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I'm actually kinda fascinated about this. They are largely bereft of both prospects and young players with upside. H. Lindholm, McAvoy, Zadorov, Pastrnak, Zacha, and E Lindholm are all good NHL players; do they add around them or use them to fuel a reset? How? On paper, it's easier to see this roster bottoming out than climbing back into contention. But the Bruins mystique has taught us to believe they wont be down for long. Really curious to see if the mystique is real or just a factor of the enduring power of the 2011 core.

Why not? Winning games is meaningless now.

Lafferty and Malenstyn don’t have the defensive acumen to play effectively with Lafferty and Malenstyn

Further to the injury discussion: At the trade deadline the Sabres invested nearly $17M in 3 forwards for next year: Norris, Greenway and Zucker. They have combined for 21 of a possible 39 games since. The have also combined for 2 goals and 5 assists and a -7. Lucky we don't believe in paces from small sample sizes any more.

Too soon because...? 2022 draft 11 Conor Geekie 49 games played 12 Denton Mateychuk 37 13 Frank Nazar 49 14 Rutger McGroarty 5 15 Jonathan Lekkerimaki 23 16 Noah Östlund 0 17 Joakim Kemmel 2 18 Lian Bichsel 32 19 Liam Ohgren 28 20 Ivan Misochenchenko 39 First round picks are usually getting a taste of the NHL in their D3 year. Östlund is literally one of 6 in his class who have not. For the record, I would like to see him on one of the top lines with Kulich sliding out of the top 9.

So you bring up a young playmaking C and stick him on the 4th line w/Malenstyn and Lafferty?

As opposed to what? 25mins/gm? #1 power play?

It's down 322 points today or 5.97% from the start of the day.

What!?! Malenstyn can’t be that bad. Adams gave up a 2nd for him…. (Adams has got to go).

This league makes money in spite of itself.

But what’s the point? Stick him between Tage and Tuch and let’s see what this kid has. What’s the worst thing that could happen? They lose because he’s inexperienced and isn’t ready for the league? Who cares? He’s overwhelmed and it stunts his development? It’s possible but sometimes you have to see if he can sink or swim. This is just proving if he is allergic to water.

By playing with the two worst players in the league. Congrats Noah!!

If he does not play in the top 9 it is a stupid move. Having Rosen on 4th line is stupid also.

Too soon for sure….but I do believe this kid is the only legit center prospect we have. He’s not a winger pretending or being forced to play center, but an actual playmaker IMHO.

DOGE is a place filled with idiots too stupid to understand how things actually work.

Watch Lindy put him in Kulich's spot at 1C.

I know some of the songs were part of Lifehouse but never really looked into it much. Now that I see that most of Who's Next was part of the Lifehouse project, I'll listen a little more closely. With the outline at the link you posted I can see how they tie together, but also see how removing the "connecting tissue" of the original concept would put each song on its own island.

Leone (to Duff and Marty) is of the opinion Östlund has a skill set that allows him to slot in on any style of line. Called him a bit of a unicorn that way. He has the energy, fearlessness and defensive acumen to play effectively with Lafferty and Malenstyn.

I don’t like it. The Amerks have 2 games this weekend as they’re trying to catch Laval for 1st place and need their top players. The Sabres aren’t going anywhere and could have either moved Tage to center and pushed Krebs down to the 4th line, or call up Dunne again. Let the kids cook in Rochester.

That's an insult to idiots. I'm more convinced than ever that he's a Russian operative intent on weakening the USA's strength and influence around the world. Nothing else explains the chaos on multiple fronts he's unleashed. Nothing. Cue the maga outrage at my suggestion. As if they have any other explanation.

I think they do the cap year to year. You can project a lot of it out with escalating TV contracts, but there's other pieces of revenue that is shared between all teams. There's also a certain revenue share - well say 50/50 to be easy. The cap is a reflection of that 50/50 revenue share, so 100M cap would in that scenario be 320M of shared league revenue with the players. You then factor in... NHLPA pensions, benefits, NHLPA employees etc. and that's all probably factored in as well on a year to year basis as per the current CBA.

To be clear, this isn’t really a “look” or a “reward”. This is more a “our 2C and our 6C are hurt and our best centre is playing wing to support the look we’re already giving our best centre prospect, who’s next man up?”