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How? They are 32nd in every category the fans of the team voted on except drafting.

Östlund (maybe Wahlberg instead?), Komarov, lottery protected 2026 1st. I starting RHD we don't have to trade. If we had kept JBD, we might have but Kesselring and Timmins aren't going and the rest of the RHDs in the system (all 8 of them) are 1-4 years away.

McTavish is a player I would try to add but I don't understand what Anaheim would want for him. They could take Byram or they could take idk some combo of RHD and other prospects to fill out their pool. I just don't know how the trade works but I would be interested in making it work. McTavish for Byram, Rosen, and a sweetener? I doubt they want Samuelsson. Ideally you would probably need to include a RHD even if they have Luneau and Warren. McTavish for Conditional 2026 1st, Östlund, Kleber? Krebs, Östlund, Rosen Kleber? Idk how to make this work or what the value is. It might be McTavish for Helenius, Kleber/Strbak, and something like Krebs or a prospect they like. I would try to figure out the trade because I like McTavish and I am confused why he isn't signed.

The Buffalo Sabres have 5,996 games of NHL experience based on their current roster on EP. https://www.eliteprospects.com/team/53/buffalo-sabres/experience/2025-2026/all?league=nhl Montreal is next closest with 6,582 games and then Chicago at 6,945. Edmonton has 10,991 and Florida 12,384 for comparison. The Sabres are not only dead last but outside of Montreal, the next team is 1,000 more games of NHL experience. This team does not have enough experience and Adams has failed in almost every trade or signing where he has tried to add experience because he is a bad gm, with a bad sales pitch. The Sabres will only have 2 players with more than 500 games played, 5 players with more than 400 games played, 12 players with at least 200 games played when they start the next season. That means that almost half the roster will have played less than 3 full NHL seasons when we start the year but somehow we will magically make the playoffs with bad coaching and the what? Shonen Anime trope of willpower and friendship?

The Sabres are most likely missing the playoffs for a 15th straight year and we will see a gutting of coaches and front office personnel again. This is an 85pt with this coaching group, a group that has failed repeatedly. Lindy Ruff doesn't change anything and in fact his team was worse last year than Granato in part because Ruff spent 3 months dithering and being like "oh I thought these guys were different than what they are". Adams is incompetent by any measure and at this point who cares if they make the playoffs by some miracle? That doesn't change 5 years of abject failure by Kevyn. He is slow to adapt, gets hyper focused on 1 problem at a time, and cannot stand getting rid of ppl he likes on a personal level. In the end, it's nice they want to improve the defensive ability of the team but they didn't improve the coaching, they didn't improve the goaltending. We are going to win a few more games but the chance of the least experienced team in hockey putting it all together are slim to none and this team actually is less experienced than it was last year. Basically I guess we should just wait 3 years for them to mature because Pegula ain't going to change. He's convinced his farts smell like roses and champagne.

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I trust Zach Benson in a top 6 role a hell of lot more than Casey Mittelstadt.

Most ppl have focused on losing Peterka's offense. The Sabres need to reduce their goals against by 17% to sniff the playoffs, that's not a small feat. They also need to have more types of offense than simply RUSH. That's why Granato crashed and burned, once teams started to deny rush chances, there was nothing else. Florida is a good example of different types of offense. They can use the rush but they can also cycle and reload in the neutral zone. Since the playoffs sees tighter checking, this works great. Clog the neutral zone, reload, chip it in, recover, reload in zone up high and then work the cycle. Now whether or not adding Timmins, Kesselring, Doan, Danforth to the mix is enough to vary how the offense can play remains to be seen. It also remains to be seen if Buffalo can actually play any type of strong checking game in their own end. They sucked at board battles, they give up the blue line ALWAYS under Wilford because they are afraid of everyone being McDavid, they allow cross ice passes because they puck watch and lose positioning. The wingers have a bad habit of not sealing walls and helping with breakouts and the Sabres don't win battle in front of their own net. Wilford should be fired. I personally expect a lot of struggling by Kesselring and Timmins because they will be like Byram at first, coming from a sound system to whatever the hell this monstrosity is.

Florida forechecks hard and reloads in the natural zone. It's very effective.

A first rate coach would have fired all the assistants and brought in better ones.

I hate the "clickbait" style thread title. ***** hate it. Several ppl have and are talking about it. NHL teams drafted 0 defenders under 6ft in the draft this year. Teams want size in defense due to reach. When power was drafted it was all "so rare 6'6" defenders" and now Buffalo has another 1st rounder (who might be better than power) who's at that 6'6" threshold. The problem at extreme height is leverage. If you can work under that reach, it's harder for long defenders to regain leverage which is why physically pushing you away matters there. All that said, there might be 3 nhl defenders in the Sabres rhd prospect pool. Bedkowski is less talented more physical Kleber so idk where that goes. I think Strbak is also ahead of both. Mrtka slots in at the top of that pile. Komarov might be a 5/6 in a couple more years. These are all RHD and we haven't even touched on Kesselring or the Dahlin plays his off side. McCarthy, I see no path to the Sabres roster he'd be behind 4 prospects at least.

First scouting event of the year is over: 90 short write ups. https://www.dailyfaceoff.com/news/2025-hlinka-gretzky-cup-scouting-reports-on-over-90-nhl-draft-prospects

Or Lindy Ruff isn't a good head coach.

Almost like Wilford sucks And even a dolt should be able to figure it out, but here we are

I don't care for Newsom but he's not wrong.

Fear mongering... lol

ICE can claim whatever they want. They did not go through due process therefore ICE is lying. I wouldn't trust ICE if they wished me good morning. I keep wondering when ICE will be sent after Liberals, what will be their crime? They will be labeled un-american and be called "invaders" or some other nonsense.

At this point I feel like we have talked about just about all there is to talk about. We won't know anything until these players start playing games together.

This is fascism https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/ice-deport-us-citizen-kids-stage-4-cancer-honduras-rcna224501

Calling them "riots" is dishonest. Trump will call any protest he dislikes a "riot" and Fox News will scream "RIOT!" into the airwaves nonstop until Maga believes that LA is a post-apocalyptic hellscape. When a president starts using terms like "liberating" in reference to US cities, he's a fascist and a racist. We are sprinting towards full on dictatorship. You can't "liberate" a US city from the ppl who live there even if you dislike those ppl. To clarify, "you" in this case does not mean Hank