Confirmed with Link: Sabres sign Taylor Hall. 1 year, $8M

[itwasaforwardpass]

Here ya go. Maybe they won’t delete this one lol

#4 needs the Bogo stank washed off it.

 

[DolanPlsGoSabres]

#4 needs the Bogo stank washed off it.

Got curious...
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We've nicely washed away the stank of the guy who wore #23 between Drury and Reinhart, I think we'll be fine.

 

[brian_griffin]

Great presser but I have never seen John Warwow before and he looked homeless during this.

He was repeatedly picking his head and face during the Staal video conference.

Wawrow looks like this for his Bills stuff too. It's completely disturbing.

The zoom session was everything I think a Sabres fan could have hoped for.

He's clearly in his basement, in a bathrobe, covering a Charlie Brown t-shirt.

I sure hope he never made a "blogger in his mom's basement" crack at anyone before...

We should nickname Wawrow "Buffalo Bill".

I imagine there will likely be an A on his jersey too.

Likely Staal takes MaJo's "A". Maybe Hall gets one too, or alternates with McCabe (one for home, one for road).

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In terms of physical appearances, Hall looks remarkably similar to me when I was his age, with a similar seriousness / demeanor to match. It was a little spooky watching / listening.

 

[Buffaloed]

Jealousy does that.

We should know. lol

 

[Buffaloed]

Great presser but I have never seen John Warwow before and he looked homeless during this.

Is that a bathrobe?

 

[enthusiast]

Is that a bathrobe?

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the ancient aliens guy aged horribly

 

[Genny Screamer]

Is that a bathrobe?

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He's going for that Ted Kaczynski "Unabomber" look.

 

[Der Jaeger]

Is that a bathrobe?

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when wawrow asked his first question, Hall was borderline giggling. I think he saw what he looked like

 

[Buffaloed]

When Wawrow wouldn't explain the conditions of the Evander Kane by saying he had better things to do, it wasn't grooming.

 

[Buffaloed]

Good man that Dawkins

 

[joshjull]

 

[joshjull]

 

[Paxon]

I don't know if that's from the same response and was just edited down or not but at one point he said Eichel was the best player on the team, then added with him there Eichel is the best player on the team. That was surprising to hear from a guy like Hall, a puck-dominating Hart winner, unprompted.

 

[brian_griffin]

Is that a bathrobe?

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Looks like it. I called it first, 2 posts above yours.

 

[BananaSquad]

Mike Johnson is from TSN to. Toronto media just seems Buffalo will never approve, like ever. Bottom of the league even tho this team will spend to the cap yearly

 

[La Cosa Nostra]

I think I will always look back and remember about the minute I found out about the signing and just smile and laugh uncontrollably.For a long time especially if this results in a playoff run.

How many UFA periods did we go through being told we would be players and getting dog shit while the usual suspects got all the shiny toys.The days of people just replying UFAs don't win you stuff is bullshit. They put you over the top or closer to your goal (which ours is literally an 8 seed).

I saw one of the local guys post a tweet of ufa forwards signed all time goals scored and it was absolutely pathetic. Hall has a chance of doubling the best year a ufa forward we signed has ever done.Ever since I was lied to as a kid "John Rigas : Darcy I will give you the tools to win the cup" all of sports talk that entire time was excitement and Ron Francis being linked as the coveted guy. Spoiler: He led a different team to a finals. Said team ended up winning one a few years later. I think we all remember.

Taylor f***ing Hall is a Buffalo Sabre. This is literally unprecedented. Last time we acquired a forward superstar outside of the draft was trading for LaFontaine and Hawerchuck. This is our superstar. OUR HART WINNER. The Sabres had 1 Hart winner play for them. Hasek. Hall is #2. I am more excited for the upcoming season then I was back in summer 06 for 06-07.

 

[Jim Bob]

when wawrow asked his first question, Hall was borderline giggling. I think he saw what he looked like

He definitely needs to figure out how to add a virtual background.

 

[OkimLom]

Is that a bathrobe?

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looks like a crazy professor that was let go by a college for too many unethical experiments

 

[SackTastic]

You're really low-balling those 3, then.

Montour won't be traded because he signed a 1 year deal, ending in UFA....Reinhart, Ullmark, Olofsson will keep the cap in the Toronto-reported low 70s....some interesting positions today.

I don't think I am at all.

Olofsson won't get a massive deal or award, simply because he only has 60 NHL games under his belt. Same for Ullmark. Between the two of them, you prob land somewhere around $70-73M, depending on if it's arb awards or negotiated deals. Reinhart will be the big question honestly.

On the other hand, I do think they will blow their internal cap number just based on the fact that they are essentially paying 30% less this year between escrow and deferment, and they are going to likely throw everything at trying to keep Hall on the other side of this season.

 

[SackTastic]

looks like a crazy professor that was let go by a college for too many unethical experiments

That Wawrow thing was incredibly embarrassing. Sure, I slum it up a bit when I'm not leaving the house for extended periods of time right now, but when I have a video call with certain people I shower and shave and at least ATTTEMPT to look presentable. My barber is open too.

Also, you can't tell me that the only place in his house that he could take that call from was his basement. Cmon man...

 

[Jim Bob]

 

[itwasaforwardpass]

Entertaining series of tweets in this conversation for Kubrick fans.

 

[Taro Tsujimoto]

 

[Jim Bob]

#4 needs the Bogo stank washed off it.

It's a good thing that they threw away the entire jersey set that Bogo wore and Hall gets to rock the new Royal Blue #4 that has no residual stank left on it.

 

[brian_griffin]

Entertaining series of tweets in this conversation for Kubrick fans.

Thank goodness Botterill's gone already, else we could have had a problem.

<Ralph Krueger> "HALL, I need you to fire Jason Botterill."

<HALL 9000> "I'm sorry Dave Ralph, I can't do that."

Trivia: The story goes that the "HAL" moniker was chosen as 1 letter each before "IBM".