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SabresFaninIndiana
Buffalo Sabres
Location: Bananaville, IN
Joined: 12.16.2009

Aug 20 @ 8:50 AM ET
How do they keep a cap compliant roster if they trade the three above at the trade deadline? By taking cap dumps back as part of the trades?
- kingcong39

they must be because other than miller those are unrealistic returns
ImThatGuy
Buffalo Sabres
Location: I AM MY OWN DAMN SOURCE!, NY
Joined: 11.04.2010

Aug 20 @ 8:50 AM ET
One more year of RJ, per, uh, RJ.
- Powerslave


Is it bad that I cant stand listening to him anymore?
buffalofan19
Buffalo Sabres
Location: Wonderful things can happen when you sow seeds of distrust in a garden full of (bum)holes
Joined: 07.01.2007

Aug 20 @ 8:52 AM ET
Is it bad that I cant stand listening to him anymore?
- ImThatGuy


No.

Just like Bob Cole, he's going to retire a decade too late. Can't really blame the guy, though. It's all he knows.
homiedclown
Buffalo Sabres
Location: We want 1, FL
Joined: 02.24.2008

Aug 20 @ 8:53 AM ET
Is it bad that I cant stand listening to him anymore?
- ImThatGuy

it's almost beyond sad

SabresFaninIndiana
Buffalo Sabres
Location: Bananaville, IN
Joined: 12.16.2009

Aug 20 @ 8:54 AM ET
it's almost beyond sad
- homiedclown

if he wasn't such a legend they would have fired him..
ImThatGuy
Buffalo Sabres
Location: I AM MY OWN DAMN SOURCE!, NY
Joined: 11.04.2010

Aug 20 @ 8:55 AM ET
SO where does AZ play on in the west next year?

Houston
Salt Lake
Portland
Milwaukee


Those are my 4 guesses.
homiedclown
Buffalo Sabres
Location: We want 1, FL
Joined: 02.24.2008

Aug 20 @ 8:56 AM ET
No.

Just like Bob Cole, he's going to retire a decade too late. Can't really blame the guy, though. It's all he knows.

- buffalofan19

he has to have a few mil in the bank, right?

79 years old

enjoy the rest of your life

do not hire Dan Dunleavy full time, he sucks


ImThatGuy
Buffalo Sabres
Location: I AM MY OWN DAMN SOURCE!, NY
Joined: 11.04.2010

Aug 20 @ 8:57 AM ET
it's almost beyond sad
- homiedclown

Most of the time he cant keep up with the play anymore.
Stumbling over words, players names are wrong constantly.
Powerslave
Buffalo Sabres
Location: Arriving Somewhere But Not Here
Joined: 02.10.2011

Aug 20 @ 8:57 AM ET
SO where does AZ play on in the west next year?

Houston
Salt Lake
Portland
Milwaukee


Those are my 4 guesses.

- ImThatGuy



KC?
homiedclown
Buffalo Sabres
Location: We want 1, FL
Joined: 02.24.2008

Aug 20 @ 8:57 AM ET
if he wasn't such a legend they would have fired him..
- SabresFaninIndiana

his calls in the 70's and 80's were unreal on the radio
SabresFaninIndiana
Buffalo Sabres
Location: Bananaville, IN
Joined: 12.16.2009

Aug 20 @ 8:57 AM ET
SO where does AZ play on in the west next year?

Houston
Salt Lake
Portland
Milwaukee


Those are my 4 guesses.

- ImThatGuy

KC might get a shot at it too..
homiedclown
Buffalo Sabres
Location: We want 1, FL
Joined: 02.24.2008

Aug 20 @ 8:58 AM ET
SO where does AZ play on in the west next year?

Houston
Salt Lake
Portland
Milwaukee


Those are my 4 guesses.

- ImThatGuy

KC
San Antonio
Oklahoma City
Lockport
SabresFaninIndiana
Buffalo Sabres
Location: Bananaville, IN
Joined: 12.16.2009

Aug 20 @ 8:58 AM ET
his calls in the 70's and 80's were unreal on the radio
- homiedclown

im too young to remember those.. but i enjoyed him in the 90s and early 00s
SabresFaninIndiana
Buffalo Sabres
Location: Bananaville, IN
Joined: 12.16.2009

Aug 20 @ 8:59 AM ET
KC
San Antonio
Oklahoma City
Lockport

- homiedclown

they can have a team of Larrys
buffalofan19
Buffalo Sabres
Location: Wonderful things can happen when you sow seeds of distrust in a garden full of (bum)holes
Joined: 07.01.2007

Aug 20 @ 8:59 AM ET
I had a debate with someone here about Roy

His peak prime wasn’t as long as some guys but for a stretch he was a legit mid tier/low end 1C.

I’d take Eichel in a heartbeat but they did have two legit top 6 centers when Briere/Drury left

- sbroads24


Very low-end.

They were both second line centers. Both had issues off the ice as well. Connolly couldn't stay healthy. Roy did for the most part, except for the 3+ month stretch in 2010-2011. When your team plays its best stretch of hockey by a mile when you're not in the lineup, you're not underrated. Derek Roy probably gets more credit than he deserves, which isn't that much.
sbroads24
Buffalo Sabres
Location: We are in 30th place. It's 2017 , NY
Joined: 02.12.2012

Aug 20 @ 9:00 AM ET
He and the Tinman are both what if guys.

They both stay healthy and this organization is in a different spot.

- dadeadhead


Yep. It's sad.

the famous Darcy quote was never really far off, at all
buffalofan19
Buffalo Sabres
Location: Wonderful things can happen when you sow seeds of distrust in a garden full of (bum)holes
Joined: 07.01.2007

Aug 20 @ 9:00 AM ET
SO where does AZ play on in the west next year?

Houston
Salt Lake
Portland
Milwaukee


Those are my 4 guesses.

- ImThatGuy


Lake Tahoe...outdoors.
SabresFaninIndiana
Buffalo Sabres
Location: Bananaville, IN
Joined: 12.16.2009

Aug 20 @ 9:01 AM ET
Very low-end.

They were both second line centers. Both had issues off the ice as well. Connolly couldn't stay healthy. Roy did for the most part, except for the 3+ month stretch in 2010-2011. When your team plays its best stretch of hockey by a mile when you're not in the lineup, you're not underrated. Derek Roy probably gets more credit than he deserves, which isn't that much.

- buffalofan19

what are you talking about we had two top 20 centers in the league those years..
sbroads24
Buffalo Sabres
Location: We are in 30th place. It's 2017 , NY
Joined: 02.12.2012

Aug 20 @ 9:03 AM ET
Very low-end.

They were both second line centers. Both had issues off the ice as well. Connolly couldn't stay healthy. Roy did for the most part, except for the 3+ month stretch in 2010-2011. When your team plays its best stretch of hockey by a mile when you're not in the lineup, you're not underrated. Derek Roy probably gets more credit than he deserves, which isn't that much.

- buffalofan19

Eh, small sample sizes can always be misleading.

If I had to guess, the Sabres got their best stretch of goaltending during that time frame.

Both were better players than Drury, the one who deservedly should be labeled as "over rated".
hehateme
Buffalo Sabres
Joined: 04.11.2017

Aug 20 @ 9:11 AM ET
Is it bad that I cant stand listening to him anymore?
- ImThatGuy



No its not bad, I said the same thing. Its sad, very sad.. I NEVER listened to the cable broadcast, always RJ on the radio until he started doing both.

That man is truly the GOAT...
washedup20
Location: the little apple
Joined: 08.19.2014

Aug 20 @ 9:11 AM ET
How do they keep a cap compliant roster if they trade the three above at the trade deadline? By taking cap dumps back as part of the trades?
- kingcong39



Yes no more than 2 years remaining on dumpster contracts
MaximumBone
Edmonton Oilers
Joined: 06.15.2012

Aug 20 @ 9:14 AM ET
Colin Miller is still trash.

Love me some Jokiharju, though
hehateme
Buffalo Sabres
Joined: 04.11.2017

Aug 20 @ 9:14 AM ET
his calls in the 70's and 80's were unreal on the radio
- homiedclown


I remember in the late 70's hiding my little Radio under my pillow hiding from my parent so I could listen to RJ's calls of the game. Especially when it was a western road swing. I used to always get busted because I would cheer when we scored or when fights started. I was a stoopid kid....
Sabretooth9
Buffalo Sabres
Joined: 05.24.2019

Aug 20 @ 9:17 AM ET
he has to have a few mil in the bank, right?

79 years old

enjoy the rest of your life

do not hire Dan Dunleavy full time, he sucks

- homiedclown



Dan and rob ray together are like dumb and dumber. SOOOOO BAD
buffalofan19
Buffalo Sabres
Location: Wonderful things can happen when you sow seeds of distrust in a garden full of (bum)holes
Joined: 07.01.2007

Aug 20 @ 9:19 AM ET
Eh, small sample sizes can always be misleading.

If I had to guess, the Sabres got their best stretch of goaltending during that time frame.

Both were better players than Drury, the one who deservedly should be labeled as "over rated".

- sbroads24


That might be. I believe the Enroth stretch in March was part of it. However, there aren't too many teams that lose their supposed top center and all of a sudden become a better team, goaltending or no. The Sabres are one of them.
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