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Helenius would need to ramp up his motor but yes, impo at least.

How the *****, is he supposed to build a roster with more vets when you just ***** said he has a wealth of top draft picks? What do you want? A veteran AHL team or a development AHL team? Also they finished in like 4th in the AHL so how isn't that a winning roster? Especially since everyone but Kulich will be back in Rochester? You're a walking contradiction here. "His team was only good cuz draft picks, but also he shouldn't have found space for them cuz AHL vets, but also they weren't good"

I've explained my position. You're either deliberately using a strawman of your own, ignoring what I've said, cherry picking, or can't comprehend my point. Idk which and idc anymore. I've repeatedly for years talked about how the Sabres need more grit and more heart. Miles and miles of heart. You're gonna be wrong about Zach Benson. I didn't even want to draft Owen Power. I hate Mattias Samuelsson's game. The last part to me is the most amusing because we literally have Rasmus Dahlin and ik his rep on this board is fancy puck carrier but he's as skilled as both players you list and has a mean side. But what, because he's 6'3" instead of 6'6" or 6'8" that's not good enough?

Evan Rodriguez, good for him.

Cool, they aren't moving the Sabres. They want expansion money.

Right yea, couldn't possibly be Canadians are pissed off at ole 51st start Dictator wannabe or his senile use of tariffs... it's just what you said. Of course the Canadian dollar being what it is has nothing to do with anything ole oompa loompa has done, nope. Just a coincidence.

I should amend this. Ideal "forward" size. There's a bunch of evidence that defense is looking at 6'2" to 6'5" as ideal size.

Here's the thing, you trade for Rossi, Rosen and Östlund are basically redundant pieces here now. Rosen already is but, and ik some of you will be shocked, you can't run a forward group of 5'11" forwards. It's just not gonna work. You can fit Rossi and Benson on the roster and Helenius has a chance but adding Östlund and Rosen... meh.

I actually or oddly enough, have faith in Norris.

Yea but the point is there's more depth now than when Benson joined. Eklund would need to beat out, Tage, Tuch, Peterka, Benson, and Zucker and probably Greenway and Quinn, and either Rosen or Östlund or even Kulich who could be considered a wing. Benson just had to beat Savoie.

Was providing you evidence that border crossings are down since you called it conjecture.

https://www.wgrz.com/article/travel/canadian-tourism-down-in-buffalo/71-17a50600-9702-48ff-a65e-42e130778675 https://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/51755/20250519/border-crossings-from-canada-to-the-north-country-are-down-significantly

Ok, well when it happens you can take a victory lap.

I want Adams to trade for a 5'9" center so bad, just to watch this place lose their *****.

Would be ***** peak Kevyn Adams to trade Quinn and more for Rossi.

Cool story. Also condescend harder next time, it was tough to pick it up with the minimal context clues you gave.

Roll roll roll your eyes, idgaf merrily merrily merrily merrily, I'm heading off to lunch

Actually, in the NHL, there's a bunch of scenarios where size might not help. For example if you get inside someone's reach, it becomes more difficult for a taller player to regain leverage unless they can physically push you away. Ideally 6'-6'3" is optional nhl player size.

And you wouldn't have drafted Zach Benson. You like him now, sure but I'd bet money that you would not have drafted 5'10" Benson after the 2022 draft of Savoie.

I don't understand the hockey world's love of Dubas.

Where's he say that?

Only if you use it. Zach Benson is the poster child of pushing back against this. He routinely wins board battles against bigger players. And you wouldn't have drafted him.

You believe that every nmc has Buffalo and every nhl player hates it here. That's some great work by Adams convincing ppl he's bad because of others. Zucker literally talked about how Buffalo doesn't have as negative of a connotation as fans think. Further only like 1/3 of players have nmc so there's options. Or did Byram, Norris, Zucker, Greenway, all just have their car break down so they had to stay. He's not under contract.

Zach Benson should have gone top 5 in a very good draft. He's a compete abnormality. Also, Eklund would be behind many others on the depth chart.