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Pegullaville
Buffalo Sabres
Location: Toronto
Joined: 03.16.2011

May 11 @ 2:29 PM ET
It was a mysterious parting between Futa and the Kings, especially with how their recent drafts have been perceived, which he was in charge of.

The Sabres did interview him during the post Murray search.

- kingcong39


Yea it seems quite fishy to say the least.

Whether it’s Futa or someone else in that organization who has been pulling the strings there, somebody is doing it really well.

The kings had 9 players in this most recent WJC.
buffalofan19
Buffalo Sabres
Location: Wonderful things can happen when you sow seeds of distrust in a garden full of (bum)holes
Joined: 07.01.2007

May 11 @ 2:54 PM ET
Has anyone switched to Spectrum Mobile?
Der Kaiser
Buffalo Sabres
Location: I Know Nothink ... NOTHINK!
Joined: 07.27.2007

May 11 @ 3:00 PM ET
Has anyone switched to Spectrum Mobile?
- buffalofan19


I have. It's great - I put my son and my parents on my mobile bill for $10 more than I used to pay for myself, alone. It's Verizons infrastructure, so that's the level of call quailty, and the only downside is that you're locked into Spectrum internet for as long as you use Spectrum mobile. So no Fios or Greenlight
IonSabres
Buffalo Sabres
Location: I said that months ago, keep up!, FL
Joined: 03.10.2013

May 11 @ 3:06 PM ET
Where exactly?

I saw ONE lineup done on the 1st 10pages
Page 5 by Homie, errrr Navin
Kahun was listed as LW3

- jdfitz77


It's fake news.
Der Kaiser
Buffalo Sabres
Location: I Know Nothink ... NOTHINK!
Joined: 07.27.2007

May 11 @ 3:07 PM ET
It's fake news.
- IonSabres


Boss is the enemy of the people
buffalofan19
Buffalo Sabres
Location: Wonderful things can happen when you sow seeds of distrust in a garden full of (bum)holes
Joined: 07.01.2007

May 11 @ 3:11 PM ET
I have. It's great - I put my son and my parents on my mobile bill for $10 more than I used to pay for myself, alone. It's Verizons infrastructure, so that's the level of call quailty, and the only downside is that you're locked into Spectrum internet for as long as you use Spectrum mobile. So no Fios or Greenlight
- Der Kaiser



Thanks. I know about the Verizon infrastructure, and the Spectrum account, which I have. I was wondering about any hangups. I can either switch my phone over for much less or get a new one and pay about the same I pay now (my current phone is paid off).
dadeadhead
Buffalo Sabres
Location: I don't want to say Greztky was a dude when I was watching. Mentalorgasm5 , NY
Joined: 07.16.2006

May 11 @ 3:11 PM ET
I’ve heard July1
- jdfitz77



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

May 11 @ 3:15 PM ET
Following....
- dadeadhead


i don't see the problem .. if your kid was walking and a bottle went threw his foot you would think different
IonSabres
Buffalo Sabres
Location: I said that months ago, keep up!, FL
Joined: 03.10.2013

May 11 @ 3:18 PM ET
Kahun - Larsson - Okposo
Vesey - Mojo - Frolik
Girgs - Lazar - Simmonds
Dalton Smith - Sobotka - Wilson

McCabe- Risto
Pilut - Miller
Gilmour - Borgen

Johansson
Ullmark

Kahun should be able to carry this roster
IonSabres
Buffalo Sabres
Location: I said that months ago, keep up!, FL
Joined: 03.10.2013

May 11 @ 3:24 PM ET
Kahun - Larsson - Okposo
Vesey - Mojo - Frolik
Girgs - Lazar - Simmonds
Dalton Smith - Sobotka - Wilson

McCabe- Risto
Pilut - Miller
Gilmour - Borgen

Johansson
Ullmark
ECB
Kahun should be able to carry this roster

- IonSabres


Pretty said that one can make an entire roster of players who played this season...a roster that would be challenged to win an AHL team.
Save for about 5 guys, they can and even should be goners next season.
#EndtoBoringAssHockey
jcragcrumple
Buffalo Sabres
Location: Reluctant bridge jumper; 6th round OHL draft pick, YT
Joined: 04.04.2016

May 11 @ 3:25 PM ET
Kahun - Larsson - Okposo
Vesey - Mojo - Frolik
Girgs - Lazar - Simmonds
Dalton Smith - Sobotka - Wilson


McCabe- Risto
Pilut - Miller
Gilmour - Borgen

Johansson
Ullmark

Kahun should be able to carry this roster

- IonSabres




93% Larrys.

It's beautiful
gerbe75pts
Anaheim Ducks
Location: DRAFT COLE CAUFIELD AT 7!!!, CA
Joined: 09.03.2009

May 11 @ 3:27 PM ET
Pretty said that one can make an entire roster of players who played this season...a roster that would be challenged to win an AHL team.
Save for about 5 guys, they can and even should be goners next season.
#EndtoBoringAssHockey

- IonSabres


yet people want more of them lol smh ..
jcragcrumple
Buffalo Sabres
Location: Reluctant bridge jumper; 6th round OHL draft pick, YT
Joined: 04.04.2016

May 11 @ 3:39 PM ET
Kahun - Larsson - Okposo
Vesey - Mojo - Frolik
Girgs - Lazar - Simmonds
Dalton Smith - Sobotka - Wilson

McCabe- Risto
Pilut - Miller
Gilmour - Borgen

Johansson
Ullmark

Kahun should be able to carry this roster

- IonSabres


Here's my worst possible Sabres roster of those who played in 2019-2020

Sheary - Larsson - Okposo
Vesey -Sobotka - Frolik
Girgs - Dea - Simmonds
Dalton Smith - Lazar - Wilson
Erod
Mittelstadt

McCabe-Scandella
Pilut -Bogo
Gilmour -Miller

Johansson
Hutton
Der Kaiser
Buffalo Sabres
Location: I Know Nothink ... NOTHINK!
Joined: 07.27.2007

May 11 @ 3:39 PM ET
Thanks. I know about the Verizon infrastructure, and the Spectrum account, which I have. I was wondering about any hangups. I can either switch my phone over for much less or get a new one and pay about the same I pay now (my current phone is paid off).
- buffalofan19



If you feel like you want a new phone you should just buy one from the manufacturer. The installment purchases from the carriers are far more expensive in the end.
gerbe75pts
Anaheim Ducks
Location: DRAFT COLE CAUFIELD AT 7!!!, CA
Joined: 09.03.2009

May 11 @ 3:43 PM ET
we joke about him all the time but Colin White might be on the market after the draft


buffalofan19
Buffalo Sabres
Location: Wonderful things can happen when you sow seeds of distrust in a garden full of (bum)holes
Joined: 07.01.2007

May 11 @ 3:48 PM ET
If you feel like you want a new phone you should just buy one from the manufacturer. The installment purchases from the carriers are far more expensive in the end.
- Der Kaiser


Am I able to change my current phone over now (available already), buy the new phone outright from the manufacturer (unlocked I assume), and then switch it over when I receive it?
Der Kaiser
Buffalo Sabres
Location: I Know Nothink ... NOTHINK!
Joined: 07.27.2007

May 11 @ 3:49 PM ET
we joke about him all the time but Colin White might be on the market after the draft
- gerbe75pts


meh
Der Kaiser
Buffalo Sabres
Location: I Know Nothink ... NOTHINK!
Joined: 07.27.2007

May 11 @ 3:59 PM ET
Am I able to change my current phone over now (available already), buy the new phone outright from the manufacturer (unlocked I assume), and then switch it over when I receive it?
- buffalofan19



I think so. You just need the IMEI on the hardware you want to port the number onto.

it's different, but I had to port numbers when I put my parents on my account. They live in Florida and needed new phones. I bought them hardware here (from Apple) and had the Spectrum account activated on those devices before I flew to see them (pre-COVID). There were dummy numbers temporarily assigned to the new devices. When I got to Florida, I just called Spectrum and ported their existing numbers onto the new devices and it has been all good ever since.
IonSabres
Buffalo Sabres
Location: I said that months ago, keep up!, FL
Joined: 03.10.2013

May 11 @ 4:03 PM ET
Here's my worst possible Sabres roster of those who played in 2019-2020

Sheary - Larsson - Okposo
Vesey -Sobotka - Frolik
Girgs - Dea - Simmonds
Dalton Smith - Lazar - Wilson
Erod

McCabe-Risto
Pilut -Bogo
Gilmour -Miller

Johansson
Hutton

- jcragcrumple



It's friggin embarrassing for a once proud organization that it has come to this.

Reinhart - at an expected ~$7m contract, I'm trading him.
Risto - 6-1/2 years of losing, $5.4m for 2nd pairing low H-IQ, trade him
Montour - I'm ok keeping or trading him
Miller - He's a 2nd/3rd pairing tweener, too expensive for 3rd pairing...trade him
Joker- keeper
Dahlin - keeper, take the reins off
Pilut - ok for 3rd pairing
McCabe - ok for 3rd pairing, but Pilut gets the nod...trade Jake
Skinner- forced to keep, reunite him with Jack
Eichel - nuff said
Olofsson- needs a good 2C or 3C to play with
Mojo - ok for 1 year as 3LW, but I'd move him if the opportunity were there
Kahun - looked great in small sample, seems perfect for 3rd line
Larry / Girgs - keep 1 if under $2.0m
Lazar - give him the 4C, guy has wheels, good on the dot, high energy
Okposo - like the guy, like the 4th line play, hate the contract. If no CBO, send him down & hopefully he retires
Ullmark - keeps growing, retain him
Hutton - see Okposo above
Simmonds - 13th F at say $1.5m, if not bye bye
Frolik - fvck, I'll drive from Florida to hail him a cab
Wilson - 13th F ok for $1.0m

The team played boring ass hockey, and not very well either. Once Jack sat for several games, it was apparent how dependent the whole team is on him.
Get him some friggin help in the form of good playdrivers and finishers.

Der Kaiser
Buffalo Sabres
Location: I Know Nothink ... NOTHINK!
Joined: 07.27.2007

May 11 @ 4:06 PM ET
Pilut - ok for 3rd pairing
McCabe - ok for 3rd pairing, but Pilut gets the nod...trade Jake

- IonSabres


Pilut looked overwhelmed to me this season (19-20). I would reverse these
jcragcrumple
Buffalo Sabres
Location: Reluctant bridge jumper; 6th round OHL draft pick, YT
Joined: 04.04.2016

May 11 @ 4:19 PM ET
It's friggin embarrassing for a once proud organization that it has come to this.

Reinhart - at an expected ~$7m contract, I'm trading him.
Risto - 6-1/2 years of losing, $5.4m for 2nd pairing low H-IQ, trade him
Montour - I'm ok keeping or trading him
Miller - He's a 2nd/3rd pairing tweener, too expensive for 3rd pairing...trade him
Joker- keeper
Dahlin - keeper, take the reins off
Pilut - ok for 3rd pairing
McCabe - ok for 3rd pairing, but Pilut gets the nod...trade Jake
Skinner- forced to keep, reunite him with Jack
Eichel - nuff said
Olofsson- needs a good 2C or 3C to play with
Mojo - ok for 1 year as 3LW, but I'd move him if the opportunity were there
Kahun - looked great in small sample, seems perfect for 3rd line
Larry / Girgs - keep 1 if under $2.0m
Lazar - give him the 4C, guy has wheels, good on the dot, high energy
Okposo - like the guy, like the 4th line play, hate the contract. If no CBO, send him down & hopefully he retires
Ullmark - keeps growing, retain him
Hutton - see Okposo above
Simmonds - 13th F at say $1.5m, if not bye bye
Frolik - fvck, I'll drive from Florida to hail him a cab
Wilson - 13th F ok for $1.0m

The team played boring ass hockey, and not very well either. Once Jack sat for several games, it was apparent how dependent the whole team is on him.
Get him some friggin help in the form of good playdrivers and finishers.

- IonSabres


I pretty much agree with all of that.

Let's suppose, hypothetically, the Sabres are involved in a 24-team playoff beginning in late June. By my calculations, Tage will be 5.5 months into a 5-6 month recovery time.

I'm going to assume Sobotka has no interest in returning, for the purposes of this discussion.

Here's my roster

Skinner-Eichel-Reinhart
Larry-Larry-Larry
Mojo-Cozens-Kahun
Olofsson-Lazar-Simmonds
Tage
Mittelstadt

Everyone else can hang out in the hotel.
Ratsreign
Florida Panthers
Location: Mo can stay awhile, FL
Joined: 10.27.2017

May 11 @ 4:24 PM ET
Don Luce gets in a fight, & the organist starts playing while they are throwing down😂. Luce later scores a goal. The Luuuuuuuuce call at the Aud. Game 2 of the '75 semis vs MTL.
Love Schoenfeld's toothless smile at the end.
https://youtu.be/sWbQKoexzAE
IonSabres
Buffalo Sabres
Location: I said that months ago, keep up!, FL
Joined: 03.10.2013

May 11 @ 4:30 PM ET
I pretty much agree with all of that.

Let's suppose, hypothetically, the Sabres are involved in a 24-team playoff beginning in late June. By my calculations, Tage will be 5.5 months into a 5-6 month recovery time.

I'm going to assume Sobotka has no interest in returning, for the purposes of this discussion.

Here's my roster

Skinner-Eichel-Reinhart
Larry-Larry-Larry
Mojo-Cozens-Kahun
Olofsson-Lazar-Simmonds
Tage
Mittelstadt

Everyone else can hang out in the hotel.

- jcragcrumple


I know you are working with what they have, and the Larry's are effective for what they are asked to do. But asking your 2nd line to do that is upside down to me.
Maybe break up the Larry's for L2 as Mojo/Olafsson - The real Larry - Kahun
L3 is Olafsson/Mojo - Cozens - Okposo/ Simmonds
Fvck L4

I do like Cozens in the 3C position to see what we have
IonSabres
Buffalo Sabres
Location: I said that months ago, keep up!, FL
Joined: 03.10.2013

May 11 @ 4:32 PM ET
Pilut looked overwhelmed to me this season (19-20). I would reverse these
- Der Kaiser


He did, and closed out the season before looking the same.
Coaches learned to stay on him, don't give him a chance with the puck
IonSabres
Buffalo Sabres
Location: I said that months ago, keep up!, FL
Joined: 03.10.2013

May 11 @ 4:34 PM ET
Don Luce gets in a fight, & the organist starts playing while they are throwing down😂. Luce later scores a goal. The Luuuuuuuuce call at the Aud. Game 2 of the '75 semis vs MTL.
Love Schoenfeld's toothless smile at the end.
https://youtu.be/sWbQKoexzAE

- Ratsreign


They were a fun team to watch back then. The had it all.
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