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  4. Sabres #39 pick: Anton Wahlberg, 6'3" Center

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    16 minutes ago, Eleven said:

    Need them now AND in three years.  There aren't many in the pipeline, either.

    And given where the Sabres are with assets, this may be the right call. Fill the pipeline via picks, and handle now by trading current talent surplus (forwards) to fill the  holes. Sure, they could trade picks for players too, but then they'd end up trading the surplus players for picks years from now taking even longer to fill the pipeline.

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  5. NHL Round 2: 11AM

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    9 minutes ago, Crusader1969 said:

    Dylan Mackinnon

    Matteo Mann

    Danny Nelson

    Cameron Allen

    Is this going to be one of those Keith Gretzky/Wayne Primeau things were the Sabres get the lesser brother? Or just the same name.

  6. Rd 1, Pick 13: Zach Benson

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    Dropping three rookie forwards onto an already young team, while shipping out players that are (hopefully) hitting their stride is a... bold[0] suggestion.

    [0] not in a good way

    1 minute ago, TRIP65 said:

    Didn't say bring him up now, leaving room to grow. Has a FULL offseason to Build on 5'11" frame. Have a Full NHL camp. He can go down to the Amerks and start the Season but there are things Amerks can do to get Savoie to the Amerks, there is a path there. Bet Savoie in Amerks by Mid-season.

    Krebs is not a Sabres drafted player and Middlestat, Sabres can't afford to resign.

    I don't think Savoie can play in the AHL this year, right? It's CHL or NHL.

    I don't get the last statement; the first seems irrelevant and the second just isn't true as long as Mitts comes in at middle-6 money.

  8. The even randomer thread

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    1 hour ago, Taro T said:

    Why is Qatar playing in the Concacaf Gold Cup?  Was there a major reshuffling of the globe that wasn't announced and now Venezuela is located next to Saudi Arabia?

    I think it's the same reason Australia is in Eurovision.

  9. Around the NHL 2023 Summer Edition

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    14 hours ago, Weave said:

    Seriously? 20-30 yrs ago people accepted gays and left them alone?  This is a bad joke, right?

    "Well, back then they didn't say anything about their life, laughed at our gay jokes, and when we insulted people by calling them fags it they didn't make a stink. Life was so much simpler."

    🤮

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  10. Around the NHL 2023 Summer Edition

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    6 hours ago, Thorny said:

    Thats a good question. Definitely does seem like my local Jets are opposed to ever doing a full tear down. The fans here are passionate as hell, maybe it’s a quantity thing, though? Winnipeg the city is as populated as Buffalo I think but the greater surrounding area... well, Winnipeg doesn’t have one. Small arena. Maybe regardless of passion, if even a sizeable chunk tunes out, our quantities are an issue?

    I do know the season ticket list here, once miles long, has evaporated. It’s gone. As I said years ago, the honeymoon period is over. Would a full rebuild further dent that? Plenty of the more passionate fans have been clamouring for a rebuild but maybe it’s just not in the cards

    I took a look and it's not really close. Winnipeg is 730k, where Buffalo is 1,135k, but as you mention, Rochester is another 1,054k. You could dig up close to another 1M if you start talking about Syracuse, Ithaca, Elmira, maybe Erie PA (but they might be Pens fans over there).

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_metropolitan_areas_in_Northern_America

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  11. Around the NHL 2023 Summer Edition

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    14 hours ago, PerreaultForever said:

    You poach Swayman (although I suspect the Bruins would match the offer and then trade either him or Ullmark but you never know) and you have a goalie competition but the lean is Swayman 50+ games Levi 30+ , If their play changes that ratio so be it. If not you continue developing Levi as a back up and maybe 2-3 years later the ratio is different or you have one of them to trade. 

    It's simply an option worth exploring. Sabres shouldn't really care if they piss off Boston, they're a rival. 

    This only works if Buffalo keeps locking up players early. GMs don't seem to want to use offer sheets, but a retaliatory $13M/yr offer for Quinn (or whatever) would be annoying.

  20. Why aren't we talking more about Lukáš Rousek

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    3 minutes ago, klos1963 said:

    besides you, why aren't we talking more about him?

    He's not as flashy and doesn't have the draft pedigree. But I agree with a bunch here that he's more likely to be playing in the bottom-6 this year than the younger guys in the [AW]HL.  Those other players probably benefit more getting lots of top-line work in their leagues. The Sabres are *finally* at a point where they don't need 20 year old high-level offensive prospects playing 3rd and 4th line minutes because there's no one else to put in there, hopefully they'll use that.

  22. Would you trade Devon Levi for Connor Hellebuyck with a contract extension?

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    9 hours ago, Quint said:

    Hunter Shepard is looking really good as goaltender for the Hershey Bars. Zach Fucale's there too. I am not a huge fan for spending big bucks on a goalie. By the time they're earning big bucks and they're available, their best days are usually behind them. Look at Bobrovsky, Matt Murray, etc. etc.. But the Sabres don't need an all-world goalie. Look at Adin Hill. He bounced around from team to team before backstopping Vegas to a cup. The key is the big, solid veteran defense and the defensive buy-in at forward. You don't have to be a great goalie to win a cup. You just have to have the right formula as a team. 

    FUCALE!

    4 hours ago, Thorny said:

    Those adjustments are necessary regardless though. The data just says that Hellebuyck struggles with the most difficult shots. Dunno why folks would be surprised by this. 

    All goalies struggle more the more difficult the shot. If the exceptions to that rule are only the truly elite, like Shesterkin, ie their sv% goes down on these chances but not as relatively so, it’s not a mark against acquiring Hellebuyck, unless those guys are available. Hellebuyck’s relative “weakness” in that area is still stronger than the field, the goalies we’ve been rostering of late.

    There's struggles like everyone else, and there's struggles *more* than everyone else, which is the implication here. While it seems like a goaltender is plug and play, some are better in some scenarios than others, and if you team tends to give up chances in certain scenarios it helps if your goaltender isn't below average when that happens.

    Once upon a time, there was a great analysis here on why Ryan Miller struggled in St Louis despite being solid here. I forget the details, but it was something like Miller liked to play at the top of the crease and relied on his D to shut down shots from the sides, where St Louis' D did not do that. So goals were pouring in on passes to the low circle. I honestly forget if this was the issue or the other way around, but it was a subtle observation and one of the best pieces of analysis I saw anywhere.

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  23. Around the NHL 2023 Summer Edition

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    10 hours ago, PerreaultForever said:

    I don't disagree with this, but I heard an interesting talk on the 32 thoughts podcast pointing out that Vegas only had ONE draft pick in their line up that won the cup. The gist of the talk was that the most important thing in this era is having a place where "players want to play" and the southern teams in the U.S. all have a huge advantage being in states with no state tax. So they were wondering if more teams were going to try to follow their model and move away from the old draft your own idea. In that sense, Pittsburgh may be a candidate to try that even without the state tax advantages.

    Did the podcast bring up taxes? It seems like those are two different things, maybe even in opposition in some cases. A place where the player wants to play isn't directly related net take-home pay. Sure, for some players that will be a big part of the calculus. But the Sabres have two players (so far 🤞) that have taken less money in a high-tax state to play. For normal people state taxes may be a sticking point, but when you're in the 1% of earners it becomes less of an issue for a lot of people.

  24. Sabres ending ECHL Affiliation with Cincinnati

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    49 minutes ago, PromoTheRobot said:

    Maybe they want to bring an E franchise closer to Buffalo. Elmira? Binghamton? Maybe Buffalo and have them play in Harborcenter?

    Binghamton would seem to be a good fit, they (and Elmira) are in the FPHL (the what?) right now, but Bingo is a much larger city but still only three hours by car to Buffalo or Rochester. Erie PA might fit, although I'm not sure how much competition with the CHL Otters there'd be for entertainment $$.

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