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RichardRoma
Buffalo Sabres
Joined: 01.18.2017

Oct 4 @ 9:46 AM ET
Am I allowed to start the #SuspendEichel chant now?
- QuinnFan

I think you need to start chanting: Let's go Bolts!
QuinnFan
Buffalo Sabres
Location: Formerly Visionville, Now Purgatory
Joined: 07.29.2021

Oct 4 @ 9:47 AM ET
I think you need to start chanting: Let's go Bolts!
- RichardRoma


No thanks, I leave that to you sir. I'm a Saybars fan as well.
TheSabresTaco
Buffalo Sabres
Location: For me. jack Eichel is bobby ryan….that's it. - Octavarium, NY
Joined: 05.05.2011

Oct 4 @ 9:49 AM ET
Am I allowed to start the #SuspendEichel chant now?
- QuinnFan


Not unless you want to be labeled as a Nashville Predators fan.
Hank Balling
Buffalo Sabres
Joined: 05.18.2021

Oct 4 @ 9:55 AM ET
Why are we discussing syphilis on a hockey blog?

Comparing the Sabres to an illness seems a bit harsh...but I can see where you're coming from.
They could easily cure their ways with an infusion of competence from the front-office, but they have preferred to ignore the issues and are on the verge of causing permanent brain damage and killing off the fan base.

Hank, I admidt it was a stroke of genius!

- IonSabres



Michael Pachla
Buffalo Sabres
Location: solid!!!
Joined: 09.05.2007

Oct 4 @ 10:02 AM ET
since this thread seems to be going nowhere hockey-related, fantasy question:

my lone tight end logan thomas is down, and i just had this proposed trade:


wr, brandin cooks (hou) and te noah fant (den) coming to me

rb darrell henderson (lar) and rb chris carson (sea) going out



edit: pegullaville, i'm looking to you for info on fant
DirtyDan
Buffalo Sabres
Location: Why aren't more people interrigent? Rike Me? , ON
Joined: 02.03.2021

Oct 4 @ 10:04 AM ET
since this thread seems to be going nowhere hockey-related, fantasy question:

my lone tight end logan thomas is down, and i just had this proposed trade:


wr, brandin cooks (hou) and te noah fant (den) coming to me

rb darrell henderson (lar) and rb chris carson (sea) going out

edit: pegullaville, i'm looking to you for info on fant

- Michael Pachla



Thats a lot to give up for a TE and a volatile wr. Cooks is great but Houston stinks
RichardRoma
Buffalo Sabres
Joined: 01.18.2017

Oct 4 @ 10:05 AM ET
since this thread seems to be going nowhere hockey-related, fantasy question:

my lone tight end logan thomas is down, and i just had this proposed trade:


wr, brandin cooks (hou) and te noah fant (den) coming to me

rb darrell henderson (lar) and rb chris carson (sea) going out



edit: pegullaville, i'm looking to you for info on eklund

- Michael Pachla

FTFY
spatso
Ottawa Senators
Location: jensen beach, FL
Joined: 02.19.2007

Oct 4 @ 10:05 AM ET
Sisyphus is a great analogy. Having to push the giant boulder up the hill not only crushes you physically, it also destroys your hope. Even small successes can help relieve the overwhelming weight of the tedious pattern of always being reminded of your perpetual inadequacy.

I think the Sabres are on the right track. They have a boatload of picks and prospects coming. The next couple of years will produce some outstanding young players.

Young teams don't need to win. But, they need to be hard to play against. They need to be in the game in the third period. Without goaltending you risk crushing the spirit of the very guys you are trying to grow.

Great, well thought out blog.

Michael Pachla
Buffalo Sabres
Location: solid!!!
Joined: 09.05.2007

Oct 4 @ 10:06 AM ET
Thats a lot to give up for a TE and a volatile wr. Cooks is great but Houston stinks
- DirtyDan

agreed...that was my initial reaction
Buff36
Buffalo Sabres
Joined: 10.13.2019

Oct 4 @ 10:07 AM ET
Sisyphus is a great analogy. Having to push the giant boulder up the hill not only crushes you physically, it also destroys your hope. Even small successes can help relieve the overwhelming weight of the tedious pattern of always being reminded of your perpetual inadequacy.

I think the Sabres are on the right track. They have a boatload of picks and prospects coming. The next couple of years will produce some outstanding young players.

Young teams don't need to win. But, they need to be hard to play against. They need to be in the game in the third period. Without goaltending you risk crushing the spirit of the very guys you are trying to grow.

Great, well thought out blog.

- spatso

Good Post!!!
SDSabre
Buffalo Sabres
Joined: 02.05.2014

Oct 4 @ 10:09 AM ET
since this thread seems to be going nowhere hockey-related, fantasy question:

my lone tight end logan thomas is down, and i just had this proposed trade:


wr, brandin cooks (hou) and te noah fant (den) coming to me

rb darrell henderson (lar) and rb chris carson (sea) going out



edit: pegullaville, i'm looking to you for info on fant

- Michael Pachla


Depends on your RB depth, but that's tough. Fant is a stud in the making imo. But both RBs, you'd have to be loaded.
jochfr
Buffalo Sabres
Location: Nashville , TN
Joined: 07.11.2009

Oct 4 @ 10:10 AM ET
Not unless you want to be labeled as a Nashville Predators fan.
- TheSabresTaco

(frank) you

Michael Pachla
Buffalo Sabres
Location: solid!!!
Joined: 09.05.2007

Oct 4 @ 10:11 AM ET
Depends on your RB depth, but that's tough. Fant is a stud in the making imo. But both RBs, you'd have to be loaded.
- SDSabre

dalvin cook/alexander mattison (handcuff)
antonio gibson

zack moss
DirtyDan
Buffalo Sabres
Location: Why aren't more people interrigent? Rike Me? , ON
Joined: 02.03.2021

Oct 4 @ 10:11 AM ET
agreed...that was my initial reaction
- Michael Pachla



I have a big question.... Im up 28 right now but my Opponent has Herbert and Raiders kicker to play.

I have 1 flex position left for tonight... I have Ruggs or Barber(back-up to Jacobs who is questionable) to play. WHO DO I PLAY
Michael Pachla
Buffalo Sabres
Location: solid!!!
Joined: 09.05.2007

Oct 4 @ 10:14 AM ET
I have a big question.... Im up 28 right now but my Opponent has Herbert and Raiders kicker to play.

I have 1 flex position left for tonight... I have Ruggs or Barber(back-up to Jacobs who is questionable) to play. WHO DO I PLAY

- DirtyDan

sh!t, i have enough trouble with my own team, but seems to me as if you'll need at least 10-15 points out of whomever you play
Powerslave
Buffalo Sabres
Location: Arriving Somewhere But Not Here
Joined: 02.10.2011

Oct 4 @ 10:22 AM ET
I think we can guess as to who they're going to send down, since Meatballs said there really won't be many surprises as to who makes the team.
DirtyDan
Buffalo Sabres
Location: Why aren't more people interrigent? Rike Me? , ON
Joined: 02.03.2021

Oct 4 @ 10:25 AM ET
sh!t, i have enough trouble with my own team, but seems to me as if you'll need at least 10-15 points out of whomever you play
- Michael Pachla


Yeah im leaning with Barber but Jacobs has got to be out for sure


SDSabre
Buffalo Sabres
Joined: 02.05.2014

Oct 4 @ 10:27 AM ET
dalvin cook/alexander mattison (handcuff)
antonio gibson

zack moss

- Michael Pachla


I would see if he would just do either for Fant. No need for Cooks to be involved, imo.
Pegullaville
Buffalo Sabres
Location: Toronto
Joined: 03.16.2011

Oct 4 @ 10:28 AM ET
since this thread seems to be going nowhere hockey-related, fantasy question:

my lone tight end logan thomas is down, and i just had this proposed trade:


wr, brandin cooks (hou) and te noah fant (den) coming to me

rb darrell henderson (lar) and rb chris carson (sea) going out



edit: pegullaville, i'm looking to you for info on fant

- Michael Pachla


Fant is great, I don’t think I’d do that trade though.

What TE’s are available on your waiver wire ?
DirtyDan
Buffalo Sabres
Location: Why aren't more people interrigent? Rike Me? , ON
Joined: 02.03.2021

Oct 4 @ 10:29 AM ET
I would see if he would just do either for Fant. No need for Cooks to be involved, imo.
- SDSabre


I'd send over Carson for Fant if you can.


Henderson has some pretty sweet matchups the rest of the year
Michael Pachla
Buffalo Sabres
Location: solid!!!
Joined: 09.05.2007

Oct 4 @ 10:36 AM ET
Fant is great, I don’t think I’d do that trade though.

What TE’s are available on your waiver wire ?

- Pegullaville

not many...geiseki will be gone this week...put in a wavier claim for schultz (dal)

my original proposal was carson for fant...he's hell-bent on getting henderson in some way
Michael Pachla
Buffalo Sabres
Location: solid!!!
Joined: 09.05.2007

Oct 4 @ 10:37 AM ET
I'd send over Carson for Fant if you can.


Henderson has some pretty sweet matchups the rest of the year

- DirtyDan

see above
DirtyDan
Buffalo Sabres
Location: Why aren't more people interrigent? Rike Me? , ON
Joined: 02.03.2021

Oct 4 @ 10:41 AM ET
not many...geiseki will be gone this week...put in a wavier claim for schultz (dal)

my original proposal was carson for fant...he's hell-bent on getting henderson in some way

- Michael Pachla



Do not give up Henderson. You will regret. I have just put in a trade for the man


I picked up Schultz in my other league to back-up Kittle. He's got some good fantasy value if you dont want to give up a RB
kingcong39
Buffalo Sabres
Location: albany, NY
Joined: 02.21.2007

Oct 4 @ 10:42 AM ET
Was anybody actually booing him?

Only place I get boo’d is at our home stadium. Then some of the same people want me to take pictures and sign autographs. I thought bills fans were the best in the world? Where’d they go? If the vaccine works then why do vaxxed people need to be protected from unvaxxed? #letemin

https://twitter.com/Bease.../1445032830921228294?s=19
kingcong39
Buffalo Sabres
Location: albany, NY
Joined: 02.21.2007

Oct 4 @ 10:43 AM ET
It's another Sabres game night. How about an @ExpectedBuffalo Rosterology update before tonight's game. https://t.co/b4yKC4tXsJ

https://twitter.com/CMDeD.../1445000871570513924?s=19

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