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When they came out with the seatbelt law, a large number of folks protested "you can't force me to wear a seatbelt, because.. RIGHTS"... or "look this guy died BECAUSE he had his seatbelt on....". Even tho the data showed they saved lives. Those types of people will always exist, and decades later there are still folks who don't wear seatbelts. You can't cure stupid.

They don't have time to wait, a medical grievance hearing could take 6 months or more.

That's his twin brother Tom Murray.

...which is important to player who values money over anything else. Consider how much Josh Allen could've saved on his $258m deal, about $15m if my fuzzy math is correct.

Just a thought.... but the longer this drags on with no news from either side, I believe the less likely it is that he actually needs surgery. KA mentioned he'd have no problem with Jack being at camp. How could he confidently say that if the medical staff has come to the conclusion that surgery is required? If he absolutely needs surgery why wouldn't he have filed a medical grievance by now? A 2 month recovery from today would mean he misses the start of the season.

"regular old Fluery" just won the Vezina. IMO he's a franchise goalie, and he was traded. That's my point.... franchise goalies can be had via trade. Nothing to do with generational level talent.

you can look these guys up, they seem legit... Head Team Physician (both Sabres and Bills): Marc Fineberg, M.D. https://www.ecmc.edu/our-doctors/marc-fineberg/ Team Physician: Michael Freitas, M.D. https://www.highgatemedical.com/freitas Team Physician: Rajiv Jain, M.D. https://www.sheridanmedgroup.com/meet-our-providers/physicians/rajiv-jain-md

Fluery just won the Vezina and was traded to CHI.

I was responding to the post that said "trading for a franchise goalie is a huge mistake every single time it's done". This is false.

only 3 years?

Okposo wasn't on that team. Kane missed 20 games. Risto and Bogo were a combined -32. Gionta had a whopping 12 goals.

Bylsma lead a post tank team led by Chad Johnson, Josh Gorges, Cody Franson and rookie Jack Eichel to 81 points, the most points by a Sabres team in the last 10 years. But yeah, let's throw him under the bus because whatever.

Rumor has it that TP wants UPL to take the reigns this season. He wants to give him every chance to be the starter 😳

Let's review the "injury"..... Feb 23rd, injured vs NJD. Scratched the next two games. Feb 28th, comes back to play the next 5 games, logging ~20min/gm. Mar 7th plays his last game of the season. Mar 9th, "out at least a week" - RK Mar 13th, "out for foreseeable future but not season ending" - RK It's been almost 6 months since the injury that he already returned to play from and was not expected to be season ending. I'm not a doctor, but shouldn't the initial evaluation/scan have revealed the severity of the injury? Just seems odd that the injury seemingly has become worse over time. Secondly, ADR has never been done on an NHL player. Has fusion? On a 24 year old? I'm just having a hard time believing he's first guy in the history of the NHL to require this type surgery to return to play.... especially considering he played 5 more games after the injury before shutting it down.

We are officially entering a 2 week window where I've been predicting a trade is most likely to happen (mid-August). 🤔

He'll report but immediately go on LTIR. It's a tank year, regardless.

Sabres for life.

It's an illusion. They were 9-16-3 under Granato... thats uhh, not good.

Sure it's commendable they have a type of player, type of game they want to play. Truth is, it's the same across the entire league. It's the same style Housley wanted, and frankly I don't expect the results to be any different this time around. Severely lacking talent, rookie head coach (again), zero goaltending. You have to be delusional to think this time will be different. The problems with this franchise are at the top... it all trickles down from there. They can draft well, but it won't matter when TP pulls to plug on KA and DG in 2 years and hits the reset button again.