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The offseason so far - Are the Sabres better?
GASabresIUFAN replied to GASabresIUFAN's topic in The Aud Club
..... and somehow people are blaming JJP for wanting out of the cesspool the three horseman for franchise destruction created. -
The offseason so far - Are the Sabres better?
Pimlach replied to GASabresIUFAN's topic in The Aud Club
So keep trading the best players and hope for the best???? I was told by a trusted hockey man, one still coaching in the NHL, that the first guy to replace Granato was going to have a tough time. Peterka didn't respond to Ruff. Cozens fell apart. Samuelsson fell apart. Quinn regressed. UPL regressed. All players that were not blocked and were part of the master plan. I get it, Peterka was unhappy. I am not sold on the exhaustive coaching search that Adams talked about. -
Which is why having Byram for $6.25 that year is a big deal. Had they bought any of his UFA years, he would've been getting $8-9MM. That difference covers most of Tuch's raise (provided they ink him to one; and for no particular reason personally remain hopeful he's still willing to re-sign). So, yeah, they're down $64MM from Skinner but only an extra $2MM from where they are this year and the cap goes up by more than that anyhow. But, yeah, somehow we've gotten to the point where the players Adams brought in are getting paid and they are once again a cap team though not necessarily a good one.
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The offseason so far - Are the Sabres better?
LGR4GM replied to GASabresIUFAN's topic in The Aud Club
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Put Norris, Greenway, and Muel on LTIR to conveniently return in April and you can go add a Draisaitl-sized contract. Just sayin'. But yes, you'd probably have to be operating without the owner being happy for any additional yacht or construction payments. (And you'd have to be good enough to make the playoffs with just adding Draisaitl and subtracting those 3.)
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Is Steven back with BNL? If so, might try to see them. Have seen them several times but not since he left the band.
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9 NHL games or fewer and the contract slides. If they dress for game 10, the ELC year counts. While they're still 18 or 19 years old.
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https://www.tsn.ca/nfl/new-york-jets-sign-cornerback-sauce-gardner-to-four-year-120-4-million-extension-1.2335682 Yikes. I’ve never been a huge fan of Sauce
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The offseason so far - Are the Sabres better?
DarthEbriate replied to GASabresIUFAN's topic in The Aud Club
It's sad, because we all like him and he has been a good coach (when Hasek/Miller). But current-day Ruff was not getting rehired anywhere else in the league. Pegula got him hired as the sole interviewee, competing against the only other option: Appert. The good news is that Ruff's previous two overachieving -- playoff guaranteed rosters -- were in his third season as coach (109-point season with Dallas; 112-point season with NJ). The bad news is that Ruff is only under contract for two seasons here. But I'm sure Appert will do fine next season. -
I wish we could go back a few years with car technology. Buttons and knobs please! Yeah, I have kinda gotten used to a 'touch interface' in my current car, but I do hate that I can't 'feel' things when adjusting the heat/ac (have to look) and that it hardly works when you are wearing gloves in the winter. Voice control? Please, if that works 50% of the time I'm lucky (actually it works more than that for me, but our car cannot answer or respond to my wife's voice for anything) And just today on my way home, I'm listening to the news and then it just goes blank, no sound, nothing. After trying to drive and not get in an accident while I push every part of the touchscreen, I finally get the radio back on, but every single preset station was erased. No warning. No reason why. Just happened.
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Barenaked Ladies and Sugar Ray also playing there soon. Just saw them in NH. Excellent show.
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That is probably what makes the most sense, and I'm good with that. In most games there are about 48-50 minutes of even strength, 5 on 5 time I would guess. Dahlin and Byram get about 20 minutes per game even strength. Hopefully Power-Kesserling combo can get 18-19 minutes even strength. That leaves, give or take 10 minutes of even strength time for the 3rd pair. Now, I'm fine with Samuelsson on the PK (I actually think he generally is pretty good on the PK), and in case of injuries/penalties, Timmins can slide up to a higher pair on a temporary basis. Of course, Injuries happen and Lindy happens (juggling lines and d-partners), but I'd be ok with the above pairings.
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Ok another question because you know more about this stuff... I have seen this with Levi, Grigorenko, etc... they sometimes let these kids play a few games in the NHL... I think the number maybe is 9 and they can still remain in Jr?? But from an ELC standpoint does that burn a year...
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The offseason so far - Are the Sabres better?
Archie Lee replied to GASabresIUFAN's topic in The Aud Club
I think this is looking in the wrong place. Q: Who are the personalities setting the wrong tone? A: Pegula, Adams, and Ruff. Q: How are Pegula, Adams, and Ruff setting the wrong tone? A: They are the worst owner, GM, HC combination in the NHL. - Pegula has never made the playoffs in a full-season as an NHL owner; 14 years and counting. - Adams has not make the playoffs in 5 years as a GM. No GM in the post-expansion era (since 1967) has started his career going 0 for 5 in making the playoffs with the same team, and then gone on to have success with that team. Only one went on to eventually be known as a good GM; Don Waddell redeemed himself in Carolina. - Ruff is the oldest coach in the NHL. He finished third in the Athletic's Coach I Would Not Want to Play For poll last year. He has made the playoffs once in his last 6 seasons as a head coach, posting a .444 winning %. In the 5 of those years that his team missed the playoffs, his team's average position in goals against is 28th. There is nothing that can be done about Pegula. Let's hope he finds a way to do a better job hiring the next GM. If there is a culture issue among the players, it is related to the failures of the men in charge.