Scottysabres

So when do we start to see movement? Before or after Christmas?

I think Freidman said everyone's available but Jack.

I laughed.......then I cried....

I wish they'd send Reinhart down.

Anyone could be traded. The Clarkson contract is precedent. ROR could be moved for sure. So could Risto, Kane and Okposo. I'd ride out if necessary Moulson and Pominville's last year to achieve cap floor viability. If there is a plan to go hard after Taveres, they to could be moved. Targets: Defense first. I'd look to Carolina, Columbus and Dallas. Forwards, the obvious ones are Bennett out of Calgary and Galchyniak in Montreal. With the youth in Rochester building up chemistry LW CJ Smith, RW Bailey, Baptiste and Fasching, some of these guys most likely fill a couple of line 2/3 slots. That leaves some slots open for ? And then there is goaltending. Ullmark is sure to be up. But a solid 1A will most likely be needed.

Bots must make some decisions. Its clear Buffalo got hosed in their 2 seasons of drafting in the top 2. Get Reinhart to Rochester ASAP, he is all but useless up here. He needs AHL time to regain composure and confidence. Eichel......I wait it out with him. ROR, Okposo trade them. Something has to shake the very core of this group.

How did it come to this? A promising season for further progress has the team completely imploding. Who really could have seen it coming, the depths to which the teams confidence has sunk? This is truly the lowest I've seen this organization in its existence. I have no answers. No ideas. This team may actually be historically the worst team to ever play a season in the modern NHL. And that is saying volumes considering the talent on the roster. Decisions must be made, or the rebuild could stretch into a decades long sentence in the abyss, a la Edmonton.

My mind races with thoughts of the Sabres coming out with fire in their veins. Eichel or Kane with a hatty. But as game time approaches, I start to come back down to earth and the visions turn to a late night turn in with the Mrs. After downing a half bottle of Daniels with a 12 pack limp noodle experience. Something I can't remember, but she does, much like most Sabres Game nights recently.

Which won't fetch him a significant raise due to the Sabres cap situation, which is why you'd want to on the leaders board since the team is crap

Larry Quinn 2.0?

I'll watch, I'll bitch and moan, I'll even chime in on the GDT. For today is a day I wait for every year. Its our annual family outing to get our Christmas tree. And in true Griswold fashion, I'm eyeing the neighbors 8' cedar 3 houses down :) Time to put a new blade on the bow saw, get my ninja outfit together and plan my route across the backyards.......

I'm pretty baffled as well. Confidence maybe? I just don't understand or cannot comprehend how dam near every player on the roster has lost their competitive hunger and drive. I'm actually starting to run the "aliens abducted the team" scenarios through my head.

I'm looking at Housley more and more as the cancer. This team has front end talent. Hell, we had the #1 power play last season. Fire that piece of already!

What a show. And your right, a lot more patience as we suffer. I'm taking my brother to the Carolina game on the 15th. Maybe they'll score a goal then

WTF is wrong with this team in its own end. They always look like a monkey a football.

The Sabres are what they are. A team in the middle of a complete roster tear down and rebuild. 6 years, That's what it'll take, we are currently in year 3.

Your going to be disappointed when Kane is traded.

A late first is as equally a scrap shoot as a late second to me. Sprong is the target, we need scorers.

Kane 50% retained and Baptiste for conditional 2018 2nd (condition being making the ECF, If they don't it reverts to the first of their two 4th rdrs), Cole and Sprong. That is a fair deal right there given they are going for a 3-peat.

Sprong

Good game so far. A lot of action. Hoping Housely carries the positivity in to the post game presser......

Not as bad as I thought it would be. Hope Risto is ok. The 3rd should be entertaining.

Bots is doing it right imo. Developing talent in the system. A few of these contracts are g9ne next season, and I would argue, a couple of RFA's are not going to see next season as well. I surmise up to as many as 5 roster spots possibly being available. The goal for the remainder of the season is most likely to gauge where the young are at and how they plan to shape the team going forward. There are some intriguing personnel both in the system as well as the roster. For example, Girgensons and Larsson. What is their future with the organization? CJ Smith surely has caught at least the attention of the organization given his play in Rochester. What of Bailey, Baptiste and Fasching? They are approaching a time frame where decisions will have to be made. Bots has a plate full with this organization as of now imo.

E-Rod is an NHL player imo.

Sitting here in a tree stand, I'd like a win. I may go in to town to watch this one tonight, if u don't get a deer.