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  3. GDT: Capitals @ Sabres, 7:00pm, March 12, 2026 (MSG, ESPN+, WGR-550)

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    Just now, JohnC said:

    As you point out, the Sabres are a faster team. There is nothing wrong with pushing back when provoked, but you have to be smart about it. The slower team wants to take that advantage away from you by getting you more focused on lashing back than by skating past the more sluggish team. That's why Tampa was so intent on throwing the fists right from the start than on trying to keep up. In our home game with the Bolts, the Sabres scored 4 four odd man situations. The Capitals are the backside of a back-to-back. The Sabres are at home with a day rest. They need to play to their strength which is skating and force the Capitals to deal with their weakness in thier game which is skating. To put it simply: play to your strength. 

    So... Loganberry gets the start tonight (if Wilson is out there)?

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  5. GDT: Capitals @ Sabres, 7:00pm, March 12, 2026 (MSG, ESPN+, WGR-550)

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    35 minutes ago, That Aud Smell said:

    Let's Go, Buffalo!

    Surprised but not disappointed to see the GDT populated with muffin talk. (And not the muffins that refer to lazy wrist shots into a goalie's crest.)

    Remember Mr. Food?

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    There's an urban legend that he did one of his spots on muffins and, at the end of the segment, stated "you ain't seen nothin' till your down on the muffin ... ooh it's so good."

    I can't find a clip, though.

    Go, Sabres!

     

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  11. Alex Tuch extension (poll)

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    7 hours ago, dudacek said:

    It's been my offer for a while.

    Someone somewhere else might give him 7x$10M. Alex will have figure out if that makes him happier than what's happening in Buffalo.

    I think I typed something similar upthread but...

    If Tuch signs with another team, they can only give him a max 6 year contract. 6 years at $10.5M is $63.M.

    First of all, will anyone actually pay him $10.5 for 8 years? Maybe. Or maybe other teams will think the Kempe deal is an overpay, especially with regard to the Schmaltz deal.

    If the Sabres sign him prior to July 1, they can give him an 8 year contract. If they offer him $7.875M per year, that's also $63M. If the Sabres pay him $8.5M per year, that comes to $68M.

    At the end of a 6 year contract, he'd have $5M less than at the end of the Sabres 8 years at $8.5M. When he's 36, will be able to get a contract for more than $2.5M per year? Maybe. But if he's injured or loses a step, and can't get that follow-on contract after 6 years, he's better off signing with Buffalo.

    You can run the numbers with different cap hit values for an 8 year deal... $9M per year? He'd have to get a follow-on contract of two years at $4.5M to equal the value of the Sabres contract after his 6 x 10.5 contract to "break even".

    I think once the season is done, they can run through the numbers and play around with it. If Tuch wants to stay they can talk this math through and maybe he'll accept less per year to stay, provided he gets the longer term.

    If Tuch is Conn Smythe winner, maybe a team will pay him helluva lot more than that and all this becomes moot.

    I'd written him off as a Sabre going forward, but with the two extra years the Sabres can offer him, it might induce him to stick around.

  21. Random and (kinda) interesting, how was the roster put together

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    17 hours ago, GASabresIUFAN said:

    That said our drafting outside of the 1st rd and that includes all 3 ex GMs leaves much to be desired. 

    Does it?  Just because the Sabres chose to trade, say, JJP for Doan and Kesselring, doesn't make JJP a bad draft pick (same with Cozens, Mitts, etc.)  It's more of an indicator, I think, of the Sabres having consistently high draft picks from their years wandering in the wilderness and with those picks you take the best player available rather than the player to fill a need on the team (based on existing prospect pool).  That BPA can later be cashed in for what a team needs.

    In the NFL teams are picking league-ready prospects after several years of college (which is like the minor leagues for the NFL).  Most NHLers are picked at 18 before they've done any development at the adult level, so you don't know how that player will turn out.  It makes sense to see a lot of swapping of NHL prospects since most were picked years before being NHL read (honey badgers notwithstanding).  Same is true of MLB.

    It's not necessarily a failing by the Sabres, it's the nature of the business.

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