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  6. Sabres unveil goathead reverse retro

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    3 hours ago, LGR4GM said:

    At first glance, I was absolutely:

    But now looking at it for a few minutes and finding other images other than the video, I'm starting to back off that opinion.  I'm starting to sort of like, but it's not everything it could be.  Maybe the full kit will look sharp.  But if you don't like this jersey, depending on your reason why, be warned you may not like the black thirds coming...

    Bad:

    1. The yellow sleeve ends are bleh.  It may be the lighting in the video, but they look dingy.  [The image below straightens this out; it was the lighting in the video.]
    2. If you go with a mostly white jersey, especially all-white yoke with no shoulder patches, you do it to for a clean look (see 50th anniversary jerseys).  The sleeves ruin the clean look.  So they didn't want to go this route.  So if not going for clean... why no shoulder patches?  Cost savings?
    3. The point of the stripe on the under side of the arms on the original jerseys was to make the jersey body fabric look like a buffalo head shape.  A different color stripe ruins this effect and becomes pointless.  [The OG blacks suffered from this.]
    4. So it's clear the route they chose was to do a blue/gold color inversion of the OG black jerseys (not the whites, because there's no yoke).
    5. Similarly, the side-body chevron don't extend to the front and rear enough at the bottom of the jersey to help form the chin of the buffalo head shape.  Nor does it extend up to the armpit.  So the hidden buffalo head shape is gone.  This may have been forced by the oversized crest or by trying to be cheap on manufacturing more complex fabric shapes.
      1. The bigger problem is I'm betting Adidas does the same thing for our black thirds.
      2. I bet Adidas has tooled their fabric cutting and sewing for the thirds and used it for this jersey.  This doesn't affect fabric color, but affects what fabric shapes are stitched together.
      3. You can see the extra seam in the gold sleeve fabric for where the gray is going to go at the end of the sleeve on the black thirds.
      4. You can see the extra seam in the gold fabric on the body sides for where the gray will go on the black thirds.
      5. You can see that the yoke fabric doesn't come down over the shoulder with curved edges like the old CCM jerseys, meaning that you don't get a curved top part of a horn shape on the sleeve.
    6. This doesn't evoke much nostalgia in me.
    7. This is now the worst jersey to incorporate the Buffalo head crest on the chest, but it's not super-bad.

    Good:

    1. They tried and seemingly listened to fan response from last year.
    2. No gray with the blue/gold.
    3. Oversized crest is boss.
    4. I appreciate the OG font- the nameplates and rear numbers are going to look good.
    5. They didn't perfect the clean look, but at least they didn't put numbers on the front to make it more busy.  It's a relatively simple jersey, which works in its favor.
    6. Again, depending on the full kit, this could look pretty sharp.
    7. Using yellow as the outside border of the crest is risky, but for a "fun" jersey, it does pop.
    8. I haven't looked at the other reverse retros for this year yet, but I'm betting this is far from the worst.
    9. This could be considered the white counter part to the black thirds coming, except with blue and gold.  Gives Buffalo a few different looks to play in.
    10. This is not in the bottom rankings of Buffalo jerseys all-time.

    NHL posted a better image:

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    For comparison, the OG:

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    Looking the other Reverse Retro jerseys for this year, and holy hell did we luck out.

    https://theathletic.com/3711004/2022/10/20/nhl-reverse-retro-jerseys-2022-rankings/

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  15. Sabres Announce Don Granato Has Been Signed to A Multi Year Contract Extension

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    44 minutes ago, GASabresIUFAN said:

    Stability is the watch word. 

    Much-needed for player development and incremental team improvement.  Also sets the right coach-is-here-to-stay culture, which becomes embodied in the players' commitment and discipline.

     

    One major complaint from players through the stalled rebuilds included the high turnover rate of the coaching staff, which impacted their developmental trajectory.

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  22. Sabres Sign Tage Thompson to a 7 year 50 Million Dollar Contract Extension

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    Sabres now have the first line of Skinner-Thompson-Tuch locked up through 2025-26.

     

    Small potatoes:

    Skinner ($9M) - Thompson ($7.1M) - Tuch ($4.8M) cap hit is $20.9M/year, which is 25.3% of 82.5M cap (this year).  From this analysis, two top line wingers and a top line center (not elite) gathers on average 20.2%.  If you factor all three players to be elite, it gathers 26.8%.

    I think the takeaway is that Skinner is still overpaid (even if he made what Thompson made, the line total would still be up at 23% of cap).

    As far as production, the line accounted for 0.41G/GP + 0.48G/GP + 0.24 G/GP = 1.13G/GP, which is a monster 40.5% team scoring (229G/82GP = 2.79G/GP), but I have no good way to compare this to other teams.

     

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  24. Top 5 moments in Sabres history

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    On 8/10/2022 at 8:44 PM, Taro T said:

    3.  Imlach putting on his glasses and getting us Bert on that lucky 11.

    This was the first one that came to my head.  Such a perfectly doofus story in NHL management history on the part of Clarence Campbell.  This is also the reason Gilbert Perrault wore #11, which is, of course, now in the rafters.

     

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  25. Lehner to miss the coming season with a hip injury.

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    14 minutes ago, nfreeman said:

    Interesting.  I think a number of people agree with you in being unhappy with the deal that Vegas negotiated with the NHL and the results -- ie Vegas being good right away without having to "pay their dues" like prior expansion teams.  I don't feel that way at all -- they paid a $500MM fee in exchange for the right to pick from the other teams' 8th-best forwards, 4th-best defensemen and 2nd-best goalies, from which draft picks and 1st- and 2nd-year pros were excluded, and didn't get the #1 overall draft pick.  And they were really smart about building their organization and their team.  They wanted to be good right away, and they were, and it was exciting and good for the NHL.

    The Kraken had the same opportunity as Vegas had, and they made much worse choices and have had much worse results.

    I agree with you that they got greedy and mismanaged assets and the salary cap, and I can agree with some schadenfreude on that point.

    They were given unprecedented expansion draft terms, which enabled McPhee to strong arm even more favorable terms in no fewer than TEN trades for expansion draft considerations (ie, trade me so-and-so, otherwise I'll select so-and-so).

    I mean, what the *****:

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    Columbus traded its 2017 1st-round pick (No. 24 overall), its 2019 second-round pick (No. 50 overall) and the contract of (F) David Clarkson for expansion draft considerations (William Karlsson).

    GMs were much better prepared the second time.  And the Ron Francis show made some very questionable selections.

     

    But anyways, it's been fun watching VGK fall apart, and, for me, that's had nothing to do with Eichel, Carrier, or McNabb.

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