Myers signed, 94% STH renewals, and more!

Sabres sign Tyler Myers

The Sabres headed off a boatload of fax machine jokes by signing Tyler Myers to an entry level contract yesterday.

With Myers leading the Kelowna Rockets to the Memorial Cup (programming note: The NHL Network will broadcast the Memorial Cup Finals live, so set your DVRs), the Sabres took a step in the right direction by locking Myers up.

Now it will be interesting to see if the Sabres go after a mentor for Myers this off season. My dream scenario would see the Sabres getting Chris Pronger or Robyn Regehr to pair with Myers next season. But, knowing the Sabres, the most I can hope for is a cheaper defenseman with re-signing Jaro Spacek being the "biggest" move I can reasonably expect.

But who knows, maybe they'll surprise me!

94% Renewal Rate

I'm sure this news has Bucky Gleason's head exploding as he seems to think that re-upping to buy season tickets to the Bills and Sabres means that fans are soft.

Personally, I'm into loyalty. And there is no way that I'm going to rip fans for continuing to support a sport and a team that they love.

I just hope that the Sabres do more to earn the loyalty that the fans are showing.

The one that got away

Sabres fans have been lamenting the ones that have gotten away lately with WGR 550's Mike Schopp openly wondering if the Sabres cut Steve Bernier loose too soon and Heather B missing Brian Campbell.

Add in some of the usual Drury, Briere, and to some extent Biron wishful hindsight stuff and you have a lot of people saying what if.

You can also add in all the drafting retrospectives like why did the Sabres take Dennis Persson instead of Nick Foligno.

The one that got away that worries me the most is Dennis Wideman. The Sabres let Dennis go simply because they didn't want to pay him what he thought he was worth coming out of Jr. Dennis has turned into a good NHL defenseman and has been traded for a guy that I would love on the Sabres in Brad Boyes.

Heck, I think I might want Boyes even more than Wideman right now.......

Balsillie as the bad guy

I'm sorry, but I can't get to the place where I think that a billionaire that wants to move an NHL team out of a bad US market like Phoenix to a good Canadian market like Southern Ontario is a bad guy.

Balsillie appears to be the type of NHL owner that I wish the Sabres had.

Why couldn't Balsillie have been from Western NY and not Southern Ontario?