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See, that's why I put them ahead of Ottawa. Their additions are here now, not developing for the future. I kind of expect them to peak now and either plateau or kind of slip, as they don't have the high end talent pushing up from below to the same extent the Sabres do. Still, the Sabres seem to have the Red Wings number the last couple years.

The Matt Ellis of birthday greetings: Happy Birthday, Matt!

The future's so bright, Tage has to wear shades. He'll shatter the 50 goal/100 point mark.

I'm gonna say he seizes his opportunity to show off what he is capable of, gets traded for a handsome return at the deadline and earns a decent deal with another team in free agency. He will be the poster boy for Donny's shift from all offense, all the time, to playing responsible 2-way hockey.

Great, an additional 4 games where unplugged people will be complaining about not being able to watch through their normal means.

Well he *did* say Detroit is ahead of us in their rebuild but their peak will not be as high as Buffalo's. At least that's the way I see what @mjd1001 said.

...and that's what Kevyn has done over the summer in Erik Johnson and Connor Clifton.

So what's his impression of Levi? The real deal, or a real risk?

I was unplugged from the NHL for virtually all of the 1980s, and when I came back in the 90s I was living in Detroit and followed the Wings because I could. It wasn't until I moved back to Texas in 1997 and finally got Center Ice to follow the Wings and started back in with Sabres then. But even then, when the Sabres went to the Cup finals in 1999 I was more familiar with the Wings players than the Sabres.

He's gonna have a breakout year like Quinn did last year.

Not obtuse, just summarizing the tweet from the Sabres themselves. I will be taking no further questions on the subject.

Agree, but I'm not changing the title. It was based on the tweet.

It's a summarized paraphrase of the original Sabres tweet so, no. Tweet language: The Buffalo Sabres have announced that Terry Pegula has been named Sabres president. I wrote: Terry Pegula named Sabres President Tweet language: Pegula Sports & Entertainment will be separating resources between the Buffalo Bills and Buffalo Sabres, allowing each respective organization to focus singularly on their efforts. I wrote: PSE separating Bills and Sabres

I had a pretty pronounced reaction to my last wasp sting. My hand swelled up quite a bit and it started to go up my wrist. if it would have gone much further I would have gone to ER but then it slowed down and eventually receded.

It appears to me that this is the fundamental difference between Kevyn and the previous GMs: Terry trusts Kevyn and doesn't overrule him. I think Kevyn followed Pegula/Krueger's direction the first year he was here and when that failed he had the plan to recover and Terry told him to run with it. I think he knows how to communicate with the Pegulas to get their concurrence and retain their support, a talent the previous GMs either didn't have or didn't bother to employ.

And vote of confidence, real or implied, you have for the Pegulas flummoxes me.

That's press release speak. In the end, both Roth and Adams are empowered executives. I think Terry trusts them both (which was not the case with previous GMs), which actually makes his involvement less impactful. I think he's learning to not be meddlesome, or at least trying.

Whhhaaaaaattt?

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Same direction he's always gone, and John Roth goes where Kim used to go.

Meh. Can't fight City Hall

He will score 50 goals.

At the NHL level I expect nothing from Savoie. His time will come but it's not here yet.