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  2. Matt Irwin Signs with Sabres 700k One Year

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    9 minutes ago, Hank said:

    Ummm...someone smart help me out please. I don't know anything about Trouba but i thought he was a decent player? This chart says he sucks. Or is similar to those charts that Pi uses that says Vesey is better than Echel? 

    Well the chart is just for that particular statistic of GAR, which it just happens thats where Trouba falls on it.

    Last season with the Rangers he had a bit of a down year. He struggled with defending zone entries & while used on the PK he wasn't that good. He was dead last for short handed GAR on the team.

    If u want to read more specifically on him, this article here has a thorough breakdown of his past year.

    https://lastwordonsports.com/hockey/2020/09/12/jacob-trouba-bounce-back-candidate-new-york-rangers/

  4. Matt Irwin Signs with Sabres 700k One Year

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    Just now, LabattBlue said:

    I don’t know what GAR is, but I don’t like the words “worst defender” associated with a guy we signed a few hours into FA. 

    Goals above replacement

    It measures the total amount of goals a player adds to his team relative to a replacement level player, and tries to do so by taking everything a player does into account.

  5. Matt Irwin Signs with Sabres 700k One Year

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    15 minutes ago, Scottysabres said:

    I'll just leave this here and see my way out.....

    https://www.ontheforecheck.com/2020/10/1/21453770/2019-20-nashville-predators-player-report-cards-season-review-matt-irwin-korbinian-holzer

    Not a very positive article on Irwin lol

    From the piece: Frankly, the fact that we don’t have to look ahead to a future that involves either player being on the team is a positive thing

    Overall Grade: F+

    Even compared to other third-pairing defenders, these guys were bad by all metrics. I only put the plus in there because neither one of them actually caused serious damage to anyone on the ice or scored an own goal.

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  7. Sabres, 8th overall pick: Jack Quinn

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    12 minutes ago, Jävə Keith said:

    I realize it's a bit of apples vs oranges, but I can't help but compare this high vitriolic reaction to our pick as to a certain 1st rd pick at #7 by the Bills just 3 short years ago. (See Josh Allen)

    Just a reminder that we wont really know how this pick stacks up for a while. Give it time folks.  This is not the Sabres' Apocalypse.  😉

    A bunch of other people in this thread made the same comparison.

    There are a bunch of differences tho. 1 being that historically speaking, both the Bills & the Sabres have whiffed on 1st rd picks. Just that the Bills have hit on them more often than not with the new regime. This was KA's 1st opportunity to disappoint & given Quinn's consensus ranking, we reached a bit, and went back on our pre draft statements of using analytics to influence our decision & picking the BPA.

    As with all things, time will tell how this pans out & who was the best choice

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  19. Sabres sign Tage Thompson to 3 year 1.4 AAV Extension

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    2 hours ago, JohnC said:

    Do the Sabres sign Skinner to an extension if ROR was on the roster? I'm not sure they would have. I'm not saying that the deal balances out but if Tage becomes a  productive third or maybe even second line winger and the defenseman drafted with the first round pick eventually becomes a NHL player or is parlayed for another asset then the deal isn't so skewed. I'm not saying that the loss of ROR wasn't damaging because it was. But sometimes with a longer perspective it becomes a less bad transaction. 

    Idk, but do the Sabres sign Skins to a more appropriate salary if ROR was on the roster? Probably. Once ROR was gone it created such a hole that it gave Skinner's agent all the leverage over Jbots. Had ROR still been there, i'm sure the final price would've been more reasonable, as I doubt any other team was prepared to offer as much as what we finally gave him.

    Could be wrong of course but that'd be my uninformed 2 cents lol.

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  21. Goaltending Ideas for 2020-21

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    50 minutes ago, Ducky said:

    Ruutu? He'd be great. I knew he was gone the day he left the bubble.

    Na i meant Anti Raanta from the Yotes. Had a brain freeze & said Bruins thinking of Rask. Arizona could move one of their goalies so 1 could be had i imagine.

    As for Ruutu idk who that is, other than Christian from the old days & Tuomo of the Rangers who plays LW

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