PerreaultForever

So you want to pay Mitts Thompson money? Okay, sure, do that. Enjoy watching the cap space disappear while we stay in the bottom.

It's not about POINTS. It's the complete player and everything he brings that I am talking about. We're not talking about a 1C we are looking at a 2C/3C and what that guy has to bring. Your 1C can be all about the point totals and you can even have a one dimensional guy but viewing everyone by the same aspects is a mistake imo. Coyle is a far better player than Mitts. Far better.

Any number over 5 seems too high to me. I was thinking about centers who are 2C/3C depending and the best example of that I could think of was Charlie Coyle who makes 5.25 and no way is Mitts as good so given inflation from the time of signing, giving Mitts 5 would seem like a maximum number to me. I don't see Tuch being odd man out. Mitts is more likely to be the guy traded imo because Adams didn't pick him or trade for him. GMs prefer their own so that they can prove themselves to their owners. I'd love a Skinner buy out but I do not see that happening either. Depending on how free agency plays out I could see Mitts being a fairly in demand trade chip.

Are you Delaney? 🙂

Both times we traded away a Foligno.

Reasonable for sure. Not being in Buffalo I didn't even remember last year's news/weather. Disappointing that the field is green but what can you do. Just another NFL football game. Looks like your team is going to do pretty good though. Steelers shouldn't even be in the playoffs. You should have a good day. Enjoy.

Nice to win and nice for a shutout (unless I just jinxed it with 3 minutes left) but man was this a boring boring low event hockey game. They clearly don't care, full on tank, and we did just enough but didn't need to do too much. To listen to Rob and Dan though the Sabres are playing spectacularly. They live in a different universe.

Nah, I didn't mean to sound skeptical, I believed you and I did see some video last night but it just seemed so strange for Buffalo. I mean it's not like you're Texas where they shut down over an inch. Buffalo usually just shrugs it off as normal so clearly, this was unusual and severe.

This will not happen, but if the Sabres were serious about turning the corner they would take on salaries at the deadline as well as trading away their pending UFAs. Very few top contenders have the cap space to make a big deadline deal without unloading a contract or two first (or at the same time). I don't mean long term dud deals. They might be pending UFAs as well. Salary juggling. But that is not the Sabres.

Well I hope they play tomorrow and I hope it still snows while they are doing it. I have to add, playing football in the snow is a blast. Blowing a guy up into a snow bank is something everyone should do at least once in their life.

Thanks. I do know about snow belt and lake effect and all that good stuff. I grew up in Hamilton and remember how Buffalo always got more snow. First Sabres game I ever went to live I remember being surprised by how high the piles were in and around the Aud compared to the Hamilton or Toronto areas. The London/Kitchener snow belt area actually has more white outs which are also really bad up north of Barrie. I've driven through some of that stuff as well. Not fun, but I survived.

Guess it's the wind and not the snow but you can enjoy this then:

Ya, that's snowy, but that's Buffalo. You're probably too young to remember this but I remember the game way back when Jocelyn Gouvrement had so much snow outside his house he couldn't get out the front door. To get to the game he tossed his equipment out of a second floor window and dove down into the snow. One of the other Sabres picked him up in his SUV Jeep or something and they drove to the game. I think the Sabres had like 14 guys or so and they played the damn game. Buffalo. I know that's indoors, and it was only about getting there and not playing in it, but I also do think times have changed and football used to be a more robust affair.

Well that's fair and if that's the case I stand corrected. Still haven't seen anything visual about it though. No, I absolutely didn't think 6 inches of snow would shut down Buffalo, hence my surprise at the cancellation.

We might sign Cody Hodgson. I hear he's planning a comeback.

Depends who replaces them.

is it really that bad or are you just being dramatic to make the point? I saw a Steelers podcast today and these guys are in an airbnb in Buffalo and they went outside to show it was about 6 inches of snow on the ground and it just looked like normal winter Buffalo. They commented that their were still cars driving around like nobody cared and they said that as a hats off to Buffalo people who know how to handle snow. What you describe seems dramatically different but I've seen no evidence of that on any media at this point. If you are correct, and it's truly that bad then fine, but it just didn't look that way. 13 was more than enough.

Zegras and his soon to be new buddy Gauthier all next season: Trade anybody. Definitely should be sellers but there's not much on the roster anybody will want for a playoff run. Johnson and maybe Okposo might be in demand, especially if we eat salary for a cap crunch team(s). You're not getting anything for your waiver guys and/or your softies like Olofsson. Girgs has been up many times as a pending UFA but never gets moved so I doubt it happens now.

I was one of the only people here (and took much flack for it) who wanted Torts before Philly got him but I'd be happy with Gallant since he's available now. idk if Gallant would want the job but I think we need to commit to an experienced proven hockey guy and give him the power. Five year contract and player movement influence. Let him dissect the team and then rebuild it as necessary. Myself, if I was owner, I would hire a senior advisor like Rick Dudley (for Sabres ties) and let him hire an experienced GM and coach who have the proper mindset and motivation. Someone like that who knows the game and the people far better than we do. and definitely better than Pegula does.

They used to play football in anything. Frozen ice fields, 40 below. It was all part of playoff football. The older fans will remember the days when those fair weather California teams would have to come up to Pittsburgh or Ohio and play in frigid cold and have their ***** handed to them. Remember 40 below Minnesota Vikings games before they built the dome? It was great! That's why defense reigned up there vs. offense in the south. It was part of the game, and they played through anything and sometimes most fans couldn't get there except for the 3 crazies who still took their shirts off. and it was great!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

But that's Buffalo. Way it's always been. When I was a kid we were pretty much guaranteed a snow game for a Buffalo home game at least once a season near the end of the year if not the playoffs. Same for New England. and then freezing cold Green Bay. These were football constants. Baseball cancels when it rains. Football plays through anything. That's the way it was and that added to it. Started going downhill the minute they built the first dome.

I don't know enough about Pegula to know if he's sick and detestable or not. Maybe if he'd kept LaFontaine around as his King Clancy we'd be on to something? Simpleton? I doubt that, but he definitely doesn't understand hockey. Hey, for all I know it's god's punishment for all the frakking.

Ya, I've got no problems with an emotional owner who wants to be sitting right up there with the GM and President or whatever they call whatever upper management. He can cheer a goal and yell at a penalty and it's great if he says "what the f's wrong with that guy?" when a player blows a play or even "whatever we pay that guy it's too much" BUT like any good CEO he needs to hire good people and let them do their jobs. The results on ice lead to their own reviews and if it's bad they get fired. Pegula is the new Harold Ballard.

Oh come on don't you know, NOBODY gets an F any more. They're all special. They all get ribbons and participation awards.