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Hey, is it a big flashy free agent signing that makes this team better for the next eight years? Absolutely not. But consider how trash this team is if we try to start Ullmark and... Wedgewood as backup? This is an alright signing. And, if only for fun watching, some of those saves are bonkers.

No, you're right. A reasonable person would have used a modifier in front of that adjective.

Vollman did an analysis a while back analytically searching for the most lopsided trade in history. It was the trade for Hasek to the Sabres by a mile. Removing him from the equation gouges that team, potentially right out of the playoffs.

Not all of them are dumb, but some of them are DUUUMMMBBB.

Yep. They wanted help on D, and they thought he was the best thing going.

True. Sabres paying the bonus makes him more valuable to other teams, but if the asking price was already too high before, it's not going to be cheaper now. But if a team was close to a deal and wanted that sweetener, they just got it.

Price for O'Reilly was higher. Bozak leveraged that, got a raise, and happened to partly put the cool on ROR.

When you wake up to find out that the Sabres have immediately signed the best available UFA at a position of immense need, who has a chance of being extraordinary, to a good contract below market rate because that player wants to compete in Buffalo and is already comfortable with the coaching staff.

Hunter Shepard stood on his head in the tourney and had a good year in Duluth. I'd like to see another good year from him at UMD and consider signing him into Rochester.

I did not realize that Olofsson led the SHL in goals, and looking now, he finished 8th in points and Pilut ended up 13th in points. This is really nice, because, in NHL equivalency terms, the SHL is stronger than the AHL. We're not just experiencing a flood of Swedes, we're experiencing a flood of Swedes that are potentially good NHL players. Olofsson's NHLe is 40 points and Pilut's is 35 points. For a 7th round pick winger and an undrafted defenseman, this is ridiculous.

It could be Botterill or the pro scouts, but more likely it's Housley that has the info on Hutton. Hutton played in Nashville from 2013-2016, getting significant playing time filling in for injured Pekka Rinne. Housley was Assistant Coach in Nashville from 2013-2017.

One unpinned thread. There and only there. Point to it in forum rules.

He's expressing how much he cares about telling us how much he doesn't care, and he thinks it's edgy because he knows other people care. It's an affirmation that he understands how much other people care. Good move by the Beauts. I'm ecstatic that the best athletes in the sport have a forum for development beyond college and I'm equally ecstatic that Buffalo is a part of that.

The #3 pick was unanimously already the third talent tier from the top of a weak draft and we would have leveraged our here-and-now 2nd best player to get that? I'm glad we passed.

I hate Bettman, but this was inevitable. I wished they waited until he retired, but I also understand that the HHOF trys to induct builders before they die.

Cute.

Not sure if this link will work, on mobile: https://www.facebook.com/BuffaloSabres/videos/10156425791102954/ Can't tell if it's royal blue or just extremely bright lighting.

The teaser for the presser had what looks like a royal blue jersey with Dahlin's nameplate on it.

I think it's this. The "slope" of talent/chances within the 6th round is pretty flat for an individual year. But the Sabres might think this year is weak and next year's later rounds are just better overall.

November.

The photography on that was really good for being in the trenches at a crowded live event.

I take Craig Button's exuberance with a grain of salt. But when he says Dahlin's ceiling is the best since Denis Potvin, who was drafted 45 years ago, that's notable. Several folks project Dahlin's ceiling at Lidstrom. Even more folks project his ceiling as better than Karlsson or Hedman or Ekblad. Even if different folks draw the line for "generational" differently, someone somewhere has projected this kid capable of achieving it. And no matter the label, I believe.

I think they think he might end up on LTIR.