Broken Ankles

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

At least the Sabres posted Birthday wishes to Dom (and Foligno). I fear if they missed on that he might have gone off the rails.

+1 on this. Experience is just one method to learn wisdom, as the saying goes. You also have imitation, the easiest, reflection, the most noble. But don’t discount experience, which does have value, and serves as the most bitter to obtain.

I’ll see your Bell, and raise you two.

“You know we’re going to win that cup (draft lottery); Me and the Buffalo Sabres yeah, yeah, yeah!

Disappointing game for Lazar. Playing against your old team, one that traded you, the effort needed to be better. Agree with the notion that someone on the Sabres coaching staff needs to be fired. Whoever owns the PK is a start. Zemgus was invisible on the first line. Not sure why the coaching staff is adamant against reuniting Skinner with Jack and Sam. I liked how Reinhardt played tonight. He’s increasing his trade value with every game. ?

Then how does Vancouver wear the 78 Black Skate retro jersey? Multiple colors in that that are not in their primary color scheme?

Appreciate the Netflix recommendation. Took a little while to find the time. Thoroughly enjoyed the documentary.

Agreed it's not zero but it's not much at all. This was debated in September. "Most states measure duty days to determine when these visiting athletes should be taxed. This includes practice days, along with game days, that are spent in that state (and city depending on whether that city levies a jock tax as well). To determine the duty days spent in each visiting state, the work days spent in the visiting state are divided by the number of workdays in a season, from preseason through the postseason" The NHL has determined their season to be 270 days, so the players is only charged for the practice days and game days played in cities/states where a state tax exists. For Tampa Bay about 10 of their road games are in tax free states so only 30 games or about 40-50 "days" are spend inside these states. So using Jacks $10M AAV, his N.Y.S. tax would be around $880K. But if in Tampa bay, using a 270 day season those road games would add about 17% of his salary to those various states tax rates (average rate of $6.5%) for a tax of about $115K. I'd say the $760K in state tax savings is enough to affect ones decision. That and the weather. Being able to golf, hike, bike etc in the winter definitely factors in. I grew up in the 716 and live in a place where I can do all that and a whole lot more. It definitely doesn't suck.

If they plan on being in the playoffs next year, then two of the top Six Forward positions will be older, expensive and from another organization (whether it be by trade or UFA). I expect this to be the plan this summer.

I think it's questionable if Bogosian can fetch anything, right? So assuming he cannot, why wouldn't the only option be to waive and bury the contract? As the resident Capologist, is this scenario (waive/clear waivers/bury) not similar to what the Bruins just did with David Backes? According to what I read on that move, they were able to save ~$1m on their Cap to free up deadline spending. Unless he has any trade value whatsoever where you obtain an asset in return, and have the possibility to save more (example - they withhold half of his AAV in a trade, and recognize $2m instead of $1M), why is he not waived immediately?

Not sure this is the best case scenario. Based on Mitts play in Rocha-cha, and what we saw from Thompson last year I'm not sure this is even the most probable case. There is a lot of cap space and pieces to be moved to acquire a true 2C or 2RW. We need to "BE BETTER".

Can you turn this into a poll? Where we can vote on keep, waive or gets traded. I thought he might garner a 4th or 5th, but if we continue to see games like last night, I can’t see any trade value.

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This. @TrueBlueGED - look at the compensation we gave Vegas. It was a St. Louis 2nd in 2021 (presumably low) and our 5th in 2022 (hopefully low). And his stock has dropped somewhat since the trade. If the original trade is the starting point, is this not far less compensation you might obtain for a 20 goal/45 point player who is 23? Washington received more for Burakovsky, and he was less accomplished, although playing better in COL.