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Malone w/ the primary. Murray the 2ndary.

Peterka! Seal broken. 1-0. Great outlet pass.

They just have to stay even keeled. They're not giving Laval much time or space. So, just keep doing what they're doing & don't press. They're outshooting them 13-4. Keep playing like this & Primeau will become beatable.

Krebs just got robbed on a wraparound by the D-man. If this was next year, he's probably strong enough to win that battle.

Nice D by Schuldt (no, really!) to break up a partial 2 on 1.

Primeau saving the Rocket's bacon so far. After the PP, Amerks are outshooting them 9-3 and there have been several quality chances.

Nice effort by Jankowski chasing a puck down behind the Laval net drawing an I temperance call. Amerk PP.

So, maybe when Quinn isn't getting shadowed everywhere on the ice he can still be noticeable. Good for him.

They're going w/ the same 11 & 7 they went w/ on Thursday.

Mammoth had the late lead last night, but lost in OT, so we won't know the opponent until next week. Hopefully it's a hard game as the Bandits rest up. Hoping the Mammoth win, so the Bandits can say they didn't play a single team they didn't beat this season. They split (embarrassingly) w/ the Riptide in the RS, went 1-2 in the RS vs the Rock, but 2-0 in the playoffs, and Colorado was their only other loss but they've only played once so far.

Wouldn't ever trust what the clock says on any internet fed game. Can't even begin to count the # of times the time shown in an Amerks game or an NLL lax game has been off by a second or 2 (or 20). Quite often the clock shown on TV tends to start late & stop late, too. It even skips ahead occasionally then might stop briefly, too. In the broadcast, one of the 2 TSN announcers even said they didn't have the clock to show in the replays. But, of course he was sure it was in by at least 0.1 or 0.2 seconds. 😉

Actually, if he's playing in junior all he gets paid by the Sabres organization is any signing bonus he might have negotiated. Junior players get paid a small stipend by their teams, but you'd have to ask someone who follows junior hockey far more closely to know how much they get there.

Was surprised Reinhart got that late goal in game 4 the previous round that saved that series. There's always at least one 1 seed that goes out in the 1st round. Thought they were it, & they were less than a minute away from a 3-1 hole, but this year surprisingly there weren't any. Go figure. Long worded way of saying didn't see FLA's game translating to the post season well.

Had posted this in the Random Thread yesterday. Good to give it it's own thread.

If the Swamp Cats lose this series, the pick WILL be 28. Otherwise it will be 30, 31, or 32 depending on whether they lose next round, lose the Finals, or win them respectively.

The counter has been provided already back on page 2 of this thread (among other places): Speaking as apparently one of those you're calling out, will explain why he's been penciled in as an early season callup rather than an out of the gate Sabre. It comes down to 2 things: 1 - he was very out of place in his brief callup to the Sabres. Quinn looked like he belonged, Peterka not so much. And 2 - his play in the defensive zone has for the most part been adequate at best between poor coverage in zone to leaving the zone early looking for that breakaway that has been a large part of his offense. Both of which will cost the team goals at the next level. Now, that said, his play in the playoffs (which btw are quite recent and haven't yet been factored in 😉 ) is making that expectation that he won't make the Sabres out of the gate less certain. Will wait until the playoffs are done to revise the expectation, but it could change. And, even if it does, if he looks as out of place in TC games as he did this season, it will shift back to an e petition that he's an early season callup. And, it isn't a knock on JJ either to say he still has some things to work on & the wings are crowded this year, especially if a Hinostroza or 2 are brought back/in next year to keep from being entirely young, so there's a possibility he isn't a Sabre on opening night. You mention Vanek, but forget one of his teammates in Ra-cha-cha. Pominville put up 68 points in 78 games in '04-'05 and had to clear waivers the next year and still got sent down before finally becoming a regular later in the fall of '05. Peterka doesn't have to clear waivers. No. That was not what was said, though it could've been clearer. That game that @Weave commented on JJ's play was AGAINST Laval. (Yours truly was also at that game and thought he gave an accurate assessment of his play that night.) It remains to be determined how he will play against them, and as much as we all hope he's a PPG player against them in the playoffs until he does it against them in the playoffs he hasn't. Fortunately we get to start to find out if he can do it in less than 2 hours.

Players playing in any of the 3 leagues in the CHL are not allowed to play in the AHL until they've turned 20. (There are a very few exceptions to this, but for the most part that's the rule.) That's per an agreement worked out between the NHL & the CHL. Apparently, he'll be 16 days too young to play in the AHL this coming season. ALL ELC's are 2 way deals w/ a limited range of allowable salaries, but they are also one of the few contract categories that may allow performance bonuses to be included. The concern here has nothing to do w/ the ELC & is entirely related to his age & having been drafted out of the Q.

And last year's draft was like a journey back into the 70's or 80's in regards to knowing so little about where they really should've slotted due to so much disruption worldwide due to the lockdowns.

Yep. The valuation of EVERY pro sports franchise (with the POSSIBLE exception of the Packers) is a guesstimate as they are all privately owned and there are very few entities (Federal & State IRS, & to a degree the NHLPA, maybe a couple of others) that have auditable access to info that goes into the numbers that get published. Some stuff does get made public, but a lot doesn't & there is a lot of guess work involved. The only times we know what they're actually worth is when they're sold or in bankruptcy proceedings and info gets released as a part of discovery.

To the bolded, that's not what was reported. Supposedly Adams DID agree to match the Bruins offer. Which means his "best offer" wasn't actually his best offer.

Yikes! Glad you're ok.

Got an e-mail from the Sabres that there are also T-shirts w/ the Sabres emblem available in the One Buffalo Store like the Bils ones in the tweet below to support the victims of last week's horrific shooting. (Didn't see the Sabres version of the tweet & no data on whether there's a Bandits version. Edit: There are Bandits versions also available.) The net profits are getting donated to charity. (The tweet & the e-mail imply that the entire purchase price will go to charity, but that isn't the case. It still is generous.)

Would say it IS social media but isn't "mainstream" social media.

Particularly how much ice time he gets. If he's still in full game condition would be interested to see if he's just over 20 minutes per game or if Appert rides him harder to close to 30 minutes/ game. If he can do close to 30 minutes, even Laaksonnen might get to play as the 7th D specifically for the PP. (Presuming he'd still like to run just 11 forwards after Mersch comes back as it lets him double shift Quinn or Peterka.)

Probably not on an engineer's salary. (You've shown us the before photos. Would be expensive to get to even THAT after. 😛) Sorry, that meatball was just hanging too high not to give it a rip. 😉 🍺