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T. McGee’s GM For a Day – 2025 Offseason Edition

DBTB – Here’s my GM For A Day – the ’25 Off-season. Enjoy. And flame away in the comments section! FRONT OFFICE: Promote Kevyn Adams to President of Hockey Operations. Hire Dale Tallon away from Vancouver, make him Senior Advisor. Promote Jason Karmanos to General Manager. Hire Andrew Brunette as Assistant Coach in charge of offense (Ruff did well with him…

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2025 Buffalo Sabres Player Report Card: Connor Clifton

Total Season Stats: 1G, 15A | 16 PTS | -6 | 45 PIM Age: 30 Contract Status: Signed through 2025-26, $3.33 million AAV The biggest piece of what defenseman Connor Clifton brought to the Buffalo Sabres this season was his physical presence on the ice. We need only to look at the number of hits he threw (208) to realize how much of an impact he (literally) had on the opponent.

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2025 Buffalo Sabres Player Report Card: JJ Peterka

Total Season Stats: GP 77, G 27, A 41, PTS 68 -1 Age: 23 Contract Status Ending 3 year deal, $855,834 per season, RFA Buffalo’s rising star is a wanted man. His services are being sought after through trade and possible offer sheets. He is due for a new contract and his new deal will be a major bump up in pay. He has earned it. JJ Peterka had himself quite a season for the Buffalo…

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Buffalo Sabres Hire Jarmo Kekalainen

On Friday morning, the Buffalo Sabres announced the hiring of Jarmo Kekäläinen as a senior advisor. Per the team’s announcement, Kekäläinen will report to Sabres general manager Kevyn Adams and be involved in all areas of the hockey department. Kekäläinen, 58, became the first European general manager in NHL history when he was hired by the Columbus Blue Jackets in 2013, but his time in the…

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2025 Buffalo Sabres Player Report Card: Owen Power

Total Season Stats: GP 79, G 7, A 33, PTS 40 -13 Age: 22 Contract Status: 7 year contract, $8,350,000 cap hit, UFA in 2031 Owen Power finished the 24-25 season for Buffalo with career highs in goals, assists and points. He also finished the season out of the lineup with injury. Owen missed the last 3 games and it was speculated he would need surgery. The good news is he will not.

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2025 Buffalo Sabres Player Report Card: Mattias Samuelsson

Total Season Stats: 4-10-14 in 62 Games Age: 25 Contract Status: Signed through 2030 – 4.286 Mil Cap Hit Samuelsson had established himself as the defensive compliment to Dahlin’s offensive game on the top pair in previous seasons. His biggest struggle has been to stay healthy. There was optimism going into this season with Samuelsson receiving an “A” and a new coach preaching…

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Stanley Cup Final Open Thread – Wk of 6/2

Looks like this is the year of the threes. The Atlantic Division’s third ranked team and also Stanley Cup defending champions Florida Panthers have scrapped their way back to the Final for the third straight year, where they will take on the Pacific Division’s third placed side Edmonton Oilers in a repeat of last season’s Final where the Panthers beat the Oilers 4-3 after jumping into a three-game…

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2025 Buffalo Sabres Player Report Card: Sam Lafferty

Total Season Stats: 4 G, 3 A, 7 pts, -15 in 60 games Age: 30 Contract Status: Signed – going into second year of two-year, $4 million contract signed in August 2023 Sam Lafferty was added to the Sabres roster as a bottom six forward that could possibly help shore up the team defense and chip in with a few valuable points. The long and short of it is that he didn’t.

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Really? Is the NHL Looking to Expand Even More?

Let me get this out of the way early. As far as I’m concerned, the NHL is fine as it is right now. It took years to get the league balanced. Eight teams in every division, sixteen per conference and a nice even thirty two teams in the NHL. Hockey now matches the NFL for having the most teams in their respective leagues. Major League Baseball and the NBA have thirty teams each. Now, as most know…

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