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24 years old, 175 games and 34 goals/ 71 points. He is worth Krebs and maybe a B level prospect. Krebs - 24 years old, 296 games, 30 goals/94 points playing on 4th line most of the time. If this is an attempt to replace Peterka it seems more like another rebuild on the rebuild's rebuild.

The model does seem to assign far greater variation to the good players. Dahlin is worth Thompson and Tuch together, Tuch is worth Byram and Peterka together. And it recognizes that guys like Clifton and Bryson are actually negatives but not to the same degree Dahlin is a positive. I assume usage and ice time are factors

Agree, but interesting also in terms of the mechanics of how a breakdown like that translates. Cause it’s obv not an exact comp - whatever number you a lot to McDavid, say, +20 you aren’t getting equivalent value from 20, +1 players. I don’t necessarily see a +9 accumulated majorly on the fringes as equivalent to adding a +9 to your top six

What do these words mean? I don't think that's a real thing.

I guess to depends on the value of the franchise if they make the playoffs.

"the Sabres have interest in the player. " He suddenly rescinded his request and said he's never been happier in Columbus for some reason.

With our internal cap it’s actually the ~750m dollar question

The Rochester Chiefs?

Yeah, I mean it’s just an honest attempt to quantify evergreen hockey questions like who is more valuable: JJ Peterka or Bowen Byram? (They’re both +4) And it completely ignore the pertinent question of the whole not equaling the sum of its parts. For a decent reference point +9 would have been the equivalent of the Sabres losing no one and adding one good player, like a FilipnForsberg or a Noah Hanifan. Good conversation fodder, but that’s about it.

That's the $ Billion question isn't it. It's impossible to know until you seem the team play, but on paper we haven't come close to doing it. I project our scoring at 254 and I'm not sure how to project GA, except to say I think Kesselring and Timmins could be worth 10 goals saved over the course of the season. That would still leave us at a -20 differential. If the 2 new D save us 20 goals over the 289 allowed last year, this is a marginally improved non-playoff team.

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.