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Don’t play the puck, play the body!

Good hockey game so far

https://buffalonews.com/sports/sabres/travis-yosts-sabre-metrics-islanders-might-present-intriguing-options-to-improve-sabres/article_ce790c6e-8584-11eb-ad1a-b75f1feaf9b1.html#tracking-source=home-top-story-1 Travis Yost with an idea So how can the Sabres make a pitch? Submit offer sheets to Pelech and Varlamov at the same time. Since the Sabres own all their 2022 NHL draft picks, they can sign both players into different compensation ranges without violating the collective bargaining agreement (10.4). Assuming the offer sheet compensation will mirror what it did last summer, it might look something like this: The Sabres could offer Pelech a multiyear contract up to $4.3 million annually, and simultaneously offer Sorokin a multiyear contract up to $6.5 million annually. The point is to squeeze the outer limits of the compensation range and force a team like the Islanders to consider declining to match the offer sheet. To that end, it’s not a question of whether the Islanders love a player like Sorokin – they do. The question is whether they love him enough to decline a future first- and third-round pick, and avoid paying that same goaltender $6 million annually. Depending on how bullish you are on Sorokin, even a high-end offer now could be on the low end of his true talent in the long term. But it would force the Islanders to consider their cap strategy and the opportunity costs that would come with matching multiple offer sheets. (In this case, they could tie up in excess of $10 million in just two players.) Alternatively, you can easily see a scenario in which the Islanders match a high-end offer for Sorokin and decline to meet the midrange offer for Pelech. Either way, the Sabres end the day with more talent, not less. Offer sheets have become beta noire in the NHL, but I’ve always attributed that to how punitive the top end of the compensation range is, as well as the ability for general managers to engineer side trades in lieu of tendering. I expect that to continue. But if there was ever a time for teams to get creative in a multiyear flat-cap era, this is it.

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Oh no, I thought we got an extra day off from this...🥺 Oh well...Go Sabres

I totally agree with what you are saying. The challenges facing this team have been huge, throw in Jacks injury , Skinner not producing at all and the team would faced an uphill battle. But toss horrible goaltending—-last night excluded—in and you are in dumpster fire 🔥 status. Better goaltending could have given them some breathing space to gel and improve. Teams need to build chemistry, but if you lose every night that makes it hard.

Ullmark will be interesting to see. Good player but injured a lot. 3 yrs x 4 mill a season But they also need to add another or two goalies The defense will be interesting. If we get Powers or another of the top D-men in draft, do they play immediately? Risto, Dahlin, Bryson, Borgen, Joki, McCabe? and ? Hopefully a healthy Jack leads a resurgence of offensive, but they should try and find help in free agency. Is it too early to get out of Skinners contract in a way to save cap space?

Davidson is a big talker out there

Montour

Big Tage is playing well. Casey kinda quiet tonight

Hutton!!!

Is it RK adding toughness to line up?

Tage as third line, Bobby Smith type, checking center?

Davidson better be better

This is Hutton’s third season, right?

Looks more likely than not we get a shinny new defenseman to fuss over with the 1st pick, whether it first overall or not

Looking at the top prospects in the draft, they are mostly defensemen, so we will have another good young d man next year. Does that mean we might trade one of the several young players already in the system?

Adams and Krueger just don't have the mental toughness or something. Hutton should of just been waived and someone should have been claimed off of waivers or traded for. JJ might still get better, but Hutton is finished. Lindy Ruff would call out Miller sometimes for goals he maybe should have stopped, but this crew are afraid to say anything bad about anyone on the team. NO and Hell No!!

Because we are hopelessly devoted to the Sabres

🥺 Wrong. https://buffalonews.com/sports/sabres/jonas-johansson-carter-hutton-havent-bailed-out-sabres-struggling-offense/article_c8a92f22-836c-11eb-96e9-4353428af438.html I'm reading this article and just want to scream. So many interesting little nuggets of...well...nuggets: 🤣 😐 😄

And the hit on Dahlin was at least a trip, but no call

So we will probably lose a few fights and lose the game.

Any word on Linus? Been almost three weeks now. They said at least a month, so hopefully he is close

Let’s pull a Jersey on the Pens. Call some of them up for tomorrow’s game