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- Sabretooth9

Instant diarrhea yet worth it

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Olive ........ garden
- Sabretooth9

The breadsticks stink now

Instant diarrhea yet worth it
- Stripes77

Ironically, what this board has become.....

Is there a way for neither team to win the cup tonight?

I have a great disdain for the Bruins, and I'm not sure I want another first time cup winner before the Sabres.

The comments of how gutsy the Bruins are, or how good O'Reilly is, does little to excite me to see how it ends. I'll still watch, but with bated breath.

Pachla is really enjoying his sigh of relief

Is there a way for neither team to win the cup tonight?

I have a great disdain for the Bruins, and I'm not sure I want another first time cup winner before the Sabres.

The comments of how gutsy the Bruins are, or how good O'Reilly is, does little to excite me to see how it ends. I'll still watch, but with bated breath.
- thatsapickle

So you’re saying Ror is overrated?

Ironically, what this board has become.....
- ImThatGuy

- homiedclown

Thread killer

I think we should look to Calgary to make a trade. They are looking to move Hamonic or Brody. Both RD with one year remaining. They have Neal who has underperformed and has a cap hit and term similar to KO. A fresh start for both could be good and Botts would know Neal pretty well from his time in Pittsburgh.
Bennett never really performed up to the level expected at his draft position and could benefit from a change of scenery as well.
Nylander is from Calgary and his dad played for the Flames I believe.
I would think something like:
Neal, Bennett, Hamonic and Mark Jankowski
for
Okposo, Nylander, Scandella and 30/31

Would be a very big trade, but I don't see either team being fleeced and it could help all the players involved.
Neal/Okposo = wash
Hamonic/ Scandella = slight edge to buffalo, but Calgary has too many RD and need LD. Both on last year of contract
Nylander and 30/31 for Bennett and Jankowski = this would ultimately depend on how each team views each player involved

Thoughts?

If it happens then we would probably all find out at the same time. It’s not someone I have to see often. He knows I am a STH and when he asked if I was going to renew I told him that I wasn’t sure. He then told me what he was told by someone close to him in .Org when asked if he was going to renew. Who knows!
- soljor09

Care to share the details.
Rumors are fun

No I don't. It's the NHL. Just cause GMs hold a position of power does not mean they're smart. Same league thinks Gudbranson is good.
- Sabresfan-365

https://twitter.com/Accou...tatus/1138847262975635458

Bumpity Bump Bump.

How many pages do you think we can get to ?

No.

Pretend ntcs don't exist:

Okposo, Nylander, STL 2021 2nd, Girgensons rights

For

Gaborik and Duclair
- jcragcrumple

Okposo/ Scandella, 30/31 to the Sens for Tierney

I think we should look to Calgary to make a trade. They are looking to move Hamonic or Brody. Both RD with one year remaining. They have Neal who has underperformed and has a cap hit and term similar to KO. A fresh start for both could be good and Botts would know Neal pretty well from his time in Pittsburgh.
Bennett never really performed up to the level expected at his draft position and could benefit from a change of scenery as well.
Nylander is from Calgary and his dad played for the Flames I believe.
I would think something like:
Neal, Bennett, Hamonic and Mark Jankowski
for
Okposo, Nylander, Scandella and 30/31

Would be a very big trade, but I don't see either team being fleeced and it could help all the players involved.
Neal/Okposo = wash
Hamonic/ Scandella = slight edge to buffalo, but Calgary has too many RD and need LD. Both on last year of contract
Nylander and 30/31 for Bennett and Jankowski = this would ultimately depend on how each team views each player involved

Thoughts?
- adambuffalo

I'm not sure Calgary would do the last portion, but maybe.
Would Hamonic start female doging about being in eastern US again?
They could slot him next to Dahlin to see what happens fit wise, and would then address the issue with Montour and Bogo missing games early in the season.
Depends on what Bennett wants contract wise, although as a RFA I guess they can control it better.
Jankowski is interesting.

Overall not bad iMO

I want to change the topic.

The major conversation in the NBA right now (other than Kevin Durant might miss an entire year of basketball) is "load management", especially after Kawhi Leonard coming out and saying that the reason he is so effective this year is that he took 22 games off. NBA superstars taking nights off isn't exactly old news, but with Leonard's comments and the suggestion that load management could have prevented, or at least lessened the likelihood of Kevin Durant's injury, it's almost a given the league is going to see it become more and more popular. It seems analytics are starting to back the theory that this is a good idea in the long term.

Do you think we start to see this in the NHL? Their season is just as long (82 games, plus 4 rounds of playoffs if you get that far). If the analytics suggest, for instance, that sitting Jack Eichel for 10 games during the year, leads to more production in the remaining 72, would fans be able to stomach it? If the league won't sit players due to financial reasons (i.e. "fans pay too much good money for tickets"), do you think we start to see stricter "pitch counts" when it comes to number of shifts or minutes played during games? The league already does this with goaltenders.

Obviously, there are pros and cons. The pros are obviously that your top players are fresher in a greater number of games, increasing your likelihood of winning those games. There is also, in theory, a lesser chance of injury, significant or otherwise. The cons are that there could be fan uproar, which the NHL can't afford as much of as, say, the NBA can (attendance, TV ratings, etc.). It would also cause a dramatic shift in hockey culture. Hockey fans love to talk about how much tougher the players are in their sport compared to others, and how they play through injury more than any other sport (i.e. Chara with the broken jaw). This would hurt that argument more than a little bit.
- buffalofan19

I have been tooting this horn for years. The nhl should be 70/72 games, with more time off between games and to recover from injury scoring wouldnt take a dip imo

How many pages do you think we can get to ?
- kritter65

Methinks we would have to double it to get even close to breaking our record

I have been tooting this horn for years. The nhl should be 70/72 games, with more time off between games and to recover from injury scoring wouldnt take a dip imo
- BeadyEyedDouche

Revenue would though, which makes it a pointless conversation.

Methinks we would have to double it to get even close to breaking our record
- cabin

Agreed

We don't have the traffic we used to

https://twitter.com/Account4hockey/status/1138847262975635458

Bumpity Bump Bump.
- Sabresfan-365

Stupid gona stupid.

So you’re saying Ror is overrated?
- washedup20

It's possible that I am saying this.

It's also possible that I am not saying this.

Who's to say?

I don't even play a doctor on TV so my credibility is shot.

Agreed

We don't have the traffic we used to
- Stripes77

1 - Off season,

B- team has been hot extremely foul smelling stinky puke worthy, toxic garbage for 10 years.

Agreed

We don't have the traffic we used to
- Stripes77

I miss some of the old posters. I, surprisingly, also miss being able to pop in regularly. Even though I want to gouge my eyes out most times that I read through.

It's possible that I am saying this.

It's also possible that I am not saying this.

Who's to say?

I don't even play a doctor on TV so my credibility is shot.
- thatsapickle

I stayed at a holiday inn express last night.

Revenue would though, which makes it a pointless conversation.
- adambuffalo

Many NBA teams sit their stars for multiple games at a time. Neither league will reduce the number of games, so I think resting players will be the trend.

Hindsight is 20/20, here, but given the multitude of games the Sabres lost anyway, especially after the turn of the calendar year, how many more wins might the Sabres have got with a fresher Eichel, Dahlin, even Reinhart, Skinner and/or Ristolainen? Perhaps sitting those players (not all at the same time, obviously) for a game or two every few weeks would actually improve the team's position in the standings.