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  3. Linus Ullmark: the Swede that we need

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    haha well if it helps I think that when Lehner returns, Ullmark should go to Rochester and stay there for the duration of the season. He needs seasoning in NA and sitting the bench in Buffalo won't help.  A year in Rochester will be very good for him as he is still recovering and getting up to full speed following his surgery.

    I don't remember where I read that story but in his draft year, 2012, Kevin Devine and DR asked their Euro scout to find a good goalie prospect that would be around a bit later in the draft. The guy raved about Linus Ullmark and so in the 6th round the Sabres grabbed him and here we are.  GT should be treated like QB's, every year you draft 1 somewhere because they are unpredictable.  I think that getting Euro goalies is dangerous but also very rewarding because they slip in most drafts because they don't play in NA.  If Ullmark had been a Canadian jr. player, he probably goes in late round 2 or 3

    I watched this Ted.com video on athletics and how everything is becoming so specialized in sports. Body parts, body types all matter for specific sports and how well athletes do. All the great marathon runners are from a certain tribe from Kenya because they developed that way evolutionary wise. The video said something like one in ever 100 7 foot person in the world played in the NBA or something. Seems like goalies are sort of the same. Get a big guy who is athletic and coachable and they can probably do well. Learn the angels to begin with and they are on their way. 

  4. Linus Ullmark: the Swede that we need

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    I like him. Think it sort of proves my point that goalies are kind of a dime a dozen. Here is a kid from no where that they plug in and he does fine. He still falls on his butt too much. Ray or May were commenting on that. He falls backwards instead of like Mike Quick onto his knees and right back up. 

  21. Ryan O'Reilly and Colorado

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    He already divested most of his natural gas holdings.  From Wiki:  "Pegula eventually sold the Pennsylvania, New York, and Rocky Mountain assets of the company to Royal Dutch Shell for approximately $4.7 billion. He sold the Ohio and West Virginia assets of the company to American Energy Partners for $1.75 billion in 2014."

    Wow! Nice timing! 

  22. Ryan O'Reilly and Colorado

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    ROR is worth every penny.  He was rumored to want 8 mil.  He got 7 and his brother got a sweet 700k to play in Roch.  ROR always says how much he looks up to his brother.  I think his brother's contract sealed the deal for him to sign here.  

    That is such a cool part of the deal. Imagine that ever happening before Pegula took over? 

     

    Gees, I hope the drop in gas and oil prices doesn't run us off the gravy train?? :huh:

  23. Who starts in net tomorrow night?

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    Ullmark did one thing that really bothered me. He fell down a few times on shots he was reaching for. Goalies can't fall down and be out of position like that. I can't say I was impressed with him last night as I don't think he was really challenged. Jury is still out on how good he is right now. 

     

    Johnson is good, but has several bad qualities, rebounds and is simply terrible at playing the puck in any way. 

     

    I don't know who I'd start. Really want to beat the Islanders so I'd go with who I thought looked better in practice. 

  24. Ryan O'Reilly and Colorado

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    I think the internal budget was most of it, but I also think there's some incompetence in there. They chose to pay Iginla and Soderberg, two guys 30+ and past their prime, for an amount that easily could have gone to O'Reilly. They chose two aging vets over a young core piece with a lot of prime years left for a team that wasn't yet ready to contend. They got fooled by their playoff season IMO.

     

    They also had the option to move Duchene, who probably would have returned a pretty penny given he was signed long term already to a lower cap hit. Some may feel that would be crazy, but Duchene's skill set seems pretty redundant to me with MacKinnon around, whereas O'Reilly brought something else to the table with close to the same offensive production.

     

    The economics may have constrained the decision making, but there's definitely some poor player valuations and team building decisions in there too.

    Great post

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