Iron Crotch

I like the Hoff - Risto defensive pairing (if that is what they actually go with tonight).

No Ville? Then I predict we get a rare "W" in this game. ;) ...although I don't think Hackett can hack it.

Cap is expected to be $71 million (might not be) so floor would be around $51 million give or take. Run the numbers yourself on CapGeek. The current collection of craptastic players doesn't get us to the cap floor largely because most of our RFA/UFA/prospect guys (Pysyk, Larsson, Risto, Conacher, Deslauriers, Rudy, D'Agostini, Konopka, Scott, Sulzer) don't make anything and certainly aren't worthy of monster raises. The only ones that do make or will make more than $1.6 million are Ennis, Tallinder, Foligno (assuming he gets a healthy raise), and McBain. BTW - the thought of keeping many of the above guys around next year makes me cringe. :bag: ...I really hope Murray works some magic this off-season!

...More like 1000 years of darkness. :devil:

Shots on goal.... 14?! ...Jesus.

For a "scoring line" guy, I'm thinking maybe he should actually score once in a while... although I guess you could say that about 3/4 of this roster.

Yep. With Butler.

Jesus.

Without Ville, and assuming a compliance buyout on him, we start with the following 13 guys under contract for $31.932 million: 2 goalies: Enroth & Neuvirth 3 d-men: Myers, Hoff, Weber 7 forwards: CoHo, Stewart, Mitchell, Stafford, Girgs, Flynn, Ellis Rochester guys who may be ready: Pysyk, Larsson, Risto RFAs: Conacher (?), Deslauriers (re-sign), Ennis (re-sign), Foligno (re-sign), McBain (?), Rudy (?) UFAs: D'Agostini (?), Konopka (re-sign), Scott (re-sign), Sulzer (?), Tallinder (re-sign) There is pretty much no combination of the above guys that gets the team to the cap floor, assuming everyone gets a "reasonable" raise (e.g., throwing $2.8 mil. at Foligno is not a "reasonable" raise IMHO). Most here think we'll sign some UFAs, but I wonder if Murray doesn't orchestrate a trade or two in the off-season?

D'Agostini! I agree that you can't keep arguably the worst player in the league on your roster at a ridiculously high $4.5 million per year simply to hit the cap floor. That doesn't do anyone any good (coaches, fans, other players, etc.).

:pirate: Arrrrrrr.

You gotta nurture the balls. Water them and give them love. B-)

0 goals through 49 games! That is hard to do unless you're pretty much never around the net. Some Sabres who have more goals than Ville this year: Nikita Zadorov, John Scott, Luke Adam, Rasmus Ristolainen, Phil Varone, CodyMac, Pysyk, Grigorenko, Tallinder, Matt Ellis, ....

Yeah. I think physically it is obvious that Risto is an NHL defenseman. He is big and fast and has pretty good instincts. He just needs experience. Rudy on the other hand I think is a little bit physically overmatched. He can get overpowered by bigger forwards. Usually little defenseman either need a bulldog mentality or they need to be purely offensive guys (e.g. Ellis down in Nashville). I'm not too sure about Rudy's long term future with this team.

We don't even look like an NHL team.

I don't want to sound like a ###### or anything... but I'd really like to make love to him. (obscure movie reference)

Twisted, knot-like McBain...

I think I saw some Vanek face.

Goal by Rudy...

Oh, for Christ's sake... :huh:

Canadian team = good goal ...if it was Buffalo, that'd be called back. :P

Uh oh... might have kicked it in?