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Reminds of Ruhwedal. A guy that looks ok but nothing special. In the right situation he could build a career. Of course, there's literally dozens of Ruhwedals every year that don't get the same opportunity and end up going to Europe for a couple of years then come back, settle down, and end up selling cars. Hope he makes it, because he could easily have left the Sabres high and dry.

Wow. They're taking this no more no blocking the kids anymore seriously as even the 2 huge Russians might be fighting for playing time in Ra-cha-cha. 😉 Karmanos is in the running for AHL GM of the year by now, right?

Not necessarily. Expect he should be ready next year & possibly this year.

Yeah. Really like Metsa for the Amerks and Fiddler-Crab too. Karmanos has been doing some solid work.

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Benson's a carney. You honestly think that he can't handle a little stick tap on the helmet when the HC is trying to make an example of him? He's heard every single derogatory slur there is and it has all rolled right off. Benson laughs at your lack of faith.

Any possibility that now that Karmanos pretty much has a full roster for Ra-cha-cha, he can turn his attention to improving the Sabres' roster? Maybe if we ask nicely and say pretty please?

Pretty sure the thing that most impresses the coaches about Bryson is that he is REALLY appreciative of not having to load his own bag onto the team bus and has no thoughts whatsoever about making waves when he's relegated to the pressbox. That, and they've said they haven't noticed a dropoff in his play when he hasn't been in a game for a long time vs when he's been a regular. It's like they see him as the absolute ideal #7. (Too bad his talent is that of an 8 or a 9.)

Remember, for about 1/2 of the season the 6 is the 5 and for 10 games or so, he's your 4. He isn't completely replaceable. At least not when the next man up is Jacob Bryson.

You expect the Sabres to only be better than 1 team this season? (Because let's face it, unless the Sabres are dead last, they AREN'T winning the lottery.) Yikes!!

If he isn't a good mentor maybe he could drop Devon a cool $1B or 2 so he could find/buy one of his own. 😉

Dang. Karmanos is earlning his pay today. If only his boss would do the same.

Pretty sure you're thinking of the Prospects Challenge which happens right before TC opens in September. Expect they'll still be doing that again. Last year IIRC there were 5 teams partaking.

Not necessarily. If you just bridge Byram and you dump Samuelsson, you've got enough money for both. Now, to bring in Robertson, you'll need to dump both D-men. But it would cost Byram at this point as a starting point to bring him in so Bo would be gone anyhow.

So, right now per puckpedia they've got just under $14MM of cap space with just Byram, Timmons, and Levi left to sign. Presuming Byram is still a Sabre this fall, depending upon length of his deal that would eat $6-8MM of that. Expect Levi will cost ~$2MM, maybe less, but for sake of argument, let's say $2MM. Timmons comes in at ~$1MM. Leaving them barring any other moves at $3-$5MM of space. If they could send Samuelsson out the door for picks, they'd have ~$7-9MM in space. Figure they'd want to keep $1-2MM to allow for a deadline acquisition. But having nearly $8MM available would still allow for a couple of good players to be brought in or 1 really good player to be brought it. Use that space, and the Sabres COULD be better than they were. Right now, they're probably better, but not materially on paper.

The deadline for an ordinary course buy-out has passed (that window ended yesterday). But if the Sabres have at least 1 arbitration award, the window reopens brifefly after the last arbitration proceding completes. So, most likely, if the Sabres are planning on getting rid of him they'll have to trade him.

The REALLY funny part of that photo is the guy on the right is only 6'2". Gerbe really is THAT short. 😉

True. But that said ... Won't keep this kid from railing against the policy. The policy is just SOOOOOOO misguided. (And personally still believe there's a good chance that Levi will become what they need. But that it will happen THIS year is merely hope. And, hope AIN'T a plan. They need to widen the margin for error and this move BARELY moves the needle in the right direction on that metric. It DOES move the needle the right way, but so trivially, it almost doesn't even count.)

He IS a good choice for a cheap backup. BUT ... The Sabres needed to upgrade their goaltending, and maybe UPL or Levi will play towards their ceiling and in the end they will have done so, but hope ain't a plan and replacing Reimer with Lyon ain't one either.

Well, you could hit on 2 of those. And 2 out of 3 ain't bad.

Sabres fans NEVER have a happy Canada Day. 😞 (Maybe it just seems that way, it's been so friggin' long.)

He's a very good player. Ideally is the 3C but can play in the top 6 in a pinch. Kind of a really fast Jochen Hecht. Nice Swiss army knife to have. Glad he wants to be here.

At least the guys who are here (and note, Peterka ain't here) do seem to actually want to be here. What a sad consolation on what used to be a very fun day.

ONE piece of good news today FINALLY.

Quite the logjam. But isn't Greenway pencilled into the top 9 at least until Byram returns a F for the top 6?