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He didn't participate yesterday either. He is still at development camp (sabres even had him live on Facebook for a Q&A yesterday), but he just has a minor injury. After what happened with his injury last season (aggravating it and making it worse, which caused him to miss months instead of weeks) I think Buffalo is just being cautious. We don't know when the injury happened either. It could have just happened in the last couple/few days for all we know. Plus, He's not the only prospect being held off the ice with a minor injury.

He is their #1 center prospect, and one of the top 2 prospects in their system (I'd say #1). I wuld say hes roughly around a Casey Mittelstadt level prospect, give or take, so it would be a good get. I would be surprised if they parted with him. Where did you hear these rumors? Is it a reliable source? Man, I would love that Parayko trade. He is exactly who I've been hoping for in a trade with St. Louis, and that's exactly the type of return I'd be looking for in a ROR deal. I would be pretty surprised if they also sent a 1st back with Parayko though. I'd be perfectly happy with Parayko for ROR 1for1... Sobotka wuld be a nice add to help fill ROR's spot this season. I'd d Parayko and Sobotka for ROR and McCabe and d be happy about it. Now that Robert Thomas trade...that needs another piece from the Blues (in my opinion). That trade I would want their 1st, and maybe even another +. Jake Allen isn't much better than a cap dump at this point. He sucks and is signed for 3 more years. If we are taking on Allen and paying ROR his $7.5M lump sum bonus check on top of that... yeah, St. Louis should definitely be adding something else. A trade with St. Louis wouldn't happen until after July 1st IMO. I can't see the Blues owner paying that bonus money a couple days after getting ROR. He's not exactly known as a big spender and has a pretty strict internal cap (from what I've read). With Buffalo paying the bonus money, I think that Parayko deal (even without the 1st) would be a fair trade in my book. After July 1st, ROR is only owed $25M in real dollars over the last 5yrs of his deal. That is dirt cheap for a guy who would pretty much be their #1C (allowing Brayden Schenn to get more favorable o zone starts etc). I know his cap hit is $7.5M, but the Blues are never a Cap ceiling team anyway (iirc). I think/hope the real dollars paid may be more important to their owner (and GM). I just hope Botterill gets a good return on ROR if/when he is traded. That stuff about a 1st and a couple 2nds (or a 1st, 2nd and prospect) scares me. I have no interest in trading ROR for a few draft picks that will likely be in the 20's or later. Those picks have a pretty low percentage of ever turning into as good a player as ROR is. Plus, we don't exactly have a tried and tested scouting dept right now. This was their 1st draft and #1 was a no brained... I haven't seen enough of them yet to know whether or not to have confidence in their ability to turn up a good player in the later 1st and 2nd rounds. And what would a return of all futures like that say to the fans? A ROR trade will tell us a lot about Jason Botterill as a GM. It's not like the Kane deadline deal, where he didn't have any real leverage and only had 1 legit offer from the sound of it. Botterill holds the cards in a ROR trade. There are 5yrs left on his deal, and Buffalo doesn't have anyone to fill his role. They don't Have To trade him this season, or even next. ROR also has a very good reputation around the league. It's not a Kane situation. He has to get a good return for ROR. The Sabres can't afford to absorb any more bad trades.

I do think it's a foregone conclusion that ROR is gone at this point. I am pretty nervous about what the return is going to be though with some of these recent reports. Especially if he's moved before that July 1 bonus. I am trying to prepare myself for an underwhelming return. Hopefully I am pleasantly surprised.

Love seeing such a warm welcome for him everywhere he went. Buffalo making a good 1st impression... (as usual)

Kind of hard to take the list serious when they have a guy like Mike Vrabel ranked at #17, when he's never coached a single NFL game, and was only a coordinator for a single year before getting the head coaching job. That year happened to be 2017, as the Houston Texans defensive coordinator. Not exactly their best year (I know, injuries...). I mean, he's only been coaching since 2011 as a LB and d line coach. They have 4 more rookie head coaches ranked from 24-21 too. How do you possibly even rank a head coach before his first game anyway?

https://www.nhl.com/sabres/video/dahlin-behind-the-scenes/t-277437090/c-60661703

Lol. Yeah I knew damn well it was Dahlin but I still got nervous for a split second. Oh, and then just as the bottom of the screen says "pick is in", that "trade alert" graphic pops up right next to it. I knew it couldn't be a trade for the #1 pick since it was in already, but it still caught me off guard for a brief second. lol. Buffalo fandom....

It's finally official!! Rasmus Dahlin is a Buffalo Sabre. Feels great to type that.

Sadly, neither am I. What a waste of a 1st round pick in an amazingly deep draft. It still pisses me off to think we could have possibly had one of the many very good players still available at that pick... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015_NHL_Entry_Draft That 2015 draft alone could have set Buffalo up for a decade or more. Its its amazing how terrible Tim Murray was looking back in hindsight. He had a blank slate and a giant pile of assets, and Buffalo is not really left with much to show for it. Ok, done venting. Sorry. It's 1 day to Dahlin! Not is not a time to be all mopey about Murray... lol

Good for him. Wish him all the best.

Dahlin started playing defense full time at age 13. He just turned 18 in April... so 5yrs as a full time defenseman. And he's this good already. Amazing. If he's this great after only 5yrs, can you imagine where he will be in another 5? Or 10? It would be quite the understatement to say that I am excited to see this kid develop.

I grabbed a 1 year PS+ subscription on Amazon earlier this year on sale for $39. I don't know if that a regular thing they do or what. May be worth keeping an eye out for if/when your renewal is coming up.

Totally agree. It would only help improve the NFL as a whole. Maybe that new AAF (Alliance of American Football) league that Bill Polian is overseeing will help some of these players develop. I guess Polain is trying to only hire coaches with NFL experience, and I believe one of his goals is to help prepare some of these players for the NFL. Hopefully it'll work out. At the very least it'll give some of these players a platform to be noticed by NFL clubs.

OMG I started dying laughing when he said "This is a special leprechaun flute that has been passed down from thousands of years ago, from my great great grandfather who was Irish"... as he holds up some type of metal pipe/fitting that's clearly not 1000's of years old, or even a flute. I was not expecting that. Good stuff man.

Lol. Made me immediately think of this -

It was actually McNabb and TWO 2nd round picks for Fasching and Deslauriers Well, let's see if Brandon Hickey even signs here first. Hes is a college senior. He can turn UFA on August 15th. He's been traded 3 times now and hasn't even started his NHL career yet, because He has already refused to sign in Calgary (which is why he was traded to Arizona) and in Arizona (which is why he was traded here). No kidding. Just another brutal trade and horrible asset management by Tim Murray. We trade two 2nd round picks and Brayden McNabb, who was just #2 in even strength ice time (among defenseman) for the Stanley Cup runner up, for basically nothing. We have Zac Redmond (career AHL defenseman) to show form that trade at the moment. And maybe Brandon Hickey if he decides to sign here, and possibly another career AHL player (Mike Sislo) if he signs here as a UFA. Where as McNabb would easily be in our top 4 right now. And i get that as far as the two 2nd round picks, the odds of drafting a good NHL player are not all that high. But it's more about what that package could have potentially brought Buffalo. You package two 2nds with a good young defenseman on his ELC, who's coming off an AHL all star appearance (McNabb at the time of trade) and ready to take the next step to the NHL, I have a hard time believing that Buffalo couldn't have used that package of assets for a better player than 4th round pick Hudson Fasching.

I honestly don't understand the hate that some people have for Tyrod.

8 more days until the draft! I Can't wait!

Definitely an intriguing UDFA signing, and one that I'll be following closely. He seems like like a guy worth developing, and I believe he landed in a really good spot to do so, having both McDermott and John Butler (who I think was a fantastic hire). Both have shown an ability to develop CB's and/or make them better. Plus I think he could do well in this scheme. Thr Bills really need some of these UDFA's to work out this year. Fingers crossed on Wallace!

I'm glad things didn't get ugly between him and Buffalo. I wasn't sure how it would go after that "retirement" press conference. Beat of luck in whatever comes next Eric!

Sounds like it's going to be a while yet on Elder Scrolls 6. Its only in pre-production. They still have to release Fallout '76, and then another totally new game called "Starfield", which is still in production and doesn't even have a release date yet. After those games are released they will put their focus on making Elder Scrolls. So from what I understand it is still likely years away. Definitely sucks about Fallout '76. I'm so disappointed. lol Personally, I kind of hope it's a total bust and crappy seller, so that they go back to their normal single player Fallout games. Or for ****'s sake at least make a single player mode for one of the most popular single player games ever!

It's obviously hard to know for sure, but this piece makes it sound like Shady is buying in to this new offense, which is obviously important from your best player (on offense). When he was first hired, I was pumped up for our run game because I thought his blocking scheme fit our o line very well. Now... who knows with this patchwork o line. But I'm still excited about Daboll. Let's be real here, though - Daboll isn't exactly working with a great offense here. I mean really, we have no clue what he has on offense with such HUGE question marks at QB and 4/5ths of the offensive line. Much of his success in year 1 will likely come down to those 2 things. Same with Greg Roman. He had a massive playbook. Wanted to try and confuse the defense. I remember Shady saying that he'd install sometimes 100+ plays on a given week. Anthony Lynn came in and simplified it, with good results. Hopefully the results with Daboll are much better. He seems like a really smart guy, though, and I like a lot of what he says/believes. I hope he can stick around a while. I'd love to see some continuity on that side of the ball. It'd be awesome to actually have the same offenseive and defensive staff for a few years in a row (or longer...) for a change.

Well damn, that blows. I wont even buy it now if that's the case. I have zero interest in playing online (same reason I never bought Elder Scrolls morrowind, even though I love elder scrolls). Very disappointed in Bethesda. I was really looking forward to this game, too. IMO this goes against everything Fallout is. You are taking a great RPG that people have Loved for a decade + and totally changing it. How are you going to force the "lone wanderer" to play with groups of people?

I believe there will be a single player mode too, won't there? At least according to this article (I didn't watch E3 announcement yet). https://www.express.co.uk/entertainment/gaming/972403/Fallout-76-online-Multiplayer-survival-single-player-optional It scares me that so many games are moving toward his online multiplayer though (and some only have online multiplayer, like elder scrolls morrowind (which I haven't even played even though I LOVE elder scrolls)). Like you, I just want to play offline. I don't really have a group of friends who game, and have no interest in trying to find random people to play with. Plus, like you said, there are too many people who just want to torture you. I remember playing 'Watch Dogs' for the first time. I had never played before and wasn't too good at it. Well I had no idea that people could just 'hack' your game and invade it. I kept having the same guy invade my game over and over and over again. I would have to try and search for him and find/kill him before the time was up and he "hacked" me, or got away. Well, even when I'd find him he'd just torture/taunt me. Then he'd lose me and show back up just before the time ran out and he won, just to torture me longer. I could never kill him, he was too good. Well finally after about 3 hours of him invading my game every 15-30 mins, I said screw it and quit playing (then found out you can turn off the in game invasions). But yeah, I just like to do my own thing.

Well spoken kid. I like his attitude, too. Very easy to root for. You can see why people have said that his teammates (supposedly) love him and gravitate towards him. Really hope we finally hit the lotto with this pick. But hey, no matter what at least the Bills are finally playing (the lottery). Can't win if you don't even play!