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I wonder if we could somehow convince Minnesota to trade Zuccarello for Olofsson?

It’s 1 garbage line and 1 energy line; the JOG line has played fine for a Bot 6 group

Hell I'd take him for free if they retain 33%

Well, had we had 3 PPs or 1 PK we likely win

I really feel bad for the kids; they outplayed Tampa 5v5 all game only to effectively lose thanks to the refs ignoring any call against us and randomly calling a penalty against us if Tampa was struggling

The refs lost us the game

Even so, he was on some terrible Flyers teams too

Elliott has been good against us regardless of team he’s been on which makes zero sense.

I utterly despise Elliott and his uncanny success against Buffalo. Crash the net, bang up the bastard!

No way To me, the 2023 1st is untouchable as is the likes of Savoie, Kulich, Quinn and Peterka.

I think its more akin to next season; he's using this year to weed through their many NHL aged prospects and acquire pieces that may come available in the meantime. For instance, due to injuries UPL and Mitts were both completely up in the air in regards to their future.

He was Jankowski’s replacement and should of understood his role. It certainly didn’t help him that he helped lose us a game by taking an offensive zone lazy penalty. The Sabres gave him an brief opportunity but he never showed anything of value besides being a good AHL vet. He knew from the onset that we were leaning to playing younger players; if it honestly surprises him that a lesser player presently but higher potential player gets time over him that’s on him, not the Sabres

Well that turns me off rather fast lol.

Isn’t he generally seen as pretty good defensively more than often? Also he’s pretty physical if I remember correctly

Only an idiot would think that he, a tweener that's 30+ should get the nod over a high end prospect. We aren't playing Bjork over him...

So exactly what were we supposed to do, he refused to report to Rochester after signing a 2 way contract with us and being beat out by multiple other players.

Well that's somewhat surprising; it wasn't like he did that well in his game or two up here.

I'd offer Östlund, Jokiharju, Mitts and our 2nd in 2023 but our 1sts are off limits

My comments will be withheld until we play NJ again. After being chased for most of the 1st and part of the 2nd; they really did seem to adapt and start turning the tide a bit. Sadly, it came a bit too late and with the lack of penalties called and an idiotic quick whistle we may have been able to tie it. Thompson's line had a lukewarm game but were surprisingly physical, especially in the 3rd. The good news is we hit the post 2 or 3 times and their goalie got lucky with a couple bounces so we were certainly creating scoring chances.

Only the last minute; they hemmed them well for the 3 to 130 mark

They are playing well enough but their damn goalie keeps making saves.

First half was rough, second half wasn’t to awful

Where the AHL truly fails in preparing players is in the sheer degree of general play style. The AHL still have teams who play like its 2002 (Belleville and others that approach things more modern style. The level of skill greatly differs from the best to the worst and I'd say it's rather obvious that playmakers will have a far harder time than scorers due to their requirement of a 2nd player with talent.

Carolina weren't a scrub team, but were extremely lucky in the playoffs with every competitor having critical injuries. Additionally Cam Ward was truly a 1 hit wonder for them that year. Buffalo had a far better team when healthy and seeing as we took them to 7 games using a Defense held together with glue and scotch tape.

Weirder things have happened We are better than Detroit when healthy I understand the math, but if an 8 game losing streak is the end then all the other teams that had 7/8 game losing streaks are all doomed.