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Frankly the only year he could of was 3/4 years ago. The last two weren't exactly conducive for it based on the market available. All the good UFAs re-signed with their former team such as Andersen, Raanta, and Varlymov and no goalie trades actually occurred this offseason despite massive rumors. When the only NHL goalie dealt is Casey DeSmith (with some old baggage) you know there's little to pick from.

Rough night overall, everyone seems to have issues off and on. I think partially its on the fact they are trying to play better defensively and thus its causing issues in figuring out that balance they need between offense and defense. You're reading far to much into it here; he's certainly saying they need to commit to playing team defense not that they don't know how. One theory of mine is that some players are more D committed than others and that is part of the disjointedness we are seeing. And that is what Johnson is putting out there. Also I think Tuch is rusty after missing almost every preseason game and some of camp with general soreness.

Any interest in an olofsson - leblanc swap

I'm unsure what he was doing but he needs to stop unless playing the Sabres lol Oh Gorges, if only you had been on this team instead of the tire fires of the 2010's

Felt while we let off the pedal midway through the 2nd; they deserved the win seeing as they more or less played ok the whole game and did well on defense for the most part. Lightning always seem to get bounces and PPs against us though. I honestly feel bad for them at the end of the 3rd since they played that perfectly for 2 minutes only for one slight bounce to give the Lightning that ray of light to score through. As for Dahlin's play, he reached out to chip the puck away, by the time he had re-stabilized the puck was already coming back to Hagel.

2 bad bounces and they get two goals

His issues always pop up. 1. Lack of creativity 2. Unnecessary difficulties added to plays (3rd&1 running out of shotgun) 3. Lack of adjustments in real time.

At this point, yes

I see him as a guy who gives an effort but rarely does more than the minimum in regards to helping the offense or defense. Too often he’ll dump it in and just stop or try to make an ill advised pass through four guys. Why he’s an anchor is not due to purely effort or skill but that he is equivalent to a cherry picker. He goes to places he can one time the puck and then just effectively waits for his line mates to do the rest. Essentially his play allows defenders to ignore him somewhat and double team Cozens/Mitts last year.

I wouldn’t go as far as say he is without any blame but this idea he’s not even trying anything feels ridiculous to believe.

Can anyone explain how a puck that was deflected down hitting the crossbar isn't a high stick?

Hmm, would anyone trade Olofsson for Garland (3x4.95) the issue is he's another small guy

Again, yelling about it is all well and good but there's evidence he has attempted to acquire pieces like Chychrun and potentially Pesce. Matt Murray was also targeted and declined; Gibson and Swayman were targets before in previous trades. There is a major difference between sitting on your hands and doing nothing versus trying but failing. They don't amount to much in differing results but it does matter in terms of arguments. He isn't blissfully ignoring issues; he's just conservative with his assets and is likely getting skewered by teams in trade offers since they would know what we need as much as we fans do. Well there's a major difference between trading A tier prospects and/or picks for high end players and teams asking for top tier returns on marginal players. Top 4 RDs aren't exactly easy to acquire from other teams. They either are old, often injured, or covered in warts if not all of the above. Goalies are literally a roulette table outside the few elites that aren't for sale anyway. Our best hope would be for Nashville to fall apart and be open to moving Saros whom would give a legitimate target worth higher level assets as he under contract for an additional year. As for forward, the only interesting name floating around on the trade market is Garland from Vancouver but he's a bit overpaid and would be yet another small speedy guy. Good for him? He's scored on Jake Allen and an old Fleury. We've played two Vezina candidates/winners.

2 apples for Benson and he's the 2nd youngest Sabre to ever get a point. Off by 5 days from being 1st

It is on the depth chart, but on paper it hasn’t. That is correct

I’m guessing no one wanted to take Olofsson for anything and it would be hard to justify to the players trading a friend who scored 28 last year for pucks.

It aggravates me to no end losing games where we had better chances and yet a questionable goal and the refs lack of calls seems to help bury us. Skinner needs to get going. Tage looked better by the end. Tuch was spotty. Olofsson must hold an idiot ball for whomever centers him. Mitts last year and Cozens this year looks inept. 3rd line played great, Benson certainly showing why he’s here. 4th line was Krebs and old guys. Clifton looks shaky and Jokiharju is just unpredictable. The rest played fine. Levi let in the 1st which wasn’t great but played great the rest of the game.

BS from the NHL

Sabres have definitely been the better team this period

Clifton has disappointed so far but Johnson has been very much the bottom pair vet savvy we were hoping for

I’m just tired of hearing it everyday, everywhere any circumstance.

It’s not that I don’t want it fixed but I just don’t see reasonable options to fix it. Not to mention the likelihood of finding a good one at fair value is almost impossible. Plus if we took Campbell for instance, all we’d hear here is we overpaid for garbage. Greenway!

They have two forwards who have led the league in points the past 5 years.

The Oilers have more or less had the same issue while doing the opposite. They have signed, traded and acquired at least 9 goalies and are exactly where we are but with a 6mil anchor goalie.

Is there any more common occurrence than Buffalo teams getting ***** by refs? I do wish half of you guys would stop it with the endless complaints. Guess what, goalies that are considered good don’t get traded. Your three options are draft and develop, trade mass assets for a question mark or sign a question mark for way more than he’ll likely be worth.