I'm Ryan Lambert from Elite Prospects I am Sean Maginue from the Athletic and we're

continuing our our season preview episodes this week because am I wrong the season starts on Friday with like the European

games?

Yeah. Nobody seems to really be counting that.

Well...

But it is technically

regular season hockey.

Yeah, counts in the standings and all that.

You see all this stuff about like,

oh, people are expecting big things out of the Sabres

they're playing so well in the preseason blah blah blah.

You see all this shit? I did not see that but

This is the buffalo savers right yeah you know what could go wrong look I don't

think you can count anything the savers do before January is real at this point.

You know, like, I think we talked about this recently, the hot runs that they have every November. Oh, we won like eight in a row. Maybe we're good this year and then you know by January 15th. It's like we're second last in the east again. Well, we tried. Yep.

I mean, who knew that the season was 80 games long?

Yeah, it's tough.

Impossible.

Anyway, I think the first thing we have to do on the show for real this week is do some old business of a contract that I had on the outline last week and then accidentally deleted and didn't notice until someone pointed it out to me.

We didn't talk about the Moritzider Extension in Detroit,

seven years 8.55 million, making him the 13th highest paid

defenement in the league this year by AAV.

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