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00:00Those guys are funny.
00:01Anyway, what is this about?
00:03You're going to make a lineup.
00:04I'm doing it, yeah.
00:06I was pointing out how Josh Doan didn't have a line at this time last year.
00:11I do think...
00:12He does now.
00:14Yeah, you betcha.
00:16I do think it's...
00:18Hang on.
00:19Who's that?
00:19Carrick.
00:20Sorry.
00:21I was trying to write, just so we could do this maybe on the air,
00:27or not have me just write down what I think the lines are going to be.
00:30We can talk out what they should be, what we think they should be.
00:34So I thought I'd start with the centers.
00:36Give me Thompson on the wing.
00:37Right.
00:38So I've got Kulik, Norris, McLeod, and Carrick, I think, are my four centers.
00:44Okay.
00:44Right?
00:45Carrick's got another year on his contract.
00:48So, you know, I assume that that's going to get done.
00:51Let me cross off guys who are gone from last year's list.
00:55Tuck, gone.
00:56Greenway, gone.
00:58Right.
00:58Danforth is still here.
01:00Roseanne is gone.
01:01Wahlberg is gone.
01:02Yep.
01:03Geertsen.
01:04You wrote all those names down?
01:06Yeah.
01:06They were extras.
01:07The four lines here, I'm showing Twitch.
01:10I had the four lines and then the extra forwards.
01:12Okay.
01:15Danforth is still here.
01:17I don't know if he's ever playing again, but he's still here.
01:20The D, let's see, Kesselring is gone.
01:23Bryson is gone.
01:24That's unfortunate.
01:25Zach Jones is, well, he didn't get a qualifying offer.
01:28I assume he's gone.
01:28Ryan Johnson is still around, right?
01:31I didn't know anything about Zach Metza.
01:34He was not on this list last year.
01:37Undrafted.
01:37Yep.
01:38We've got Crevier and Zellweger now.
01:43Yep.
01:43Mm-hmm.
01:44So I'm just trying to get, like, the pool together here so I can do this.
01:48What's the process?
01:49Are you writing it on last year's page or a third page?
01:52I didn't start on the third page yet other than the centers.
01:55Koulik, Norris, McLeod, Carrick.
01:58Do you think, because I might venture a guess, that if Koulik looks like Koulik, he was penciled
02:06in here as their number two center last year.
02:10By you.
02:10By, with Norris on top.
02:12Okay.
02:13I feel like it wouldn't be a huge upset if he shows up and is playing with Benson and
02:19Thompson.
02:19I agree.
02:20No, I would expect it.
02:22So you're okay if I put Benson and Thompson on Koulik's wings?
02:25Yes.
02:26Okay.
02:27And Thompson, of course.
02:28Yeah, right.
02:30Thompson had, you know, it's funny.
02:32They've been all over the road on him, right?
02:34Center, wing, what's he prefer?
02:36Remember Don Granato?
02:37Like, get him away from the walls.
02:38His reach, you're cutting him off.
02:40Yep.
02:41All that.
02:41Back in the league, by the way.
02:42I think you become a contending level team and his defensive shortcomings almost prohibit
02:50you from using him as your number one center.
02:52Like, I don't think you can have him on the ice against, who do you know, Macklin Celebrini.
02:57I think you're just really worried about his defense.
03:00So I think he almost has to be a winger if you're going to be a contending level team.
03:06Or even Caulfield.
03:08Right.
03:08I mean, anybody.
03:10He's just, he's just not, just not that guy.
03:13Norris is a much better 200 foot player.
03:17And I don't know about Koulik's defense at this point, but you know, they talked about
03:21him as someone who was totally up for that job.
03:23So there, there's our top line.
03:25All right.
03:25What do you want to do with Norris's line mates?
03:28Is that, um, is that Quinn and a kid?
03:34Ausland?
03:35Ausland?
03:36What do you think?
03:38I guess Quinn.
03:42I think I, you know, it's funny, like Ausland looks so good in the middle, in those playoff
03:46games when he was playing for Norris, but you already used up those spots.
03:50Yeah.
03:51I think, well, yeah.
03:52Norris is on your team.
03:54He's playing center and he's playing a top six role.
03:57And like, that's the end of that.
03:58Right.
03:59So.
04:00But Krebs won't play center in this lineup.
04:02No.
04:02Either.
04:03No, no, he won't.
04:04No, he won't.
04:05He's still got to get signed.
04:06I think Yarmou was asked about him.
04:09It was hard to hear the questions.
04:10I think even for me, uh, sitting in here, let alone you people out there.
04:15So I, I think Yarmou was asked something and he just gave a sort of a very curt, like,
04:21you know, some things take time.
04:22He's an important player to us.
04:24That was a absolute get in, get out press conference.
04:28I'm pretty sure that was about Krebs.
04:30Um, all right.
04:32So, so you want to put Quinn.
04:36Quinn, where was, you'll have Zucker.
04:38Right.
04:39Wasn't Quinn, McLeod, Zucker really good for a while?
04:43Like they wouldn't break it up.
04:44And then finally they had to, like, I want, I feel like maybe I want to stick, I want to
04:49stick with that.
04:50Okay.
04:50So I'm going to, I'm going to put Quinn and Zucker on McLeod's wings.
04:57That leaves Norris with, let's see.
05:00You have Malenstein too.
05:01Right.
05:02That's, I'm getting to that.
05:03That's a, that's a, that's a fourth line.
05:05Why rush it?
05:06Well, we can do that.
05:07Krebs, assuming Krebs gets signed, I'm putting Krebs on Carrick's left wing and Malenstein
05:13on Carrick's right wing.
05:14And that's that.
05:15So now all we have to decide is which two of the kids, am I leaving someone out?
05:23Helen Euse is not.
05:25No, I know.
05:26Helen Euse and Auslin right now both don't have spots.
05:30Doan has a spot.
05:31Doan has to go with Norris.
05:34Doan has to go with Norris.
05:37And then Helen Euse is the other winger on that line, I think, is what, is how I'm going
05:42to do this for now.
05:43All right.
05:43So Benson, Kulik, Thompson, Doan, Norris, Helen Euse, Zucker, McLeod, Quinn, Krebs,
05:51Carrick, Malenstein.
05:52That, that right now, extras.
05:55I think that sounds really good.
05:59Danforth is still under contract.
06:01Again, I don't know what his status is.
06:06Kozak is an extra.
06:11Um, man, I don't, you know, should I write Sherry down here?
06:16Sherry.
06:16Kuntar.
06:18Kuntar's on a two-way deal.
06:19Like, that's absolutely Rochester.
06:21Like, I, I, I'd be, I'd be really surprised if he wins a job.
06:26Sherry, I feel like, because he's on a one-way contract, outranks him.
06:29Okay.
06:30Um, even though I'll bet if they play the whole year together in Rochester, Koontar
06:35plays much, just produces way more than Sherry will.
06:39Uh, but nonetheless.
06:41All right.
06:41I think I'm done with the forwards for now.
06:42And I, I got to look at spot track or, you know, whatever, some salaries to make sure
06:48I'm not skipping some forward.
06:49I don't, I think that's it.
06:51I'm not thinking of any.
06:52All right.
06:52And then, okay, well, let's do, uh, let's do the D.
06:56Um, I think that's, that's pretty easy.
06:59Darlene and Sammy.
07:00Power.
07:02Did, did I mention this already?
07:04Yes.
07:05Um, Kekalainen talked about Zellweger as being a partner for power.
07:10So I want to put him there, even though it's not left-handed, right-handed, like Paul was
07:15talking about yesterday.
07:16Um, I really feel like Yarmou told you today, we traded for this guy to take Byram's spot.
07:24Okay.
07:25Right.
07:25Good.
07:25Um, and then Timmons and Crevier.
07:28Crevier and Metza.
07:30Right.
07:30Extra.
07:32Metza.
07:32Metza's extra.
07:33I think Timmons the extra.
07:35He just, I mean, that's what you want to do.
07:39Sure.
07:39I, I, I, I hear you.
07:42Lindy loves Timmons.
07:43He's, he's going to be third pair guy.
07:45At least hockey people.
07:46He's going to be a third pair guy.
07:47I don't think there's any question about it.
07:49Oh, my friend Dave Marone from Front Row Sports up in Thurl just texted me.
07:54I met Dave.
07:54Josh Dunn.
07:55Forgot about Dunn.
07:56Josh Dunn.
07:57Josh Dunn is an extra.
07:58He needs to go on this list.
08:00I don't think he outranks any of the people that are in the lineup right now, but he belongs
08:05on that list.
08:06Um, so there's that.
08:07I think that's, um, and then the goalies are the same.
08:10The goalies for now are the same.
08:12Hang on.
08:12I had Levi in that third spot.
08:13It's Ellis now.
08:14Right.
08:15So it's UPL.
08:16Levi is officially not.
08:17Yeah.
08:18No.
08:18Yeah.
08:19On the list.
08:19He's traded.
08:20But Ellis is still here and I can throw this piece of paper away from last year.
08:26Oh, you're going to junk it?
08:27It's all over.
08:28Yeah.
08:28It's, it's, yeah.
08:29There's guys that aren't even on the team anymore on that list.
08:32What about for the museum?
08:34Eh.
08:35Someday.
08:36Like, like my stuff over here, the power rankings.
08:38I feel like I need that.
08:39I got stacks of them.
08:40Wait.
08:40You know, speaking of.
08:41Literally.
08:41Oh, okay.
08:42Good.
08:42You said the museum.
08:43I was looking for the drawing that Jeremy once did long, long, long, long, long ago about
08:49how, what the scene would look like.
08:51It's like a stick figure drawing of the Sabres winning the cup and like Drew Stafford is still
08:55there.
08:56It'd be a gritty veteran.
08:58And there's a billboard on the, on the boards that says Bulldog for Mayor 2020 or something.
09:03He drew.
09:03How did that not survive?
09:04That's in the control room.
09:06I see it from here.
09:06Oh.
09:07It's still, it's still out there.
09:08So that, that is a museum worthy piece.
09:10Not one that I drew, but that's, all right.
09:13Well, there you go.
09:14There's your team, everybody.
09:16There it is.
09:18The book is closed on the possibility of changes, which we have been talking about for most of
09:25the day.
09:25Right.
09:26That it has sounded like that.
09:27There were changes when we started and then the GM spoke and talked like.
09:31Very much like it was time to take a seaplane to the cottage is what it sounded like when
09:36Gekalainen spoke.
09:38Yes.
09:39So I think that might, as of now, that's your team.
09:44You know, maybe something changes that, but I think what gets really complicated now is
09:52like the ability to make complimentary moves, say, right?
09:58Like, if you, if you wanted to still trade for Hellebuck and say, you know, that's a, that's
10:06Mertka and Ausland or Helenuse or Kulik, one of the three.
10:13And I don't know, maybe a, maybe a McLeod is included in that.
10:18I can't go get Vincent Trocek to replace McLeod because he's gone elsewhere, which I'm glad
10:24about.
10:24But I'm about to talk myself into nothing else is going to happen again.
10:30And I don't think I want to, I don't want to go all the way there.
10:33No, but this is an important point.
10:35Really, it's an extension of the fact that the draft is over.
10:38Yeah.
10:39And now you don't have as near as much stuff that you can afford to divest.
10:46I mean, it's important that July 1st is mostly over and so many fallback options are already
10:53off the table for them.
10:55I'm not sure how many they liked, but you know, that there would have been a list and the list
10:59is much shorter today if there's still a list.
11:02Yeah.
11:02So, you know, the Hellebook thing could still happen.
11:06Maybe Winnipeg still wants to move him, but I don't know what I'm doing about it now that
11:13I don't think I have all these other moves at my disposal to like fill out my roster if
11:17I trade two pieces that are on this team right now.
11:22You know, if you can do that without doing that, maybe that's pretty incredible.
11:27But it seems like that would be hard to do.
11:29So, I kind of feel like this is probably your team.
11:36Kulik better be good.
11:40Norris better stay healthy.
11:42And Helenuse better be ready to score 30 goals.
11:46There it is, everybody.
11:47Thanks for coming.
11:52I'm going to need to make a neater list of this.
11:54To hang on the wall, I mean.
11:56I need a clean sheet of paper.
11:57It's your birthday.
11:58It's easy to get distracted.
12:00Well, I was rushing.
12:01You know, I was trying to write the names down.
12:04And I can't even.
12:05You should.
12:06Look at Helenuse on this.
12:08Look at that.
12:09There's some vowels in there at the end that I'm not even.
12:11I did not distinguish one vowel from the other.
12:15You added an O.
12:16Because I wasn't sure what order the vowels were in.
12:18So, I just, like, scribbled some vowels.
12:21It's halfway between printing his name neatly and probably what his signature looks like.
12:25Yeah, right.
12:27Where you could read it.
12:28Right.
12:30Throw a number on there and you can read it.
12:32That's going to look like an autograph.
12:34People will ask someday.
12:36Did he autograph this?
12:37Right.
12:37For you?
12:38Did he make this roster for you?
12:40Or these lines combinations for you?
12:42Well, are we going to push forward or just go forward talking about this anymore?
12:51What's tomorrow?
12:52Are we talking about Connor Hellebuck tomorrow if he's not traded tonight?
12:57Not without some kind of impetus, I think.
13:01Right?
13:01I'm going to need a, you know, I'm going to need a, hey, they're circling back.
13:08Or even if the Sabres aren't mentioned, I'm going to need a, Winnipeg is still working.
13:13That's what's going to happen if there's anything.
13:16Is, I still think Winnipeg, well, I've said many times, I think they want to do it.
13:21Yeah.
13:22I think they have sort of faced the music on him.
13:24And that's why you have all these different insider guys bringing his name up.
13:30This is like basically the last week or two.
13:32But bringing his name up, that's because they're being told.
13:37And did that just die?
13:40Florida did a different thing.
13:42Buffalo decided not to so far.
13:46Jersey was mentioned.
13:48Maybe Jersey.
13:49Carolina's been mentioned.
13:50You mentioned Carolina before.
13:51That's right.
13:52It's not Toronto.
13:54Right.
13:54They made their move.
13:55I mean, we think he wants to go to the States anyway, right?
14:00A contender in the States.
14:03And really.
14:04All those teams mostly are.
14:05And I don't know.
14:06In Canada, I mean, he's not going to Edmonton.
14:10I don't think they can afford him.
14:11And, you know, they're throwing darts at Devin Levi.
14:14Calgary doesn't fit.
14:15Vancouver doesn't fit.
14:17Montreal's got two guys plus Montembeau.
14:20They're not doing it.
14:21I don't think.
14:24Well, if he gets traded somewhere else, then he does.
14:27But as far as the Sabres are concerned, I don't know.
14:30I'm not going to think about this that often anymore going forward.
14:34Right?
14:34I'm going to.
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