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Little surprised they haven't listed anyone year-to-year. Might as well cover all your bases.

I know this is a mistake to post, but nothing Josh did last night was 'unacceptable.' The guy threw 4 touchdowns and led his team to 31 points. He missed 5 throws all night, and at least 2 of them were thrown away on purpose. His team won going away. What I find hard to accept is the degree of angst and over-analysis that follows any sign of a misstep, and it only seems to accelerate the closer the team gets to the ultimate goal. He's a special must-watch athlete, objectively one of the best Bills fans have ever had the opportunity to cheer for. Have a beer, sit back and let yourself enjoy what he does.

Guess he got found?

There's no room for career .921 goalies on the Buffalo Sabres.

But he’s quadrupled his SHL production in fewer games! OK, it’s from 1 point to 4, but still! Personally, I don’t get why a 160-pound 18-year-old is playing bottom six minutes in a men’s league, but I guess the fact that he’s there at that age and size says something about his talent level. He’s certainly been electric against his peers.

I doubt he'd be interested, but I'd also offer Rask huge money on a short-term deal. He's exactly what this team needs.

I'd take Ullmark back before I'd take Holtby or Koskinen. I'd make the Bruins retain though. 😁

Cozens Quinn Krebs and Levi on a powerhouse Team Canada last year was a beautiful thing. Hope we can get a repeat from Power.

For those who haven't been paying too much attention, that was Utica's first loss all year. Started the season with a record 13-0 run.

Neither Holtby, nor Koskinen are good. Until you compare them to Dell.

Krebs has played left wing the past few games, and while he hasn't been bad by any means he's not making a ton of plays.

Dell makes me miss Hutton. Tokarski is a mess stylistically, but he tracks, battles and controls rebounds pretty well. Dell presents more holes than TimHorton’s and kicks out pucks like a pitching machine. He’s allowed 14 goals on 84 shots in just 7 periods in his 3 starts. That’s a goal every 6 shots!

He was very good tonight.

My understanding is he's been playing mostly centre

Yes, but Quinn plays fast. Makes very quick decisions, pressures the puck and moves it lightning quick. I'm picturing Geekie as a more slow-the-game-down, buy space and time with his body type (yes, like Staal, or like the current Tage Thompson, whom the Sabres seem to love, so what do I know?)

Sabres have shown a real tendency to want self-starters who are fast and play fast. From the little I've read, Geekie doesn't seem to fit the mould, at least the fast part. Not saying they won't pick him because he's not fast, am saying they may prefer a similarly ranked player who is more their mould if both are available when they pick, like they reportedly preferred Ekblad to McTavish. No real insight here, just spitballing. They may think Geekie's speed is fine and absolutely love everything else he brings to the table. My point was more I don't see a bunch of no-brainer Sabre-style centres between 4 and 10.

Certainly seems to be the direction Donnie wants to go. Next season you bring some of the kids to replace the bottom 4 and it gets really interesting.

Skinner Thompson Olofsson Asplund Mitts Tuch Zemgus Cozens Okposo Caggiula Bjork Eakin Hinostroza Is something I wouldn't mind watching.

Donnie kinda talked around this on WGR. Said VO coming back improves the 1st line by adding him, and the 2nd line by adding Asplund and so on, implying Eakin improves the 4th line. He also talked about the Sabres having some real talent that's not here and suggested Tuch and Casey will have similar effects on the lineup. So my take on your question is that Dylan is the 3C and gets who Donnie perceives as the 3rd best set of wingers. Will be interesting to see how this manifests itself when Casey and Tuch get back, particularly what happens at centre ice. Does Eakin get pushed out and Dylan down, or does one of the current top 3 centres get moved over to wing? I think we might see the Kyle/Dylan/Zemgus line a few of you have been clamouring for, which, in my mind, would be a helluva 3rd line.

He needs to learn to take over games by himself. Adams' plan to use the Taylor Hall effect to slowly neuter the Bruins is starting to take hold. Bjork scores. Sabres win this one.

That's still less than 50 % odds on a straight statistical analysis. And I could be wrong, because I only have a superficial understanding of each prospect, but Lambert and Geekie don't strike me as the types of players the Sabres favour.

Looks like it might be unlikely we grab a centre in the top 10 if we end up picking in the 4-10 range I kinda expect us to. But grabbing a couple with our three picks in the 20-40 range shouldn’t be a problem.

You’ve made this case before and, in general, I agree with it. The reason I’m not automatically agreeing with it now is that I just can’t overlook the fact that Tage Thompson’s physical gifts appear to be much, much higher than Derek Plante’s ever were, like in every single area. I never once thought Plante was driving play, or that he ever could. A featured role can certainly elevate production, the way it did Plante, but I’m not sure it can elevate play. Plante produced, but he never made the sorts of plays I’m seeing Thompson make on an almost nightly basis this year. Tage isn’t padding his stats on the PP, picking up garbage from more skilled linemates, rocking an unsustainable shooting percentage, or getting dominated analytically contrary to what his counting stats say. Forget Plante, and forget history, from what you’ve seen Tage do this year, give me some example of why your scenario applies?

These arguments apply to any position at any time. Of course you need to have as much good talent in the system as possible to protect yourself from any eventuality.

At one point in the game Ray was singing the praises of Werenski and saying how maybe one day Dahlin might be able to do the same things. And I thought 'tonight, Dahlin is doing more than Werenski' The Risto argument was always how his analytics were always hurt by getting #1 usage on a bad team. Dahlin is the #1 D on a bad team and still has a positive Corsi. In the 8 games since the road trip, matched up against 6 of the top 8 teams in the East, and the two best in the Pacific, he's led the Sabres in ice time, while putting up 7 points and emerged a +1. Statistically, what more do you want from him?