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I understand your frustration, but you seem to be engaging in an exercise of reiteration

Ok. Dear season ticket holders: You need to chill

The Sabres have the talent on paper to pick up the slack for O'Reilly's production The shoring up of the bottom 6 with proven, experienced players (not Roch call-ups) may pick up the slack of ROR's contribution to defensive play. Add to that goaltending competency, and it doesn't look so bad And he needed to go, which is why he's gone. If he didn't need to go, he'd be here. I believe that. Everybody needs to chill.

Thanks for letting us know ;)

No, I think JBot is just trying to get brownie points with TPegs, seeing if a team is dumb/desperate enough to pay his bonus

Was Lou fired, or did he not renew his contract?

Those clips show a great competitiveness. Lehner had competitiveness, but sub-NHL fundamentals

Yes, 2.75 AAV + ELC for our goaltending situation- it's great having a cap-nerd GM!

not being good at your position will definitely get you a bad rep!

it's working for me http://www.hockeydab...freeagency.html

Yeah, the reporting that "Sabres paying bonus makes trade less likely" goes against my intuition

Maybe I'm going insane- the first time I clicked, it didn't work. Then I clicked a few minutes later, and it worked...

can somebody post that TSN streaming link again? I forgot where it was posted originally

Perhaps they have more than 1 good deal on the table, and they're trying to leverage them... "He's yours if you pay the bonus"

but don't forget, Lehner could make big, impressive saves when we were down 4-1 with 6 minutes left in the 3rd

Are they mistaken? Don't they know TPegs is mr deep pockets?

Besides our good players becoming better (Casey, Eichel, Samson, Guhle), I think not having Lehner will have the most noticeable impact on this team's improvement in the coming season. I'm thrilled.

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My impression is not that the NHL "likes" the agreement, but rather, the Canadians in the NHL bureaucracy uphold it as a pro-Canada measure. The CHL feels its ticket sales would decline if they lost talent to the NHL sooner. As mentioned above, I don't think this jibes with a "free-market" approach of league relationships. It is very protectionist of the Canadians- but having lived there for a couple of years, they are very protectionist with so many of their policies, vis-a-vis the USA

I know from a source that he is a severe head-case. Not what we want in our locker room, I'd have to believe

You could tell Dahlin was tired, but he had the skill to go end-to-end. With 3-on-3 format and having defensive responsibility, he can't compete with a forward who can float in the high slot in the d-zone. He had to constantly go from deep in his d-zone to the opposite end of the ice, and then back-check when the other team gained possession. Not a good format for him to show what he can do. Wait till preseason, though ;)

Watch it again. Pekar was trying to be cute and had his head down, and went right at Dahlin. Dahlin just stood his ground.

It's gonna be sjs

I think everyone is going to be so pleasantly surprised with how much better we will do than Lehner. Not that the options are great, but the ineptitude of Lehner will be even more apparent

I was referring to the sentiment that Reinhart go directly to Rochester after being drafted. I thought that's what all of us wished would have happened.