dudacek
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How much better is McDavid than Eichel?
Is it Crosby/Malkin?
Or more extreme, like Mario Lemieux/Ron Francis?
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McDavid takes away the flaw in Oil's top end: the franchise centre.
If they can parlay Hall or Eberle into a stud defenceman, their core is set.
They still have to do a lot work filling in the Tonellis and Sutters and Nystroms.
But those guys are easier to find than the core.
A good GM would have them contending in a year or two.
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13. First guy since Yuri I would be comfortable seeing wear it.
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Canuck fans prefer Lack. They did before Miller ever played a game.
Haven't had the radio on today, but they may be backpeddling now.
That fanbase is brutal on goalies.
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Didn't Eichel play in the FN Centre this year too?
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That was my favourite.
I think I asked you to turn it into your avatar, but it looks so good full-sized.
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I have virtually no opinion on goaltending. It seemed like just about any goalie the Sabres had put up great save percentage numbers but still lost;.
I thought this too, but Neuvirth's was .918 with Buffalo and Enroth's was just .903 with the Sabres.
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Somebody made a great suggestion a while back about doing a series of individual player discussion threads to keep the hockey talk moving through the offseason. I figured if I want to read them, I may as well create them too.
I'm will start a new thread about another Sabres player every couple of days running through the next few months. We can have at it about what we like about this player, what we don't, and how we see him fitting in to this team in the future. It might be a great opportunity to see what the forum consensus is about our roster.
I'll start with our free agents, move on to the veterans under contract and finish up with prospects and new acquisitions as we get closer to next season. To kick things off:
#35 Anders Lindback G (26-year-old UFA)
Dallas 2/8/0 3.37 .875
Buffalo 4/8/2 2.76 .924
Lindback arrived in the NHL as part of an emerging trend for goalies: the big Scandinavian picked outside the early rounds. He spent his first two years shining as Pekka Rinne's backup in Nashville, making scouts around the league wonder if he could duplicate Rinne's success.
Tampa believed, shipping two seconds and a third to the Preds for his services with the idea of making him their number one keeper. Instead, they got two years of disappointing performances. He lost his job to Ben Bishop and the Bolts did not offer him a contract last summer.
He found work as a backup in Dallas, but his play there was so spotty that when Buffalo acquired him in a deal for Jhonas Enroth, many dismissed him as a contract dump at best. Others, pointing to his league-worst stats, said his real role was to ensure the success of the Sabres' tank.
But Ted Nolan rode him hard and he responded very well, posting far superior numbers to his two predecessors in the Buffalo crease and adding an element of puckhandling, as he kept the Sabres in a number of games.
The question is which version is the real Lindback. Did his post-deadline play has earned him another NHL shot? And will that shot be in Buffalo?
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Can't wait until our barn gets rocking like that after Reinhart, Foligno and Risto have playoff games against the Bruins or the Sens like Bennett, Ferland and Brodie just had for the Flames against the Canucks.
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Damn Calgary has got some good kids.
And that team just keeps coming.
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Eberle has to be in play.
Oilers' ask would be Zemgus.
Not sure if Pysyk/Zadorov plus NYI first would do it.
Don't think I would make the second deal. Wouldn't make the first.
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Backtracking. Damage control.
Lebrun is a shill.
Fire Murray now!
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Well, he'll clearly fit in very well with Zemgus.
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I can't speak for anyone else's experience, but I was at a bar with a group of friends last night and I was amazed not only how mad they were about losing McDavid, but how angry the vast majority of the bar was. You'd swear we just got eliminated from the playoffs. Running errands today and hearing random conversations mirrors that, so at least for some, a day did not calm the emotions. I have no idea how widespread this is, but I'm shocked by the reaction I've seen thus far.
I think that's a good reflection of mainstream sentiment as opposed to the hardcore informed sentiment of this board.
I also think the lottery was about "winning" McDavid. We didn't win, therefore we lost.
No worries Jack. They are going to love you.
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Girgensons, Risto and Ennis are the most beloved players not obtained by Murray.
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Doesn't it really depend on who Sakic and Roy ask for?
The groundwork is done. They know who Tim likes and Tim doesn't.
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I would not be surprised at all if Terry is pushing for a McDavid trade.
I would hope that the price makes that moot.
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Anything less than a 20-point improvement next year is unacceptable for me.
And LGR, your already too-tight lineup is missing the captain.
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It was a pretty non-commital statement with lots of ifs ands and buts and "best efforts" and question marks. Is it supposed to negate his previous statement that he hopes the team is better while still having a shot in the lottery?
It would for me if I read the original quote the way you did. It doesn't for you?
This thread is about whether it is Murray's goal to to have another lottery pick next year.
He was asked if it was the goal to be a playoff team next year. He said "yes."
Sure he offered the usually qualifiers about being able to meet that goal.
But ultimately his answer was yes.
He also said the groundwork has been laid for trades and free agent acquisitions he hopes to make.
That sure doesn't sound like a guy whose first choice is a lottery pick to me.
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what exactly did he say that you hated. exact quotes.
Yeah, me too.
Sorry Rob. I get your point and agree Murray wasn't politically correct and didn't choose his words perfectly.
But he hardly slammed Eichel. He said he was "more ready than 99% of the 18-year-olds to ever play in the NHL," said "maybe Sidney Crosby was more ready," said he was "special," and "anyone could tell he was special." In a previous interview he said he was "a number-one centre on a Stanley Cup team."
That's hardly "McDavid is my precious the league sucks for stealing him from us and leaving us with this bum Eichel."
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I want to hear from @fakegorbyportwinestain and some of the others who supported him in this thread about Murray's comments from yesterday.
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Quit following the Sabres.
Or jump. :ph34r:
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Since today is the day for dissecting Murray statements and this thread got to five pages, I figured we should revisit it.
Murray was asked yesterday if it is the Sabres goal to be a playoff team next year.
"I would like to think it is, yes. Can we get the things done this summer? Can we attract the players? Can we make the right trades? I can't answer that today, but I can tell you that we've done our homework, we've laid the groundwork.
"We've talked to teams. They know who we like and who we don't like. I assume that our group of young guys, the 22-and-unders, are going to get better every year, so that helps.
"But as a general manager and as a scouting staff, we have to find certain pieces that will allow us to be competitive. We're certainly going to put our best effort in that and we'll see what happens. We'll have a better picture on the tenth of July maybe."
http://video.sabres....=810733&lang=en
Relevant section starts at about 5:30.
This, to me, is far and away the most interesting thing our GM said yesterday.
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And he also knows that 29 teams would be thrilled to have him. Except Buffalo has the one GM that made last night about himself and his frustration, and not about the player we're going to land and the team's future. If you're Jack Eichel, and you've been hyped for years, that would be a bizarre change of pace.
Don't give us your real opinion Tim. Frame the narrative.
Who does Tim Murray Trade in the summer of 2015?
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