and Novikov a chance in the NHL, you’ll never know if they can hack it. I think both should be given a shot sooner then later. They add attributes that could help us win over Bryson, who know will never help us win. As to Rosen, I think he can help in the top 9. I disagree that he has to be played in the top 6, especially if he is responsible defensively.

1st your assuming this organization is trying to win. They aren’t. If they were, we’d have better goaltending, better D and guys like Danforth, Geertsen, Malenstyn, Bryson, Johnson, and UPL and Georgiev wouldn’t be on or near the NHL roster. GMs often leave “better” players in the A in favor of more experienced players. GMs invest in players, such as Quinn, and then have a hard time admitting they were wrong. Do you really feel like Byrson is the 7th best D in this organization? I’d take Jones, Novikov, Komoarov, Johnson and Metsa over Bryson, yet somehow Bryson remains a Sabre. Sometimes waivers exemption keep players up or down as well. Is Ellis the 2nd or 3rd best goalie in the organization? Possibly, but he’s never played an NHL game but since he is not waiver exempt he remains in Buffalo as Adams is afraid they’ll lose him if sent down. Levi is waiver exempt and was sent down without being given a real shot at the roster. I think your real question is are the Sabres leaving guys in Rochester right now would could help the Sabres win now and if so, why?

He has played 81 games for the Sabres and has exactly 10 pts. He is -2 this season after -16 last season and we paid a 2nd rd pick for him. The guy we didn't sign, Eric Robinson, who we acquired for nothing the year prior had 14g and 32 pts last year for Carolina while being physical and killing penalties, has 3 pts in 5 games this season and he could have been retained for about 9k vs the 1.35 we are paying Malenstyn to suck. PS the draft pick we gave up for Malenstyn is Cole Hutson. Malenstyn is so useless, Lindy can only play him 9 minutes a night. Geertsen is averaging 11+ a game.

Does it matter? Malenstyn is terrible and Geertsen shouldn’t be in the NHL.

He is easy to miss (or forget about). Gersteen to the bench.

I went and looked at the Sabres healthy forwards with Greenway, Danforth, and Norris out and this is what we have Benson Kulich Thompson Tuch McLeod Zucker Quinn Krebs Doan Gersteen Kozak and …..? Östlund enters the roster, but who slides to the 4th line? Krebs?

Jones replaces Metsa as the 7th D as Metsa jumps into the starting lineup (most likely), but who is Östlund in for? Danforth? Did someone else get hurt?

He should also get a 10 min misconduct to start the next Sabres/Fla game.

5 games in and we are all feeling better about the start. 0-3 w a -8 after 3 games has given way to 2-3 w a -1 after 5 games. Benson coupled with Doan seems to have raised the team’s competitiveness. Lyon is hanging in there in goal, the PK has been improved since game 1, while the PP was executed the last two games after a terrible start. I’m glad the team is showing some backbone and climbing out of the pit of despair. Now go 4-1 in the next 5 and prove to the fans there is some there there.

Why has it taken 20 years for someone to punk Marchand?

Dahlin doesn’t kill penalties

Nice win beating Fla and the refs. Fla stopping playing with 3 minutes left.

Chayka looks better in the Sabres jacket than Biron and the boys.

Longer than that. When did Lucic attack Miller?

Krebs has to get rid of the porn-stache and learn to score a goal.

Sabres showing backbone for a change.

Made Savoie a top 10 draft pick.

That is how you treat Marchand. Punk him, draw a penalty and score a goal.

Only 3 full time Sabres remain from Reinhart’s last season in Buffalo - Dahlin, Thompson and ….. Bryson. (note: Samuelsson and UPL got into a few games as pro rookies.)

Firings Adams must be accompanied by other moves. Simply firing Adams and promoting Jarmo leaves the bad scouts, Fortan, and the bad coaches in place. Lipstick on a pig especially if Terry forces Jarmo to work under the same restrictions as Adams.

When I wrote the post Samuelsson was listed day to day, Kesselring is out week to week. That leaves the 6 healthy D as Dahlin, Byram, Power, Timmins, Bryson and Metsa.

Can’t wait for that Bryson Metsa pairing. What could possibly go wrong?

No one is taking UPL off our hands even if Adams wanted to trade him. No one is taking him because: 1. He is not a good goalie. He wasn’t good in the minors and except 2/3 of one season, he has been terrible in the NHL 2. He has a bad contract. No one except Adams would be paying UPL 4.6 a season 3. He has a long injury history.

I’m perfectly happy to see how the deal works out, but let’s not kid ourselves why KA made the deal. Daddy OilBucks didn’t want to pay JJP. Adams floated the “didn’t want to be here” BS on Peterka to shift the blame to the kid. Frankly it’s despicable. This move was primarily financial. Utah is paying JJP 7.7 this season and Pegula is paying Kesselring and Doan 2.3 between them. This allowed KA to piss away 3.375 on Quinn and 1.8 on Danforth and still stay 5+ mill under the cap. Will the deal work out? Possibly, but we traded a top line forward for potentially only one year of two 3rd line (or pair) players with possible upside as both players are RFAs after the season. If they breakout Pegula probably won’t want to pay them either.