Dave Dryden
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He plays center and wing. Some feel he can be a center in the NHL.
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Marner seems too small to be a center in the NHL, more of a wing. Strome is bigger, and when he fills out he will be a monster.
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I'm not sure even McEichel will make that big of an impact in their first season. Not elite right away, I mean.
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Understood. I suppose when they are on the clock such a trade could be made.
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Not bad for the third overall pick. Hmm.
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Strome has moved up to #3 on most boards. If close with Hanifan, I see them taking a center. What do you base your conclusions on?
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Is Jack Eichel really guaranteed to be that much better of a center than Dylan Strome? Because that is effectively what you are saying.
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Couldn't agree more. All this proves is my philosophy on life: Happiness (or unhappiness) is merely the gap between expectation and reality. People who expected it was automatic to finish 30th are now unhappy-- and we are still 30th. They simply feel they lost their "guarantee."
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Doubtful. 3-2-1 or 4-2 seems fanciful when you watch this team play. Sports Club Stats give them an 89% chance to be the 30 seed. Seems about right.
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Realistically, most points I see team getting in final 6 is 6-- playing .500. If correct, we now have a 33.5% at McEichel as we won't catch Edmonton. If Arizona gets 2 points in final 5 games, it moves to 100%. I like our chances.
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Yes. The fans behavior is both rational and sophisticated. Look at the economics of it. The goal is to win the cup each year. Next, make the playoffs. When it became clear that neither would happen-- and there was a brief moment when folks were talking playoffs in late 2014--what is the consolation prize, getting a generational player. Finishing say 24th is meaningless. Fans in many cities would not get that because they lack a deep understanding of the game(although because it is McDavid and Eichel, it is not that hard). Sabres fans are taking the long view because, well there is no other view to take. The current team is an embarrassment, the fans did not put that team on the ice, the team did. Look at the NFL and the QB position. Indy gets Manning and the Luck because they sucked at the right time. Did they tank? Who knows and who cares because they got Manning and Luck. McEichel is just one more piece in a rebuilding puzzle. Looking forward to next year when a team with more talent-- McEichel, Reinhart, Ennis, Kane, Girgensons, Risto, Bogosian, etc-- takes the ice.
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Indeed they did
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Last year, as in previous years, there was 55% chance that one of the bottom three teams would get the first pick. In 2015, a transition year, that figure drops to 45%. So it is now more likely than not that a team outside the bottom 3 will get McDavid, which was not true before.
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Sure, it's a gamble, but a reasonable one. It it also a gamble for the Jets that Armia or Lemieux will pan out, or the low #1. If all the pieces work out for both sides, it will be a win-win trade.
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Me too. We have so many propects and picks, I don't mind parting with a few. These guys were very high picks who have been playing in the NHL since their teens. Tremendous upside as they are still quite young. Need exactly these kind of guys to speed up a rebuild.
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Like Zadorov and Ristolainen. Or Girgenson. If this is a deep draft, having three first rounders may let the Sabres have their cake and eat it too. Only time will tell. But GMTM seems like he knows what he is doing.
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Fruit or a B-12 shot?
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Avatars: The ongoing endeavor to rid you of Timmay.
Dave Dryden replied to spndnchz's topic in Archive
Just seeing if I got rid of him. DD -
To me, Darcy looks and sounds like a spurned lover. After defending his core for years, and making tweak after tweak-- including firing Lindy-- he has now decided his love of the core is unrequited and he must kill them all. So I suspect he will trade Vanek and Miller, as he is now in rebuilding the team from scratch mode over the next 3-5 years ala the Penguins pre-Crosby. I think the only way the start from scratch approach is avoided and Miller and Vanek stay is if Regier is fired. A new set of objective eyes could come in and decide that there is enough left on this team to form a reasonably talented core-- e.g. Vanek, Miller, Hodgson, Ehrhoff, Myers, Foligno, Ott, Grogorenko, Sekera. In other words reload not rebuild as Regier seems to have concluded.Then with all the picks Regier has stockpiled, make a big trade to get top tier talent, i.e. one or two more core pieces. Add a couple of free agents, and maybe you can be decent quickly while building for the future as well. I don't know if that would work, but I see no chance of that happening with Regier here given the way he spoke yesterday.
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Hodgson 8/11 -4. Kassian 5/3 -4
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I think I always knew what you meant. Life just sucks when an organization and team is as effed up as this one is right now, especially when two years ago everyone thought we were going to enter a golden age. Until we get a GM/organization that understands talent alone-- without an unwavering hatred of losing and players that will do everything to avoid that horrible feeling that comes with losing --is not worth much, this team will continue to float. And that drive has to come from your best players--like Briere and Drury used to be-- not from the Otts and Kaletas of the world. So the waking you up part actually makes sense to me, and I wish I could do it myself but I'm too addicted. But it is going to take time to find those high level players that play because they want to win, and getting paid is a nice side benefit, not the other way around.
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As a "figure of speech," what you said means I am not going to pay any attention to this team unless and until the Sabres fire Regier and Pegula does something that persuades you he really wants the team to win a Cup--whatever that might be. That seems like a fair position. Given your intentions, however, the correct description of your choice of words would be "posturing."
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That seems unfair. No one wants to canonize him, but he was a very good coach and by every indication an even better person. This is not a tragedy-- no one suggests it is--and was something that had to be done. But it is a little sad, and it's OK to grieve over it for a day. And I suspect you'll be posting here all the time, so no need to wake you up several years from now-- you'll be watching every minute and commenting.
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He mostly thanked people for his time in Buffalo, from the various ownership groups, players, to Darcy and mostly the fans. He will live in Buffalo, but he will coach again, probably soon as he already misses it. He watched hockey on Wedesday night, but could only get through one period of the Sabres game last night-- said it was too bizarre. Said the players gave him everything they had, that Pommers, Miller and Vanek are very upset where things stand with the team.