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Omg! Sabres not at rink but out golfing! Think of the children!

The Sabres have 7 million left in cap space. That's a lot.

Probably not but maybe. I think at 1.75 he would be but at that, idk.

That's about .20 too much IMPO. 1.25 for 2 years sounds better but whatever. At least it is 2 years so you have control and if he hits, cool and if he doesn't you can trade him or waive him or bench him. To me, that screams "he's gonna start on our 4th line" but I guess camp will decide. Malestyn is 1.35 Kubel is 1.5 Lafferty is 2.0

Not really no. This is the worst narrative on this board and it gets repeated ad nauseam. The tenacity part is just flat out ***** tbh. Which of these players are not tenacious? Helenius, Östlund, Ziemer, Benson, Wahlberg, Kulich? What about Poltapov? Size in the modern NHL is about leverage and using leverage to get inside on players. We need to stop equating size with tenacity or toughness or grit or whatever other word we are using. Who is a more tenacious player? Owen Power or Zach Benson?

Did you know that the Florida Panthers had 5 players that were 5'11" or shorter and one that was 5'9"? Evan Rodrigues had 15pts in 24 playoff games at 5'11" 174lbs.

The Sabres brought 7 defenders in for this: Simon Pier-Brunet, No. 43, Jack Bodin, No. 65, Ryan Johnson, No. 33, Vsevolod Komarov, No. 76, Noah Laaouan, No. 46, Nikita Novikov, No. 91, Norwin Panocha, No. 74 I put in bold the players Buffalo drafted or are "in the system" so to speak. That is 5 players we drafted and it leaves out the following defenders that Buffalo has drafted but were not here: Adam Kleber (2nd), Luke Osburn (4th), Patrick Geary (6th), Maxim Strbak (2nd), Gavin McCarthy (3rd), Sean Keohane (6th). Buffalo had an entire 2nd defense that simply wasn't here. So no they don't need more defensive prospects. Kleber, Strbak, and McCarthy are all hard players with NHL shots and would have easily made the prospect team better. Considering the injuries the prospect team had at defense, not much of a surprise with the outcome of the final, but it was a fun game. The bolded pitts comment to me is just bizarre. "Look more like NHL bound" as opposed to who? Kulich, Helenius, Novikov, Komarov, Wahlberg, Östlund, Johnson? It is strange you pick out Avery when I thought Tullio and Avery played somewhat similar games. On the Pens roster, Beck, Broz, Howe, Koivunen, Yager, Brunicke and Pickering are probably NHL players at some point, not sure how many stick but could say the same for Buffalo. "Pittsburgh on the other hand..." just makes it sound like you watched an entirely different game than I did. These looked like a pre-season prospects tournament with lots of mistakes and breakdowns across the board and on both sides. I didn't a see a Pitt team that was some more physical than Buffalo. Bottom line, you can't draw too much from a prospects tournament. I remember several years ago Metaj Pekar was the darling of one of these because he was feisty and hit stuff, he was never heard from again.

You're a jerk and have been getting worse and worse the last year. I don't think I'm the only one and considering all the trash posters in here who thump their chests whenever they are even mildly right, thxs. 15ppl versus 6 but sure, what you said. Thorny the magnificent, all hail. Careful though, it's lonely at the top of that pedestal you're on.

When he's a ppg player and drops 40g ppl will be shocked. No need to be a dick about what I said.

He's gonna to shock ppl around here. Disagree.

Tyler Tullio was ranked 38th by EP in his draft year and was 5'9". Now at 5'11" and with more muscle, I wonder if he's a dark horse to be in the bottom of the Sabres lineup later in the year. He's played very well in the tournament.

No it wouldn't.

Guess Leenders needs to figure it the ***** out

That's awful. Sorry but the point of being the leader is that you are responsible for standing up in front. This sounds like too many cooks and it won't work.

The lights thing is irrelevant. It's always illegal to pass a car on the right shoulder. Guy will go jail and should.

Kevyn Adams has repeatedly said that Ruff and him wanted to remake the bottom 6 and they feel they did that. Sabres marketing has all talked about remaking and given a fixed identity to the bottom 6. Lafferty talked about playing bottom 6 center. So, yea we kinda know. Kulich isn't going to be 4th line center. Would be a waste for him When his game is best suited at minimum to the top 3 lines. When the inevitable injury happens, I think we see Kulich in Buffalo.

The Sabres spent the offseason on a purpose built 4th line. Barring injuries, Kulich won't be on it.

Columbus is where Buffalo was in about 2020. All their higher end prospects aka the 19-22 crowd are in the NHL mostly. There's about a 5 year lag between getting your drafting decent to see players and talent really starting to stack up in the system. Kulich was good, as expected. Helenius was good but imo looked just a touch behind at points but he'll be fine. Sabres defense was good throughout. If the actual Sabres play this fast and hard we might make the playoffs.

I watched it and it was proof the Sabres are at least aware of what social media thinks but man... that 4 min promo felt like pandering spin bs. I'm not trying to be an ass but it reminded me of a sales video.