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Ok. So far we have: gilbert11 Govt Muel Beast of the East North Buffalo Labatt Blue pasta joe And… Taro T returning Steve Oath a maybe Curts Team likely dropped if I don’t here from him

That’s Owen Power.

Great idea! I always prefer IR+. In fact I’ll also add one. I’m also adding a 4th D-man to the starting lineup.

My mistake I’m in!

What a great long life!

Like I have said previously, I don’t post other people’s work but if you look up an article by Jonathan Willis, the numbers don’t back up your assertions, especially amongst playoff teams. The median height has remained constant and the mean weight has gone down. Florida was the third lightest team in the playoffs last year, ahead of only Tampa and Colorado.

Well okay, I guess they are statistically taller (assuming Bryson's not playing). I guess Clifton leaving helped with that. It also obviously doesn't mean all that much.

I'm a little confused. According to this, the Sabres starting 6 averages of 6'3.67", more than 2 inches above the NHL median for defencemen. Just running through some quick math on the conference, the Sabres are: Tied with the Devils 3 inches taller than Boston 3 inches taller than Florida 3 inches taller than Tampa 6 inches taller than Toronto 6 inches taller than the Rangers 8 inches taller than Detroit 9 inches taller than Philadelphia 11 inches taller than Carolina 11 inches taller than Washington 12 inches taller than the Islanders 12 inches taller than Ottawa 13 inches taller than Montreal 13 inches taller than Columbus 16 inches taller than Pittsburgh I don't know if it means anything, but it does seem pretty notable

https://jokermag.com/average-height-nhl-players/

Well then there must be some teams I don't pay attention to bringing the average down because it's definitely a trend. Now I'm only talking last few years and not since the salary cap but I don't know the exact numbers. Sabres are not some anomaly though.

As the Sergeant Hartman asked in Full Metal Jacket... How tall are you Private Pyle? 5'-6" sir! Well...I didn't think they could stack shi* that high.

I think it matters. Those are some big boys. Then again if they don’t use their size to the fullest extent then that sucks. Not going down that rabbit hole about you know who. I don’t get too much into the pipeline guys but from what I’ve read on here we can expect good things.

I absolutely did, but I wasn’t trying to be disingenuous about it. This was a “look at how big their starting six is, and look at how many other big guys they’ve been collecting” post. I read a lot on here about the Sabres needing to forge an identity. This defence corps - on paper at least - seems to have one: big and mobile.

I think they’re thinking that they need to match up with tougher teams in the playoffs like Syracuse, Laval, and Hershey.

Yep. Trump got owned in another propaganda win for Putin as evidenced by the news today that Trump has moved off his calls for a ceasefire. Summits like this are measured by an important metric: what did our president gain for the American people? Nothing.

It is intentional, as it generally is more difficult to play against good defensemen with reach. Of course, the keyword is good. I do think you intentionally left Bryson 5'9", Jones 5'11" (one of whom is likely to play 40+ games in Buffalo this season), Johnson 6'1" (who I'm really not sure what the team thinks of at this point beyond he's a good AHLer), Metsa 5'9" (maybe top-pair AHLer next season), and Osburn 6'1" (possibly their best offensive D prospect) off the list. 😇 12 guys at 6'2" or over seems like it'd be above average though.

Kesselring, Dahlin yes Power no Samuelsson Timmins not really Byram sorta? Bedkowski, Kleber, McCarthy, Novikov, Komarov yes? Strbak, Mrtka sorta?

That is actually contrary to the data. The mean height of NHL players has remained constant at 6’1” since the advent of the salary cap era. Further, teams with the taller defense are barely above .500 in playoff series wins.

the bigger they are, the harder they fall? Size can be an asset for sure, but its not the size of the dog in the fight that matters, but the size of the fight in the dog. we could use some dogs out there... How many on that list would we say have that characteristic?

US soldiers kneel to roll out red carpet for Putin. Sad day to be an American. TACO TRUMP! Putin got what he wanted a pushover president.

Putin basically showing he has Trump in his pocket.

Just want to say it's a league wide trend. Especially with D.

Well yes, that's definitely a possibility. It's also possible he's just old and burned out (relatively speaking) and most of the team doesn't have the sort of reverence for him that Tuch has. Whether he's too old, out of touch or just bad really doesn't matter. Bottom line is he did a bad job last year but no coach here has done a good job under Pegula have they. In my opinion the biggest problem however is not enough veterans who already know how to play the right way. Guys who basically coach themselves (and their team mates). Constant stream of young guys requires very good assistant coaches and lots of one on one time between them and we just don't have that. Head coach can't do his job properly and also babysit and mentor all these youngsters. So for me, it's a wider organizational problem that they seem to fail to recognize.

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