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Rsh
Season Ticket Holder
Buffalo Sabres
Joined: 02.23.2021

Jan 4 @ 4:43 PM ET

- QuinnFan

Hank getting ready to write a blog. Oh sorry the fired you!!
DirtyDan
Buffalo Sabres
Location: Why aren't more people interrigent? Rike Me? , ON
Joined: 02.03.2021

Jan 4 @ 4:44 PM ET
The clown in his natural state.
- Rsh


Everyone knows the Clowns a drunk not an addict




washedup20
Location: the little apple
Joined: 08.19.2014

Jan 4 @ 4:44 PM ET
Its all potential, but they are certainly talented at their current levels

Its the only thing adams has done well here besides hitting a home run on tages contract, despite his struggles this year. Maybe cozens and power will be home runs too but that is a big TBD yet

- ieetbred


Yes, no buts.
QuinnFan
Buffalo Sabres
Location: Formerly Visionville, Now Purgatory
Joined: 07.29.2021

Jan 4 @ 4:44 PM ET
There's not to many that shouldn't be used as Trade Bait
- Buff36


A good GM and scouting department should know exactly who not to use as trade bait.

As an example, if Ostlund is going to be Timmy Connolly, you keep him and wait. There isn't much debate there unless a truly magnificent deal falls in your lap.

I don't necessarily think he's the guy, but just opening the prospect cupboards is how you get roasted. I don't want to see us to make a Forsberg for Erat trade.
ieetbred
Buffalo Sabres
Location: NY
Joined: 06.30.2011

Jan 4 @ 4:46 PM ET
Yes, no buts.
- washedup20


Disagreed. The prospects are plenty talented at their current level. The onus is on the GM to use that to his advantage and well

Well

Well

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

Jan 4 @ 4:46 PM ET
Savoie traded... to MOOOSE JAW
Rsh
Season Ticket Holder
Buffalo Sabres
Joined: 02.23.2021

Jan 4 @ 4:46 PM ET
https://www.justice.gov/u...ork-charged-receipt-child
- washedup20

Someone has to defend you !!! Guilty to prove nuisance
Swedish_Jesus
Buffalo Sabres
Joined: 07.02.2019

Jan 4 @ 4:49 PM ET
šŸ˜‚ šŸ˜‚ the Sabres have a 4% chance of making it.
- washedup20


Yeah I heard that all year last year too until thery were mathematically eliminated with two games left
DirtyDan
Buffalo Sabres
Location: Why aren't more people interrigent? Rike Me? , ON
Joined: 02.03.2021

Jan 4 @ 4:50 PM ET
Yeah I heard that all year last year too until thery were mathematically eliminated with two games left
- Swedish_Jesus


Yeahhhhhh, they ain't coming back from this one kid.


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

Jan 4 @ 4:51 PM ET
Have we won 2 games in a row yet? Once maybe?

We gotta go on a 10 game heater just to be on the cusp of a playoff spot.
ieetbred
Buffalo Sabres
Location: NY
Joined: 06.30.2011

Jan 4 @ 4:54 PM ET
Yeah I heard that all year last year too until thery were mathematically eliminated with two games left
- Swedish_Jesus


The Sabres were 18-14-2 at this time last year with an 8 game losing streak in November and went 8-5-2 in January

These seasons aren't comparable on any level
ieetbred
Buffalo Sabres
Location: NY
Joined: 06.30.2011

Jan 4 @ 4:56 PM ET
Yeah I heard that all year last year too until thery were mathematically eliminated with two games left
- Swedish_Jesus


They held a playoff position at the end of February into March and were much much higher than 4% after December
QuinnFan
Buffalo Sabres
Location: Formerly Visionville, Now Purgatory
Joined: 07.29.2021

Jan 4 @ 4:57 PM ET
Savoie traded... to MOOOSE JAW
- DirtyDan


The number of picks involved really make CHL deals look ridiculous.
DirtyDan
Buffalo Sabres
Location: Why aren't more people interrigent? Rike Me? , ON
Joined: 02.03.2021

Jan 4 @ 4:59 PM ET
The number of picks involved really make CHL deals look ridiculous.
- QuinnFan


How so?

Players have limited time. 4 years max. Bad teams get the good players.

IF you want to win now(Get top players) you have to give up a lot of your futures. And thats what Moose Jaw and wherever Geekie went are doing.

Its a decent system so you dont have the same 4-5 teams running the league.
washedup20
Location: the little apple
Joined: 08.19.2014

Jan 4 @ 4:59 PM ET
A good GM and scouting department should know exactly who not to use as trade bait.

As an example, if Ostlund is going to be Timmy Connolly, you keep him and wait. There isn't much debate there unless a truly magnificent deal falls in your lap.

I don't necessarily think he's the guy, but just opening the prospect cupboards is how you get roasted. I don't want to see us to make a Forsberg for Erat trade.

- QuinnFan


Tim Connolly was a top 5 pick and was in the NHL while he was a teenager.

Ostlund is a 20 year old dangling teenagers in a non contact tournament, poor comp.
Rsh
Season Ticket Holder
Buffalo Sabres
Joined: 02.23.2021

Jan 4 @ 5:01 PM ET
Everyone knows the Clowns a drunk not an addict





- DirtyDan

Times change. He is back to his Babcock days in Buffalo
ieetbred
Buffalo Sabres
Location: NY
Joined: 06.30.2011

Jan 4 @ 5:01 PM ET
Have we won 2 games in a row yet? Once maybe?

We gotta go on a 10 game heater just to be on the cusp of a playoff spot.

- DirtyDan


One time. 2 is the highest winning steak of the year on a team that allegedly had playoff expectations.

Any respectable organization holds someone accountable for this type of underachievement but here we are
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 4 @ 5:01 PM ET
Oh cool letā€™s extend another career underachiever for more than he is worth and longer than either party needs.
- Jet Jaguar BD


ieetbred
Buffalo Sabres
Location: NY
Joined: 06.30.2011

Jan 4 @ 5:04 PM ET

- Wetbandit1


Id be all for 4/5 year max deals like the NBA

I've always hated 7/8
Jet Jaguar BD
Seattle Kraken
Location: BD look šŸ‘€ at you pic and you look like a burned out short order cook hiding in mommy basement!!
Joined: 07.17.2021

Jan 4 @ 5:11 PM ET

- Wetbandit1

Seriously though
Ratsreign
Florida Panthers
Location: Mo can stay awhile, FL
Joined: 10.27.2017

Jan 4 @ 5:17 PM ET
Sunday, Sunday, Sunnnday
for all the (division) marbles
https://www.yahoo.com/new...s-mcdaniel-183208708.html
- Asked about the advantage of playing this game at home, McDaniel cited ā€œall the natural things that come with being to hearā€ pre-snap. ā€œThose things are beneficial to a degree.ā€

weā€™ll see, the sold out stadium is probably going to be half Buffalo fans.

Heard tix are starting over $400 on secondary market.
(The SoFlo Bosses are cashing in on Bills fans, it would seem)

I think I remember someone here, angry during the Billsā€™ losing slide, saying they had sold their tix for this game. Sacrebleu!!
Swedish_Jesus
Buffalo Sabres
Joined: 07.02.2019

Jan 4 @ 5:17 PM ET
Yeahhhhhh, they ain't coming back from this one kid.
- DirtyDan


Someone forgot to tell the Blues that 5 years ago
washedup20
Location: the little apple
Joined: 08.19.2014

Jan 4 @ 5:20 PM ET
Article on if any team this season can recreate the Blues cup run:

Buffalo Sabres
Doesnā€™t apply: New star, recent success

Young goalie: Devon Levi might be near the top of any list of the most highly regarded young goalies in the league. Heā€™s been a disappointment so far this season, and thereā€™s really no way to sugarcoat that. But if you were going to pick any team on this list to suddenly have a young goalie go Binnington on us, the Sabres would be the easy call.

New coach: Um, Iā€™m just going to put ā€œto be determinedā€ in this spot and weā€™ll come back and check in a few weeks.

ā€œWeā€™re not that badā€ stat: Their expected goals at even strength has been hovering around 50 percent for most of the season, which is better than any other team on this list and even slightly ahead of contenders like the Boston Bruins and New York Rangers. Theyā€™ve also got 13 wins in regulation, which ranks around the middle of the pack, even with or ahead of teams like the Washington Capitals, New York Islanders and Toronto Maple Leafs.

Bottom line: I wrote this piece because I wanted to offer some optimism for fan bases that might need it, but maybe that would be cruel for long-suffering Sabres die-hards whoā€™ve been strung along on ā€œalmost thereā€ hope for over a decade. Letā€™s just say theyā€™re young at every position, thereā€™s plenty of talent, and if they can get the power play going and Levi flips a switch, stranger things have happened.

https://theathletic.com/5...ailyemail&campaign=601983

- washedup20


Bumped to laugh at the St. Louis cup run comp.
kingcong39
Buffalo Sabres
Location: albany, NY
Joined: 02.21.2007

Jan 4 @ 5:20 PM ET
No argument. It's why, when people didn't want Kane here, I always questioned...who are you dying to keep in this lineup?

We swung and missed. Oh well. But it does stink when we consistently refuse to ice our best lineup on top of missing on guys over the summer/this fall.

- QuinnFan


I seriously question how hard they swung when they missed.

I'm guessing they barely tried if at all to move the needle, then quickly and easily accepted the low level moves they made as oh well, we're the Sabres, nobody wants us, and we have to trust youth.
Ratsreign
Florida Panthers
Location: Mo can stay awhile, FL
Joined: 10.27.2017

Jan 4 @ 5:21 PM ET
Someone forgot to tell the Blues that 5 years ago
- Swedish_Jesus

Quick! Hire Berube
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