Marvin

Is it just me or is there just a better vibe from the players now than in most of the last decade?

Welcome. Sadly, true.

In combination with the comment from @PASabreFan about players giving up their hometown teams, I wonder if they give up other biases as well. For instance, my sister says that WEEI basically trains Bostonians to have contempt for all things Buffalo. I wonder if Eichel's sometimes tone-deaf behaviour comes from that. Aside: from what coworkers say, Eichel is still the consummate Sabre to their kids.

You say you want a revolution, well, you know, we all want to change the world. ... All Right!

Fantasy hockey: our Olympians (re)discover their potential, come back to Buffalo, and excel.

My wife and I have in our wills that our ashes are to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel while a playing a recording of Monty Python's "Always Look on the Bright Side of Life."

Speed Racer would be the raciest with Tom Slick and Whacky Races. No. That's Pepe LePew.

The first thing that went through my head, "I bet he makes $750,000." It has become a cliché.

I try to remember that ECHL players are merely 1,000,000 times the hockey player I am, that AHLers are higher than that, and that NHLers are better than that still. The John Scott and Rory Fitzpatrick stories remind me that the difference in talent at the high end is negligible compared to them and me.

Welcome to the board.

Mike Weber!

This makes a lot of sense to me as someone well over 50. How it looks to a 23 year old...

Sadly, both "we are parsecs ahead of Europe" and "it's not that much better" are true.

Zinedine Zidane almost quit coaching the French National Team before their World Cup win because of the crap his father got. Racism is not great in the US and Canada to a lesser extent, but we both are parsecs ahead of most of Europe.

Anyone else glad to see Cody Eakin buried so far down the depth chart?

When I consider the Buffalo diaspora, I think they should allow people from all over the world to watch at sabres.com.

XYZ.

Pre-season. As in pre-tend.

Once GMKA was committed to something better than the equivalent of the Rangers' offer of projects, crap, and cap anchors, our current position was always a possibility. This is not to disparage Eichel, canonise GMKA, or any other false dichotomy out there. The only leaks we know of show that teams have offered projects, a good prospect exclusive or a good draft pick, crap, and cap anchors -- ROR 2.0. Anyone who asserts otherwise is WRONG. So, for @Hoss, @dudacek, et al., don't question my intelligence because I am still a fan of this team and can't see a way out of this morass which satisfies me from legal, ethical, financial, medical, and hockey viewpoints. I think that until Eichel plays all his cards to get the surgery he wants on his dime with no liability to the Sabres whatsoever that GMKA should stay the course, hockey media be damned, and we as fans can live with the consequences.

Once he gets up here, he's staying. I love his game.

I think he will be between choices 1 and 2. Good, but not great at the AHL this year.

I am just enjoying the idea of normality. Hockey games with fans!

I had COVID-19 before we knew what it was. I just got the Johnson&Johnson shot as a booster. This is the reason why.

I like The National for news. I imagine some people will like reruns of The Beachcombers.

Based on what I have heard from around the NHL, the offers never included a top tier prospect, always included at least one long term cap anchor, and rarely included top 10 picks. So take the Rangers rumours as typical. That is my measuring stick.