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Normally this time of year, Sabres would play LA, ANA, SJS, then maybe PHX in that order. That trip is February this year.

What is this, a crossover episode?

Season back on. Tank over.

Season over. Time for tank.

Oh man, the digital ads don't appear for the low-angle cameras, so when they switch to the regular angle BAM DIFFERENT BOARDS. This ***** suuucccks.

Yo these ice mics are crisp tonight.

Lots. Accidentally cutting off the tribute video for an NHL.com App and a Bosch tool commercial was not a good look. LOL You little pipsqueak shut the ***** up!

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.

Nice. RJ should be enabled and encouraged to do whatever he wants. Even if he just wanders around in the background of the intermission report with suspenders on, it'd make the broadcast better.

Briefer scouting report: Ottawa sucks.

That is his upbringing as a Sabres fan talking, 100%. Not even other TOR rivals, like MTL or OTT fans, would lay that on Leafs radio.

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Now make it hairy.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reappropriation

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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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.

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 *****: 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.

Eh, I don't have time to be resentful of former Sabres. I do have time, however, to enjoy a pay-to-win expansion scam whose meteoric downfall got started by asset and salary cap mismanagement and will eventually come to the the brutally rotten maturation of having traded away all draft assets.

I only see seven teams that will cheat LTIR to stay under the cap, and only two egregiously so.

Sabres sign UFA Ds Nuts

I wonder if he or his agent have had quiet conversations with CHI mgmt. They must have talked about this at the exit interview. Maybe CHI, perhaps mistakenly, believes they can rebuild with Toews and Kane in place. ...but in that scenario, they trade Debrincat... which wouldn't make sense. I think the only floatable theory is that CHI is negotiating for best return value, which has likely changed since the draft is done and simply requires more time.

Also, ***** should not be censored.

Agreed. When he was hired, KA didn't seem to have the same draft prowess or player management experience as TM or JB, but it was repeated over and over that he was a high-character individual who could maybe elevate the off ice culture of the organization top-down. When a professional like Jerry Forton, who's been in the off-ice part of the game for 26 years and with the Sabres for nine years, gets that emotional on camera regarding the organization KA has been able to build, it screams volumes about how inspired and motivated these professionals are and how they've bought in to that culture and KA's leadership. They're ready to go to war to see Buffalo win a championship and they believe he can lead them there.