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Oh, c'mon. When has THAT ever happened? Wait. Nevermind .....

Pay me over $7M per year for the next 7 years to play a game I love with guys I love being with every day? Sign me the F up right now. Part of this is the culture that KA is building, much like the Bills have. Guys just need to feel they'll be contending soon. WRT Cozens, KA may have gotten himself into an inadvertent pickle here. How does he tell DC's agent he can only pay DC $1M per year less than he's asking while being at the salary floor by having to pay a guy almost that much (>$1M) to NOT play for the team?

I drove in for the game Friday night. First live one in 6 years. Always have an appreciation of how things look live vs. on television. One of the things that absolutely jumped out at me was how quickly JJP gets up to full speed. Like in two strides. I'm curious if that's consistent with what you guys in ROC saw last year. That line will become special. If DG ever beaks them up (other than for injury) I'm driving back to Buffalo with baseball bat in hand.

I'm just now scrolling through the game day thread. Prescient. Great call @Gatorman0519!

I remain convinced that if Butler hadn't blown out his knee he would be in the Hall of Fame today. He was that dynamic.

I hear everyone say it's important for the Bills to get the #1 seed so they can have home field throughout the playoffs. While important I think that's the third on the list of reasons. The top reason, IMPO. is that the Bills desperately need the only bye to (1) get healed up a bit more, and (2) try to get the offence back in early-season synch. I'm being a bit more presumptuous on the second reason. I feel the clear top 3 teams are Bills, Chiefs and Bengals. A small gap after that. The #1 seed would only need to beat one of the #2 or #3 to get to the Super Bowl. The #2 or #3 seed would need to beat the other AND the #1 seed. Again, that assumes the wild card round is chalk. Then #3, playing in Orchard Park. The Bills will need to win out because I don't see the Chiefs losing any of their last four.

I wonder if the video clip of Tage breaking that guy with his slap shot a few games back made the rounds within the league. Seems no one has tried to block one of his shots since. Self preservation is a mighty influence on one's decision making, I suppose.

I put my comment in the wrong place so let me try again .... So, based on their ages this will still be an appropriate comparison to make next year as well. 👍

So this begs the question: If Risto was traded for nothing at all (I suppose technically it then wouldn't be considered a trade) would the Sabres still have won the trade?

This is pretty interesting. Three or four high-end forward prospects pushing for jobs soon on a Sabres roster that has no JAGS to replace. What a huge leap from just a couple years ago. Now if we can just get that quantity and quality of talent in the D corps.

Any story/post that starts with 'So I'm at the urinal ... ' just has to be a good one.

Damn, I was all excited to see topless girls with shovels and brooms on the ice during breaks. Since its NOT on Playboy TV I suppose I'll just have to settle for watching ads for EV Tires and Post Malone hawking Jagermeister another 40 or 50 times tonight.

As a fan, if a Sabres player wearing a letter acted like that I'd be disgusted. Not sure how teammates would feel about it.

Oh, and by the way, Happy Anniversary Jack Eichel Trade.

For me, yes. I only wish they could have gone through this upcoming portion of their schedule with at least 2 of the 3 injured D healthy and back in the lineup. Three out against those first four teams is going to be tough to overcome ... and it makes for a difficult evaluation.

It appears many are discounting the first 10 games because of events of the past. And that's understandable given collapses - one in spectacular fashion - after recent hot starts. But this is obviously a very different team than those previous ones. And any of the players on this team who also were part of those past teams are at different points of their careers/development and under vastly different circumstances. There was a poll about six weeks ago (can't recall who did it) where we voted on ranges of season-end point total projections for the Sabres. It would be interesting to see how these 10 games would change our responses if the poll was re-done now. This would defuse some of the 'how'd this work out the last three times' and also not have to answer the question 'where is there?'.

Is this an indication he may be ready to go tomorrow night?

When I come up behind a 'left lane clogger' I will give them ample time to move over. Then I'll pass them on the right. But what amazes me is that after three or four more drivers do the same, shouldn't the pokey driver be thinking 'maybe I should get out of the left lane?'. Completely unaware of their surroundings.

And the reaction of his teammates upon his arrival at the bench was fantastic. These guys are tight.

Keep up he good work ..... 👍

So, how about Asplund? (Sorry to derail the thread).

Yep, that sucked. Northeastern was playing on ESPN+ at 7 on Saturday followed by the Sabres at 10. Perfect. Missed the very beginning of the NU game and was like, "who IS THAT in net?". Then I saw another goalie on the bench not named Levi. WTF happened? Then the foolishly over-optimistic Sabres fan in me was wondering if he had been put on a plane to Vancouver and I missed the news. 😆 (Call it bourbon brain).

How much of this surge in Dahlin's game be traced back to his switching sides and being paired with Muel mid-season last year?

" ..... an unusually high number of right shot defencemen ..." 👍 It's going to be fun to see what the scouting and analytics team can find with those three second round picks.