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this thread is quite dreadful it’s game 11 with a young team playing with a different focus than last year, there’s some growing pains i don’t know how confident i am that they’ll make the playoffs but the tone in this thread i’d say is a bit over the top and alarming, let’s see 30 or so games before we decide that the seasons going nowhere imo 🤷‍♂️

For those of you that fancy the fancy stats, Calgary have let up 3.25 goals above expected with a 42.5 xGF%, hopefully a get right game for the offense to start rolling Go Sabres

did i just read this account say something positive

Better overall but not a ton more point production, 15g-22a-37p

Opened the thread expecting to have an eye roll type of reaction, but man .. I think that looks better? Looks more natural seeing as we read from left to right

Has anyone listened to the KA clip or just read the quote? Actually listening to the clip, it’s really just standard GM talk and no strong hint, or hint at all for that matter, at Michkov

With this draft considered to be so deep, I’m curious if anyone here has their own or has seen somewhere do a consolidated rankings with both this years and last years prospects?

I forget who said it, but someone associated with the team essentially said being young they rely on crowd energy a lot to get their energy. On the road they like silencing the crowd in the spotlight, and at home they have no one to play for I’m sure there’s other factors involved, but I think this could definitely be part of the issue

Just yelling at clouds here, but I wish all of these things waited until actual deadline day and then deadline day was just 7 hours of woah wtf just happened, rather than a slow roll all week just for very minor things to actually happen at the deadline Idk just seems more fun that way As for the Sandin trade, the Leafs were doing so well trading this year but my god what was that 😬

Can’t find the tweet now, but I saw a tweet earlier Rumor has it that conehead (one of the concession guys for all of Buffalo sports, well known in the area I’d say) told someone that Tuch’s injury is a broken foot and to expect 4-6 weeks. Take it for what it’s worth, it’s a rumor to begin with and even if it conehead did in fact say that it’s essentially a glorified fan claiming to have insight But hey, he does work in the arena every game, maybe he’s right 🤷‍♂️

the tweet says: My prediction for the Sabres deadline is that they trade for a defenseman and it’s not someone we have been discussing at all If you don’t follow the original account that jeremy responded too I would go ahead and give it a follow, one of my favorite accounts on sabres twitter

I vaguely watched the Sabres in my childhood, I’m 24 so I watched as a casual fan (pretty young one at that) while they enjoyed their success from ‘05-‘10. Once the drought started my fandom wasn’t strong enough to stick through the bad years really and they became more than irrelevant to me. Then they drafted Eichel and I started paying a little bit of attention again. Right around the Skinner trade I kind of hit a point where I was like, well, I’m a diehard Bills fan, I’m a diehard sports fan in general, and I’m from Buffalo, why am I not paying attention to the Sabres? Problem was, being a diehard sports fan in general it drove me insane that I didn’t understand hockey and was just watching casually understanding that goal = good, goal against = bad. When I watch the Bills, I’m able to digest on field play and the offseason and roster management at what I would call an above average level. With hockey, I had zero idea and I couldn’t stand that so I needed to learn more. At that point I had just made my account at TwoBillsDrive and came across SabreSpace. It seemed like the majority of the community here were intelligent and understood the game (definitely more so than over at TBD 😬) so I lingered and just read and observed to digest and try to learn. I did that for probably about 2 years before making an account. Now I’ve had the account for about 3-4 years and have watched 90%+ of Sabres games for 5-6 years. I still don’t contribute around the boards much, but I think I’m at a point where I can confidently digest roster management and am slowly starting to actually see the gameplan, individual player peformance and coaching impacts develop live on ice during the games. You sick f**ks did it to me. It’s no longer 1.) Bills …………………………………… 2.) Sabres, it’s now 1A.) Bills, 1B.) Sabres. I’m fully addicted, and right as I escaped one drought, I was strangely deranged enough to jump on board another drought lol

And some of us (me) are lucky enough to work Saturday’s and also miss that Saturday game 🤦‍♂️

I keep seeing Power estimates around $8M-$9M, doesn’t that seem a touch inflated? Genuinely asking, I’m foreign too and still learning the ELC/bridge/long term contract world Also, has Mitts moved himself from whipping boy to extend early this off-season in hopes of a bargain deal before he continues to build his game next year?

I think you could walk that “steal” number right up to anything under $10M tbh

My guess independent of the Thompson & Cozens deals: 8x$11.5M My optimistic hope with Thompson & Cozens deals in mind: 7x$9.75M My middle ground with all context added: 8x$11M

As a relatively fresh hockey fan, and more so Sabres than NHL, I haven’t watched a contending team (closely) yet so I don’t know how the roster gymnastics work. But our 13th forward currently has 26 games played of our 50, provided the rookie next year isn’t Savoie due to whatever rules his league has, couldn’t the rookie ‘earn it’ in that 50% game share bouncing back and forth between AHL and NHL? Or are there rules - i.e.) number of call-ups and send downs maybe - that would prevent that?

Do with this what you will.. Personally after being completely done with Mitts early in the season, I’m starting to embrace him as a key middle 6 piece for the team moving forward. Mitts production regresses to the mean as his recent on-ice efforts start to turn into on-ice results, being a key piece to the playoff charge? I’m here for that vibe

Wasn’t it Mike Harrington a week ago or so that was saying that tickets were too inexpensive and fans didn’t have a right to complain, and now he’s saying tickets shouldn’t be rising? Or do I have the wrong guy?

Good thing Despite whiffing at the puck on a solid one time chance immediately after me posting it lol

Quinn looks like a freak so far

You won’t convince me that this thread wasn’t created solely to sneak this in 😭

Trade Olofsson for some assets, and swap in a dynamic 5v5 scorer in his place? Does it work as simple as that?

Don’t think postponing this game should be something of consideration at all, sports help through tough times and the case will be the same even when it’s sports that are causing the tough times. The city could use this in my opinion, my only wish would be that the game be at home. I’d like to be there for this one and feel the weight and relief of a moment of silence from the crowd in unity. Go Sabres, give us a positive distraction for a few hours tonight 🙏

Hit it right on the head, saved me some typing Only difference I’d say in my opinion, for #5, Olofsson will see quite a glow up once Mitts is traded and they’re separated for good