thewookie1
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Technically we can trade a defender, so basically any young winger could be in play.
I'm unwilling to trade Risto
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Can anyone give me some names of quick wingers that might be available for trade or signing aside Grabner.
I'm still at this essentially
https://www.capfriendly.com/armchair-gm/team/665095
But we still lack any real speed on the wings besides Bailey, ERod, Baptiste, and maybe the guy I acquired from EDM?
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I'd start the season (buying out Bogo)
Guhle - Risto
Scandella - Dahlin
Pilut - Nelson
McCabe
Then once Dahlin is flying you just swap the top pairings. Regardless it will save Risto from needing to play 27min a night.
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Finally we are winners!
Dahlin!
Dahlin!
Dahlin!
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I pray to God Allen drinks from the well of Middelstadt and becomes a demi-god. Otherwise we ###### up again.....
The second pick I really liked.
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Ales Kotalik when he was at his peak is what I see.
Not an amazing stickhandler but very good
Incredible shot
Likely will thrive either on PP1 or PP2
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No way I’m trading ROR to Montreal; anything we’d receive would pale in comparison to how much ROR would save them.
If I’m trading him, he’s going out West
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Glad to see Kane doing well in SJS, they have a very strong leadership group so I highly doubt he’ll have any behavior problems if he stays. And if he stays he’ll thrive.
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Let's set the stage, it's opening night in 2016 and the Sabres have just learned Eichel is out at least 20 games. He returns the team stumbles around but gets within a few points of the playoffs by the bye week only to completely spiral afterwards. Eichel sulks a bit after losing after his multiple points and then misses out on his bonus because of it. Eichel is a young man with high aspirations for the future, faith in his team, blinders even to how bad they actually are thus feels their woes are due to Bylsma's system. He's pissed, speaks to the media like a child and, while I doubt he threatened contract negotiation stuff, wanted Bylsma gone. In his head, Bylsma's looser system for him should be extended to his teammates and since that won't happen with Bylsma; he needs to be rid of to allow the Sabres to play modern NHL style hockey rather than defensive styled hockey with endless stretch passes. He accomplishes this with the help of his fellow angry teammates and with the firing of GMTM and Bylsma and then hiring of Botts and Housley they would get just that. So he goes into the offseason confident this team will thrive and later signs on the dotted line to stay here 8 more years after this one. Housley's system is more to his liking, Botts is more personable as well and the team will rock, right? Wrong, they start off awfully as many players can't handle playing the system and although Kane, Pommers, and he are playing well; everyone else is a train wreck. Then goes Moulson to the minors, it shocks him as he believed Moulson would look better if he got more opportunity to score but instead looked incapable.
The season continues and they still suck, he's confused by the fact this isn't working. Although he does start trying to take a more leader-like role but then he gets injured again. The season could be over and yet again his team is a failure. His frenemy in Matthews is going to likely go to the playoffs while he's stuck on the couch. He works to get back, he wants to finish the season strong but watching the team from above confirms what he had refused to believe so far in his career.....They sucked, while they still looked better than last year at times his teammates seemed in over their heads at times. Like a switch in his head going off, he knew what was wrong; it wasn't Bylsma as much as it was his team, they couldn't handle the modern NHL game, they rarely gave a solid effort, and they were jokes. It was time to grow up, because as the franchise player with 8 more years here; if he wanted success he would need to personally lead them to it and if that meant he may lose a few of his friends a long the way than so be it. This was his team and thus he was a changed man.
What do you guys think?
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I have no idea where the mods are but shouldn’t this thread be locked? After all none of this thread even mentions goats or the temporary acquisition of one.
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Pi was never not nuts.
That is true....
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I just don't see how anyone here can get that excited over Asplund, Olofsson, Nylander, and, at this point KO as well. Nylander is the highest rated of the bunch and he's a season away from busting. I think you guys are fecking nuts.
Go watch the Sunshine thread’s videos for three hours then come back. You’re so negative that you are making pi go nuts. Nylander is not a bust not close to one yet, he’s barely 20
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I am so disappointed with this roster and our prospect list that none of these lines move the needle for me at all. Each line has one or two guys minimum that I don't need to see on the ice next season.
Well I'm not literally just going to dump half the roster for scraps. I would like to be good next year not wait another five......
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Here's what I have so far with fowards
??? - Eichel - Okposo
Nylander? - ROR - Reinhart
ERod - Middelstadt - Pommers
??? - Girgensons - Baptiste
I liked the two middle lines these past couple games and Pommers would be training wheels for Casey where as ROR and Reinhart would be the same for Nylander. I would guess Okposo will do better after a full off season without any life threatening injuries to deal with but we are in dire need of a fleet of foot, legit, LWer for Eichel who isn't dependent on him. I'd like in the following year for Okposo to take Pommers spot on the 3rd line.
I'm ridding us of Larsson and Nolan, Josefson wasn't bad but was too injury prone.
Defensively I'm rather at a loss still, I can't even fathom the pairings.
Scandella - Risto
Guhle - Nelson
??? - ???
First I'm buying out Bogo, dumping Baloo on a curb, and maybe trading Antipin's rights to Winnipeg if he's soured on Buffalo. McCabe is the sticky one as he is so confusing. Trade him or 3rd pairing?
I'd bring Falk back as a 7th D if he's cheap but not as a bottom pair guy.
Gorges please retire and ship Tennyson to the sun
Goalies........
Ullmark!! Ullmark!! Ullmark!!
Try to trade Lehner's rights and try to forget Lehner and Johnson's horrible 2nd Season. Let us just remember their rather good first run of it two years ago.
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I get the feeling Eichel wants other players to do stuff on the powerplay but they seem determined for him to do everything.
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How about the rest of the awards? (Team Awarded)
Team MVP - Eichel (Eichel)
Unsung Hero - Nelson (Girgensons)
Rookie of the Year? No One (Antipin)
Play of the year? Who cares, most likely Eichel anyway.
Performance of the year? Eichel's hattrick or his 5 Assist Night
Goal of the Year? Eichel versus Maple Leafs (All of them)
Best Acquisition? Scandella - He's a middle 6 Dman we acquired for scraps
Worst Acquisition? Beaulieu
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The Sabres won the very first draft lottery in NHL history. The looser was Vancouver. I think it would be poetic justice if Vancouver were to win this coming lotto and start a rebuild after the Sedins retire with the #1 in the coming draft.
Do you like us being screwed or something?
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Caught a snippet of Casey’s speech after practice yesterday to rally the team down the stretch and into next season.
“We shall go on to the end.
“We shall fight on the ice, we shall fight against the Leafs and the Bruins, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing speed through the neutral zone, we shall defend the Key Bank Centre, whatever the cost may be.
“We shall fight by the benches, we shall fight on the face off dot, we shall fight in the corners and in the crease, we shall fight in OT;
“We shall never surrender.”
Good job, I’m a sucker for WWII references
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Klink, Schultz and Burkhalter.
Stalag 13.
I heard nothing.....
Housley’s Flying Circus, it was the Red Baron’s before Monty Python.
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He sure did.
But.
Where was this franchise center the previous 4 games where he put up 0 points and a -6?
He is still coming off injury, and honestly he isn't amazingly consistent when the team decides to just snooze.
He also seems to hate Toronto as much as we do so he plays like a man possessed against them.
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What? So much what. Sarcasm?Awful on so many levels.
1) puts this kid into the NHL two years too early. In what universe is the consensus best prospect outside the NHL in any way close to being able to play in the NHL?
2) totally ###### the Amerks chances to do anything the playoffs. Botterill had a chance to help help our minor league team by forcing Mittelstadt to play there, but instead - as he typically does - put his own selfish desires ahead of the best interests of a proud minor league franchise.
3) provides false hope to our fan base who will somehow think adding top young talent to the roster will give them reason to start watching again. This has Brandon written all over it.
4) gets Sabrespacers we haven’t heard from outside the BIlls and booze threads in months talking hockey again. I won’t stand for it.
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Do you guys notice how much standing around most the team does when Eichel has the puck? It's like when he gets the puck the vast majority either skate exactly to where they are supposed to go without any judgement calls on the opposing defense's location or they just kinda stand around or move within in a small circle. Its extremely noticeable on the powerplay or EN opportunities. Eichel gets the puck, does a loop-de-loop waiting for others to catch up or to try and shake a dman but rarely does anyone move to give him someone to pass to aside from sending it back to the point or occasionally Reinhart splits off into the corner. He draws people to him, and rarely does anyone take advantage of that instead opting to slowly reassess while the other team re-does their formation thus nullifying Eichel's work. Thus he resorts to forcing the puck places, especially when time is expiring since he has no real options besides force a pass to try to make a play or continue to cycle and waste time. I'd be dejected looking too if I felt like I was damned regardless of what I did. He's not great at deking due to his giant stick so he relies a bit more on having a teammates to use for give and goes or to set up yet either they fail to do so or muff the play altogether more often than not.
Eichel isn't without fault for he stands a bit in the Dzone but it must be disheartening to him. Their PP works best when the players are moving a bit and Eichel can cross ice the puck to ROR for a one timer or vice versa. Awkwardly standing doesn't work.
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Which Buffalo team shows up? The one that beat Chicago or the one that slept through the Arizona game
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I didn’t say it was a reasonable price they paid (because it was a huge price) but it still screwed over the bills. Indy was the logical choice to trade with and now its out. I just don’t see the giants moving out of 2. Therefore the next logical trade partner might be Tampa bay at 7 but what’s the point if the big 3 and likely 4 are off the board by then?
This. But I don’t see how it happens now unless we trade the farm AND ny giants agree to trade back.
Then trade a farm
And Geno Smith is god awful still
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Posted · Edited by dewookieen
Would you be willing to take on Orpik's salary to get Grubauer?
Beaulieu for Hagelin straight up?