Montour Injured

[WildCard]

 

[sabills]

cool. cool cool cool.

[Taro T]

Awesome.  With no healthy D-men heading into TC, good luck trading for a 2C.  ?

[In The Buff]

So far this offseason is looking great lol

[Zamboni]

Meh ... it’s nothing (level of injury) until it’s something. 

[Brawndo]

Great Carolina makes the ECF and Sabres D Men start dropping like flies 

Edited May 13, 2019 by Brawndo

[Neo]

3 minutes ago, Brawndo said:

Great Carolina makes the ECF and Sabres D Men start dropping like flies 

Deja .. Rue!

[Stoner]

To quite a fine, not so young man: What did we do wrong?

[Weave]

58 minutes ago, PASabreFan said:

To quite a fine, not so young man: What did we do wrong?

Buffalo.

[Doohicksie]

16 hours ago, Brawndo said:

Great Carolina makes the ECF and Sabres D Men start dropping like flies 

They're losing D-men too.

[Gatorman0519]

I’m not a fan of risking our players in these meaningless tournaments.  Use prospects or something.  

[dudacek]

These tournaments might be meaningless to you, but they are not meaningless.

[Tondas]

2 hours ago, Gatorman0519 said:

I’m not a fan of risking our players in these meaningless tournaments.  Use prospects or something.  

100% agree.  These tournaments are entertaining but if I were a player like Jack, I would decline to go.  Jack makes $10 million a year to play for the Sabres.  He is set for life, as will be his kids and grand kids.  His first loyalty is to the Sabres and the Pegulas.  If he goes to the tournament and gets another high ankle sprain (or worse) and misses a few months of the regular season, and the Sabres miss the playoffs AGAIN, what is the justification?  I'm surprised that there is not some clause in his contracts that prohibits his participating in tournaments like this.  Most contracts prohibit dangerous activities (e.g. motorcycles, skydiving), why not this?  I know I'm in the minority here, but if I owned the Sabres, it would be negligent of me not to protect my most expensive asset as best as I could. 

Edited May 14, 2019 by Tondas

[IKnowPhysics]

https://www.tsn.ca/hockey-canada/video/canada-optimistic-about-fabbro-montour-could-be-in-jeopardy~1682838

TSN: Montour has a lower body injury, may not be ready for the next Team Canada game.

[Zamboni]

Yep. No big deal. Dinged up. Likely sits a game. Then most likely plays the next. 

[PerreaultForever]

Relax this is nothing. 

[Taro T]

4 hours ago, Tondas said:

100% agree.  These tournaments are entertaining but if I were a player like Jack, I would decline to go.  Jack makes $10 million a year to play for the Sabres.  He is set for life, as will be his kids and grand kids.  His first loyalty is to the Sabres and the Pegulas.  If he goes to the tournament and gets another high ankle sprain (or worse) and misses a few months of the regular season, and the Sabres miss the playoffs AGAIN, what is the justification?  I'm surprised that there is not some clause in his contracts that prohibits his participating in tournaments like this.  Most contracts prohibit dangerous activities (e.g. motorcycles, skydiving), why not this?  I know I'm in the minority here, but if I owned the Sabres, it would be negligent of me not to protect my most expensive asset as best as I could. 

You'll never get the NHL to stop allowing their players to play for their countries when their immediate obligations (read their team is out of the playoffs) to their NHL team is done.

 

[Brawndo]

 

[Tondas]

4 hours ago, Taro T said:

You'll never get the NHL to stop allowing their players to play for their countries when their immediate obligations (read their team is out of the playoffs) to their NHL team is done.

 

I put this on the player, not the NHL.  If Pegula pays me millions, I owe it to him to be able to play for the Sabres and not get injured in a summer tournament.

[Thorner]

2 hours ago, Brawndo said:

 

Well, that's not good. 

Hopefully it's more of a "few weeks" type deal than "a few months" like the 3 other injured players. 

[Formerly Allan in MD]

If I owned a professional sports franchise I'd have a big problem with all star games and tournaments and an even bigger problem knowing there's not much you can do about keeping your players out of them.

[Zamboni]

5 hours ago, Brawndo said:

 

Well, that turned out to be more significant then I expected. Yikes. Hopefully a sprain or something semi-minor.

[#freejame]

I’m not usually this kind of guy but as a veteran it means a lot to me seeing the best of the nation wanting to support their country. We all play our part in creating the best country possible, even if it is just a hockey tournament 

[Thorner]

 

[Drunkard]

16 hours ago, Thorny said:

 

Do people still want to trade Ristolainen even though that could lead to opening the season with Jake McCabe on his off hand or Casey Nelson on the top pair? I'm sure GMJB would get like 4 middling pieces for Ristolainen including a mediocre center, some cap dumps, and a conditional first round pick that might suit up for the Sabres by the time Eichel is 30.