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They give recommendations on all sorts of moves, the issue is they are not followed unlike the Panthers. Analytics is the reason Florida gets players such as Forsling, Verhaeghe and Mikkola at bargain basement prices. Jarmo is a fan of analytics, so hopefully this bodes well for the future

That should have been a priority when he was first drafted. It would have helped in his development, and it would have made the team better by solidifying the second pairing that gets a lot of playing time. And other related issues are who is going to be paired with Dahlin and if Byram is traded how will the pairings shake out?

Totally stunned Ruff has kept Wilford around. He's failed every year he's been here.

There is runway left with him to develop. The organization has not put him in position to succeed. An ECHL Level coach in Wilford, taking until this offseason to potentially find him a partner.

I wonder if the jjp return had analytics involved

I'm being too hard on power

For Funsies here is Dahlin’s

Much of the team's success or not is predicated on better defensive player by the blue liners and lines. Will the goaltending beupgraded? If the other units play better, it will. I'm not assuming that there will be a dramatic defensive upgrade but expect better play on that end this season. Will it make much of a difference from a record standpoint? I think so. There's no reason not to believe that individually and collectively that Quinn, Benson and Power will not be better. The biggest issue for me will be how UPL plays. If he surprises us in a positive way, then this team should be at least respectable. In general, you seem to lean toward the negative while I grudgingly lean toward just maybe this team is on a more positive route. And another open issue is how will the Byram saga play out? I don't know.

Evolving Hockey is cited as a source for The Athletic Player Cards. Here is the data from EV’s Website as well as Hockey Viz.

No it didn't. It simply took Krueger going away.

The Panthers have over 40 people listed in their front office/hockey ops department. The Sabres have approximately 24 including Jarmo and Staal. The Panthers front office is considered one of the most progressive when it comes to analytics, Jeff Marek reported on the What Chaos Podcast that Bill Zito will not make a move without checking with Sunny Mehta, Director of Analytics for the Panthers, first. Adams has an excellent Analytics Department lead by Sam Ventura, which he does not to listen to it as much as he should. . Which is a shame because Ryan McLeod is the result of when he does.

Let’s give power a real d partner this year and see what happens. He’s still young and it took Dahlin a while too. Granted he’s never going to use his size like we want but hopefully his d-zone awareness can improve with a partners who isn’t hideous

Such a weird thing to make up to make yourself feel better about voting for a PEDO.

Doesn't help he made it one of his MAIN talking points to get himself elected and now all the sudden it's a non issue. Epsteins old lawyer even saying Trump is suppressing the documents.

Has any of the offers teams made for Byram been revealed?

You know what's really hilarious? William Eklund is a playmaking lw with some grit... Buffalo needs a playmaking lw with some grit.

William. Eklund. Also he wasn't even the best defender in that class. Luke Hughes was that draft and Mason McTavish too but the true top guy in that class was and impo is Eklund. But he wasn't 6'6" and you can't teach size! And defensemen that tall are rare! (Buffalo has 4 now, Power, Mrtka, Bedkowski, Kleber) The Sabres bought the hype, didn't value the underlying traits enough, and decided he was the best player even though he's a passive player.

Yes. Lots of solid players, especially forwards in the top 10 but no real stars and certainly no franchise players. Eklund, Johnson and Guenther might end up of the top forwards from the class unless Bernier figures it out. Hughes and Power are 40 pt D but neither is good defensively.

It baffles me to this day that he went 1OA. Was that draft class that weak?

The more I study the analytics of this trade, the more I think it could end up being like the McLeod trade. The two guys we got really have limited NHL exposure but very good analytics. Peterka is lethal offensively but unless he grasps playing D, he’ll be a skinner type - flashy stats but is just good enough to help you lose. hopefully we add another forward. Would love signing Byram (even for the two year arbitration amount) and trading futures for a Rust type

While I agree that is certainly possible with Power, the same can be said for Byram who is only 23. The biggest issue with Power is that he will never be an elite D in the NHL because of his refusal to engage physically, and I don’t see that ever changing. He is also positionally terrible. He isn’t on the O level of a Karlsson, Makar or Quinn Hughes to make up for the lack of solid D. IMHO he will never be more that a 2nd pair D and I’d rather have Byram for that job. Don’t forget he’s already played 242 NHL games. He are getting close to the point that he is what he is.

Not defending the contract, but Power is only 22. Most defenceman haven't even made the show regularly by then. The Sabres need to stop expecting 18-23 year olds to step up and fill sizeable holes in the line up. Power should have been penciled in for the third line with sheltered minutes whilst he got to grips with the NHL. Instead he was elevated to a 2nd NHL D man and epxected to perform like one. Power is absolutely the right mold of player for us to sell low on, and in two years be anchoring a top pairing on a contending team

This team has allowed 282+ goals against 2 of the last 3 seasons. 18 teams over the last 3 years have allowed 282 or more. Over that period the Sabres gave up an average of 3.36 goals against per game. Even if the Sabres manage to score 270 +, they won’t stop enough goals to net a positive differential and make the playoffs. PS Even when they scored 293 they allowed 297, a -4 differential, and missed the playoffs. The additions of Kesselring, Timmins and Lyon, aren’t enough to change the defensive/goaltending shortcomings of this team.

Right, other schools and conferences will adjust. Penn State won't be the only one for very long.

You can’t tell the public Epstein isn’t worth talking about because of everything else going on. All of a sudden those terabytes of content were what Epstein downloaded, not recorded himself. So Maxwell is in jail for something they say/elude didn’t happen then? Yeah, ok. Next someone is gonna say everyday there’s a whole minute missing from a prison camera that just never gets fixed…. Protect your women and children because I think this will embolden the traffickers. They’re going to want to rebuild what these raids are tearing down.