Broken Ankles

I know. Agitation. Kinda like Marchand.

If Eichel is in his prime now, and Sams one year older than Jack, how is Sam not in his prime yet? ????

Could not agree more. I am extremely concerned about the current managements bond or ties to draft picks or players brought in via trade. Specifically Carter Hutton. A new GM would look at this situation, the flexibility of a buyout and this guy would be gone in the off-season. Especially with talent like Holtby or other UFA goalies this summer. I would doubt the current regime makes any changes at the position and stays with the status quo until his contract expires next year. The experiment has failed. Same to a lesser degree with Montour and Casey. A new GM with no ties to these players can be much more objective in evaluating these assets as collateral in a trade.

Shero? Do Better (or so I have heard)....

Burokovsky and Kadri were trades. Nichushkin was a UFA and a nice reclamation project. He’s a good example of a player surrounded with great talent and asked to play a 4th or 3rd line role can play without pressure and get elevated to the second. Whether it’s a trade or UFA the point remains that they made moves and have improved their standing.

If you feel strong about this you need to bet it pronto. The Sabres are -240 on the money line. DET is +205. Vegas sees this as an easy win tonight. The Isles for example are only -210 against the Kings, and they are HOME.

#1 please.

Good call out. Should the Sabres be in on B. Holtby this summer? As a bridge to UPL? If another team is offering term, I would think we are out. The Sabres can save $1.8M with a buyout this summer, and they already have a fair amount of cap space.

While I can say Olafssons defense before injury was improved from October, I cannot see that much of a difference between the two. And what is RK’s rationale coming out of the break? When it’s not an either or situation. To Ligrs point about stats with/without Jack, it was imperative that he get jump started out of the gate against OTT. And it just didn’t happen. It’s like RK being stubborn to his detriment. I think I saw a partial shift where he was on with Sam and Jack and within seconds a scoring chance.

A good GM that can evaluate forwards (Sakic) could manifest this collateral into something much faster. also - read this on why it’s easy to move on from Girgs and Johan. https://www.google.com/amp/s/clouducation.wordpress.com/2012/05/10/leadership-and-the-5-monkeys-parable/amp/

You mean on this team that has not sniffed the playoffs in 8 years. I like Son of Lars, but he may be the only UFA that has any return value. We need to move on from the past, so take what you can get. Maybe Larsson plus another part can get you into the second /third round.

Sakic wins trades, we dont Turris for Girard Burakovsky for 2nd and 3rd Grubaur for a 2nd Graves for peanuts top 4 for Duchene Zadorov and Compher for O’Reilly plus drafting four spots ahead of Buffalo in 2017 gave them Makar and us Casey.

Larsson and/or Girgensons would garner morethan the others (if anything at all). They are UFA's. They have been associated with more losing than others on the team. Why wouldn't you attempt to trade them?

Pretty sure Dudley is a $hite-Ton older than Babcock. By like 15 years.

This is the correct answer. Had proper planning and logistics been done, they could easily have had a licensed supplier make a run of officially branded goathead Jerseys. Some for the players themselves, and others for the fans coming to pay homage to their 90's team. You think those fans coming (that night or later) might have purchased a few of these sweaters?

Borgen is definitely one, and could be a possible pair with Pilut on the third next year. The ascent of Joki on the right makes Montour somewhat expendable. Especially how you pair. Dahlin, Joki and Pilut are PMD. You have Risto and Borgen as SAH. You cannot give a large free agent contract to him when you still need another LD to pair with him. McCabe is not the answer in my opinion. Question is what kind of return would he garner? Plus McCabe has been part of the losing, so even if I can get past this there just needs to be a purging of players associated with the losing.

Comparing organizational decisions over the past six years to Buffalo’s will almost always look favorably on the opposition. That is not the debate. The comment originated on whether or not the Columbus GM is Great. It was never is he better than JB. I think that is obvious.

He also traded a first and a third so Vegas would select Karlsson over Wennberg or Anderson. How did that work out?

Never a fan of Torts personality, but cannot deny his results. He gets more from less than anyone. As far as their GM, I couldn’t call him great. The trades of a first and 2 seconds last year will have an impact down the road. Nyquist signing is questionable at $5.5m. Not his fault his three biggest UFA’s left town but it’s not like they made any moves to fill those holes. Not defending JB by any means. vegas has buffalo as -110 or even on the Moneyline. Wonder why. Seems like our season is over and would be an easy Columbus win. But they know way more than us, so I wouldn’t be surprised if the Sabres win.

Jack be nimble, Jack be quick. Jack be frustrated, breaks his hockey stick.

Absolutely hilarious. Making a coke-joke on a Possum reference. Then dropping a #sabre50 is just gold. Well done.

I had never heard this story....from Wikipedia One of the most infamous moments of his career came on February 13, 1977, when he quit the Buffalo Sabres. Reunited with former Maple Leafs coach Punch Imlach, now the Buffalo General Manager, Smith was to replace injured Sabres goalie Gerry Desjardins in a game against the Minnesota North Stars. The Sabres had also called up Don Edwards and less than an hour before game-time, Imlach ordered Sabres coach Floyd Smith to play Edwards instead.[1] After the playing of the National Anthem, Smith stepped off the bench, saluted Buffalo owners Seymour and Northrup Knox and headed for the dressing room. Answer: God I hope so. We could use the cap room next year. And I hope Johansson plays like Donny.

JD was not winning any Oscars, unless there was the award for "best use of Latin in a comedy or musical". thats where I rememember every single f*$&-ing thing I know.

Post meridian. Anti-meridian. Uncle Meridian. All of the little meridians