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  1. With Anderson out for a couple more weeks, is it smart to keep UPL in Rochester?

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    2 minutes ago, Thorny said:

    Pretty much. 

    We aren't going to see a move for a goalie, now. I'm sure Adams would take a viable starter, for free, if the contract wasn't a handicap, but who's offering one of those? My reading is that there isn't one iota of the future that Adams is willing to sacrifice in the name of the team being better THIS season. Be it even a second round pick. I think we can tell this because of what the roster looks like, but more importantly, that he could have upped his offer for Ullmark and that deal would still have been reasonable - certainly around here it doesn't seem like the terms he got from Boston would have been met negatively. But rather than make what I'd argue to be only a small "future sacrifice" by locking up Ullmark, he was sooner ready to rely on Dell and Tokarski and Anderson. Those were the goalies we could have here that didn't cost any kind of future asset. 

    What will be most telling is how he goes about managing the position for next season. If it's more of the same in net, we will know the plan isn't to win that year. 


    It's compelling, though, that Ullmark has been pretty mediocre for Boston so far this season. At the moment Adams' choice to walk away looks shrewd. We'll see how it looks as the season goes on but...

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  2. With Anderson out for a couple more weeks, is it smart to keep UPL in Rochester?

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    Running the Tokarski-Dell tandem for a few more weeks is going to be dangerous. Tokarski has played well, but he really needed to be splitting time with Anderson. Carrying more of the workload is more likely to end with him injured because he's a cusp NHL talent who's body will break down at this pace and playing behind this roster.

    We might get to see UPL soon anyway.

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  3. What we’ve learned from the Jack Eichel conclusion

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    32 minutes ago, Thorny said:

    Is this the thread McDavid came up? He isn’t even leading his own team in points right now. Imagine being one of the best ever, and that being the case? And how much playoff success have they had? 

    Two hall of famers have struggled to carry a team. I, for one, am shocked Eichel couldn’t carry Jimmy Vesey to the playoffs 

    I'm always gonna be bummed, btw, that we didn't take Draisaitl in that draft. I didn't have a problem with Sam but I definitely liked Draisaitl more. Bluh. 

     

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  10. GDT: Sabres at Washington, Nov. 8, 2021, 7pm, MSG, WGR

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    2 minutes ago, GASabresIUFAN said:

    At least Tage and Tokarski came to play.  

    The biggest concern for a guy like Tokarski is that there's just no way his body is going to hold up to getting this much work every game. He's playing very well, but playing at the top of his game every night when he's a fringe NHL goalie is just going to wear him out. It feels like an injury is inevitable.

  14. Dahlin - It’s time to take a stand

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    23 minutes ago, Pimlach said:

    Get Butcher away from Dahlin.  He would benefit from playing with a solid stay at home type that was also physical.  

    I gotta be honest, I'd try Dahlin with Pysyk or Hagg. They've both been doing pretty good work getting HEAVY D-zone starts. So maybe split that pair up and divide the grit across two pairs instead of one. It could fail horribly, but it's not like we have any reason not to try it.

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  16. Dahlin - It’s time to take a stand

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    3 minutes ago, Thorny said:

    It's getting a little freaking ridiculous, and I definitely consider myself to be a numbers guy. Granato was the "Dahlin whisperer", now he's not, I guess, just randomly? They don't think that MAYBE, maybe, it's not a coincidence that as soon as the guy we'd been playing as our number 1 D for years (when he wasn't at that level) gets moved, and Dahlin is the new face of the D, that his overall game would suffer? I actually think it does resemble Risto somewhat in the sense, it's another guy being played above his head/unsupported - and while I agree that Risto and Dahlin aren't the same player, I do take a different conclusion still when they point to Dahlin as just "another Risto". In team placement, sure, but not that they "both suck" now.

    Chad wants to deal Rasmus right now basically. 

    Agree on your conclusion at the end too. 

    They were right about Risto and now they're going to be insufferable.

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  18. Dahlin - It’s time to take a stand

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    4 minutes ago, Thorny said:

    Very salient. 

    It's not that Dahlin doesn't have significant flaws in his game, he does, but flawless players are few and far between and a good team is able to, to a large degree, mask the deficiencies of a player like Dahlin by, as you said, playing with the puck more in the end Dahlin excels in. 

    We trade players and we see them excel in other environments - a good team gives easier usage to their players as a unit. 

    Right. I'm not going to sit here and defend Dahlin till I'm blue in the face. He's got his issues. But he's good. This isn't a Ristolainen situation as much as the self-congratulating stats nerds on twitter want it to be...

    But man, just look at this roster. They weren't expected to have a winning record at any point this season. And the road trip exposed them. They can't get the matchups they desperately need to win on the road and they're getting blown up because of it.

    It just...is what it is.

    I'll worry a lot more next season if a bunch of these much-anticipated prospects make the jump and improve the forward corps dramatically and Dahlin's game doesn't become more consistent along with it.

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  19. Dahlin - It’s time to take a stand

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    34 minutes ago, dudacek said:

    I was defending him last week because I thought his 1st 5 games were excellent.

    The past 5? Not so much.

    I don’t think it’s a coincidence his performance and the team’s have mirrored each other.

    It's really tough to suss out what is Dahlin's fault and what is the fault of the fact that other teams are now taking the Sabres seriously and exploiting the HUGE dearth of talent in the forward ranks in order to press the defense. For as good as guys like Tage, Okposo, Asplund, etc., are playing, they're still not very dangerous.

    Losing Mitts and Joker hasn't helped an already depleted roster. This team is just not built to make life very easy on the defense or goalies.

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  25. Jack Eichel and 2023 3rd Traded to Vegas for F Alex Tuch, C Peyton Krebs, 2022 1st Top Ten Protected and 2023 2nd

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    6 minutes ago, thewookie1 said:

    I honestly don't think the trade is over. I believe there will be a part two with a Dman coming here.

     

    If Eichel, Patches, and Stone come back the VGK will be 10mil over the cap with the then 26 players.

    Regardless if they have zero extras and waive McNabb they still end up 4 mil over the cap.

    Between our home game against Vegas on March 10th and the end of the season, Vegas plays 24 games. They may very well be in a dog fight to make the playoffs and if Eichel and the others are already healthy I highly doubt they will elect to Kucherov Eichel and potentially miss the playoffs altogether. 

    As such, few teams would have the cap space to eat 5 to 8 million in March hence another deal.  Just food for thought.

    This is some grade A speculation and I like it 

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