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I dont remember the game but there was a F-14 simulator that ran on Windows 95 that I can still hear the sound effects for.

Cozens is shooting at 25% currently. If that keeps up, he'd be better than Sam Reinhart, which I doubt. This place can't spell Reinhart correctly.

Steve Bernier was traded to Buffalo at the 2008 deadline. In his first game with Buffalo, he scored 2g and 1a. People were freaking out that he was going to be the greatest thing since Betty White. He had 1g and 5a over his next 16 games with Buffalo and went to Vancouver in the offseason.

I think we are disagreeing a bit. Your suggestion is that Benson needs to shoot more and be a better shooter. I sorta agree but he's a decent shooter (about average) and his ability to get pucks out of his own zone and into the offensive zone is amazing. Keep in mind, his numbers have almost no PP time either. 3 pp pts this season in limited minutes. I wish shot assists were better tracked because that is where Benson is going to excel, he's certainly not there yet and needs to get better though. I would agree there.

Shot percentages: Benson, 10.3% Kulich, 11.9% Krebs, 8.6% Quinn, 10.3% xGF% Benson, 50.41% Kulich, 46.52% Krebs, 45.09% Quinn, 42.68%

You are ignoring his ability to score goals with his ability to prevent them. On top of that scoring goals is one thing, creating offense is another. Benson creates offense and the numbers show that and his play shows that. On top of that, he's one of the best defensive forwards on the team. Sure, he needs to get better, but he's already a top 9 forward and he's better than Kulich. He just doesn't have a sexy shot that makes people go "ooooo". xGF% is math. Your expected goals for divided by your expected goals again and made into a percentage. If Benson sucks so much as shooting and needs to shoot more etc... that would mean that having a positive xGF% for him, equates to being elite defensively to counter balance his lack of scoring.

Only one with a + xgf% is Benson.

Samuelsson needs to go. Byram needs to go. Quinn, I'd give him a bridge and it won't be high.

Steve Beniers. Just wait for it.

House passes funding bill with billions of cuts. US on brink of massive recession with Trumps tariff war destroying the economy. Elon Musk sees wealth drop as Tesla stock plummets while he plays Shadow President. And that was just this week.

No point, after you hit 6, it's a pick your poison type of deal. Bear, Desnoyers, Eklund, Lakovic, Cootes, Frondell, I suppose Schmidt. There's some defenders in Reid, Smith, Mrtka. I'd be hard pressed to mock them in an order. If I had to rank the forwards... ummm... Desnoyers, Bear, Eklund in a group that I could interchange followed by Cootes, Frondell, Lakovic, and Schmidt I suppose.

Guess who just scored.

We could just sign Sam, isn't he a ufa?

My gut says we end up with Hagens and this place melts down.

Sadly as much as I love Misa, he wouldn't be ready to be a 1c for several years. If you got him though, you might be able to run 3 2nd lines for several years though.

Why isn't McLeod? His defensive metrics are good, his offense is decent. If they put him at 2c for a full season you might have a 50pt center thats good defensively which is exactly what you need. There's no chance in hell Adams is trading for a 2c this offseason. He doesn't have the guts because it would require him trading someone like Kulich or Peterka and then some to get that player.

lol, Cozens isn't that smart, if he were, he'd be better at hockey.

What a nothing burger this is

yea XL cadbury eggs maybe.

We should never draft this high again, trading Helenius or Östlund makes more sense than trading 4th overall. Here's a good talk about Martone v, McQueen with some Misa in there.

Sabres only have McLeod, Quinn, and Peterka (all RFAs) up front to sign. Everyone else is under contract. Byram, Docker are RFAs with Bryson a UFA. So right now, we have 1 open depth defender spot. Everyone else is signed so Adams would have to be very aggressive from a trade standpoint to change this team at all.

Good video summarizing the last few weeks