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Sabres have great Corsi stats...they routinely are outshooting the other teams and completely bombarded the Penguins tonight with 53 shots...eventually this will translate into wins. Sabres were 8th in Corsi before tonight but could jump 2 spots after tonight's performance... So they might not be winning or scoring enough yet, but they are light years ahead of last year's Corsi numbers already. It's only a matter of time before it starts translating into wins.

Its 5 games now...still the same problem. And we are in an all too familiar place in our division...the basement.

So how much has changed? We still can't score goals. I know it's only 2 games but c'mon. Lets see something resembling offense.

Don't tell me with all this offensive firepower on this team we are still going to struggle to get shots and goals...

I think the Swords of a thousand men would have been a better choice...they could have played that "Hoorah,hoorah,hoorah ayy!" part 2 or 3 times before following it with "We're the swords of a thousand men!" Or, they could have taken it straight from the song from around 1:01 to 1:15...talking about "Hear our roar, hear our sound, we're gonna fight until we have won this town....hooorah, hoorah, hoorah ayyy..."

This should be easy money for anyone who bets. Bodog is basically handing money out by giving odds on the Sabres improving by under 6 wins in the upcoming season after they won 23 games last year in one of the worst seasons in NHL history and adding Eichel, O'Reilly, Rheinhart, Kane, etc...now the odds are 28.5 wins. So the Sabres win 29 games, you win the bet. This team is only going to improve by 6 wins over last year's team? Laughable. No way. Easy money. http://nhl.nbcsports.com/2015/09/27/bodog-provides-odds-for-nhl-team-wins-which-is-weird/?ocid=Yahoo&partner=ya5nbcs

One thing is for sure...monumental upgrade in the female department...his fiancee is smoking hot compared to his ex wife who was....meh

WTF...First Kromer, now this...

I could see Carlo in the minors too...GMTM said he wants Rochester to start winning and they are sparing no expenses to make that happen apparently

Umm OK...perhaps another Dman for Rochester/6th man?

Sabres view him as potentially their Jonathan Toews...about 10-15 points less a year for 4 million a year less...now he just has to win some cups

I think in this case its pretty easy as you had 3 goalies who played very well with Buffalo and pretty bad on the teams they were traded to. If that isn't good enough I don't know what would be.

Hell no...two players with Zero work ethic and huge contracts you can't get rid of...no thanks...

Playoffs???? Playoffs?!?!? We're just trying to win a few games here...

Do you think McCabe is ready?

Pysyk was ready all last year to be a regular in the NHL...Nolan was pretty frustrated about him being kept in the AHL... Risto, Pysyk, Bogo, Gorges, Ruhwedel and Weber as a top 6? I can live with that...if they could add another D as part of a 2nd pairing even better... McCabe possibly ready to make the jump as well?

Scouting report on McGinn: Assets: Can play a sound defensive game and also displays streaky goal-scoring ability. Works very hard when on the ice and is also quite versatile up front. Flaws: Doesn't have great playmaking skills. Must display greater consistency in all areas of the game in order to maximize his National Hockey League output. Career Potential: Industrious and streaky winger with a little upside. Sounds like a good 3rd liner

Maybe not, if Grigorenko wasn't going to sign a 2-way deal and the Sabres weren't going to give him a 1-way deal and he would have just signed in the KHL... Either way we got an established really good player that is backed up with really good advanced metrics for we don't really know what. But like Time Murray says, you can only have 50 players under contract, and we have a lot of ammunition for trades, so using up a little extra to get a player you want isn't going to hurt that much...

He is a LW, had a decent 2013-2014 season scoring 19 goals...also scored 20 goals between the Sharks/Avalanche in 2011-2012... Was hurt in 2012-2013 for half the season but got 11 goals...only played in 19 games last year... Looks like he can be a 15-20 goal scorer if he stays healhty...

We also get Jamie McGinn in the deal as well

Wow, I'd do that trade all day long and twice on Sunday for O'Reilly

But how many forwards can we have at one time? some combination of Ennis, Kane, Moulson, Girgensons, Rheinhart, and Eichel will make up the top 2 lines(with maybe Girgensons moves to a 3rd line center), so that is going to open up 1 spot on the wing, and I'm sure we have no shortage of up and coming prospects to fill that position, or even someone with some untapped potential playing with a highly skilled center such as Foligno or maybe even Larrsson... We have plenty of 3rd and 4th line players, so no worries there...

Lehner is only 23, which means he hasn't peaked yet...I think this is going to take a few year to really shake out...

Glendale city council voted 5-2 to dissolve the lease with the Coyotes, 2 years into the 15 year agreement citing a loophole whereby they are allowed to terminate a contract if the other party hires an employee away from them. Apparently IceArizona hired away a city attorney in 2013 and made him general counsel of their operation. The Coyotes have filed for a temporary injunction and have filed a lawsuit seeking $200 million in damages. What a mess. Trying to force hockey on a market that obviously doesn't care about it. Just move the team somewhere else. Maybe Las Vegas? At least the newness will help for a few years... http://sports.yahoo.com/news/glendale-votes-cancel-lease-deal-coyotes-024722266--spt.html

They can't, it is what was agreed to by the GM's at their own meeting last year.