Happy Friday, everyone! It's a good batch of links today, but I'm slightly disappointed that Kevin Sylvester's new article is about hockey and not pancakes.

SLY NOTES: DEFENSIVE DEPTH - Buffalo Sabres
The competition and depth on the blue line is going to make many teams jealous.

Drew MacIntyre: What you Need to Know about Our New Goaltender - BSN
While everyone was focused on the Ehrhoff and Leino sigings and the Regehr trade, the Sabres quietly added a very good netminder to the organization.

A Guide To Sabres On Twitter - Black & Blue & Gold
The definitive guide to finding the two Sabres players and many prospects currently using Twitter.

Looking ahead to 2011-12: Ranking the NHL’s top defensemen - Puck Daddy
Buffalo finds two d-men on this list, can you guess who?

Devils trade Rolston to Islanders - NHL.com
The Islanders have acquired forward Brian Rolston and a conditional pick in 2012 from the New Jersey Devils in exchange for Trent Hunter.

No Place Like Home? - Grantland
Why should taxpayers — especially in already-taxed-to-the-max Nassau County and especially in this dismal economy — finance the construction of a new building for some hockey organization that is, according to the players themselves, the very worst in the league?

No reason to fear another NHL lockout - THN
With a salary cap already in place and the league unlikely to demand any major concessions, some are getting riled up over nothing.