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Not sure what to make of this

Per Sabres

Along with Kyle Crisculo

Johnson starting tomorrow per WGR. After two good wins in a row, Lehner throws up a clunker and Johnson gets the return nod.

Is Lehner on the way out? I think yes.

Does Ullmark get a look before seasons end? I hope so.

Is Johnson back next year? He lost basically every game he started until January. I'm not sure I put much stock in his recent success.

Let's talk goalies.

Preliminary Prospect Rankings are now coming out.  

Craig Button released his yesterday:

http://www.tsn.ca/craig-s-list-defenceman-dahlin-leads-draft-class-1.847739

You are seeing more and more Dmen under 6'0 on these lists.

Kids I will be keeping a close eye on this year are:

1) Adam Boqvist - Swedish RHD. Arguably the best player in this years Ivan Hlinka Tournament.  5GP 1G 7A  (lottery pick)

2) Bode Wilde - RHD US National Team Dman who will be attending Harvard this fall. Читать дальше...

How is there not a thread on this yet?

I think there is a thread for this already, but I could not find it.

A good friend and I watched *Tooth Fairy* last evening.

He got it for his kids to watch in 2010.  It was really good, surprisingly enough.  A hockey themed tooth fairy tale.  Two grown men with tears in their eyes at the happy ending.

Spinning off of the hobbies thread, it looks like many of us spend time with a good book (or three). So what are you currently reading?

For work/school:

Just finished CCTV and Policing by Benjamin Goold (2004). A study of how camera center operators make decisions about who to target for surveillance, and how CCTV has affected police work.

In queue I have Theorizing Surveillance: The Panopticon and Beyond and Surveillance Studies: An Overview, both by David Lyon.

For pleasure:

In... Читать дальше...

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What has hurt this team more over the last five years...

Looking at the drafts since 2013 Buffalo has had some misfortunes in the draft by not winning the lottery, but has also missed on several of the players they have taken.

2013-

Rasmus Ristolainen

No real disappointment here as no one else in first round taken after Risto is blowing my socks off.

2014-

Lose lottery and get second pick instead of first. So we don't get the #1 d we need in Ekblad. Читать дальше...

Time for a new one
 

So my QB ranks are as follows
Rosen
Mayfield
Darnold
Jackson
Allen
Rudolph

What's the game plan for the Sabres next season? What expectations for the 2018/19 season do you have? Can they become a playoff team or are we still "a couple of years away"?

Kevin Porter named Rochester Captain. 

Rochester Americans‏Verified account @AmerksHockey  28m28 minutes ago

More

WATCH | HC Chris Taylor announces captain and assistant captains for the upcoming 2017-18 season.

I mentioned I was in the Queen City yesterday. Did I see a picture of Cellino of Cellino and Barnes on a Cellino Plumbing truck? Twin? Side gig?

Let's see if we can give this thread a long run. Post up what you are consuming, restaurant, homemade, just something you are really enjoying at the moment, whatever......

It is Saturday afternoon. The wife is not home. And I have no plans. For lunch I just made myself a plate of Yancy's Fancy Bergenost cheese, good pepperoni, and an assortment of crackers. Opened a bottle of Ovila Saison to quench my thirst. Life is good.

How about you?

Well, I think it's safe to declare the inauguration of this hopefully annual event a rousing success; everything from Eichel out-dueling Matthews to Modo coming all the way over from Sweden, that night had it all.