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It would also be easier to attract goalies if we showed we can play competent team defence.

Its always been that way. The Bills are the 600lb gorilla in the room when it comes to revenue production. The Sabres don’t have a chance.

It was always a bit nuts that KA had focused so hard on Levi as THE solution long term. Crazy to put so many eggs in the basket of a prospect.

I voted no. They don’t have the goaltending to make up ground. And I think the playoff push will be a learning opportunity that won’t fruit until the next time they need to push.

Boosh would play 1 game out of every 10. Wait…… thats already happening.

My first thought was Tuch.

It wasn’t that long ago folks here were concerned about Cozens slow start to the season. As Taro mentioned, the en fuego streaks is less than 10 games old. Ligers “Quinn is about to do something “ thread is still a baby. You guys sure do like your roller coasters.

Love to see it, but this is some serious small sample size exuberance. Its a streak. Lets see where it goes.

This is the part that is so maddeningly frustrating. The plan to completely gut the team has resulted in a situation where a decade later in demand players still don’t want to choose Buffalo, necessitating a fan numbingly slow rebuild almost exclusively through the draft (exhibit A, our goalie problem). I hadn’t put any thought into it, but holy crap is this statement telling. Even with two first overall draft picks on the roster, if Tage didn’t unexpectedly blow up, we’d be Arizona or Chicago bad. No Fing way KA saw that coming and had it as part of “the process”. How many more years would we be looking at? Thank Gawd Tage is making this palatable at all.

There isn’t a LaFontaine or Hawerchuck on this roster. But that roster didn’t have a Dahlin either.

Got tix to see the Headstones at the Town Ballroom next week. Always an awesome show. We see them every time they come through Buffalo. They actually added a 2nd date for this show. \m/

I don’t think it is loyally. I think it is an evaluation, and the bulk of the season will be used to evaluate. My observation is the same as North Buffalo’s, but I never had the optimism earlier in his career. He’s got hands equivalent to Connolly. His skating is NHL level. His passing is NHL level. But he’s missing something. I don’t know if it is situational awareness, intensity, fitness level, or what, but something key is missing that is preventing him from putting it all together, and it has been missing from day 1. My gut tells me Mitts gets 1 more short NHL contract with another team and after he’ll have a long, successful career in a European league. He’s got mad tools but his toolbox is not NHL level.

Thorny, you don’t have a shrine in a back room, do you?

Nice job, drunkie.

I’m expecting the Wings to come out a bit more crotchety and determined after how the previous game between these two unfolded. Sabres better be ready for this one.

It seems apparent that the plan was to throw max kids into the fire and see which ones fight the fire. This will determine what holes they begin to plug down the road. Mitts’ roster spot, and I think Krebs and Bryson as well, are the holes that will get filled. As you so well put, the season is collateral damage from this process. I hate it.

Will be interesting to see if this intensity and effectiveness continues once the new team smell wears off.

I thought I was alone in a crowd here. I wasn't much of a Larsson fan either. I felt like his “success” was the product of artificially low expectations in the aftermath of the tank. I think Asplund is similar. I almost choked on my coffee the first time a poster claimed Asplunds play was Selke worthy. I don’t see it. I think at best he’s an intelligent player that knows to play within himself and tends to be well positioned. But thats about it.

Last year on this site there was a very vigorous defense of VO as a two way player. Now he’s a reason why we get caved in? I’m not convinced VO is the correct target. VO needs a decent center to succeed. Sure, that makes him somewhat limited in how we can use him, but thats on the roster builder, not VO. Mitts… there is the correct target. We’ve been waiting for what, 3 seasons now? for his game to mature? Its not happening. Mitts is breaking in his make or break season. IMO it is time to cut rope with Mitts and go out and get a middle of the road 2C that can make space and set up VO.

Enough of them do, but she’ll complain about the cost of living in Switzerland for sure.

Thats what I get for not looking at the Y axis closely. Interesting that at all age groups forwards never, on average, have a positive change.

I guess the point about players at 18 producing more than players at age 26 is due to the very small number of exceptionally skilled players that play at 18 have better average stats than the much larger population of players at average much lower skill at age 26. More of the same at 20, although the number of players at 20 is higher. Reverse of the same at 40 over 35 as theorized in a previous post. I mean, Jagr and who in recent memory. Thornton? Really small but highly skilled sample size at 40.