Mr Peabody

Trouba to Anaheim. Ducks received nothing to take the contract?? With Gudas and Trouba Samueli is building a bully!

Time to weaponize our cap space and make a deal or help broker one.

Get on the phone with Trouba, convince him to come here, and make an offer to the Rangers that we’ll take him off your hands for player(s) z,y , or z.

UTC?

Since it’s a press requested interview I expect him to ultimately fall on the sword with a minor flesh wound. Without naming names he’ll say some players need to elevate their games. The questions I’d ask are “Sabres came into this season with a heavy reliance on a young core that is not producing and is overmatched during many games. Will you do anything differently next year? Does it altar your philosophy of building primarily via the draft?”

Now you’ve spoiled the surprise for all of us

Kreider over Thompson should juice up Tage a tad.

Adams was very clear last summer on why he didn’t spend to the cap. He had to hold back money for the young ones coming up. That is the issue behind this team - his big contracts have been futures and few if any are paying off now. Additionally there’s no guarantee they’ll ever be value contracts. IMO we’re 3-4 for years away from our entire second line maturing. If our players were earning the $80M we’d be a solid team. They’re not, nor did I expect they would. So in a nutshell it’s the $80 we’re spending, not the $8 we aren’t.

I think what we’re seeing is impacted by the earlier “no blocking” philosophy. Too many of these guys never had to bust their a$$es to earn a spot, were brought up too early, and gifted playing time. They’ve never had to go all out every shift. A rookie mistake by a rookie GM

Something something “accountable”. Need a new buzz word since that didn’t do much

Without exaggeration I believe Beane with Karmanos reporting to him would improve this team.

They just picked up Wedgewood in a trade of back-ups

That you Clark?

AVs goalies have been poor- Sabres win 6-4.

Tuch survived but if memory serves me right, didn’t he miss a game or two because of that? Regardless, there is no deterrent to taking liberties against us. When we played Ottawa this year things got chippy at the end and Gilbert had a discussion with Brady. Those things instill a “ safer workplace for the kids”.

Quinn, (along with the rest of us) has seen Stillman, Tuch, and Cozens stand up to getting knocked around. Didn’t end well. The reason none of his teammates responded is they too wouldn’t fare well against Foligno. That’s on KA, not the players. Gilbert is as close as we’ve got to someone who could. I feared we’d lose Clifton when he stood up to Gudas. Don’t remember which recent game but saw Dahlin take a cheap shot to the arm /shoulder and nothing we could / did do about it. I said before the beginning of last season that KA was trying to get these kids killed.

Isn’t it sad that Benson sticks out like he’s some kind of freak for his hustle and gritty play? Tells you all you need to know about this roster.

Said during the off season they needed 2 centers. I now think they could have gotten by with 1 center and a top 6 power forward. Lindy is doing better than I expected but don’t still don’t think they’ll make the playoffs.

Was at my daughter’s house and they had the sound low so I couldn’t hear. I assumed with all the replays that the Bears had no timeouts and they were dumping on the QB for taking so long. Seems Bears coach though so too.

Is Benson a kinder version of Ken Linesman?

Only down by 1 after 2 lethargic periods. Start the 3rd with your 4th line and tell them to hit everything that moves. We need a spark.

Man are we weak on the boards tonight.

Two hard clean hits by the Ducks - glad Benson and Clifton did not end up on IR after their scraps. Our past reputation has been to fold like a cheap lawn chair after hits like that so expect to see more of them. Regardless of the fights we haven’t been backing down from a heavy game so it’s major growth. Would like see more of the heavy hits coming from our new bigger, faster 4th line.

Cozens seems to be a Lindy guy and doubt he’s going anywhere. His scoring is lagging the improvement the rest of his game has taken since the season started but I believe it will come along. Rossi came in with a solid physical build but once Cozens builds his strength I think his upside is very high. I always thought it was tough to judge Rossi because he was a man against boys.