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This line of thinking baffles me. What future? Seriously. I mean, as it stands right now, I don't see a future for this team that includes success. I don't see Cozens coming right in to the NHL, they made that mistake with Mittelstadt. Who else 8s there? Borgen? Great, we have another RHD on a team that is currently over flowing with RHD's. I see no immediate help coming from the system. Maybe my vision is skewed, but it is how I am viewing the situation.

I mean, I like the optimism, but the current roster configuration are dropping like flies on the first frost of the year day. And not just by injuries either. Mitts is a non injury example. This team is just horribly assembled imo.

Nice to see what he can bring to the big club. Hopefully he gets a game or 2.

I'd rather have Pommers and Vanek at this point.

And therein lay the question, just how long is the long game?

We all will, we always do. That's the curse of being a Sabres fan, we are like Zombies mindlessly walking around awaiting the arrival of the cure. lol

I'm right here with you. This off season, at least to me, will determine their fortunes next season, and with that open cap space and Botterill's track record...………….yikes!

I expect him to quietly ask for a trade a year from now, if not sooner, like the off season. Seriously. I wouldn't stick around for this, would you?

This has been the MO of this team for years now. Why would any one expect anything different. I am surprised people actually believed they were In the playoff race while 10 points back this time of the season while knowing full well the roster short comings of this team. This team is garbage, we all know this. There is no playoffs coming, not this season and most likely not next season, there is just to much of a disaster from ownership and management to the coaching staff and roster. It's a complete disaster here in Buffalo and has been for years now.

Not really. The odds are actually in his statements corner given the record of this organization under the Pegula ownership.

lol The Sabres going to lose their first game back, a home game, to a team with one of the worst power plays in the league, by allowing 3 power play goals, all while the GM feeds the fans a load of crap about this home game run a chance to get in to the playoff race while he looks for roster help...…. I mean, honestly, you can't make this stuff up lol Gold Jerry, pure Gold

This is both true and sad...…………..

Yep, but we'll take'em.

Sadly, I do not believe for a moment it begins now. It won't begin until they add and subtract on the roster...……………….in my opinion in any event. I see Buffalo losing this game.

4 shots on goal now. At this pace, they'll have 16 shots on goal by games end, that's more than enough to win this game (insert sarcasm emoji here)

They need size for a net front presence, they sorely lack it.

But we were told they are "refreshed" from the break...………………..

7 - 0 in shots, and yet Botterill says "points are important"...………….

Yep, same ole, same ole.

If Belfour wants to have a few drinks, lay on his back, and clutch a "curtain rod" (man, have terms used changed these days), I don't think it "rises" to the level of unusual hallway décor abuse that is anything out of the ordinary...…………...

lol I literally spewed beer through my nostrils at this. Thank you kind sir!

Yea Tom, I figure they'll build around him, but, at some point and time, everything has a price, well, in this case, a massive over pay. Just how much is Larkin worth to a team like the Sabres as opposed to the Red Wings? Well, Stevie Y is no fool, four 1st's unprotected and both Middelstadt and Borgen, and I'd firmly say you have your Larkin. And while a good portion of die hard fans would scream in pain at the four 1st's, a fan like myself would wide eye'd smile at each and every game he played in for us. Is the price steep? It should be. How much of a difference would Larkin make as opposed to the assets I listed? He'd be a catalyst for the arrival of the Sabres on the cup contention scene, in my most humbled opinion.

No, I wouldn't give up Risto for either.

One name, one player to wield the 2C spot amongst them all, one team looking for a no holds barred rebuild, 3 1st round unprotected draft picks and a B+ or higher prospects to get him...……………. Ladies and Gentlemen, I give you...……………………. DYLAN LARKIN of the Detroit Red Wings. 3 unprotected 1st round picks, Casey Mittelstadt or William Borgen. There is your 2C.

Ok, ok.....well, the boys at Oxy chemical I&E shop call him Capt'n Crunch because of all the OT thrillers. It's Peanut Butter if he makes a mistake, it's a Berry if he nails it lol. So, if he wins it in the 3rd or OT or drives the game overall, they'll come in the next day and say Capt'n Crunch got his Berry's, if he makes a mistake, a bad pass or is gassed due to over use and the Sabres blow it, they'll say Capt'n Crunch got no Berry's tonight lol.