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I want them to play with that grit 60min and if needed more

The team looks defeated, they came out strong and once bounces go against them they deflated. This is where we miss Okposo

He's a slightly better Bjork who's also a center. Scored a hattie against Tampa a couple years ago.

Hamburg has so much snow that it has blended our trampoline into a hill and covered both of our outdoor cars entirely.

The 2023 is completely off the table in my opinion. It is far too good of a draft and we are far too unpredictable to send it away.

Biggest issue there is finding players who are truly willing to play tough and aren't just benefitting from their superior size in lower leagues.

Wouldn’t do that; that would be absurd overpay.

I disagree about Vanek, that guy took a beating through his career and rarely relented.

If he does very well, I’d almost expect Anderson to start having vet cramps and need to be on IR for stretches.

Ironically many defensive Dman I’ve looked at are all RHDs. Even ones we wouldn’t be able to trade for. I wonder why

Paquette retired Issue is we already have 3 RHDs set up and Schenn is one too. Samuelsson - Dahlin Power - Jokiharju Bryson - Lybushkin

Well yes but who exactly fits that role.

So who would you guys target that would better our team and diversify its skill sets?

How's this? DeMelo and WPG's 3rd for Olofsson, Fitzgerald, and a later pick? The issue is I can't even think of any intriguing physically active players available.

Gotta say I enjoyed listening to Vanek on Rivet & Peter's podcast the other day. They all mutually complained about how our roster has mostly skill guys with finesse but only 4 to 6 spots to put them and when will Adams decide to start diversifying the roster.

I'm done with Bryson at this point, replace him. Jokiharju I badly want to work out because of his play in his first year here but it just seems like he's spinning his proverbial defensive wheels. When we take anyone even akin to that style they either end up complete busts or never get past the AHL

In some ways its more you don't want to block prospects with mediocre overpaid players.

I just don’t understand how we can cycle through hundreds of players, coaches, and the like and yet the team always falls right back into the exact same groove. And don’t tell me ownership is to blame because I highly doubt Pegula is somehow magically popping every balloon anytime we seem to start going somewhere.

We are cursed, nothing else to say. Even when we do everything right we never get rewarded.

No it was over the whole season

Someone on CapFriendly did it last season for us and found we averaged about 4 or so hits more per road game than at home which overall would of put us at the bottom but not by some absurd level. This was after a Sabres vs Philly game in which Marty and Duffer called out the lack of hits in a rather physical game still only finishing with 13 for Philly and like 6 for Buffalo

Our arena is also known for making lower than usual hit counts for both teams which certainly doesn’t help us with overall.

Sometimes I honestly wonder if the NHL doctors team's styles from behind the scenes for TV and drama reasons. Boston and Philly must be bruisers and will be given leeway to create more of it. Edmonton is to be a free wheeling team. I say that because Buffalo hasn't had any degree of team wide physicality since at least 2008 and every known physical player we bring on seems to just stop. When is the last time Bush destroyed someone?

Well at very least we score nowadays

Boring but makes sense not to add yet another youngster trying to figure out the NHL when we have no clue how long he’d even get to try.