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If it is, could see the cap start to go up to where it should currently be by this coming season. Thise Thompson & Samuelsson deals are looking better & better. (Regardless of neither having a goal yet this season.)

Well, oddly enough, Granato found a C role for him. (He also did so briefly in the Cats game the last shift of the 1st & a handful of shifts in the 2nd.) Will be interesting to see how he does centering the Sabres "checking" line. Personally believe he's better at C, due in large part to some of the issues you bring up that he's had on the wing. Also, he does play a 200' game, so centering the checking line may not be as crazy as it seems initially.

Did not know he had been broken. 🍺

Wonder if Pekar is Cincy bound with the extra F in Ra-cha-cha?

Yeah, it'll be really interesting to see if Granato makes the same D adjustment tonight if Power starts as he did the 1st 4-1/2 periods into the season. Will also be interesting to see how long Power & Jokiharju stay together should either struggle.

Well, had you done so, you've expected Krebs watching from above rather than Quinn. 😉 You also would've expected Girgensons to slide to C. Nothing to see there. 😉

He had to come up w/ some sort of an article. And this one is getting people discussing it. Would an article merely about how dreamy Luke Hughes is have generated nearly as much discussion? Pretty sure we both know the answer to that, & that is why one redrafts an NHL draft 1 year later. 😉

And Tennessee played in Buffalo this year. That worm has turned. In '24 the KC one does as well.

Teams break out whites @ home for 'special occassions.' Not sure if it's happening more often or not. Really only watch ~100 non-playoff games / yr lately, so the Sabres 50ths, butter knives, & heritage classic + "white hot Friday nights" could definitely be skewing the perception. Depends on how long the road trip is & whether they can get their other opponents on the trip to wear white as to whether the visitor will be on board w/ wearing darks on the road. Still hate that teams primarily wear darks at home.

Really want to see them come away w/ 6 points here. Calgary is probably out of their league right now. And, though the Eulers should be as well, the Sabres seem to play them well. Will be very disappointed w/out W's playing on the Pacific.

37 says 'hi.' 😉

Have still only seen it on the jumbotron. Looked like there was some white at the glove webbing between the black inside his glove & the crossbar, but haven't seen it in higher definition than that.

And it is really frustrating that Adams hasn't come up w/ a way to spend some of it on assets that don't evaporate the day after the regular season ends.

Well, sure. After the Sabres softened them up. It's like a glass jar's lid. The 1st one to try to open it just gets it loose; & the next 1 to come along actually gets it open. 😉 Durn B's got lucky to get 'em after the Sabres. 😉

That's correct. They haven't had them for nearly a decade. But they still can't have 24 healthy rostered players which they'll have tomorrow if Sheahan is activated & Bjork isn't in Ra-cha-cha, which is what the question was. (And roster limits going away after the trade deadline has no bearing on this discussion. For now, the limit is 23.)

Sure it'll have domino effects & it'll cause somebody else to go through the same thing when next year now THEY have a 3rd year of visiting a particular opponent, but at least they did SOMETHING. Does it stink that the Bills will play in KC in the regular season for the 3rd straight year? Not really. They'll get to win there for the third straight year & the year after that their home game against them MIGHT be the 1st of 3 years in a row the other way. As unhappy as you are about going to KC 3 years in a row, maybe KC is unhappy about not being able to have a perfect home record. Losing IN Buffalo in the RS (should it happen in 2 years) doesn't hurt as much as losing at home because the team's looking to only lose 3 or so games over the full season expect to be perfect at home & playing Buffalo in KC makes it very likely they won't.

Had the league overturned the refs when it looked like the puck was over the line in Knight's glove would we be having this discussion?

Doubtful. Because they'll have 24 healthy players when Sheahan is taken off IR. And if Sheahan doesn't have a setback, he should be taken off IR. If Sheahan isn't activated, then it could be a paper transaction to have him clear waivers prior to traveling out west as a courtesy for him so that if say Arizona were to claim him, he wouldn't need to fly to Ottawa before hopping on a plane to Phoenix.

But wouldn't they want to be wearing it at home where the unis are typically blue? They'd have to have the opponent make special arrangements to wear their "home" sweaters in the MMArena if they go w/ white goatheads (like with the white RR butterknives).

Wouldn't he have practiced because they needed to see Sheahan on the ice before taking him off IR and they wouldn't make Bjork watch practice rather than participate? Taking him out west would make the logistics much more difficult should somebody get food poisoning from their pre-game meal & Okposo be too stiff to play that night. Anders'd need to fly back to Ra-cha-cha when Riley would be activated off IR to take that 23rd active spot. Way simpler to just send him down tomorrow so he can be ready for Wednesday's Bellville game.

So, now we don't trust Yerdon (who listed the line as 74-37-71) but do trust Engel (who had 37&74 flipped even though they've never been on the same line deployed that way)? Expecting most of the Mittelstadt dislikers (don't believe anyone hates him) will be sadly disappointed if they expect Mitts has been bumped to a wing. Again, he played C over Cozens when they were out there w/ Tuch. PS - people talk about themselves too much. 😉

The Sabres take the western swing every year early in the season. As it happens every year, quite certain it's something they request. Like they used to request a home game for NYE. October tickets are tough sells. And the Sabres ALMOST never play on Sunday at home during football season (they've got 1 this year in December; none in October, November, nor January; and only 1 road Sunday game in that stretch too). The Bills having a bye on one particular weekend, which likely isn't known when the league schedule makers start arranging for playing 1312 games over ~187 days, isn't going to significantly change the calculus. There were ~7k bodies in the building on Saturday. Had the game been played in February, there probably would've been 12k+ in the building. Had it been played this Saturday, the Bills being off the next day would not have put 5k extra patrons into the rink. Would it even have caused 500 more people to show up? Yes, the Sabres don't want to compete with the Bills, but as stated above, they very rarely do compete with them. It doesn't change the fact that competing w/ football season in general is something they'd like to avoid.

Sure, let's hear this "common sense" solution. If you have one, we're all ears.

IF the Bills & Chefs both finish in the same divisional slot next year & in '24, yes, the Bills will be the host team in '24, '25, & '26. The league used to have the different seeds go opposites (e.g., if the East played the full West then say East #'s 1&3 would host the Central's 1&3 respectively and travel to the South's 1&3 respectively while the 2's & 4's would host a team from the South & travel to their Central opponent.). This would tend to have teams playing each other repetitively on the same field if the 2 1st place teams both bounced to 2nd or 4th the next year. This way, you know which slot you will host & which you'll travel to regardless of where you finish. There is no "ideal" solution when trying to keep everything balanced. This is at least good. & if teams don't finish in the same slot they don't play each other every year. If they do, then they do. Oh, well.

No. Because 2 years ago the Bills hosted the Chefs. KC earned home field that year by having a better overall record, so that is why they played the AFC Championship game in KC. After next year's game any RS games between the 2 in the following 3 years will be in Buffalo.