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Cool beans.. Olofsson is likely the only one that arbitration would've worked out for. But it's still good to see that the players & agents expect they can work out a fair deal.

Ab-so-friggin'-lute-ly.

And maybe he just told her that because she really desperately wants one & he was afraid she'd buy it before he had a chance to get it for her birthday; romantic that he is. 😉 She made an exaggeration for a joke. It happens.

IF he makes the team could see either Pilut or Power picking up the scraps of PP time that Dahlin doesn't command. If Pilut isn't dressed, those last 20 seconds become Owen's.

Holy ####, is it October yet? It's gotta come soon, right?

You now DON'T believe the original tweet was from his girlfriend? Huh?

Pretty sure you're right upon closer inspection. Guessing SHE thought it was funny too. 😉

It was a Lance Lysowski tweet of something one of Davies' friends apparently posted. Was laughing at him having to "run" to Staples (per Lance) to sign his contract. He's played 20 some NHL games & 3 years of AHL hockey. Does anybody HONESTLY think the kid can't AFFORD a printer?

Smart move by both to ensure not following the Timmy Kennedy path.

Agree w/ you. But was curious if that's why he thought it was a bad year for him.

This is kind of funny.

How heavy is a green puck? Have seen blue, orange, & white; but not green.

My understanding is that there's a general insurance policy league-wide for contracts up to a certain value and then outlier contracts like that of Eichel or McDavid can have their own insurance covering the greater value. And the premiums on those are based in large part on the player's age & past injury history. The LaFontaine insurance policy kicked in after 20 games but after his concussion he became neatly uninsurable as the premium would've been nearly price of the full 75% remaining on the contract. (The unspoken of part of the reason for refusing to let him play in Buffalo but why ownership was willing to trade him to let him play.) But the only underwriters for such policies are groups like Lloyd's that have a very niche market. Absolutely agree w/ you that it would be good to see an actual policy & it's terms & riders. (Because the player isn't the beneficiary of these policies, they aren't included in the CBA beyond owners not being able to claim their premium payments as expenses when calculating net HRR.)

Didn't Z suffer a concussion or shoulder injury that kept him out of a lot of games that 1st AHL year. Maybe that's what the OP was referring to?

Yeah, this re-relaunch is significantly different than the '14 version in that there are players in "top 9 roles" currently better than the immediate draft picks & they'll hold their roles until the kids are ready to supplant them. The other big difference is though Murray talked of having some prospects that would be NHLers & some that wouldn't & he'd figure it out & trade the ones that might look like they'd make it from the outside, he ended up trading away a lot of high picks before they ever became prospects and he traded away a fair number of prospects that did make it & kept several more that didn't. So far, Adams seems to be following the line Murray claimed he'd follow. He's kept most all his picks and hasn't been trading prospects yet. That latter part will have to change in the next few years or some good prospects will simply walk at 25 as they'll become younger UFAs having never had the chance to play at the top level. Can really see the Sabres consistently having extra draft picks as they start to trade some of the prospects they don't have room for for 2nd & 3rd rounders. Thus keeping that pipeline stocked & rerestocked.

The Adidas sweater sleeves seem a bit longer than normal but not significantly. It's their regular LS shirts that have serious gorilla arms.

As mentioned in my post prior to the one you quoted, the Adidas 52 is the size of a CCM 48. And no idea why, but the Adidas long sleeved regular shirts have ridiculously long sleeves. Germans must have gorilla arms.

Mainly Bowman. He couldn't allow himself to just stay as the GM. He kept going back to coaching too and ended up not doing either job particularly well. When he finally got fired, Sator got them playing well for a while during the 1st part of '87 & it looked like they'd pass the Nordiques and sneak into the playoffs but then the wheels fell off again & they finished the year as they'd started it- dead last.

Great question. Expect that they could if the Q team that holds his rights would agree to that as part of him getting "loaned" there. But have never seen the actual transfer agreement between the NHL & CHL, so don't know for sure.

If 2 of the 3 hit, will be happy. If only 1 of the 3 hit, well, they're below the median for 1st rounders. If all 3 hit, will be surprised and ecstatic. And was fine with the strategy behind the Girgensons draft & the Ristolainen draft. 1/2 the 1st round picks hit. You need C's & D respectively. You've now got a 75% chance at least 1 C sticks and at least 1 D sticks. Still had a 25% chance of neither C having been any good & neither D being any good. (Neglecting the effects of having competence or lacking it in scouting at the time.)

You were not the only Reinhart fan boi around here. And @Weave at a minimum also was never particularly sold on Eichel, too. Probably a couple of others. Personally, really enjoyed watching Eichel play when he was healthy. But am glad the drama is past. This is the first, LITERALLY, off-season we've had without drama since before the Knoxes started selling a minority stake to the criminal. (And even with that we still had the hopefully successful drama of Mrs. Pegula's hospitalization. In some ways our franchise seems cursed. And such a bizarre curse - you will never be able to simply have an off-season where there aren't concerns about which key players they'll lose or whether the team will still have owners. What drunk Loaf fan stumbling out of the Aud on a night where the Loafs got embarrassed again managed to slur that one out? Can we ritually sacrifice a case of Labatts and be done with it?) (Sorry, rambling.)

To the bolded, unless there has been a recent addition to the development staff, Adams is on record as wanting to add 1 more body there & he also wants to add 1 more scout. (He'd said the analytics department is set up as they want it to be.) Which means there will be even more contact between the team & the prospects. And it is so good to see the Sabres doing what we'd've hoped they'd do under the previous owner - spend a little bit of the billionaires' money in other areas than just spending on player salary (which is capped per the CBA) because they can spend as much as they want in those other areas. It's the polar opposite of introducing video scouting. (True, they are saving tons on player salary at present, but really doubt the hockey department will get gutted when Dahlin is making ~$9MM/yr nor that he'll be allowed to walk to maintain an internal cap.) If the light at the end of the tunnel isn't a freight train, they're setting up the support structure to stay good for a long time.

With Bishop being fully eligible for BF-LTIR, providing the rumors are correct that the team controlling his rights would only be out of pocket $750k thanks to insurance, all taking on Bishop's contract did was save the Stars $750k. Suppose they might've gotten a 6th for taking him, but doubt it. The Sabres got the 7th and near certainty that they'd be able to make a mid-season move without worrying about going under the cap floor. Which is a decent purchase for only $750k IMHO.

If they do have any left, even though they run small, maybe you can squeeze into one. Got 1 of the w/b butterknives that is way tighter than a normal hockey sweater (definitely couldn't play hockey in it, but it's big enough to just sit & watch it) but it is wearable. And it is possible that they might've had additional HCs in the back room that weren't on the rack that they didn't notice in the backroom. (The store was a zoo that day.) Still expect a phone call couldn't hurt any.

They won't. Whatever they have (and they ordered last year) is what they have. At this year's home opener they had maybe 6 of the white & blue butter knife sweater left from the shortened season. If you really want one would recommend calling them and asking what they have. Almost positive they will ship. And if for some reason they can't / won't, they will hold it for you until you can get there. PS - the Adidas sweaters run smaller than typical. Size 48 in the CCM or ProPlayer sweaters is equivalent to a 52 or 54 in Adidas.