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And it’s exactly what they needed to start doing 2 years ago after missing the playoffs by one point: start moving some of the futures for todays.

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I think your point has been proven

By AHL standards he's a star. It makes a huge difference.

Well maybe if we had a lights out Hasek type goalie but "fixing" with anything viable is doubtful to have changed anything. We picked up a lot of late season garbage points as a loose team taken lightly. It was, as every year, meaningless. We might have gotten a little closer like Detroit at best.

It's a race to get to two goals. Really depends on who gets to their game first. Get ready for a few OT games in this series.

You kind of ruined your point with the last statement. Yes. Winning is the goal. Make the playoffs, you get knocked out and you learn from it and build off the winning. Fine tune a young playoff team into a veteran contender but the only way to establish a winning culture is to win. Adams was trying to build what he calls a "sustainable winner", thinking of the future so much that every year he is banking on too many unknowns while paying fairly big salaries to unproven players. We are seeing that this plan is not going to work.

Will my proposed line of Quinn/Kulich/JJP work next season? We won't know for sure until tried. However, what I'm not going to do is dismiss the possibility based on the prior season's play. Most people will agree that all three players need to get stronger and tougher. Will they physically mature and toughen up their style of play? That's yet to be determined. What I'm not going to do is have a predetermined view on the possibility. Assuming that none of the three listed players are dealt, and that is not a safe assumption because Quinn and JJP could be dangled on the market, I can see the possibility of this young line. I'm not saying you are wrong. or your stance is invalid because it is certainly reasonable. We shall see. TBD.

2 of 4 Conference Finalists from Tax Haven Markets. What a $hock

Benson was Savoie’s linemate with the JNR team (Winnipeg ice?)

Yeah I'm not sure how Benson is connected here...I must be missing something.

If this is true... the Sabres scouting department is incompetent.

Likely correct. But that's why these are a best out of 7 and not 1 and done like in the NFL.

True, but because the Sabres drafted him they ended up with 2 very useful players - McLeod and Benson. Really doubt they have either if they hadn't drafted Savoie. So, some good came out of that selection.

You don't think Zach Benson is tough?

Greenway is the softest 6 foot 6 guy around. Benson takes bad penalties but that is not tough.

He'd be a great add, what are you suggesting to get him? Power and our #1 and...? or Byram, our #1 and...? Or you one of the crazies that thinks we should move on from JJP?

We have our suspicions but until you see them in battle you don't know. Peterka might step up; Benson may get run over. You never know.

I would say no.

Since someone asked about Knies

Unless he's a spiteful person. Then, he could sign under market value with the Sabres just to piss off the Leafs fans and organization. That'd be fine. Edit: If he lets the hate flow through him, only then I can add him to my might be interested list. If it's about money/term and giving himself the best chance at making the playoffs, then he won't consider the GMKA/Pegula avenue anyway.

Good teams figure that sort of thing out. Which most likely means that the Sabres have no chance of signing the guy. (Btw, I don't think he'd come to Buffalo anyway.)

Nah. He's a bust. He wouldn't make this team, either. He always was going to be a bust.

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The Spittin' Chiclets guys had Tkachuk on, and Tkachuk was saying he feels sorry for the Leafs because they live in such a high-pressure fish bowl. Also, I think there's a lot of truth in this: So, the question becomes: if Marner were to go to another team, does he learn from his experience in Toronto and figure out how to compete in the playoffs in another, more chill market? If he can do that, then what's to stop the Sabres from trying to get him?