Claude_Verret

I agree only if he doesn't live up to Murray's vision, which I also agree is more likely than not. I'm grudgingly willing to give Mr. ZFG the benefit of the doubt until the tale is told.

Murray loves Lehner. Absolutely loves him and believes fully he will bring Price/Lundqvist level play to Buffalo. He may be right and he may be wrong, but until then and only then can a final assessment be made on this trade.

Out of maybe 20 TVs in there, only one had the draft on. The three guys I was standing directly behind definitely knew what I was talking about. I'm not sure if those on the other side of the large square bar did, but they could definitely hear me.

So I was out at dinner with my wife and kids and another family last night as this all was going down. I watched the Eichel pick as we were wrapping up to leave. Then as we are walking out I see trade alert on the bottom of the screen and I figure the Coyotes had traded their pick, so I tell my wife I'd meet her at the car. When I saw the o'reilly trade come up on the screen I ummm...we'll I might have been a little loud and got a few looks from the patrons sitting at the bar. I gave them all (presumably Canes fans) a big "let's go Buffalo" and walked out.

Pumped for the season Eleven. I like it!

These moves....brought to you by THE TANK!

Drinking a fine German pils from local (NC) craft brewery Draftline. One of the owners is from Buffalo.

I haven't had it myself, but a friend told me Troegs has a pils out now that's even better than Victory Prima pils.

Love the nooner pils. It's a shame New Belgium isn't in WNY yet (I think), their shift lager and slow ride session ipa are awesome drink all day long and not bet bombed beers.

I still don't like the trade, but like others I acknowledge that now that with the tank over and a ZFG GM we should have expected these types of moves. More short term pain likely to come as we try to convert young assets into a contending roster.

Feel somebody new at the glory hole Fill someone with goo at the glory hole No one judges you at the glory hole...

Yes, but the sentiment I got was enamored to the point where he believes he will be a top tier elite netminder. Which he damn well better turn out to be.

If you go to the HF Sens boards, while the overriding sentiment is that they like the deal, there is a fair amount of pessimism about trading Lehner in the division and having it come back to haunt them.

He absolutely does according to my brother in law who is closely tied to the Sens.

I guess the market has been set by GMTM, so even though we got screwed he likely also screwed the other teams looking for goaltenders.

Even worse, Sens now likely have ammo to get into the top 10 and get a really high end prospect.

Until it's official I refuse to believe this is all there is to the deal.

My sens source knows nothing of the reported Lehner deal, but then again he's on the driving range right now too. Says he'd be surprised if they trade in division given what happened with Bishop.

Time to make it officially official and end the tank by making Happy Jack Eichel a Buffalo Sabre.

It was floated as an idea to get to #3 this year. Personally I think Reinhart is untouchable at this point, but anything is possible.

Loughran's on Main St in Snyder. During the week you can likely sit at the end of the bar or at a table in the bar area in relative peace. I'm sure grabbing a booth in the dining room wouldn't be a problem either if it's not Friday or Saturday..

I drank box wine in college on more than a couple occasions when it was all that was available / cheapest. The depths I'd sink to for intoxicating beverages in those days knew no boundry.

Nice, IIRC correctly that restaurant patio has some those micro nozzled misters all around it to keep you cool on these insanely hot days. The Bulls did a great job with that ballpark, and I haven't been since they did the renovations before last season. That must have been a moon shot of a home run to hit that roof on the fly

Sad and still the most logical explanation.

We tanked two complete seasons and have Reinhart and Eichel to show for it. Two of the top three forwards from both drafts combined. I'm perfectly happy to see where those two horses take us.