Kristian

That's my bet. Saw him play with Team Canada at the worlds this year - Tyler Two can play.

No thanks, I'm done living in the past.

Don't really mind Grigo's gone. Not fair to him, but I saw way too much of Thomas Vanek these past years, to be able to appreciate another sub par skater on this team, unless maybe that skater is the second coming of Dave Andreychuck.

Is Nathan Paetsch available?

D needs help, the forwards look good. On paper, yet.

Let me have a look once I start it up again, will post them here. Something very important to remember, is that EA's sliders have a mind of their own sometimes, and make absolutely no sense. For instance, this year, you have the pass reception ease slider. Well, pass reception ease... If I want the puck to be difficult to handle, and don't want players to be able to execute a perfect one-timer on every pass. I turn this down, right? The lower the slider, the lower the reception ease, right? Wrong. If you read the explanation on the slider it says "How difficult it is for players to receive and control a pass", or something to that effect. Meaning, if you turn this thing down, you end up with players who'll never have a hard pass bounce off the blade of their stick. In short, the exact opposite of what you really want. There's at least one or two more of these contradictory sliders, but I forget which they are. Need to see the menu again. Once you find those sliders however, it opens up a completely new game. I had my game going like the closest thing to real hockey I ever saw in an EA game, but like I said - The lack of features, kind of took something away in terms of longevity.

I hear Leino's available? Quite the center, there.

Still, for those of you who didn't play the XB1 or PS4 version of NHL15 - While that game misses some features from the current gen series, the gameplay itself was still a massive improvement, and was most enjoyable and even pretty "realistic", once you got the sliders right. I will however conceede, that those missing features hurt the longevity of the game. Normally I'd still be playing now, but I haven't touched it for several months now. Heavily into Project Cars atm, lol.

Aside from bringing in a top 3 forward, this trade is as much a statement to any FA defensmen out there, this year. Buffalo are now past just talking about getting better.

Vanek, Roy, Pominville, Stafford, Campbell, Miller, Afinogenov. Yup.... Things were ugly, back then.

The Russian economy is in ruins these days, KHL is far from the guaranteed money it was a year and a half ago. I'd say it all depends if we have any free agents or trades coming in over the summer. Having him play with the current roster makes no sense, but I'd like to see us add a few guys, then see how he does.

DeLuca mourned the firing of Status Quo. *Edit - Damn things move fast here now, missed that post by two :-)

Thanes16 is actually Larry Quinn and secretly plotting to take over Batista's job, and drive the Sabres into the ground once more.

I actually once posted Mika Noronen was a good goaltender....

I realise I'm late for the meeting.... But I'm still grumpy and disinterested, dammit!! I BELONG!!

Oh gawd, not another Larry Quinn...... :wallbash:

Hehe, well played.

Looked up the 96 finals series on Youtube a while back, man oh man, are we talking some high quality hockey there. Oh, and John LeClair was a monster in 1996. Some people claim Eichel disappeared over the last 2 or 3 games here, but I think people forget he probably lacks conditioning compared to the NHL'ers, and that he's basically played 9 games in two weeks. Can't blame the kid if the tank was empty in the end.

But don't they always send a young squad?

Call the clutching and grabbing like it's supposed to, it'll speed up the game, and scoring will increase again. Even if it doesn't, games will still be a lot more enteratining to watch.

I still scored a ton of goals with him. Only goes to show how unrealistic that game was :-)

Wouldn't it be morbidly hilarious if Edmonton had those exact same thoughts? :flirt:

I could easily see Vanek become a Dave Adreychuk-like PP specialist. He'd have to take a massive paycut though.

But we can agree that Regier was no stranger to overpaying for his own draft picks? And even if Pegula was willing to overpay for Ryan Miller, wouldn't it be the GM's job to decide whether or not that happens? Darcy was a yes-man, if ever there was one, which is probably how he survived three different ownerships. I have no problem with that as such, but I have a problem with any Sabres GM who can't build a proper team.

Because he turned down Darcy's ludicrous offer, obviously he was traded. Your point? This may only have been a rumour, but if there was ever a GM in the league that would make Thomas Vanek the highest paid player in the NHL, it was Darcy Regier. Hence : Thank god he's not around anymore to overpay grossly for his favorites, as this was Regier's MO.