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"season"?

No. Definitely no. Those guys are pure AHL roster fillers and nothing more. On a good day maybe Clague level but definitely not NHL players. I could see Adams wanting Lysell. He fits the (dumb) Sabres ideas on young picks but I see him no better than our former Nylander. He also might want Mitchell as he's a "puck mover" but it would be a mistake. If Adams wants Zboril, it's time to find another team to cheer for.

I know the Sabres suck. It's easy to keep up on Bruins prospects because there aren't very many of them.

Lohrei is their best unless you count Poitras but they won't give him up easily if at all. Merkulov is better than Lysell. Beecher is the most NHL ready. Locmelis is a maybe, and that's about it.

Depressing, but not surprising.

Lysell's been garbage. I could easily see the Bruins ditching him but he is NOT what the Sabres need.

I read your comment as saying it's value was up because of Pegula. I thought I stated that clearly. It's VERY easy to misread internet comments. I'm sure you know that and it happens often.

In person hearing offered so there will be a suspension after all I think. https://www.nhl.com/news/maple-leafs-morgan-rielly-offered-in-person-hearing-with-player-safety

Just as an addendum, Bruins fans seem to think this might involve Mitts and are worried that the return might be Swayman. Fan talk though, not facts. Funny to read though.

I mulled this over in my brain and have no idea why this might be a rumor. Now I could see them looking at Zemgus if he was offered cheap as there is a 4th line spot that Montgomery can't seem to settle on or be happy with but I'm not sure what they'd do with Kyle. He'd fit the style and they might even think he could play with Marchand or Coyle but there's no open spot. They have to be moving on from DeBrusk or making some other move like Hanifin that creates a hole. As a Sabres fan the guy I'd want is Trent Frederic but I really doubt the Bruins would give him up and Bruins fans would scream. If the Bruins don't value him the other good snag would be Jacob Lauko. Super high energy, great locker room guy, pretty tough and very popular, but Bruins don't seem to value him as much as the fans. The other possible would be John Beecher who they sent back to Providence. Could be a solid 4th line center. Big and fast and very good on face offs, but unlikely to score much. An upgrade from Krebs though. Otherwise I think you are looking at 3rd round picks and lower and probably salary retention on Kyle at least. One other thought on Zemgus, Bruins have a promising Latvian prospect in Dans Locmelis so we could get a younger Latvian or maybe the Bruins want Zemgus to mentor him. idk. Just a thought.

To the bold, I think this might have more to do with it than we realize. As incompetent as Adams has been in some areas he may be actively trying to improve the work ethic and attitude of the team and when he has to choose, will choose the guy he sees as more committed to the game, and that would be Cozens. My own view on Cozens is he needs a tougher team around him to allow him to play bigger. I do believe Hathaway pasting him has made him a little skittish.

The Tiger Williams moment stuck in my brain forever was an interview he did with Dick Beddoes where Beddoes used the word "metaphor" and Tiger looked a little perplexed and said "metaphor? is that a kind of rock?" A real life Slap Shot moment for sure.

Hockey purpose? Is that a phrase used in the rule book? I don't think so but idk. It was not deemed a deliberate swing towards his face. Your face is down by the ice you might get a stick in it, it's kind of how hockey goes. You can change the rules for an interpretation but as is, by rule, it wasn't a penalty. The announcers on ESPN said the same thing.

I get that. I think in my first post on this I said speaking selfishly or just for me (or something to that effect). I will reverse this though and give you something to ponder. If you'd moved away from the Buffalo area over 30 years ago, given this period of garbage, would you still be a Sabres fan or would you have moved on to a real team? It would be a LOT easier out here to just be a Canucks fan and I'm sure @bunomatic would agree with that.

They might try, but league rules don't allow that (yet) and they'd need a new arena. being from Hamilton I'd be okay with it though.

It SHOULD be a suspension but I bet it won't be. HNIC announcers are so Leaf biased it's nauseating.

That's reasonable but for myself I just don't know. If they became the Salt Lake City Sabres (for argument's sake) I think I could and would cheer for them but I can't be sure.

No idea if they are hockey fans but they could be. David Thomson 41.8 billion Tobi Lutke 9.8 billion Mark Scheinberg 5.9 billion (tricky since he owns a gambling platform) Peter Gilgan 3.7 billion Carlo Fidani 3.2 billion Barry Zekelman 2.78 billion Mitchell Goldhar 2.7 billion Bruce Flatt 2.6 billion Hal Jackman 2.6 billion Mark Leonard 2.5 billion That's 10, but there are more and of course you could add in ownership groups with collective pools of money. All these guys live in Ontario (so they could be hockey fans and they don't own the Leafs, so maybe they'd rather have an Ontario team, but Buffalo could be the next best thing) (google says Pegula has 6.8 billion by the way of comparison and according to Forbes the Sabres are valued at the near bottom at .61 billion which might be viewed as a bargain) So, far from impossible.

There isn't a single D man who came into his own in his teens. In general wingers are the fastest, then centers, then D men, and goalies take the longest. There are exceptions of course but that's the general rule due to the difficulties of the positions involved. Our D man development plan is go out there and be yourself and learn from your mistakes. It's dumbass. Nope. Not imo. It was not high, and there is no penalty in the rule book for a low stick to the face. It was not a slash.

Useless is the wrong word. Not ready for the NHL is more reasonable and we are definitely not developing him properly.

Well the stats are nice but this isn't really news. It's been a thing for quite a long time.

Bruins looked awful today. Sabres could have probably beaten them the way they played. I only mention this because THEY got booed by their fans (and they are still in first place) and Montgomery's response was not a complaint about the fans but rather to say "they were right". It's just different.

This is a spin. The value of ALL franchises has risen because of the sport itself. Franchises in sports are just escalating everywhere. I suspect the value of the Sabres relative to other franchises is actually the same if not lower. Pegula had nothing to do with it.

Probably, but I (selfishly) don't really care if they move as I don't live in the area any more. I just want them to win. You never know though. There's rich guys out there with money to burn. Somebody might want a new toy.

I (and others) have been saying this for a while. The only way to save this is either Pegula finally "retires" and puts it in the hands of a hockey guy or he sells the team as you said. Pegula is clueless about hockey and the parade of inexperienced yes men make too many mistakes while learning on the job.