MattPie

Unless I'm misreading the above, NJ has nothing to lose and everything to gain, right? If some other team wants him, have NJ sign him then trade to that team for whatever.

Take a Wild---- guess!

What's that saying about sandwiching a lie between two pieces of truth? :)

The idea was Darcy was competent but limited by budget. That turned out to be wrong, but it's not unreasonable to say that a guy that did OK given limited budgets could be pretty good with more financial resources.

Re: tanks I don't remember all the teams listed, but I know it included: Hawks: Kane and Toews (#1 and #3 picks) Boston: Seguin in their cup run was a #2 pick (gotten from the Leafs for Kessel, Kessel was the Bruins #5 overall pick in 2006) Kings: coming out of the 2004-05 lockout, they had a run of bad seasons where they were tied for last one year (with Tampa) and top 10 picks for a few more. They picked 11, 4, 2, and 5 coming out of the lockout before returning to the playoffs. (that #4 was Thomas Hickey, whom they lost to NYI on waivers, so these quality hockey mega-brains in LA messed up a #4 pick) Habs: I don't really consider them a force. They've ridden one the best goalies in the league but I can't recall thinking, "MTL really has a shot this year". So perennial playoffs yes, contender, not really.

I'm not worried about the Sabres cash flow. The front office will spend to the cap and I'd guess above the cap if Okposo is on LITR. This is a non-issue to me as a fan because it doesn't limit what players the Sabres can bring in in terms of the cap.

He left the NHL with term on his contract right? Would that contract resume if he came back?

Those are the only people I can think of; it doesn't even come close to 2007.

It's entirely possible that Eichel said something in a moment of frustration to a teammate, much like if I'm having a ###### day at work I'll come home and say, screw it, I'm done with this. Then I get up the next day and go back to work. EDIT: remove profanity; I expected the filter to catch it.

Sorry Millbank, we all know how it feels to see their team eliminated. I'm really annoyed at how good the Leafs are. Hey, there's a bright side to the Sabres playoff drought: there are young Sabres fans who've never seen the Sabres lose a playoff series! There are college age Bills fans that can say the same!

This is a good place to start: http://forums.sabrespace.com/topic/24444-the-system/page-3?do=findComment&comment=920157 Post 100 starts Flagg's incredible string of posts comparing Byslma's System (the Byslmatic) to Carolina which plays a puck support scheme. There's are some cool heat-map posts on the second page of that thread showing where Buffalo's shots were happening.

I feel like it's 1956 in here.

They're playing on the Island now too; Brooklyn (and Queens) are the west end of the island.

I like Foligno, but he's overpaid to be a 4th line wing. If $NEWGM can get something for him, do it and replace with someone making $1 - 1.5M per year. You may say it's not that much, but do it a few times on the roster and suddenly you're at the cap and that $4M/yr D FA that'd put your team in a great spot is not affordable.

A lot of those aren't terrible. I wouldn't mind seeing the Bills in those, preferably in royal. I'm not sure it'd go that way though; based on the fan support if they were going to unify things, it'll probably be more red for the Sabres. Red, white, and blue are boring because it's over done.

That's encouraging; unless it's because they'll end up with 5 year salary for 2 years of work.

TP: Good morning, I'm sure you have questions. Mike (Harrington), you first. MH: You weren't present at the end of season press conference. Do you hate the media, or do you just feel that it's not worth your time to discuss the worst season of hockey ever played? TP: That's all for now. Thank you.

Sorry man. I know how despairing it was for me when it looked like HHDCRGDDB was going to stay, so I know how this probably hit you.

Why would they wait until the NHL draft to fire Whaley?

I'm not entirely disagreeing with you, but if you have two D that apparently don't have high Hockey IQ, why force them into a system that requires reading the entire ice and making pinpoint passes to drive the offense? Falk and Fedun looked promising, but it's tough to call them career years. Falk had more points in less games in 2011. Fedun has played 39 NHL games, 20 some this year. It's good that McCabe and Risto can play Dan's system, now we only need 4 more solid guys. Or a new system where the guys we have might be solid. It boils down to: I don't think the Sabres can come up with 6 guys that can be hugely successful in Dan's offense plan (long passes). And something is going on with D coverage where everyone (other than McCabe and Risto look completely lost out there). This really feels like one of those things where the guys that leave are going to look a lot better wherever they end up.

Well, the system doesn't have a lot a spice, so yeah.

The argument is that the Leafs D is more productive but that's not necessarily due to talent. Several of the Sabres D have suddenly become hopeless after reasonable NHL careers thus far. Some aren't ruling out the possibility that the issue isn't that they suddenly fell off a cliff, but that they're being asked to do something they can't. I'm sure there are 6 D around that can successfully play the system, but it may be easier to take the D the Sabres have and adapt the system (through coaching change or other methods) to their skill rather than swap out the players until you find guys that can play the system.

Morning? Colder than Bylsma's Hide and Seek Status for finding a workable system.

If it weren't for the sharing, SpiderOak One looks nice. I use their Encryptr tool for password storage, which is a cool no-knowledge (at least they claim) cloud storage. They can't unlock the files, and my password is never sent over the network; all they see is an encrypted blob on their storage and it's decrypted on my device. It's free. SpiderOak One is their backup solution that works on a similar premise; everything is encrypted on the device so they cannot unlock it for anyone. They do have a "share room" concept where you can share a password with others and put things into that area for them to see, but that may be cumbersome for general sharing. (Note: I don't use this service, so I'm just reading about it)