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  1. It's not about being nasty, it's about winning battles — getting and protecting the puck. Tage and Rasmus needed to improve in that area and I suspect they have.
  2. Short-term pain for long-term gain. Krueger did it the right way: demand he focus first on the things he needs to improve in order to make him a complete defenceman. We want him to become Lidstrom, not Housley.
  3. Absolutely. I would not give up #8 on its own for that package. IMO Strome is worth about a pick in the 20s (I personally wouldn’t pay it, but it’s a fair price) and Saad In the 50s.
  4. I wouldn’t mind the roads being like the 50th anniversary jersey in traditional colours. Loved that look.
  5. Is everybody expecting pretty much an exact copy of the unis Perreault wore and will be disappointed with any kind of variation?
  6. This ^^^ bothered me enough to dig. "If you think about the amateur draft, we have more access to video and higher-quality video than we’ve ever had. We have access to data, to things that will tell us about player tendencies, than we’ve ever had and we do have time now to really implement a data-driven player evaluation process, specifically over the last month I’ve really enjoyed working with Jeremiah and our scouting staff. They’ve been working hard in revisiting the 2020 draft and trying to incorporate more information, to be open-minded when it comes to evaluating players and I think also to develop a scout calendar and a process that can be a hybrid of both the data and the experts’ opinions, the scouts." —Jason Nightengale "I would say the vast majority of information we take in – we have multiple data sources the league has used for a long time. We create our own proprietary statistics. We purchase third-party statistics. The majority of that data from a statistical standpoint is extremely noisy. I think it’s natural to have a vetting-out process and I think that’s one thing over the last seven years that’s happened. To me, it’s imperative on the analyst to earn trust with the hockey staff and to be able to put forward useful information that is predictive of success and repeatable." —Jason Nightengale “I asked (Kevyn Adams why I was fired) and I think his words were, ‘clean slate,’ ” — ChrisTaylor "As we build our scouting department, [we want to] sync up our scouting and analytics to become seamless and work together. There's a process that we want to go through in our scouting - both from the amateur and the professional side - of how we measure players, where we see value, what certain traits are we measuring, and at what level. That, from the analytics and the scouting, will be combined into how we ultimately move forward." —Kevyn Adams "Obviously, you want hockey IQ, and the game is moving so fast right now, and to be able to process the game and understand it at a high level is extremely important. You need competitive, hard-to-play-against, resilient hockey players, and you need players that can skate. This league is fast right now, and you have to have players that can make plays and have puck skills — not just the obvious ones. It’s the little plays, the small-area plays, the plays that maybe the average fan may not even notice because it’s just through a guy’s stick or feet that it happens so quick. But that’s how the game is played now in tight areas. Those are just some ways of identifying how we will find Buffalo Sabres hockey players. —Adams "When we look at the scouting and our player development and the analytics, like, how do we put all of those together to where they can work seamlessly together?" —Adams, in response to the question of how he decided who to keep and who to let go. There's enough there for me to conclude that this was not just about cutting staff, it was about implementing a new method of player evaluation. There is no point in revisiting the 2020 draft if its just repeating the same process; there is no point in having open minds and striving to work seamlessly if previously there were no closed minds, or no seams showing. He comes across a lot better in his personal interactions than Botterill ever did, Hopefully there is more to it than that.
  7. God, I hope you are wrong about this.
  8. I don't have many issues with what Botterill preached. I have considerable issues with his execution: he showed little acumen in his ability to rate and acquire players and I am increasingly questioning his judgement in his hockey department hires. In short, he was probably a capable administrator, who was in over his head as a leader and a visionary and seemingly maxed out his skillset as hockey bureaucrat/assistant GM.
  9. Why? That seems counterintuitive after Adams flushed 2/3rds of Botterill's evaluators.
  10. I am probably one of the few people on here willing to take on McDonagh's contract, primarily because I believe he addresses our immediate need for a defence-first LHD who can kill penalties. I am OK with protecting McD, Dahlin and whichever other guy most warrants it next summer because I am comfortable with our depth compensating for the loss of one or two of Risto, Montour, Joki, Miller, McCabe. But it would cost Tampa. I'm talking Cirelli for Bryson and a 2nd. One of the more intriguing plotlines with Adams is what he really thinks of some of Botterill's guys — like Casey, Tage, Montour, Miller, Skinner (although we're stuck there), Hutton, Cozens, Johnson, Samuelsson, Luukkonnen...
  11. There will never be a team more vulnerable to an offer sheet than Tampa will be this off-season.
  12. I think the remake of the hockey department was clearly the straw. I also wonder if there were philosophical differences on how to use the cap space Botterill had accumulated this summer.
  13. And, conversely, they don’t recognize real journalism for what it is, and dismiss it as agenda-driven propaganda.
  14. Surprised this hasn’t gotten more attention given the suggestions they were in trouble in the wake of the recent layoffs: ”Pegulas’ net worth has not yet diminished during the economic downturn. In fact, from March 18, 2020 through June 17, it actually increased by 2% – from $5.0 billion to $5.1 billion.” Looks to me more like a company taking steps to capitalize as best it can on the current climate than a company struggling to survive.
  15. I believe it allows him to block trades to about 1/2 the league. This is why Tampa fans believe he will be traded. Tampa fans also seem to think he is the only player they will have to trade, apparently because they are going to sign Cirelli Sergachev and Cernak for about $5-6 million combined because Tampa.
  16. Calgary has Gaudreau for two more years, then he is gone. No one expects him to re-sign with the Flames. So it is about maximizing value. You float your NTCs as trade options around the league now because you need to know the market when you approach your NTCs at season’s end. It’s just doing your homework. I think the “increasing value” argument works for things like “OK, I will throw in that 3rd,” not for the main pieces. The basic parameters aren’t likely to change much. What might change over a playoff run is one side’s willingness to pull the trigger. For example, if Copp is the target and he shines in a 1C role, then the Jets might say “sorry, we decided to keep him.” Related, something like Risto/Montour + Mittelstadt for Copp + Ehlers is something worth looking at for both sides, knowing the Jets were willing to part with Ehlers for Risto, and assuming the Jets see top 6 potential in Casey. And it is also something that could be affected by a playoff run.
  17. Tampa needs cap space and RHD desperately and have an embarrassment of offensive depth The Sabres have a ton of cap space and RHD and need offensive depth desperately. It really is the perfect match. The question is which pieces make the the right fit: Pick 8, 2021 1st, Casey, Dylan, Joki, Miller, Montour, Risto, various prospects and picks Cirelli, Killorn, Gourde, Palat, Johnson (or even Point) and various prospects and picks. Put the puzzle together.
  18. This is the nut of it (and why deals get done). Team A thinks Casey is a bust, Team B thinks he’s a borderline 1A in the making who’s hit a bump in the development road. If team A is Buffalo and Team B Tamps, then a deal should be real easy to make.
  19. Calgary needs RHD. Montour is obvious to me. They would also need to replace the players going out because they aren’t doing it internally. If it’s a hockey trade, Reinhart is likely headed the other way. If the intent is free space, then quality futures. And don’t sleep on a goaltender. I keep tripping over the “top six winger” part of the deal. They aren’t trading Tkachuk and they need Lindholm to move into Monahan’s role because they don’t have depth at centre and they aren’t signing a replacement for him in UFA. Mangiapane is young and cheap, but isn’t really a top six. That leaves Gaudreau, which (even with his bad year and contract status) is expensive. Which is why I keep coming back to Cirelli and Killorn.
  20. I don’t think Monahan or Strome are great fits with Skinner. And there is no way Reinhart is going to the Hawks. Their goal is to clear salary.
  21. He’s listed as a guy who plays both sides and he adds size, discipline, willingness to play in traffic and Stanley Cup experience to the top six: in short he is the answer to what the captain was asking for. He would be a Skinner-like acquisition: a veteran you test drive for the season to see if there is a fit worth re-signing, and flip at the deadline if there’s not. From Chicago’s perspective he’s strictly a cap dump, and because he makes $6 million, the market will be very limited prior to the trade deadline. Hawks need to clear space for Kubalik and a new starting goalie. The price for Saad isn’t going to be much if he’s traded this off-season. I don’t think they need to trade both Strome and Saad, but that does set them up nicely to bring in some upgrades. They need goalies and RHD and cheap complementary forwards. I:’m not suggesting we dangle him, but since you brought up his name earlier, this is a team the would look at Ullmark.
  22. Saad and Strome is one I hadn’t given too much thought to that very much fits what Buffalo needs and Chicago wants to do. The price shouldn’t be that high for that combo. I wonder what the Hawks think of CaseyMittelstadt?
  23. Mrazek, Griess and Grubauer reasonable Ullmark comps? They got short-term deals in the low threes.
  24. I like the fact that you don’t think all our players are crap, but I do think you like our players more than our record deserves. Part of Tampa’s issues is the fact that their cap issues aren’t going away. They have 52 million committed to just 7 players in 2023/24, when the cap might still be flat. Those players don’t include Sergachev, Cernak, Cirelli and Brayden Point.
  25. Brian Costello of the Hockey News.
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