Ross Rhea

Well I personally feel if Chad had shown anything the Sabres might not have gone 2 defensemen with their first 2 picks knowing that they have a hard time scoring. Again he was nothing more than an injury stop gap.

Put the shoe on the other foot. With such a small sample size, why do you feel so strongly that he will make the team?

Absolutely, Rudy was nothing more than a stop gap.

agreed

Sure he could, but an undrafted free agent that played 7 NHL games has a low percant of doing that imo. What did he show you that screams he could unseat any of the current guys? He was a desperate injury fill in, nothing more.

yeah, i'm betting a few at least.

Really, so so prospects? I get it, you think nobody can ever be as good or better than Miller, whatever!

Ruhwedel is a 7th dman maybe or 2 way contract at best next year. He doesn't unseat Weber, Myers, Ehrhoff, Pysyk, Mcbain, McNabb or Sulzer/Pardy if one or both of them are resigned. Or either one of the new guys, I forgot about them.

no

Whatever! you have Ehrhoff, Myers, Sekera, Weber, then you fill the other 2 spots with either Ruhwedel, Mcnabb, or Pysyk. Who are you trading or even thinking of trading? Do you not see that as being a rather week d corps? I do!

but there is no top 6 right now on the big club, there is only 4 of them.

Doubt it. If you look, they only have 4 guys on the roster Ehrhoff, Myers, Sekera, Weber. Ruhwedel, and Pysyk are on 2 ways and Pardy and Sulzer are ufa. McNabb is on the farm but who else?

Wonder what Seattle will call themselves?

Could very well be, as it might be extremely difficult to trade an expensive aging backup netminder who likes to shoot his mouth off often.

Couldn't this all be just coincidental? He bought the Sabres with no interest in WNY fracking, but being the businessman he is, got bored and started exploring fracking, something he knows well? I dunno and don't really care what he does, I have my own problems to care about what makes TP tick.

Agreed. Life is all about choices, Boogard chose that career. He didn't have to and nobody forced it on him.

I think this is the most likely answer. One or both will be gone. Darcy has also said he has been in discussions with the teams in front of them about trading up. Hmmm... should be interesting.

omg! :wallbash:

Check the attitude, see I can say it too! You mean that same established guy that has been outperformed the last 2 seasons by his $700k backup. Okey dokey I guess!

Why do people keep saying this? What is this assumption based on? When, in your eyes, is he allowed to have a chance to prove he can do it(he has already proven he ca do it , by the way)?

why is 500 games played now your new threshold? because it fits your argument better? 2 days ago there was no mention of "500 games played".

tied for 10th career sv%. http://www.hockey-reference.com/leaders/save_pct_career.html

And that right there is the difference between an average goalie and an elite goalie. One screw up per game translates into one goal per game and more times than not in the NHL that is the difference between winning and losing and being average or elite.

Agree with you JJ. I think it is pretty unbelievable how some refuse to look at things with an open mind. The bottom line is, the guy making $6+ million per should be light years better than the backup making 700k per year and he is not. Hasn't been for 2 years now and if I had to guess wouldn't be better next year either, but that would TBD.

Fair enough!