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Fair point, didn't consider that. It would make sense for Hutton to try to make his poor play look fixable. I think it could also be possible that the Sabres organization encouraged Hutton's camp to reveal that information as well.

Another possibility, jbotts camp leaked it to make fans less mad about going into the season with just Ulmark and Hutton, saying he'll be better now, because he can see.

I think The Aud club is actually superior in quality to TSW, though it comes nowhere near the quantity of discussion. Both sites have some great posters, but TSW has a larger percentage of dumb/annoying/trolling posters. But because of the amount of discussion on TSW, I am on it more.

I would just like to point out how misleading your statement for suppose whopper #1. You say "The Pegulas have spent hundreds of millions of their own dollars on arena upgrades, AS WELL AS building a hotel, restaurant and practice facility adjacent to the arena." This as well as implies that the building a hotel, restaurant, and practice facility adjacent to the arena were all separate from the hundreds of millions spent on the arena. Given that the practice facility is separate from the arena upgrade, where was this hundreds of millions spent on? In defending your article, you say it "serves as an extension of the arena", but then why did you list it separately. I am not saying you intentionally created a whopper but that could have been worded much more carefully. Ex: The Pegulas spent hundreds of millions of dollars of their own money on arena upgrades, an adjacent practice facility, hotel, and restaurant. It doesn't seem as impressive for what the Pegulas have done, but it better shows what really happened. Unless in actuality, they did spend hundreds of millions on arena upgrades, which if that is the case, please correct me. Though if they did spend all that money on the arena, it would make me further doubt their ability with how the arena looks.

The big igloo association itself is very much not a white supremacists group. They would disavow those who are for white supremacy. They believe "the liberty movement should be for all people", but yeah, it's basically just a group advocating for civil war/revolution.

I would think the picks would be based on how far teams make it in the playoffs, just like every year, then teams that lost in the first round would be based on who had the lowest points in the season for the best pick.

I realize that many may not believe me, and thats fine. I heard from a somewhat connected source that the Sabres were in talks with Calgary for a deal that would send Risto and Larsson for Monahan and Bennet. Jbotts was trying to get it down to just Risto for Monahan. Fwiw, I also heard there were talks of Mccabe and Larsson for Trochek about a week before the Trochek rumors started flying. I was asked to keep it hushed before the deadline.

I am an occasional poster, but a frequent reader. I would say my reason for not posting often is due to my lack of hockey knowledge. Pretty much all of my knowledge is from watching sabres games and reading here. I don't have the extensive knowledge of players in the league like some here. Sometimes I feel I do not have something significant to contribute, and don't want to just blow hot air. I am a young fan, and I think as my hockey knowledge grows, my post quantity is likely to increase with it.

The thing is though, everyone else in the division also has a tougher schedule as well. They all face chiefs/chargers/broncos/raiders and Rams/Seahawks/49ers/Cardinals. The Patriots also face Ravens/Texans, so I think that yes, we should be favorites in the AFC east.

Lazar has been taking OT draws since before Jack has appeared injured.

That is due more to a lack of point producers on the team than him being outstanding. A quick check puts him not even in the top 60 in ppg (I couldn't find the stat on a site, so I was looking at the top scorers and roughly checking, stopped after I got to the 65th top scorers)

That may be, but 24 points in 35 games and a -12 in the AHL doesn't give me any hope that he will be a competent NHLer next year.

I wouldn't expect him to blindly dump money into the organization either. I think he would probably spend more than the average owner though.

I think I would tend to agree. I think Pegula has enough money and cares enough that he would be willing to spend more than most teams, which may have gotten us out of this losing slump by now.

Wow!

Nice hit by Simmonds.

The PP looked good, but just couldn't put it in on that one

I did. He made a few nice physical plays, but wasn't particularly impressive.

I believe that he was on the top line similarly to how girgs and Vesey were on the top line earlier in the year. Neither of them belonged there, but due to injuries, they were placed there for a few games.

So do our new lines look like: Oloffson-Eichel-Reinhart Skinner/Johansson/Kahun Vesey/Lazar/Simmonds Girgs/Larsson/Okposo Thoughts?

Jbott said he "could play both wings", so it looks like the expectation is for him to play wing, not center.

Panthers were the ones who made this trade, they used our pick, which they had already aquired

So 2 pennies for a wheat penny worth 2 cents?

Kahun to buffalo

So Sheary+Erod for?