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No, it wouldn't. Teams are allowed to negotiate with players they hold the negotiating rights to. They can't extend players on 1 year deals until after January 1st & can't extend players on multi-year deals until the last league year that the contract carries through has begun. There is nothing to say they can't reach a gentleman's agreement. If that player gets traded, that gentleman's agreement can't be for more than 7 years. Also, there is nothing keeping the acquiring team from making a more enticing offer than the original offer & if the player signs the deal there is nothing the original team can do about it. Now, if the original team gave the player something tangible to get him to honor the handshake deal, THAT would be tampering. But just talking is not illegal under the CBA nor the MOU.

Adidas is doing a good job w/ details in general. Far better than Reebok did w/ their diaper cut tops. But, that said, this feels like a miss overall. As @IKnowPhysics points out, the cream color predates the Sabres original unis. Also, IMHO the blue & gold stripes touching each other are a miss too. The stripes touching each other was never really a thing in B&G until the "pit stains" showed up. Kind of disappointed that they didn't put a USA in gold at the bottom of the logo to recall the IMHO idiocy of putting NY at the bottom of the last WC primary logo. Will still likely get one as Sabrebucks now expire after a single year & can't see buying THAT much beer in the last 2 months. But it is a disappointing effort, though based on recent WC and stadium series unis, probably should've been expected. Maybe that's why they waited so long to roll them out? PS - does anybody know which game they'll wear them in the MMArena? Duff said they would but don't believe he mentioned the date.

Thing is, that prime was cut so short due to injury that it doesn't overcome his truly uninspired play prior to THE lockout nor his good to fair play post-Schaeffer incident. Provided he stays healthy, Krebs has an excellent chance of being better than Connolly when the entire body of work for both end up being reviewed. Considering how for most teams 9 & 19 go to the really truly offensively gifted players, it is amazing how little true skill the Sabres have gotten from players wearing those 2 unis. We're it not for Eichel's brief foray w/ that # Roy was far and away the most offensively gifted wearer of 9 and Connolly holds that title for 19. Fortunately, truly uninspiring play like last night's effort has been the exception, not the rule. Expecting they'll give a much better effort Saturday, but the end result will likely look worse on paper as the Avs are one of the league's top teams & alas, the Sabres aren't.

Not an overly high bar to top.

The shirts don't say "Arenas;" they say "Aretnas." Once again, wtf is an Aretna. PS They also were the St. Pats for a while.

Every game he's played that either Okposo or Girgensons was out he's worn the A.

Wtf are "Aretnas?"

Have never understood why more teams didn't follow the old St. Louis trick of agreeing to contract terms for the following year & then trading away Tkachuk in a year they weren't going to make the playoffs. He gets to play in the playoffs after a few year absense & then St. Louis gets him back the next year plus they had the assets he brought back. Win-win-win.

No. The logo on the front of the sweaters is IDENTICAL to the logo they are CURRENTLY wearing on their regular unis. The hump on the back of the buffalo is almost exactly (if not exactly) the same as the one on the original trademarked logo. It is nothing at all similar to what seamstresses in the late '70's & early '80's bastardized the Buffalo into.

Nah, she's the newfangled turnstile. There's nothing these high end malls won't try to lure customers back post-COVID lockdowns. 😉

Game wasn't delayed. TNT's coverage was delayed because they didn't have enough time between the early game & the late game. For future reference TNT, NHL games that DON'T go to OT take 2:40 to play; those that DO go to OT take longer. The 2:30 hours alloted for a basketball game won't work for a hockey game. Friggin' putzes. For future reference, if TNT has a double header going, might want to record True TV at the time slot the 2nd game is supposed to start. That's where they flipped the beginning of the Avs-Vegas game.

Defensive zone is an adventure. Also, probably want him to get a little choosier about when he looks to leave the zone early to receive that breakaway pass.

Sorry. Found an image, but it's too big. Found it here.

For those that didn't see it, it's a fairly plain off white shirt with the gold colored Buffalo w/ Sabres written across it (the home helmet sticker) on the left shoulder. 2 pairs of blue & yellow gold stripes on each elbow & at the bottom. It also has an outer blue collar & a thin gold stripe inside that. Also, laces at the neck. And the logo is the current one w/ the raised stitching on the buffalo. Will see if a photo is still floating around.

TNT is THE WORST.

Yes. The One Buffalo Store wasn't supposed to put the sweater on pre-order today. It's been taken down there.

A subtle shoulder coming COMPLETELY unexpectedly. With the players momentum at a high rate & leg angles not aligned with the momentum. He was 11' from the boards and flying at close to full speed. And you can count on one hand how many times that play happens in a season. It had a FAR greater likelihood of a tragic ending than a play that happens multiple times every game w/ the players involved moving at much slower rates.

Nope. Dell is a player that opposing players are expected to avoid contact with at all costs and as such are in no danger of being hit (with some extremely notable exceptions). As Dell can't be hit, he also isn't expected to throw a check. He put a very subtle shoulder into the guy when he was attempting to shift all his momentum from heading straight towards the boards to going completely perpendicular. That hit from Dell was not a response to an earlier play. It was both nasty & dirty. Cozens was a response & was nasty but not particularly dirty. MHO. YMMV.

Also, as someone in that thread mentioned, the names & numbers will be twill and will not be the same as the ones the sweaters the players wear in the game will have. Sooooo disappointed.

Nuts. Was hoping they'd be blue.

Claiming Krueger didn't want a goalie upgrade is flat out unsubstantiated speculation. Considering Botterill reportedly had 3 potential deals NEARLY worked out to bring one in, it puts a bit of a crimp in your Krueger was both calling the shots & didn't want a goalie theory because that's a lot of effort to NOT try to bring in a goalie off your own volition if you're Adams. And consider, having an honest to goodness NHL goalie as a starter w/ Ullmark only tasked to be a backup might have completely obviated the need to go through 6 goalies as guys playing within their ability level are less likely to hurt themselves than those that have to try to exceed their abilities.

Murray was content following the owner's directions? Really? Mr ZFG? Not seeing it personally. Regier absolutely worked within whatever constraints ownership put upon him. So will give you that one. But that was the case w/ him from day 1 & he actually was oftentimes successful with putting good teams on the ice without necessarily having access to the resources his rivals had access to. But didn't Botterill get canned because he refused to gut the front office? How is that displaying being content w/ "carrying out the owner's directions?"

Just how "honestly" did he commit to trying to make the Sabres work? He entered the season w/ Hutton & an injury prone Ullmark as the "established" goaltending. Tokarski & Johanson were their understudies w/ UPL & Houser in Cincy. Realize he came "close" to getting a goalie, but the fact remains Ullmark who had never been 'the" guy was the only legit NHL quality goalie & he still might only have been of backup quality for all we knew entering that year.

It absolutely was made prior to bringing in Murray & at a higher pay grade. Did people forget Regier's "there will be suffering" and Ted Black shooting his mouth off which resulted in changes to the lottery? Murray was brought in to make sure the tank was successful without being too successful & to remodel the Sabres into LA/Anaheim East. He accomplished the 1st goal but failed at the 2nd.

It's possible we're all worrying about him potentially being intransigent needlessly. He seems to like it here & it's quite possible he appreciates the fact the Sabres took a chance on him way back when & he'd like to be a part of the solution here. We all saw how psyched his team was when he scored. That wasn't just because they were on the verge of a 2 game winning streak. My expectation is they'll work out a 3 or 4 year deal that works for both sides. No idea what the $'s will be but wouldn't be surprised if the AAV was in the $4's.