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He did, didn’t he? Guy has this weird habit of actually doing what he says he will.

I’d certainly pull the trigger for our (lottery protected) first and our 2 best seconds. I’d throw Rosen in instead of one of those elements as well. And they can have the rights to Portillo who would love the Bay Area and it’s lack of goalies. If they want Kulich, Savoie or Östlund, it gets harder. The 1st definitely comes out and the sweeteners get less.

Great trivia Hajt, Rob Ray, Zhitnik, Andreychuk (traded in his 11th, came back for a 12th), Rico got traded in his 10th, as did Don Luce, Lindy Ruff and Mike Foligno. And Zemgus would be in number 10 this year, if he hadn’t have missed the entire season 2 years ago.

The injury situation this year really has been remarkable.

Cozens can’t shoot the puck as well as VO, but he can shoot it pretty good. He can also pass the puck better, retrieve it better, enter the zone better and win faceoffs. I wish they could take better advantage of Tuch and Skinner down low. We don’t score many back door tap-ins like Vic got last game, and we rarely bury anything from the bumper slot like how Bergeron seems to score every game against us.

I hope people aren’t thinking McCabe is an upgrade on Jokiharju.

He’s a one-dimensional goal-scoring middle-six winger who isn’t that fast, gritty or defensively strong. Good player, good guy, good buy-low candidate, but he doesn’t bring us anything we don’t already have and basically pushes Quinn or Peterka off the roster. Like him, not interested in acquiring him.

I didn’t like them as a line in Rochester: weren’t enough pucks to go around. That said Krebs is not playing the same style of game right now, so who knows?

No. (Sorry, this is a pet peeve of mine). Tage was a young player with less than 150 NHL games under his belt at the start of the season when he broke out. That is what young players generally do in the NHL, start showing what they really are around 200 or so games Horvat has put up between 39 and 61 points 7 straight years before popping in his 9th season at age 27.

Fair. Just because I don’t buy an outlier year doesn’t mean others won’t. Canucks management made it clear they offered him a “fair” contract based on his career, not this year. IMO, that’s something in their favour. It will be interesting to see what he signs for.

How so? I would say that as an RFA, rather than a UFA, Sam would have more value from that perspective.

I know points aren’t everything, but these are their career numbers Horvat 420 points in 621 games Reinhart 416 in 584. Horvat gets a slight bump for being a centre, but it’s not like he’s great at D.

They arent, but are you going to tell me Horvat is that much better than Sam Reinhart? Compare that to his return.

Like he said, Beauvillier and Olofsson are both middle-six wingers roughly similar in age and salary. Prior to this season: Beauvillier had 39, 28 (injured) and 34 points. Olofsson had 42, 32 and 49. I’d prefer Olofsson, but anyone who’s read Sabrespace is familiar with the holes in his game. The comparison isn’t “silly”. Maybe Mitts is a better match, but it’s one or the other in terms of Sabres comparables.

Even if this happens, the fact we only play 4 games in 20 days means it’s unlikely we will still be there in 3 weeks. I feel good about our chances, but I doubt this will be as smooth as we want it to be.

Sorry was Olofsson 6 weeks ago 😁

So Raty probably falls in between Kulich and Rosen, the 1sts are virtually identical and Beauvillier is Olofsson.

Islanders continue to trade tomorrow for today in a mad dash to stay relevant before Lou signs off. They should be making trades the opposite direction.

Shayna Goldman was on with Marty and Duffer talking about the deadline and floated the name of Brock Boeser as someone who could be acquired cheaply and boost the 2nd line. Im not into a move like that at all. Would much rather let JJ and Jack keep getting better in those roles than bring in a slight upgrade short-term.

IMO, the Sabres have players on the roster who look like they can fill these important roles for a long time: 1-3C Thompson, Cozens, Krebs 1-3D Dahlin, Power, Samuelsson Top-6W Tuch (and Skinner, but he's aging) We are 2 wingers and a goalie away from confirming our core. I am reasonably confident those three missing pieces are Peterka, Quinn and Levi, so I would be very reluctant to trade any of those without a core piece coming back, but would do it for the right return. I don't want to trade Savoie, Östlund or Kulich simply because I am high on all three. But logic dictates if you want to play, you've got to pay. They are available for the right return. Johnson is the only prospect in the system that we "need" meaning there is spot waiting and open for him if he earns it. He's available too. The rest are absolutely on the table.

Linus Weissbach and Casey Fitzgerald are the 2 Sabres prospects who stayed 4 years in college recently. Each signed with Buffalo instead of going UFA.

That was UPL’s 3rd shootout. He saved 4 of 6 in his other 2, a win over Minnesota and a loss to the Capitals last year. I’ve seen Quinn take a lot of shootouts outside regular season NHL games. I have no doubt he earned that slot in practice. He’s scored some of the nicest shootout goals I’ve seen. I think the wily vet threw him off a bit with the fake poke check, just like he intended. Quinn usually dekes.

I took your bolded as a handwaving of the past three years, like “the comparison still holds because Jack has been hurt.” And my bolded was trying to say “but that’s a big reason why the comparison doesn’t hold up.” No gear-grinding intended. Logging off to watch game.

Getzlaf might work for what Jack should have been, but not for who he is. Years 6-8 he stayed at the table and cemented himself as 1st-line centre. And that was after he had won a Stanley Cup. To the best of my recollection he never clashed with his coaches or management, forced a trade, suffered serious injury or put up the kind of numbers Jack has the last 3 seasons. These are all parts of Jack’s story. You’ve put a lot of emphasis on Jack’s first 5 seasons during this discussion, but you can’t ignore the past three.

Who is Jack tracking as a comparable now? Assuming the majority of the next 5 or 6 years fall within the highs and lows we’ve already seen. Best guy I could find is Tyler Seguin, who settled in as #1 centre but not your first choice as one, or a guy you really want to build around?