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I think Playoff Z would be off the chain. Imagine the powerhouse defensive shutdown forward game he's capable of playing with that level of motivation and urgency. The body-be-damned huge hit highlights alone would be worth the $2.5M. We're going to need that role and energy to get past the first round. If you thought Paul Gaustad was a capable playoff defense specialist...

September 2014: Bettman says NHL has no immediate plans to expand November 2014: NHL expansion: Las Vegas ownership group reportedly chosen January 2016: Bettman says NHL would not take an application from Seattle June 2016: The League will receive a $500 million expansion fee from Bill Foley, the billionaire businessman who spearheaded the Las Vegas expansion bid December 2018: The Seattle franchise will pay a $650-million expansion fee 2023: NHL ‘not in expansion mode’ despite Atlanta interest

Eichel tripped into the hit, making it way worse than what the contact likely would have been. By tripping three feet from Tkachuk while moving at a good clip, he basically deadzoned himself into Tkachuk's check as if he were being boarded three feet from the boards. This on top of what was going to be a solid hit from Tkachuk.

2.5M for what's reported be the best guy in the lockerroom to mentor one of the youngest teams in the league -who also contributes defensively on a team with f-tier team defense? Sign me up.

Nobody's slowing *****. The league will (and has to) claim that the team is staying until the last moving box is loaded into the station wagon. You can't tell the one fan that maybe they'll stay, we'll see. Daly will die on that hill until they unveil the new locked-in location and it's time to market the new logo. But even if they do move, it's the middle of May. Preseason starts in four months. The league releases it's schedule in two months. The team likely wouldn't be able to logistically coordinate a move that fast anyways without a plan already in place, so Daly's not technically incorrect. 2024-25, however...

Agreed. Buffalo picks by round: 13 OA 39 OA (from PHI from the Risto trade), 45 OA 87 OA (from Kings for Portillo's signing rights) 109 OA 141 OA 173 OA 205 OA Might be enough to move around a little, but not an overwhelming amount of draft capital. Unlike, Detroit, btw, who has accumulated the following first and second round picks: 9, 18, 41, 42, 43. If the ol' draft pick value chart is any accurate (it isn't), 9 and 18 could put them into 2nd overall, but combining all of them couldn't get them to first (which it wouldn't in reality anyways). We could hypothetically move as far up as about the 5 spot using 13+39+45, not that I'm recommending this. With what's supposed to be a deepish draft, you probably use the picks and take your chances unless you got someone locked in.

*check notes* There's already 26 of you I've sent to the farm team.

94 point player Teflon Nathaniel Teflon.

The child is feeling denigrated by having to listen to your coworker's ramblings and thought they get to feel some sense of superiority that you might feel bad about a player that has left. Easiest answer: don't engage. Same reason I don't talk politics at work: people get real mad when you make them feel stupid. There's like 50 things that this Leaf fan could ***** talk about the Sabres if they were smart enough, but Eichel is just lazy, not even worth the effort. So if you really have to dig in, tell this Leaf fan that Tage had more goals and points than both Eichel and Mathews, the Sabres are 125-87-18 all time against the Leafs, and Mats Sundin retired as a Canuck, so sit the ***** down.

Sold all his stock in '07.

Everything makes sense now: Ted Turner is still alive.

Karmanos missed the playoffs this season, Pittsburgh should find that unacceptable and leave him here. Please and thank you.

Unsportsmanlike gonna unsportsmanlike.

Then I suppose it'd be under mysterious circumstances that one would state that Putin and the Putin-loyal should ***** off and die.

Our lord and savior.

Maybe just fire him a little bit but then let him stay head coach.

Different topic. KBC could use $150M+ in improvements, but sentiment last summer was that there's not much appetite from public funding sources to aid this in the wake of $850M for the new Bills stadium. In any case, the current KBC lease puts all upgrades on the team ownership (this lease expires in 2025); PSE said they won't start work on KBC until the Bills stadium deal is done, which was still be being finalized a week ago.

Terry Pegula: Also Terry Pegula:

Really.

Best coach the Sabres have had in a decade, that reinvented the games of Thompson, Skinner, Tuch, Cozens into stars and is sitting on two Norris hopefuls in Dahlin and Power, but because we're backstopped by three Oxo brand collanders, they want his head. No spines. I roll with Granato.

Podcast was also a good reflection on scouting bias. Stats folks are realll uncomfortable with making visual judgements regarding performance, especially with how little a sample one game is. Becomes real interesting when pro scouts' ability to override this is combined with the reported pro scouting culture of defending "their guy" to the death to GMs. Managing bias becomes nearly impossible.