dudacek
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Announced that Quick is starting for USA tomorrow
That settles it. Miller I s no better than Enroth and we will be lucky to get a bag of pucks for him.
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I think if you were to rerank 2013 this offseason based on the seasons that the prospects have had the top ten would look like this:
1. Nathan MacKinnon.
2. Seth Jones
3. Aleksander Barkov
4. Jonathan Drouin
5. Valeri Nichushkin
6. Anthony Mantha
7. Darnell Nurse
8. Sean Monahan
9. Nikita Zadorov
10. Rasmus Ristolainen
I'm pretty sure this doesn't include guys who have already made it, like MacKinnon, but the scouts think there may at least one guy you missed.
http://www.thehockeynews.com/blog/future-watch-2014-update-alex-wennberg-rockets-near-top-5/
Always look forward to that issue, eager to see if the Sabres are rated as strongly as we would hope.
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I'm curious to see how Baptiste's numbers stack up against others in his draft year. Remember, this kid is an August birthday, he's actually closer to Reinhart in age than to Risto.
EDIT
He's 14th in OHL points. The 1996 birthdays ahead of him are Dal Colle, Bennett, McDavid, and ho-Sang. He's seven points behind max Domi, the only prominent 2013 pick on the list. And he has more goals than any of those guys.
You can read too much into points, but I think it is safe to say this kid is outplaying his draft position.
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Now we know where Omark went.
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This is the calm before the storm.
Murray doesn't strike me as the kind of guy who will wait around for a last-place team to get better.
There's going to be a flurry in two weeks and a bigger flurry in June and July.
After next year's deadline we won't recognize this team. And moves will be be made that we will not expect.
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I think it is interesting that Armia is older and was drafted in a similar spot in the draft, yet Grigorenko is the one people are ready to write off. His talent is there, but I'm not sure if he gets it. Next year will be pivotal for him.
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The Lieuwen/Hackett comment is interesting. That has to mean any Miller deal on the table will have a goalie coming back.
Also, I've been expecting Luke Adam and Brayden McNabb to finish the season in Buffalo. This seems to indicate that might not be the case. The Sabres final 20 games are going to be hell to watch.
After listening to the interview, I misread that. He meant neither of those guys is ready now be to the Buffalo Sabres number one goalie, not that one would not be coming up to back up Enroth.
He said he wasn't sure if we had Miller's replacement in the organization (And to be clear, the interview was about Lieuwen and Hackett — Enroth's name did not come up).
I love Tim Murray interviews, the guy has no time for anything but hockey.
Edit: I see Tank already straightened that out. Thanks.
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Very interesting piece on the long road prospects take, focused on Ristolainen and Nurse:
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As opposed to the first 62?
:clapping:
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The Lieuwen/Hackett comment is interesting. That has to mean any Miller deal on the table will have a goalie coming back.
Also, I've been expecting Luke Adam and Brayden McNabb to finish the season in Buffalo. This seems to indicate that might not be the case. The Sabres final 20 games are going to be hell to watch.
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I'm with Baker. Baptiste is fast and gritty.
He may not be able to transfer the offence to the NHL, but he's doesn't need that to play a role.
His floor is Corey Tropp and if he can create some offence, he could be a Randy Burridge.
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That Canada/Finland was a game the coaches had to love: nothing but compete, and smart decision- making.
Also great evidence as to what's wrong with the big ice.
The puck was almost never between the dots. Small ice = more chances.
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i think Baptiste gets a shot on an energy line role for Team Canada at next year's WJC, and that could really accelerate his development.
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Damn Oshie was owning that. Even the two he missed, he had him beat.
Bob should have charged out with him going so slow.
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Dumont was legitimate player — one of Darcy's best trades coming in and one of his biggest mistakes going out.
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I think the other GMs already have a pretty solid opinion of what Miller can do, regardless of how he plays in two or three games before the deadline.
It's just a matter of them deciding whether they want to pay the price — which, depending on the demand, might be as low as a second or a conditional first.
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I think they will try to keep Eberle and trade Yakupov and/or Gagner instead.
That's what they've been holding out for. But what they need is a first-pairing defenceman, and those guys don't come cheap or easily.
I don't see them acquiring one with a Yak/Gagner combo.
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Larsson-Girgensons-Foligno could be one hell of a checking line. But yea, that doesn't really address this team's major problem going forward.
That's what this year's and next year's drafts are about.
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You guys are underestimating Edmonton's desperation. Somebody is going get Eberle (or one of their other young forwards), probably at the draft.
The price for it to be us it would probably take Ehrhoff/Myers plus, so I doubt it's us.
But Edmonton will be making a move.
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Looks like we helped out Edmonton out of a situation with Omark. No team loses here. Omark walks. Edmonton gets out of a contract and we do to due to the 15 game limit so we lose no draft pick. Edomonton now owes us a favor.
Eberele?
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Forget Miller for a while.
Does anyone think Enroth will be our unquestioned number one goalie two years from now?
I don't. I think what you see is what you get.
He probably outplays whoever his partner is next year on a bad team, but fails to establish himself as the answer.
Discussion about him continues much as it has during the past few months, and he moves on as a free agent the following summer.
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Euro bias and skepticism about Hasek's style caused the NHL establishment to doubt him.
His results on the ice never did.
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I've always had a thing for rings and ruffles.
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Reinhart, Girgensons, Compher, Larsson and McDavid can all comfortably play on the wing.
After years of ignoring the position, I'm fully behind loading up.
Winter Olympics general discussion
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Damn, it really sounds like like Canadian Olympic coverage kicks NBC's ass.
We get pretty much every Canadian-interest event live when it happens on CBC, with TSN picking up the overlap.
Then we get replays and live coverage of lesser events during the down times, and in-depth highlights in prime time. It's pretty much Olympics around the clock.
That's not to mention the live streaming of everything on the CBC website.