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I don't mean he can't play, I just mean he never would have got the chance.Again, I don't understand the argument that he would not also be in the top four on other teams. He's well within the scoring range and his numbers reflect that if anything he'd be even more solid in a top four role on a team that isn't the Sabres.
He's almost definitely a top four defenseman on a team that actually has an offense.
It's because NHL coaches are conservative and NHL GMs are cautious.
The coach would be scared of his rawness and his potential for big mistakes and the GM would want to save a year on his contact and want him to pay his dues.
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Zads is top four in Buffalo and would not be in the league in most organizations.
So far, I don't get the sense being rushed has hurt him, but I do expect a lot of ups and downs in the next few years.
I think it is almost guaranteed that the fan base will turn on him at some point.
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http://www.hockeybuzz.com/blog.php?post_id=41958
I've always thought (and posted here) that I think Myers is a good own-zone defender due to his reach and skating ability. And, he is a very good penalty killer. What I take offense with is the assertion that he is a "two-way" or "puck moving" defender. He just isn't that great with the puck on his stick, especially relative to the other 24+ minute per game d-men around the league. And, he is brutal on the power play... Risto and Zadorov have more power play points than Myers in far fewer PP minutes.
I think the days of the "stay at home" d-men are fleeting. In today's game the better teams are full of two-way defensemen who are offensively skilled. That's where I think Buffalo needs to be. That's why I'd trade Myers for a guy like Cam Fowler. We'd give up a little defense in favor of more offense and I think it'd be a net gain.
A puck mover is more than a guy who works the offensive blueline.
Right now, I think Myers is very good at retrieving the puck in his zone and skating it out of danger. He also makes a solid first pass; the turnovers that plagued him so much two or three years ago still happen, but not nearly as much as they used to, and not that often if you consider how frequently he has the puck in comparison to the other blue liners on this team.
He doesn't do it nearly as often as he used to, but he can lead a rush and join a rush better than 2/3rds of the dmen in this league.
Where he falls down offensively is he hasn't shown great ability to finish in those situations, or make a nice pass to someone who can. And he is a mediocre point man.
Stay-at-home guys are like Weber and Gorges and Regehr. I think Myers offers so much more than guys like that.
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Deslauriers is started to remind me of Brad May in the role he plays on and off the ice.
I can see him having that kind of career and relationship with the fans.
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Are you joking, or just deliberately misleading? Detroit took 2 forwards in the 1st round during the SEVENTEEN-YEAR Darcy period, and both (Sheahan and Mantha) are better than Stafford.
No. They are expected to be better than Stafford.
One has played at similar level to what Stafford did in his first two seasons.
The other has never played an NHL game.
Interestingly enough, Sheahan was Darcy's target the year we took Pysyk. Detroit swooped in and picked him just in front of us.
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Opinions about Myers are all over the map. Some folks see him as the next superstar. Some see him as a complete liability. And, all sorts of opinions in between. Honestly, I've never seen a player who polarizes our fan base as much as Myers does.
There has been nobody who sticks out so much physically and has been so varied in his game over so long a period of time.
Except for quarterbacking the power play, at some time in his career he has shown me every skill — offensively and defensively — an elite defence man should have.
The trouble is he has never shown me all those skills at the same time, and he has also gone through some maddening bouts of bad decisions, soft-play, turnovers and awkwardness that make me wonder if I'd imagined what I saw before.
We've all seen this stuff and some elements of it stick with some of us and others elements with others.
And it means we all seem to watch him and judge him through very different expectations and filters.
Most of us made a call on who we think he is a long time ago, but the truth is he's been a different player virtually every season of his career.
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Sounds like I may be the only one who prefers the current darks to the 1970s version.
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Great puck possession goal by Fasching here:
http://www.sabresprospects.com/2015/02/27-recap-fasching-takes-charge.html
I hope he isn't the latest in a long line of Kassian/Pyatt/Rasmussen-types to mess with my power forward affections.
But the kid's work ethic seems non-stop. Right now I'm thinking worst-case scenario is Mike Grier.
And this is always good to revisit from time-to-time.
http://www.sabresprospects.com/2008/01/sabres-prospects-statistics.html
See Reinhart's production has really slowed down post WJC.
Johan Larsson's numbers are very good for a 2-way guy in the AHL. But he hasn't shown any offence up here.
I'm really curious to see if he is in Murray's plans. Maybe he gets a long look after the deadline?
I never thought Lemieux would score like that. The fact he and Baptiste have skills sets that will let them play in the bottom six even if their offence doesn't translate makes me feel good about their chances.
I wasn't big on the Hurley pick when they made it and he's doing nothing as a college rookie to change my mind.
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It feels weird saying this given the shot total (reliable or not), but that was
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I'll never understand why Nolan puts Flynn on the power play.
The only thing I can come up with is he's got nobody better?
Fourth line having a good fourth line game tonight.
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The Islanders stick broke when he slashed Myers at the end of that.
Bad call.
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I look forward to watching the development of the 4th rounder he brings us.
You're probably right, but I hope he can be sweetener in a bigger deal, the same way Cody Mac was in the Moulson trade, or Ott in the Miller trade.
He doesn't have the rep, but really, is is he any less effective than Ott this year?
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Have Moulson and Gionta been benched here?
EDIT: Nope, there they are.
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yeah!
Drew wants to get traded!
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I want Nikita, Risto and Myers to carry the puck like that more often.
And that's how Foligno has to play.
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God I hope the day comes soon when the Baileys and Lemieuxs and Grigorenkos will start doing for us what the Lees and the Nelsons and the Stromes are doing for the Islanders.
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Neuvirth lost the puck on that one.
Separately, I don't think he wants to be here.
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Torrey Mitchell will be a useful depth addition to some cup contender.
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I am in fur coat on S. Park, waiting for hero to pull up in Mercedes,
Drane always picks the wrong times to get suspended.
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This whole seasons been a bad pinch job
Hey! Welcome aboard!
I thought it was just me and Swamp and the occasional naked Russian poet this afternoon.
This place is deader than the arena.
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Weber could have played that better, but it was set up by a bad pinch by Strachan.
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This is more of what I expected from Nolan-style hockey.
A bit of an edge, very little offence.
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In before PA:
Rex Ryan statement signing?
or new owner saying 'I heard of that guy, let's get him,' on other words, Leino part two?
Trade speculation 2014-15
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On the Kane front, the price according to Winnipeg reporters is a first, a good prospect and a younger NHL player.
So some combination of
the NYI, or STL first
a non-roster prospect not named Reinhart
And Neuvirth, Enroth, Ennis, Hodgson, Foligno, or Deslauriers
I'm starting to think we are going to be able make this deal.