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Currently, yes. Through the draft there are a couple that may be better... Kulich, Östlund, Savoie...

Okay. And I get that he had a good playoff that year. Show me he can do it on the Sabres. And find a 3C. The Sabres have enough defensive depth at this point. Incremental improvement was needed, not a big splash. In making the big splash, they plucked out the heart of the Top Nine forward group.

The way Mittsy's game developed here, it was clear to me he'd be good in the playoffs. He started out a clueless kid but developed into a warrior with good puck sense. Maybe Byram is that guy and he will show it this year, but to my eyes this was Adams' worst trade as Sabres GM.

That's an interesting thought. I'm not sure I agree with it, but it's interesting.

https://www.ventrac.com/solutions/slope You know you want it 😉

Yep, like I said earlier, ....even to the extent that FLA jumped out to the early lead, only to crumble. Sabres City, man.

Designate the sloped portion of your yard a wildflower area and let it be 😉

Meh. I ain't skeered.

5 out of 18 skaters (didn't count the goalies). If you want to count goalies it's 25% Kulikov Montour Reino Okie ERod

This looks like the Sabres playing the Broons.

Yep. I said that upthread.

Actually 28% of the Panthers' skaters are former Sabres... forgot about Kulikov.

22% of the Panthers' skaters are former Sabres.

A lot of people lose the ability to walk because... they don't walk. I can look at my mom, who's done a good job of managing her weight and is still healthy and active and living independently* at 88 years of age, while her younger sister who let her weight get away from her in middle age is in assisted living now and can't move without a walker. My mom has arthritis and peripheral neuropathy, but because she's kept her weight down she can still function. *Independently, but she's got a boy toy of 93 living with her and he still can play 9 holes of golf.

On the food side you and I are doing similar stuff. On the activity side I'm doing mostly bicycle riding and "yardio". Get off my lawn and stuff. I've dropped 25 pounds in just under two months.

If this were accurate, the guy would be 50 lb. heavier and wearing cargo pants and sandals with socks.

For the record: Round 2: East CAR @ NYR BOS @ FLA West COL @ DAL EDM @ VAN (Home teams for Game 1 are the higher seed) So I guess my rooting interests are: Carolina (meh, don't care really, but root for the underdog) Florida (i.e. Sabres South) Colorado (go Mittsy!) Vancouver (Buffalo's expansion partner)

Actually I think the stat was that Afinogenov played more games for Lindy than any other player.

One thing that helps how you (the general you, not any you in particular) feel is weight. I was as heavy as I'd ever been in March and I felt like I was in a death spiral of aches and pains. I thought I was going to have to break down and see a doctor about my knees. I've dropped 25 pounds and the aches and pains have largely evaporated. I've done bigger weight losses in the past and this was true each time. Taking the load off feet, knees, hips and back (particularly losing that offset weight of a big belly) does wonders.

Heck, I'd even go up to $7 mill. The justification would be that with cap increases, later contracts will be smaller percentages of the cap. Maybe $7 million is too much for a 3C but I think Casey is more of a 2C and with Cozy, Mitts and Tage all on the roster as centers a good coach could move them around to get the most out of them as a group (as Donny did in 22-23 when Tage was coming off injury and he let Mitts run the top line and let Tage play 2nd line wing for a while). Aside from the stats, I think the thing that Casey Mittelstadt brings is versatility to play high quality minutes anywhere in the Top Nine, providing depth for your Top Six. My biggest frustration with Kevyn (assuming the reports are true) is that he didn't even contact Mittsy's agent about an extension. It would be one thing if they talked numbers and it was apparent it wasn't going to work out, but apparently Kevyn didn't even attempt to find out what the numbers were. Nor do I; I was more just trying to list players he traded for. I think if we see a prominent piece that Adams acquired via trade moved, it's a sign that Lindy is contributing to roster construction.

I think the first sign that Ruff is driving roster tweaks is when someone like Byram, Tuch or even Krebs gets traded. As was said above, Kevyn gets too attached to his guys and I think doubly so for players he acquired via trade. If Byram is traded for more of a hard-nosed defenseman with Top Four bona fides, that will be a sign that Lindy is calling (or at least influencing) the shots. If $6.25 million x 7 would have signed Mitts, I think you make that deal all day.

I think Mitts will command more than that, but we'll see.

And to be fair, Ralph Intranuovo was drafted at the very end of the fourth round of the 1992 draft.