Two or less

I'm assuming this means Rochester for a Calder Cup run, but Gionta was on this morning on the Stellick and Simmer show and said after the Olympics he would love to return to the NHL but he would only do it with a Cup contender. I'm guessing if no NHL teams call, this means Amerks door would be open.

Who in their right mind would trade for Antipin? It would have to be a playoff bound team and they would have very limited video of him in the NHL and who knows if his english is any good yet? This just seems like a Alvis classic post, taking a guess and making it sound like its legit.

That's it for me too. I wonder what really happened in the hiring process of coaches. Also why did they let Bob Woods go? The guy was running the leagues best PP and after letting him go, he went to the Wild who now have the 14th best PP. Also shortly hiring Housley, Elliott Friedman had reported that we were on the verge of hiring Jack Capuano as an assistant. In any case, I was for hiring Housley, and i'm starting to think I was wrong but i don't think they will or should fire him this season. He needs another season. Just look at Colorado, they had 48pts in Jared Bednar's first season and i'm sure a web site such as Sabrespace in Denver was wondering if Sakic should pull the plug on him too. They stayed with it and the Aves are one of the nicer stories this season.

lol yeah. Bottom 5 31. Sabres 30. Ottawa 29. Nashville 28. Detroit 27. Minnesota Top 5 1. Toronto 2. Pittsburgh 3. Edmonton 4. Chicago 5. Tampa Bay

Dead last in scoring chances with 1137.

Well, even if he isn't traded, the Sabres still only have 5 forwards under contract next season not counting ERod.

Sabres are 21st in SOG.

I'm not a Lehner fan by any means, but it makes me laugh when people bring this up. The dude has only been in one shootout this season and has faced 2 shooters. One stop, one goal. As for breakways, yeah we all remember all the goals because those sting. But, is there a statistic that keeps tracks of goals and saves on breakaways? I tried looking around just to see how bad he is and where he ranks. I have center ice package and i watch a lot of hockey, and it seems many goalies allow breakaways often. I just wonder where he ranks in the league?

Yeah he was awful. Not a NHL caliber player. I thought the Sabres played a good game though. They didn't quit and fought til the very end. The bye weeks are great for the players but the records of teams coming out of the break are not very good. Sabres had something like 24 shot attempts in the first period and ended the game with 70. Sure they made mistakes, and NYR have a better goalie despite allowing 3 goals. The Sabres loss tonight had nothing to do with a lack of effort though and that was good to see.

hell of a finish in the ducks/pens game

Ducks came out dominating in the second period. Very impressive period so far by them.

I loved trading for ROR but if Botterill can get anything good in return, i'm all in. The guy is super inconsistent and makes many errors defensively and then beats himself up for it to the media after the game. This season, took him 7 games to score his first goal and later in season had a stretch with 0 goals in 12 games. For what he makes, Sabres just needed more.

Same. I think he underrated by Montreal fans. I think they are having major issues that go beyond him on the lack of scoring there, such as Drouin only has like 6 goals and beyond him and Galchenyuk there just isn't very much offensive upside on that roster. Despite all the hate, Galchenyuk has something like 19 points in his last 21 games and currently leads the Habs in points.

This would be very interesting. I wonder what kind of return they could get for him? Buckle up. If Botterill is ready to deal ROR, then i think we could be in for some real fire works in the next few weeks and into the draft as they try to rebuild this team.

Joel Ward gonna be 38 next season lol might wanna re-think that one

You're right, my bad. I jumped the gun there. Either way I don't see him coming back next season.

That's a wild story, i havn't heard that yet so thank you Brawndo for posting it. It makes sense. When COR got shipped out of here it was so random, i remember everyone was puzzled by it at the time and everything seemed like such a mess it was just like another day in Sabreland.

The only explanation for the high asking price by Botterill has to be that he has a offer he is willing to accept on the table. That’s my guess. As for Lehner, I never really thought their was a market for him until last week’s “31 thoughts” column. I spend the last several days wondering what could we get for him... and then Friedman comes out with the update. Lol im back to thinking there is no market for him & he will walk at the end of the season. Truly wasted 1st round pick.

But William also scored 77 points in 75 AHL games. Alex has 34 points in 82 AHL games.

Hope for Malcom & Aubameyang. Then hope Arsenal will be able to fully develop Malcom and that Aubameyang grows up a lil.

A lot of the comments i read from people who attend Amerks often is he looks lazy and lacks "compete". Which is odd, because isn't his brother considered one of the hardest workers?

I didn't watch as i had to work, but per some twitter posts i saw, such as from Matt Bove, Nylander didn't look good and didn't even get on the ice for over time. Ullmark looked great but the Amerks lost 2-1 in the shootout. Griffith with the Amerks goal.

I think the odds are against him, but I think it’s too early to give up on him. He’s only played 48 NHL games so far in his career. He could still be a useful NHLer.

Sabres are getting nowhere near Bellows or a first for Lehner. I don’t even think we’d get a second rounder for him tbh.

This seems right, and for that price no one would trade for him. Just better to keep him and develop him. If Nylander is dealt, i think it'd be part of some mega deal. But i don't see them moving him to be honest.