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But who got the 2 point? Oh…

Personally I would think every top prospect pick around the league would be in the AHL right away if it was an option.

It’s fun getting on a plane and hearing a “go Bills” from the cockpit.

Bigger and better than the other players.

Oh great, robo texts are now smart enough to follow up with a “hey, did you get my text” a few hours later.

His was just a finger though, but hey, I'm here to offer options.

Are you familiar with Ronnie Lott’s approach to these kind of things?

What’s the timeline on all of this? Given the 14 year drought, I’d at least question whether or not it hurt the product on the ice. You can’t break something that’s already broken.

And then 6 years later he’s dead. It really does make you wonder if he was mentally in the right place during his short stay in Buffalo.

TSN has a story up saying that Carter Hart is very likely to sign with Vegas. Looking at their depth chart, that move makes a ton of sense. That's a very questionable lilneup right there, especially for a high end team. It makes you reflect on the Sabres goalies a bit and realize just how questionable the position is all over the league.

It's funny that you mention the well run organization piece because look who that scout doesn't work for anymore. (I want to include a laughing emoji here, but the choices suck).

Without Winnipeg, that's a whole lot of playoff drought on that lowest revenue list (I know, Ottawa). That whole thing feels like a big chicken or the egg thing on what is coming first. I'll hold off on Utah for now because who the hell knows what they have there yet.

He did stay at Michigan for a year after being drafted.

Metsa is also only 11 months younger than Bryson. He stuck around college longer than Bryson and was a 5th year COVID senior when he won that championship. The idea floating around in here that they might be very similar players, I think there’s some merit to that. One just happens to have 254 more NHL games under his belt than the other.

Bryson’s final college season, his junior year, he was the captain of Providence, losing in the semi-final.

And those comments I made about Mrtka? What was I thinking. I need to go back and find those.

I can’t remember if this was a sarcastic conversation but AHL time would probably have been great for him. He falls dead center of the couple draft classes that lost significant development time to COVID.

I just wish I had made that exact point about Novikov getting some time in the NHL this year. Oh right, I did. Arguing just for the sake of argument sure is fun. I love the internet.

I think just about everyone did. I didn’t figure that out until Matias showed up in the NCAA.

There’s a lot of hockey to come this year. If he keeps on track, he’ll see time this year. Again, he’s 22 and we’ve rushed far too many players in recent years. Let him lead that Rochester team for a bit and then give him his time.

He’s 22 and has been here 2 years. We don’t need to rush everyone.

The agent sure does hate him taking that deal though. I do think though that the PA much prefers the attention grabbing deals. We all know they don’t care one bit about the Malenstyn’s of the world.

Right, his father. The original post mentioned his uncle playing in the NHL too.

Ulf isn’t his uncle. Was there another Samuelsson that I’m not aware of?

White end zones with white sidelines sounds like a truly awful idea.