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gerbe75pts
Anaheim Ducks
Location: DRAFT COLE CAUFIELD AT 7!!!, CA
Joined: 09.03.2009

Jan 16 @ 6:38 PM ET
I do remember that.

Maybe I missed the point. I thought it was about a team that finished in last place overall for two straight years, not just once, and then made the playoffs the next.

I can't find that anywhere.

- rmiethaner


The discussion we are talking about is a zero to hero no one his gone from that and I said that's incorrect
jochfr
Buffalo Sabres
Location: Nashville , TN
Joined: 07.11.2009

Jan 16 @ 6:43 PM ET
The discussion we are talking about is a zero to hero no one his gone from that and I said that's incorrect
- gerbe75pts

Wouldn't "Hero" mean Cup Champs?
gerbe75pts
Anaheim Ducks
Location: DRAFT COLE CAUFIELD AT 7!!!, CA
Joined: 09.03.2009

Jan 16 @ 6:53 PM ET
Wouldn't "Hero" mean Cup Champs?
- jochfr


I was thinking it was playoffs ,chicken tenders
SomeoneGerman
Buffalo Sabres
Location: greazy moves and plenty of moxie = lotsa choppin but not many chips flyin, NY
Joined: 02.10.2014

Jan 16 @ 7:06 PM ET
The army lady is hot.
Wetbandit1
Vegas Golden Knights
Location: Unpopular opinion (i think): The best Die Hard movie is the 4th one- Live free or Die Hard -jdfitz7, NY
Joined: 10.07.2010

Jan 16 @ 7:10 PM ET
The discussion we are talking about is a zero to hero no one his gone from that and I said that's incorrect
- gerbe75pts


The Flyers had 107 points, made playoffs, in 02-03, 101 points and made the playoffs, in both 03-04 and 06-07(no season in 04-05) in the years before they had 56 (06-07), so again, not the same thing. And they went to the cup in 09-10, not the next year like you made it sound in your post. We can sit here and argue semantics all night long about what zero to hero means, but what the Sabres did was unprecedented.

The Sabres had 96 in 10-11, made playoffs, 89, didn't, in 11-12, 48 (which is about 82 for a full year), didn't, in 48 games in 12-13, 52 in 13-14, and 54 last year. So it was a steady fall for the Sabres and the Flyers dropped off the table for one year, and then resumed being good.
turbo044
Joined: 02.18.2009

Jan 16 @ 7:12 PM ET
Two things after reading a bunch of these:

1. How many buyouts do we have left, if any? I thought each team had a set amount and we already used ones over the year on Kennedy, that dman, hodgins and lehno. Is it possible we have no e left for Moulsen?

2. Cap prob wont drop as the players always have a right to use some of their equity, or something like that, to raise it a couple of mill.
Sabresfan-365
Buffalo Sabres
Location: Lockport, NY
Joined: 12.09.2012

Jan 16 @ 7:15 PM ET
Two things after reading a bunch of these:

1. How many buyouts do we have left, if any? I thought each team had a set amount and we already used ones over the year on Kennedy, that dman, hodgins and lehno. Is it possible we have no e left for Moulsen?

2. Cap prob wont drop as the players always have a right to use some of their equity, or something like that, to raise it a couple of mill.

- turbo044



There is no limit for regular buyouts. Compliance buyouts on the other hand(the ones with no cap hit) are 2 per team but we already used them on ehrhoff and leino (and they only applied to the 2 years post lockout).

They can still buyout Moulson but the cap relief will be negligible and will last for quite some time.

Im not sure what you're getting at with your 2nd point though.
Sabresfan-365
Buffalo Sabres
Location: Lockport, NY
Joined: 12.09.2012

Jan 16 @ 7:16 PM ET
The Flyers had 107 points, made playoffs, in 02-03, 101 points and made the playoffs, in both 03-04 and 06-07(no season in 04-05) in the years before they had 56 (06-07), so again, not the same thing. And they went to the cup in 09-10, not the next year like you made it sound in your post. We can sit here and argue semantics all night long about what zero to hero means, but what the Sabres did was unprecedented.

The Sabres had 96 in 10-11, made playoffs, 89, didn't, in 11-12, 48 (which is about 82 for a full year), didn't, in 48 games in 12-13, 52 in 13-14, and 54 last year. So it was a steady fall for the Sabres and the Flyers dropped off the table for one year, and then resumed being good.

- Wetbandit1


Their pull in free agency helped them a lot.
turbo044
Joined: 02.18.2009

Jan 16 @ 7:20 PM ET
There is no limit for regular buyouts. Compliance buyouts on the other hand(the ones with no cap hit) are 2 per team but we already used them on ehrhoff and leino (and they only applied to the 2 years post lockout).

They can still buyout Moulson but the cap relief will be negligible and will last for quite some time.

Im not sure what you're getting at with your 2nd point though.

- Sabresfan-365




And that play by Pysyk is why he should never be out of the line up. He has the intangibles that none of our other dman have, other than Risto
Maximum Signal
Season Ticket Holder
Buffalo Sabres
Location: Buffalo, NY
Joined: 07.11.2008

Jan 16 @ 7:32 PM ET
That's incorrect . but I'm happy how things are going
- gerbe75pts


Not in a total teardown rebuild . When a team has an off year than returns to form.
Maximum Signal
Season Ticket Holder
Buffalo Sabres
Location: Buffalo, NY
Joined: 07.11.2008

Jan 16 @ 7:35 PM ET
TM might pull of something crazy I'm just enjoying this ride
Me,sabres,you knew we be in the top 5 or w/e lots of people
Went nuts talking playoffs in the summer

- gerbe75pts


Tim Murray basically said he is not trading long term assets at this point . Now you trade pending UFA's and continue the build through Free agency and the draft.
Sabresfan-365
Buffalo Sabres
Location: Lockport, NY
Joined: 12.09.2012

Jan 16 @ 7:39 PM ET
But we have nothing in rochester eh?
Wetbandit1
Vegas Golden Knights
Location: Unpopular opinion (i think): The best Die Hard movie is the 4th one- Live free or Die Hard -jdfitz7, NY
Joined: 10.07.2010

Jan 16 @ 7:39 PM ET
(frank)ing stream always buffers when something exciting happens. But I guess that's the price you pay when you stream from some site in Albania.
sskkoo1
Buffalo Sabres
Location: You are all Weirdos, NY
Joined: 06.06.2012

Jan 16 @ 7:39 PM ET
The more I watch Shaller and Varone play the more I want one of them taking Foligno's roster spot.
SomeoneGerman
Buffalo Sabres
Location: greazy moves and plenty of moxie = lotsa choppin but not many chips flyin, NY
Joined: 02.10.2014

Jan 16 @ 7:40 PM ET
But we have nothing in rochester eh?
- Sabresfan-365

Why couldn't Nolan win with these guys?
stashu
Buffalo Sabres
Location: SC
Joined: 06.04.2008

Jan 16 @ 7:42 PM ET
Why couldn't Nolan win with these guys?
- SomeoneGerman


Wetbandit1
Vegas Golden Knights
Location: Unpopular opinion (i think): The best Die Hard movie is the 4th one- Live free or Die Hard -jdfitz7, NY
Joined: 10.07.2010

Jan 16 @ 7:42 PM ET
I could see that going against Foligno too. I thought he was a hair early with his stick.
Sabresfan-365
Buffalo Sabres
Location: Lockport, NY
Joined: 12.09.2012

Jan 16 @ 7:43 PM ET

- stashu



Beat me to it
Sabresfan-365
Buffalo Sabres
Location: Lockport, NY
Joined: 12.09.2012

Jan 16 @ 7:44 PM ET
Nothing against risto, but I think it might be time to let Eichel handle the rush up the ice. The powerplay could be top 5 if it had a yandle back there.
stashu
Buffalo Sabres
Location: SC
Joined: 06.04.2008

Jan 16 @ 7:47 PM ET
Beat me to it
- Sabresfan-365


Irish 14
Location: South Buffalo
Joined: 01.25.2007

Jan 16 @ 7:48 PM ET
Nice 1st period, what can people find to female dog about!

stashu
Buffalo Sabres
Location: SC
Joined: 06.04.2008

Jan 16 @ 7:49 PM ET
Someone out there has some mad photoshop skills!!

rmiethaner
Buffalo Sabres
Location: Buffalo, NY
Joined: 10.04.2006

Jan 16 @ 7:51 PM ET
Nothing against risto, but I think it might be time to let Eichel handle the rush up the ice. The powerplay could be top 5 if it had a yandle back there.
- Sabresfan-365



Rangers fans on this site hate Yandle. They would only want him back at a cheap price.
Sabresfan-365
Buffalo Sabres
Location: Lockport, NY
Joined: 12.09.2012

Jan 16 @ 7:52 PM ET
Rangers fans on this site hate Yandle. They would only want him back at a cheap price.
- rmiethaner


Not sure why, I think he's pretty good. I think it's kind of nuts that they have him on the 2nd pp unit though.
stashu
Buffalo Sabres
Location: SC
Joined: 06.04.2008

Jan 16 @ 7:53 PM ET
Gah...the fool's last name is Duff...they at least could have gone to Duff's instead of Anchor Bar!!
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