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Sorry i didn’t mean ever I meant this offseason You listed a 54 goal improvement above something like that would certainly qualify

Yes. We have improved scoring by 64 goals from 21/22 to 22/23 (differential went from -58 to -4) and we improved our GA from 22/23 to 23/24 by 50+(but our GF also dropped 49 goals - differential +1). Unfortunately we've never done it at the same time. The key to this season is to keep our offense at around 260 (265 GF last year) while decreasing our goals against by about .5 goals per game. PS I find differential is a easier way to compare what teams need to do each season to make the playoffs. In the last 4 years, every team with a +9 or better differential in the East made the playoffs.

We need dishers

I think so, too. Let's put one together.

Right candidly i don’t think +impact on the fridges will translate to much of anything at all, as is usually the case. I don’t think 20 Nickels makes a dollar in the nhl, is what I’m saying. More less to me still looks like my “willing to write off JJ / Kesselring as a wash” to my eye when digging in a bit (with of course them actually preferring Kesselring by a non-negligible margin) if that’s the case we could very well be at a “probably a little bit improved, likely not enough” take you see floating around from liger and others

Ahhhh Russia. 😁

That is changeable

Omsk. Siberia.

Was he living in Uzbekistan?

We haven't done an Amerks trip in quite a while.

Frankly didn’t want Joshua at his cap hit, he’s just Greenway more or less.

Nope. He was still in the USSR during Covid.

Giving up 20yr old Benson, a guy with elite defensive metrics for a 24yr old with worse defense, who can't stay healthy is a terrible idea. I long for the day when I don't have to defend Benson. That day is rapidly approaching.

In: Josh Doan, Justin Danforth, Michael Kesselring, Conor Timmins, Alex Lyon Out: JJ Peterka, Sam Lafferty, Connor Clifton, Jacob Bernard-Docker First group minus the second, at least that’s how I read it

All 3 you mentioned are arguably better already Chinakov had a whopping 15pts last year in 30 games and isn’t physical. So unless the plan is to trade Krebs for him it doesn’t make a whole lot of sense

No other front office (besides Columbus) will know him better. Jarmo will hopefully know if he’s worth the risk or not.

Oh ok so it’s their own scale/assigned ratings, thanks. Kinda cool where does the other +7 come from, after subtracting Peterka’s 4 from Kesselrings’s 6? 1/2 each to danforth Lyon Doan and Timmins? And the guys we ditched are all zeroes?

Peterka was a +4 player under their model, Kesselring a +6; the model thinks the Sabres got a better player. So the +9 represents the net value change of the players going in and out.

Anyways; if you are right it means we needed to improve by 35 goals. Have we done that?

Sabres should offer them Matt Savoie. Yes, I know. I stand by my view just the same. We've suffered so much. We should get another kick at that can.

I think the way it works is you get to a certain amount of points/place in standings and the team makes it regardless of differential haha, but I take your meaning But when it says “net rating added” does that refer to plus minus?

Another hard to play against guy that they whiff on.