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Yeah, I am always amazed at these teams that find stud, superstar level players in the high teens or twenties and we can't even draft a guy that can make the team in the top 10...

Not surprised, the Bills have led the way with a lot of these things in the NFL since McDermott took over.

Tough times to have something like this come up...I guess I would say his actions were deplorable but also I would say how many people would be ashamed and embarrassed about stuff they did as 8th graders if it came out now? I find it hard to punish someone for actions that happened many years ago as a kid IF he has since changed his ways and become a better person. If he is really the same douchebag that he was and just wrote an apology letter because he had to or his agent told him to, then he fully deserves this.

Ullmark ranked 35th in the NHL at saving High Danger shots on the penalty kill at .782. Hutton was worse at .767 and ranked 40th. However, they both faced among the most High Danger shots per 60 minutes on the PK at 21.99(Hutton) and 20.13(Ullmark) which ranked 11th and 15th most...meaning the Sabres give up a lot of these chances on the PK. That being said, they are both well above the expected GAA/60 minutes allowed on the PK even with that taken into account. Ullmark has a PK GAA of 9.15 but is only expected to allow 7.17, nearly a 2 goal difference, and Hutton is even worse with a PK GAA of 10.23 but an expected GAA of 7.74, over 2.5 goals worse. However, somehow they are even WORSE relative to the rest of the NHL at even strength at High Danger Save Percentage, ranking 56th(Hutton) and 65th(Ullmark) in the NHL at .805 and .782 respectively. https://www.naturalstattrick.com/playerteams.php?fromseason=20192020&thruseason=20192020&stype=2&sit=pk&score=all&stdoi=g&rate=r&team=ALL&pos=S&loc=B&toi=0&gpfilt=none&fd=&td=&tgp=410&lines=single&draftteam=ALL So clearly this is an issue with the goaltenders themselves even when normalized relative to the rest of the NHL...they simply suck at stopping High Danger Shots on the PK but Ullmark is especially bad at stopping them at even strength.

Same reason they do for all teams. Our goalies are just much worse at stopping them. So you are saying if we had Dominik Hasek in his prime in goal we still would have had the same record?

NHL.com At some point you just need to call a spade a spade and we need to stop looking for excuses for him. He sucks at a major part of his job.

No they wouldn't. Ullmark and Hutton's save percentage on high danger shots relative to the rest of the NHL was terrible.

Ullmark is killing them when they are shorthanded. He was 65th in the NHL last year with a .838 save percentage when the team was shorthanded. That is abysmal. This team is losing a lot of games because he is well below average at making saves on the penalty kills. By comparison, Miller was .882 over his career at this and Lehner is at .894 over his career.

It is...and Ullmark's role on it is to be the best penalty killer on the ice, and most times he is the worst. Ullmark ranked 65th in the NHL last year with a .838 save percentage when the Sabres were shorthanded. That is abysmal. He is at .849 for his career. Still abysmal. In comparison, Ryan Miller was .882 over his career and Robin Lehner is at .894 over his career. No other way to put it other than Ullmark is costing this team games by being so bad when they are shorthanded.

More like giving themselves flexibility if he can't improve his awful PK save percentage...the biggest part of why the PK is so bad is Ullmark is really bad at stopping the puck on it.

Smart move to give them flexibility

And he still put up 52 points in 65 games. In a "bad" season. That is pretty good. The equates to 66 points in 82 games. Not superstar level, but still more points than Rheinhart has ever put up.

We could make the playoffs... end this drought right now... but for this to succeed, there is someone else we need! Taylor Hall! Cause he knows what to do with the puck on his stick! Taylor Hall! Noone has his resilience or matches Eichel's practical, tactical brilliance! Taylor Hall! We are gonna need someone like him eventually, what's he gonna do on the bench, I mean?? Taylor Hall! You want to fight for the Atlantic back? You need Eichel's right hand man back! Taylor Hall! Get Eichel's right hand man back...gotta get Eichel's right hand man back! Gotta get his agent on the phone and get Eichel's right hand man back... Taylor Hall...Eichel's waiting here for you.... If you sign by tomorrow night... the playoffs will be ours by early light... The Atlantic will never be the same.... Taaaaayyyyyyyyloooooooorrrrrrr Haaaaaallllllll......

Welcome to the Adams Administration!

What comes next? Hall's been freed... Do you know how hard it is to lead? You're on your own... Eichel said Wow! Do you have a clue what happens now?? Good teams rise...bad teams fall! It's much harder when it's all your call... All alone, with Taylor Hall... When you get hurt and the fans hate you don't come crawling for a trade... Da da da dat da dat da da da ya da Da da dat da da ya da! Hall's on his own... Also...would this be a great time to say "Welcome to the Adams Administration"? 🤣🤣🤣

If we were that bad then he was part of the problem wasn't he? I mean he was out there a lot on the PK when it kept getting scored on. Don't see it as a huge loss.

Guess we now see why they didn't qualify Kahun...they were all in on Taylor Hall

He has a no movement and no trade clause

Wow...Sabres suddenly have at least 2 potent lines now...teams can no longer just focus on Eichel's line... Now if the D and goalies could get it together we have a good chance of ending the playoff drought!

Wow wow wow wow wow wow wow wow wow!!!!

Sabres continue shopping at Goodwill while the rest of the NHL shops at Macy's

And our housing prices, even with the recent price increases are probably half of yours in Atlanta. Do the math...does $250 a month more in property taxes cost more than an extra $1000 on a mortgage? Pretty clearly no.

I mean I am not sure if this team realizes they haven't made the playoffs in like 8 or 9 years but they should probably start acting like it and not like they just made a deep run and all they need are a few depth signings. Adams has been there as Beane literally transformed the Bills in 3 years into what will likely be a perennial playoff team, I hope he took notes.

Huh??

It's a 1 year deal.