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Such a strange feeling to actually have an NHL quality organization to root for. They have more than 12 NHL quality forwards and even at this time 2 prospects that could / might also be NHL ready. They have 5 legit NHLers and 2-3 more 7-8 D with some more prospects not in the AHL. They have a few NHL goalies, though very possibly no true #1 but also have one fo the 5 best prospects not in the NHL. And then they have several high ceiling prospects that are 2-3 years down the road. Not likely they all hit, but even getting say 3 of them to hit and the holes that develop on this team can be filled. It actually doesn't suck to be a Sabres fan at this moment. What a nice breath of fresh air.

You think his decision will effect them getting more NCAA D?

If they bring in Meier that would seem to be the case.

You including Johnson in that total?

Eichel and Stone have both missed 13 games and have 17 goals. Smith hasn't missed any and has 19. Marchesault and Carrier have both missed 6 games and have 17 and 15 respectively. Yes, Carrier has 15 goals in 50 games.

Can't do that. Adams would need to go to him. Or Zoom/ Teams him.

But most of that has already been used up. Per Puckpedia they have $8.7mm in cap space after moving Stone to BF-LTIR.

IF they take 24 points over this stretch, they are the team the others are chasing. 19-20 points keep them solidly in the mix.

If HE wants to drive to Buffalo on his own, there's nothing stopping it. But even if he's there, is he going to be going through his normal pregame rituals? Will he have adequate time to stretch & get dressed before playing with no warmup? But if they tell him to come to Buffalo to be activated, they're paying him his NHL salary for the day, putting him up in a hotel, and they are either IRing Clague or sending somebody else down if they still have 6 other healthy D.

They have 6 healthy D at this point. If they put him on the road right now, it is a callup and somebody has to (on paper at least) get sent down. Should somebody get hurt during the warmups, he could theoretically get called up but practically it can't happen.

Whether it was a "throwaway" or not, and there is no ####ing way it is viewed as a throwaway in WNY where people can only watch it on ESPN+ you still have set up a near 3 week span with no evening games watchable on TV in the home market. That is horrible planning. ESPN is using this as a way to goose its ESPN+ Subscriber base. Which is their perogative, but it still stinks.

Umm, is the answer that you look at the schedule and see what other games are going to which network and at what times games are being played? This wasn't decided in a vacuum.

How are you getting Pilut from Rochester in 30 minutes?

Just bookmark an old post clarifying what happened and link to it. Easy peasy and cuts down on the frustration level.

13 forwards 5 D. Asplund rolls in here or there on occasion. And the D plays the way they did in the 3rd vs the Snarks.

Not only that, but with that pick of Power, the team has the top 3 locked up LT and a 5 and potential 4 already on the roster and the oldest is 24. With possilby a 5th LT piece showing up in April. They also have a highly ranked guy in Russia right now. Yeah, prospect depth is thin and will likely get increased this draft. They also will almost certainly bring in 1 or 2 FAs to supplant the bottom 3. They had no sure fire top line F'S 2 drafts ago and only Skinner was a definite top 6 guy. They also need twice as many Fs as they need D. They should have better F depth. that said, will be disappointed if 2 of the top 4 picks aren't D.

Jets outshot by the Rags 52-20. Won the game against Shesterkin 4-1. Hellebucyk was unreal.

Timmy Hos is way better than Duncan. But you're right, that's their closest analog. As you figured, was referring more to how ubitiquous they are up in your neck of the woods.

True, but with out Sorokin keeping it 2-1 in the 2nd rather than letting it get to 4-1, their passion would've been for bupkis.

The Achy Breaky Heart guy?

apologies for the whitespace at the end of the post above. tablet has been wonky since yesterday.

And IMHO the best part about the Sabres being relevant in February is this kid is actually watching other teams games for the 1st time in probably 4 years. had no stomach for watching NHL teams play in the regular season.

if he's a pro, just as hard as before; just he won't be happy about it.

To the bolded, true. But it is extremely unlikely.

For whatever it is worth (likely not much) on the NHL Network midseason awards discussion, they had Power as a Calder finalist and Dahlin as the Norris winner. Those 2 takes were repeated in the ASG Program book.