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John Robert Eichel (The Chief Justice of Hockey). Richard John Jeanneret Richard Allensworth Jewell Douglas Jewel Allen This is too creepy to continue, but it ends up on a pancake.

No, I like bob. Always have. Since '83, especially.

Yep, it's going well.

Isles fans don't miss him.

He sits. Doc told him not to lift anything heavier than 10 pounds.

Honestly I'm just trying to jinx this thing to happen.

That was my thing. I never thought Dahlin's and Eichel's timelines matched up.

"Old" news, but to get this started (and maybe someone missed it): https://apnews.com/article/sports-nhl-buffalo-sabres-canada-hockey-e7a45d83994edfa8d75e090a966422b5

Tell Brawndo that.

No, it's a callout of the rumor thread, where real stories occasionally get posted. When he's traded, there will be or should be a new thread. Don G. Haver or *****-haver? Is the rest a zip code?

Mods, can we have a thread where news links are posted with commentary limited to those stories — and keep the fantasy trades, low-rent rumors and chit chat in the other thread? If not, feel free to delete this. Sort of a catch-all place for news, which is very hard to isolate among all the posts in the megathread.

SI and The Hockey News bring you the Associated Press. Why the push? It'll go down in Sabres lore as another unsolved mystery.

The rumor part has some value. The speculation is just unbearable. I wouldn't mind seeing a new, tighter thread with more valuable info. This one's just gone on too long.

We have our 99. All aboard!

OK. But if you watch Dylan Cozens and can't see that he has something Jack doesn't have, I don't know what to tell you.

Clearly, I didn't remember. Thanks.

That was seven years ago. You've answered your own question.

THE SOUL OF THIS FRANCHISE MUST BE RESTORED! It was somehow lost. This was always the small market team that could. People fell in love with and stayed in love with the Sabres for a reason, and it wasn't winning Cup after Cup. This is job one.

What's to kovalchuk?

"Tank" without it feeling like a tank, there's the rub. The players have the power to pull it off. Make us fall in love with them. Balls to the wall hockey — it doesn't take talent. (Of course you really can't do it for 60 minutes, but who's had enough of sleepwalking entire first periods lo these many years?) Cry after a game and make us cry again. MUCA!

He's going to win an eBay bid for the thing when the league gets really desperate for money in 2039.

Well, no kidding. Is it your contention that the Lemieuxs and Gretzkys wouldn't have won Cups without good to great supporting casts? Maybe. But an alternate argument is that those supporters were good to great because of The Ones who led the way. Eichel's tide didn't come close to lifting all boats.

I always though this argument was weird. Isn't the idea of being rich that you can live where you want? You can afford the taxes. When is enough money enough? You couldn't get me to live in Florida even if there were no taxes at all (local, state, federal, FICA, sales, gun permit fees etc.).

Fixed.