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Toronto Maple Leafs: The Roast of the Atlantic Division

By Mike Stephens

LAS VEGAS, NV - JUNE 21: Auston Matthews of the Toronto Maple Leafs poses after winning the Calder Memorial Trophy (Rookie of the Year) during the 2017 NHL Awards and Expansion Draft at T-Mobile Arena on June 21, 2017 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Photo by Bruce Bennett/Getty Images)
LAS VEGAS, NV - JUNE 21: Auston Matthews of the Toronto Maple Leafs poses after winning the Calder Memorial Trophy (Rookie of the Year) during the 2017 NHL Awards and Expansion Draft at T-Mobile Arena on June 21, 2017 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Photo by Bruce Bennett/Getty Images) /
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Buffalo Sabres

Notable Adds: Nathan Beaulieu, Chad Johnson, Benoit Pouliot.

Notable Losses: Dmitri Kulikov, Cody Franson, Brian Gionta.

Having player/coach/GM/owner Jack Eichel on your roster is always a reason to celebrate. And if Ryan O’Reilly can play hockey as well as he can drunkenly plow his truck into a Tim Hortons, that would be pretty good too.

The firing of Tim Murray, founder of the “screaming internally” meme, has now been officially recognized as the dictionary definition for “addition by subtraction”.

Recently, Leafs fans may have soured on Joffrey Lupul, but you have to hand it to the guy. In 2011 he summed up the city of Buffalo about as well as anyone in history with a single tweet.  It’s too mean to reprint it, so hopefully you remember!

Nailed it.

Remember when the Sabres were POSITIVE that they had hired Mike Babcock in 2014, only to see the Leafs emerge at the last second and poach him?

Fun fact: in his introductory press conference, Babcock revealed that the Sabres’ financial offer was actually higher than Toronto’s was. Consider for a second that the Leafs are currently paying Babcock $8 million a year. That means he turned down an offer tha likely sat in the $10 million range. All because it meant he’d have to coach the Sabres. Wasn’t that fact fun?

As a result, every Sabres writer then made the trip to Toronto for Babcock’s introduction just to ask him, without a sliver of irony, why he chose to live in Toronto instead of Buffalo. That’s like asking someone why they chose to eat their dinner at a 5-Star restaurant, instead of an Arby’s that’s forced to display their “conditional pass” from the Department of Health in their front window.

But, other than that, Buffalo really didn’t do much this summer.

I guess acquiring Nathan Beaulieu, for the laughably low price of a 3rd round pick, was pretty savvy. It’s just that every NHL GM should be taking advantage of how dumb Marc Bergevin is. It’s like taking candy from a french baby.

I don’t know, I guess there really isn’t much to write about when it comes to the Sabres. Some things never change.

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