Cage
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Wouldn't be too hard for Steve Carell to pull off Ted Darling....
-- Punch Imlack, since we're casting people who have since died, I've seen former NY Mayor Ed Koch in movie cameos before. He'd make a grea Imlach
-- Michael Fassbender as Dominik Hasek
-- John Kraskinski is Pat Lafontaine
-- A young Gene Hackman as Don Luce??
-- Lucy Liu would have to be Kim Pegula
-- Leslie Neilson is Terry Pegula
-- This would need an element of cartoon in it, so Dexter (Dexter's Laboratory) is Tim Murray
-- Harry Styles could be Eichel
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15 minutes ago, GASabresIUFAN said:
WOW! I'm honestly shocked. If we have to trade Risto, I think we did very well. Kudos to KA. I actually really like Hagg and think he'll be a good fit here. Also the 13th overall pick is a solid pick in this draft. A few good centers like Lucius, Sillinger, Raty and Svechkov will be available here.
Anyone still angry we protected Risto over Borgen? Didn't think so.
That would be GMKA
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43 minutes ago, Taro T said:
Anybody think Wallstadt lasts to 13?
They're going to move up... they want Eklund
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17 hours ago, dudacek said:
You know what I’m finding very interesting?
In that podcast with Millard (in the Granato thread, well worth the listen), Donnie gushed about how helpful four veterans were in helping transform the team’s attitude post-Ralph.
Staal is gone, and apparently Reinhart, Risto and Okposo trades are being seriously considered.
Seems odd to rob the new coach of all the guys he was leaning on.
Taking that a step further, Eichel, McCabe, Okposo, Reinhart and Ristolainen all wore letters last year. There is a good chance all could be gone. Has that ever happened?
At this point there's never any discussion of Girgensons filling that vet role as he missed all of last season. But he'll be back this year. Isn't he a core vet to guide the young core?
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4 hours ago, Hoss said:
I feel like we should definitely separate roster speculation and front office/coaching speculation.
And the title suggests more than just one rumor
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Do their contracts start next season? Seems have openings with all call-ups now. Wouldn't Sabres want them to report to Rochester right away for some game?? They're cycling players in on PTOs
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What about potential #1 overall pick.... Owen Power?
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15 hours ago, Curt said:
Best ECHL vs average NCAA D1? Sure ECHL.
How about the best NCAA D1 team vs best ECHL team? I’m probably betting on the NCAA.
Very bad NCAA D1 vs very bad ECHL? I’d probably go with the ECHL.
So with that said, Stephens was a +35 and had some offense to him on the best ECHL team. I'm not suggesting he's the second coming, but seems I'd put him up on the Amerks for at least 1/4 season and see if he belongs. He was signed to ELC as a 5th rounder, so he needed some time to develop, but now its 2 years later and it seems like he performed in Cincinnati. If there's no purpose to ECHL other than to park a goalie for a season, then what's the point?
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7 minutes ago, dudacek said:
He couldn’t climb ahead of the guys in front of him.
Dahlin
Ristolainen
Montour
Miller
Bogosian
McCabe
Scandella
Jokiharju
Gilmour
Pilut
Nelson
Borgen
Fitzpatrick
Bryson
Hickey
Redmond
MacWilliam
Paestch
Stephens
What has the bottom half of that list done that warrants that order? Bryson and Fitzpatrick played in NCAA and put up lesser numbers. Hickey's done little. Redmond, MacWilliam, Paestch are career AHLers. They determined he's lower ranked from 3-4 practices?
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3 hours ago, DarthEbriate said:
Stephens was a top D on the Cyclones last year and this year he hasn't played much. Either injury or out of favor, but regardless, they needed balancing of their pairings. Neither of them is getting past the logjam we have at defense in Rochester.
I watched him in the WHL when he was paired with Adam Foote's kid. Foote played stay at home and used his smarts and size to dissolve any attacks, plus a good active stick. But Stephens could skate compared to Littlefoote and I was hoping he'd turn that into an AHL career. Hope Spencer can help the Cyclones achieve in the playoffs this year.
I don't watch Cyclones games, but do follow the stats. He was a +35 last year on the top team in ECHL. He scored points and is 6'2". What is the purpose of a farm club if we don't see what a guy on an ELC has? Why couldn't they give him 10-15 games w/ Amerks and see if he should stick? Our prospect experts rave about players who play well in Juniors or NCAA, but isn't ECHL a higher tier league than either of those? It seems to me his stats were better in a tougher league and the team ignored it
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I like the idea of being able to let a prospect got to ECHL for a year before having to make a decision on signing them. That would make those teams more exciting for us rather than just have a goalie and 1-2 others on those affiliated teams.
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7 minutes ago, LGR4GM said:
Might be too good for the AHL but he sure as hell isn't good enough for the NHL.
21 years old... #lethimgrow
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14 hours ago, Brawndo said:
Good. Now win some playoff rounds
They all showed they're ready for the NHL next season, now they need to put a final stamp on that by dominating the AHL playoffs. For all the abuse Tage Thompson was given has being kept in the NHL, he's showing that he's too good to stay down in the minors.
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What are the salary cap implications of retirement in NHL? Must not be the same as football, where just had to eat dead cap space for Eric Woods abrupt retirement.
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I guess I'm a bit confused. Wasn't he already fully signed for this year through playoffs or is this in order to make him eligible for NHL playoffs should Sabres need him? Does this put him under contract for next year? I would think Johansen would be recovered and has to be in Rochester next year. Also, UPL comes into the system, where will he go?
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18 hours ago, Brawndo said:
The criteria they gave is owners who give their franchise freedom to spend do better than those who don’t or those franchises in questionable markets. The Pegulas have demonstrated a willingness to spend, although sometimes foolishly and Buffalo has consistently ranked at the Top of the US Markets.
Now the Pegulas have made mistakes which could factor their low ranking, however that was not listed in the criteria at the beginning the article.
Exactly.... what's made them somewhat problematic owners has been their inexperience and mistakes in hiring and trusting front office talent (both w/ Sabres and Bills). Are we hanging the season of "tanking" for Eichel around their necks as a permanent stain?
If you like Botterill and the moves he's making then the problem is essentially solved. They generally don't meddle in personnel decisions. They have fired coaches, but its not without cause. Their GMs are able to spend as needed. Facilities are first class. And there's stability in the teams not relocating anywhere. Plus they also own the Amerks just down the road, so there's long-term stability there.
So what ranks them 26th?
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6 hours ago, GASabresIUFAN said:
That time has past. Now he was 15th on the depth chart.
Exactly... Guhle, Pilut, Borgen and Redmond all would come up to the Sabres ahead of him.
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On 10/22/2018 at 8:10 AM, bob_sauve28 said:
I think he is great. Would love to sign him, but you know the Rangers are having back channel conversations offering him heaven and earth. This kind of sucks. If he won't sign, you have to take what you can get from a contender and move on.
...are you saying the Rangers are tampering? any evidence of this?
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People if you're interested in what's coming, follow the Amerks game unfolding now. Victor Olofsson now has 4 pts (2G/2A) tonight and his the leading scorer in the AHL. And his Swedish counterpart Pilut is also running a multi-point night again and is +7 leading the Amerks
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1 minute ago, inkman said:
I like the pseudonym. Kid is lighting it up. Two more goals so far tonight. I'm not sure what his deficiencies are but can they be so prolific that he can't function in the NHL.
He's the leading scorer in the AHL
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Victor Goalofsson is ready to rock and waiting in the wings in Rochester.... he's just registering his 3rd straight 3pt night (2G/1A) right now, still just in the 2nd period. 11 points in less than 6 games
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Actually, we skipped spring here. Went straight from winter on April 30th to Summer on May 1st.
Uh, that's nothing compared to what goes on in the Bills forum....
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Can you imagine our D if we had just kept the guys we drafted and developed?
Risto Zadorov
Myers McCabe
Pysyk McNabb
Nelson Guhle
Now think about our D if a competent GM had drafted Sergachev instead of Nylander? or maybe had TM allowed the team to develop more slowly, maybe we'd have had a top 4 pick in 2016 maybe Laine, Dubois, or Matt Tkachuk would be Sabres. Add that guy to the defense we should have kept, with the 2 1st rd picks we gave away and we'd be a playoff team this season.
Now that's a depressing post.....
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OK, so if the player is 6" offsides, I shouldn't have put the dimension in there. Ennis has been offside by roughly 6" on both called-back goals.
I disagree. Linesman call offsides many times per game and even get most close calls right. So offsides get properly called as a matter of course. Both last night and the Kane goal that was called back in the first game, the replay had to get down to slow-motion, nearly "frame-by-frame" to see that he was offsides. In that type of context there really wasn't an advantage to the attacking team. If the linesman called it, then fine no problem the goal would never have been scored and more importantly our momentum unaffected. Almost the bigger problem I have with this is how momentum shattering it is. It basically handed them the game after the momentum was killed. I don't think they considered the impact of taking a goal down in these situations sufficiently in such a free-flowing game.
Krebs will be assigned to Rochester
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I think most anyone who's paying attention to Sabres gets what KA's doing at this point and is on-board with the approach.....