Crusader1969

Since I don't believe in heaven or hell, i really hope OJ suffered in his battle vs cancer. There are only a few people in this world I would wish that type of pain on. He is one of them sorry if that offends.

I'm guessing you would want to trade for Parayko to pair with him?

Tell me about Skinners numbers over that time ?

They are paying Cozens to be 2nd line centre. If they wanted they could have kept Mitts but they traded him rather than pay. Tell me who the coach is

Say Kulich is better than Krebs ? Don't you want the best players to open the season ?

DG seems to have gotten a better sense of calling Time Outs and changing goalies and it was good to see him lay into them last week and maybe he continues to improve next season? Not enough reason to save him 0-6 when they got within 3 points of the wild card this season is damning

last year? He played on the top line and was good. This season, not so good and then dropped to the 3rd line where he has become invisible. If the Sabres still needed a 1st line LW I would be ok with him but they dont need it and I think he has been passed by Benson on the depth chart for line 2. So i will go back to my original post that you don't want Skinner on the 3rd line. You need to build a balanced team and he isn't a balanced player at all last question, do you have any concern that the oldest forward on the team only plays offense? What kind of example does that set for the young players? OMG Please !!! lol

And get a coach

I know they weren't good enough with Skinner you don't have any concern with the oldest player on your team being one-dimensional and having his effort questioned?

Brind'mour was an assistant coach with the Hurricanes for years before becoming the Head Coach. Just go back and read some of his qoutes about Jeff Skinner and you will see what @Perrualtforver is talking about. If you look what the Hurricanes did that off-season it was basically 2 moves - remove Skinner for nothing, trade Hanifan for Hamilton. They then become one of the best teams in the league. I think getting rid of Jeff Skinner was a huge part of their turnaround, along with getting a coach that wont allow players not to give their all shift in and shift out. Im getting a pretty good sample size of Jeff Skinner on the 3rd line this season --- he gives you nothing at all.

Why isn't he on line 1 or 2 during this important stretch of games? Who are you dropping JJP or Benson?

Last point is that Skinner plays LW my LW depth chart going into next season would be JJP Benson Greemway so Savoie really isn't taking his spot on line 3. - Greenway is Savoie is taking Olofssons spot

Interesting that Skinner played approx 30% of his 5v5 time with Mitts this season putting up 20 of his 33 even strength points during this time. seemed him and Mitts had good chemistry and may explain why skinners scoring has nose dived since around the time Mitts was traded

I saw a 18 year old Benson outplay him this year, I think a 21 year old Savoie would be able to do the same I would love to see Skinners production off of line 1 this year I'll see if I can find it tomorrow I'll admit I'm wrong if he's even half decent away from Thompson

If I had a spot for him on my top 6 , I would keep him. A perfectly fine top 6 player. as I said above -he is the antithesis of what you want from a bottom 6 winger.

Yep, removing Skinner should be job 1 when it comes to roster construction.

Unfortunately, Brady T is a pipe dream. s Why would you want Jeff Skinner in a bottom 6 role? He is the antithesis of a bottom 6 player Thanks. Like the response!

go through a list of every backup in the league, How many can you say are undoubtedly better than Levi? Of those, would any be available ? I doubt there are many. If it's about winning and Levi provides you a better chance vs guys you can bring in via trade / UFA - shouldn't you have Levi as the backup ?

Let's see how Levi does in the playoffs. If he dominates , there is no need for him to spend another year down there. What vet could you bring in that would be better than Levi as a backup ? Again I would say, it's not all about points. There is something to effort, willingness to battle. Skinner just isn't it. It's more of an indictment of skinner than anything else ... I don't think he should be on the roster any longer

I think Jenner has an 8 team no trade list , so you might be right. Dare to dream though

There is a 15 point difference between them , that's easily negated in Bensons 2nd year. PLUS he does so much more than Skinner does than you can't record on a speadsheet. Let me ask you this 1) who has a better 2 way game and is willing to back check between the 2? 2) who is more willing to battle along the board and in front of the net? 3) who hasn't played 1000 games in the NHL and some how not played in 1 playoff gAme? Skinner plays the type of game that too many Sabres have played over the years he needs to be off the team or in the press box to start next year but that's just my opinion. I always appreciate the back and forth dialogue with you. Enjoy the night

As I said to someone else. You may as well close up shop now. They aren't going to do major surgery to this team

I will completely disagree with you that Skinner is a better player than Benson right now I would argue that the Sabres themselves agree with me since Benson has been on line 2 and Skinner on Line 3. over the last 11 games of the season , which were quite important, skinner had points in just 1. In 6 of them he was a minus player. Small sample yes , but just highlites how little he contributes in a bottom 6 role

If you believe that you may as well give up and not watch for the next 7 to 10 years.

I'm sold on Savoie, think he is going to make a huge impact for them as soon as next year. They have all these high end prospects, you gotta let them play at some point. If you look back at this season, the young forwards (JJP and Benson) have been their top forwards for much of the season. It's the guys with more experience that have regressed. so I have no problem with adding more youth if it means less of guys like Skinner, Olofsson and KO plus as I mentioned before if you bring in Boone, you really are depleting a lot of your prospect pool as for Savioe for Skinner .... skinner is going to do next to nothing for you on a 3rd line. Savoie is tenacious on the puck, he is fast and won't be allergic to back checking Plus if there is one player in the league that represents regular season failure it's Jeff Skinner.