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JJ Peterka - "I Don't Speak French - Adieu!"
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21 hours ago, Huckleberry said:
Yeah but we are not getting worse either, I think Clifton is an uderrated signing. Greenway might surprise us next year.
Goalie with Levi is a question mark for the entire league, but I believe in him. Personally I think Comrie might make a good back up this year.
Any dude who played 78 games on the best regular season team in NHL history is a major upgrade for the Sabres D corp.
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4 hours ago, tom webster said:
There is one major need(goalie) and a couple of important (in my mind) pieces.
Levi should take care of that, IMHO. He was already a far better option than anything we had before him. Sabres would have made the playoffs by at least 10 points last year if he was our full time goalie from the start of the season.
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15 hours ago, tom webster said:
There is a large gap between repricating what Murray did and doing what Adams appears to be content with doing.
With so many young players the majority of the improvement should be expected to come from them gaining experience and improving...sort of like what happened with Tage and Cozens and Dahlin...can expect that next season with Power and Peterka and I would have said Quinn but unsure how the injury will impact him this year...Peterka was named the best forward at the World's this year..that is no small feat.
Filling in around them is what he should be doing not looking to bring big ticket players in unless there is a major need that he doesn't have covered
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7 hours ago, tom webster said:
Most people agree that signing expensive, older free agents isn’t the way to go. What I’m advocating is trading some of these prospects to fill holes to speed up the process. To be clear, I’m talking about two or three piece’s depending on how some of the players develop. Their cap space advantage will go away after this year as the cap corrects itself. This off-season was the time to be aggressive.
We just watched Murray try this and fall flat on his face which led to needing another rebuild since all the prospects were gone and he had nothing left in the cupboards...
19 hours ago, Thorny said:Again, this is sort of my point.
If Kevyn *already* had a predisposition to “doing what he’s been doing”, the more the market gets inflated by teams looking to make something happen, the LESS likely KA finds that odd move that meets his exact value requirements, no?
Fair enough and he has the talent coming up where he doesn't feel the need to.
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7 minutes ago, tom webster said:
Again, all these pats on the back for him standing pat with his plan flies in the face of what I know to be true. He has tried, and failed to improve the team this off-season. Players have refused to wave, he has placed a higher value on his prospects, teams have asked for more then he perceives as value, other teams paid more then he wanted.
Bottom line, if the team enters this season as currently constituted, it won’t be because Kevyn wanted it that way, it will be because he couldn’t make anything happen.
Don’t get me wrong. This doesn’t necessarily mean they will fail. Some of the best deals teams persue are ones they don’t complete. It just means that he knows this team needs improvement but hasn’t been able to address it.Signing Clifton will be a large upgrade no matter how you slice it. That alone means we improved.
When the team is so young, much of the improvement should be expected to come internally.
Add to that he STILL has the #1 ranked prospect pool even tho a ridiculous number of young players were removed from it the last few years as they began playing regularly for the Sabres and he has every reason to stand pat.
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38 minutes ago, Thorny said:
I’d wager that the more we see the Ottawas the Red Wings of the division employ “go for it, win now” strategies ie more splashy/significant additions from the outside, the *more* we adhere to the draft and dev strategy and the more we actively avoid other options. Ie the market is even more served/cornered by those teams leaving KA no option in his mind than to retreat further into his chosen pathway
Ie it’ll always be an anti-arms race with Kevyn. The more teams “beef up” the more inclined he’d be to stand pat
I don't necessarily agree with this. I think he stands pat because years of empirical data show that most free agent signings are not good value for the money and the teams would probably have been better drafting and developing and signing lower priced FAs to fill roles.
When you just promoted 6-7 very highly rated prospects to your NHL roster and you STILL have the #1 rated prospect pool in the NHL why wouldn't you stick to what you are doing?
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Thought he would get more than that...Sens seem intent on making splashes with the new ownership group in charge...
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On 7/25/2023 at 3:50 PM, dudacek said:
I was high on Myers after his rookie year too.
But the 1st one that popped to mind for me was Sam Reinhart.
I thought he was going to be that elite 2nd line centre: 25-30 goal, 40-50 assist, plus-player against tough competition: a core piece on a contender. He’s a very good player, but definitely a notch or 2 under my expectations for him as a prospect.
I will always wonder what might have been if he had been developed as a driver in the role we drafted him for, rather than cast as Eichel's sidekick by Bylsma and Housley.
I thought we got a glimpse when he went a point per game at centre in his April under Donnie.
Another opportunity wasted in the lost decade.
He is a 30 goal scorer now...both years with Florida he has over 30
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I would contact an attorney since these companies are willfully violating Labor Laws and the Age Discrimination Employment Act(ADEA)
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On 7/23/2023 at 10:20 AM, Sabres Fan in NS said:
Rain and more rain. Most of NS is under water. Some places got 4 months rain in 24 hours. Power is out for many and flooding is widespread. Our road in from civilization washed out, but is passable (if you are an idiot) this morning. We were very lucky.
Just be happy you aren't in India where some areas get 15-25 inches of rain a day during this time of year and it's normal and happens every year.
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3 hours ago, Brawndo said:
Usually warmer and dryer in the Northeast
Usually but not always. The North Atlantic Oscillation(NAO), for instance can be a better predictor of this for us many times or at least is a very important factor in determining this, along with some others.
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If there is one thing you cannot do as a professional athlete, it's go full psycho.
You can get away with being part psycho...ask Antonio Brown, but not full psycho.
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21 hours ago, Doohickie said:
That's Air Conditioning season here in Texas.
(currently at 101)
The American Southwest is going to be on the very limit of being habitable by humans in the summer within 50 years of things continue as they are.
This year it's almost alarming at the type of heat records that have started early in the year and have continued unabated. So many regions/countries have set all time heat records going back to Asia(India, Pakistan, Thailand, Vietnam) in March/April and continuing now with the American Southwest, Florida, China and Europe...
Even for the models that have bands that would be considered "normal" due to climate change for temps to be within now, they have gone so far above them even climate change experts are alarmed since this shouldn't be happening.
Sadly this is becoming the norm now rather than the exception.
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29 minutes ago, Wyldnwoody44 said:
The summers are so much hotter than we used to get. I remember 80 degrees was a heat wave and we got snow often starting in October, the ski slopes opened by Thanksgiving.
Now it's routinely upper 80s for days on end. Don't get me wrong, it's great. But I'm built for the fall and winter months and now that I learned to ski, this global warming (or heat cycle, whatever you believe) is annoying. 😂
Definitely not a heat cycle...the earth just broke all time temperature records 3 straight days and apparently it was the hottest it's been in at least 100,000 years.
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5 minutes ago, steveoath said:
Anyone have a pizza oven at home? Seems to be a “thing” over here. My in laws are obsessed. Tbf the MIL makes a great dough.
Don't have a pizza oven but we make pizza at home quite a bit...
Got some real wheat flour(Einkorn wheat, the type that has been grown for 12000 years not the GMO Frankenwheat that you find in stores) and it was the best crust I have ever had anywhere...amazing...soft, with just enough crunch on the outside and chewy in the middle...highly recommend trying it.
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After eating pizza in other places I totally understand why people who move away from WNY literally pay money for places here to ship them pizza. Most places are terrible...
The best pizza in a random place I ever had was actually really good tho...stopped in this little Nebraska town just over the border from Kansas that looked like the town that time forgot...saw there was a pizza place so I stopped in and tried it...some of the best pizza I ever have eaten...crust was perfection, toppings were great...got to talking to the person working there and she said the owner moved there from NYC...
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Andreychuk and Turgeon
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Says to have so many young highly skilled players already in the NHL and still have the number 1 ranked prospect pool should be terrifying for the rest of the NHL.
Here's how the top half of our NHL prospect pool rankings shake out.
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On 7/8/2023 at 9:03 PM, PromoTheRobot said:
There are 32 NHL teams, 32 AHL Teams, but only 28 ECHL teams. Suggests there might be room for 4 more new teams. Maybe one closer to WNY?
Complete hypothetical: If the Sabres operated their own ECHL team out of Harborcenter, would anyone go?
I believe some teams are shared with 2 NHL teams supplying half of the roster each
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I don't want no Oscar Meyer Weiner...I love the pick of the Funky Cold Miedema...
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1 minute ago, Brawndo said:
They gave up 7th overalll for one year of Debrincat and a pick in the 14-22 range
Seems like a desperate salary dump by new owners who likely need to trim payroll after using all their free cash flow to buy the team
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6 hours ago, Taro T said:
Pretty sure he doesn't really care what Anaheim will get for him; he's just tired of having a very poor team in front of him and wants a chance to play for a team that's relevant again. Fairly shortsighted view IMHO because that team should actually be rejoining the NHL by the time his 4th remaining year is finished. But careers are short and can't really blame him for only focusing on today and himself.
That's fair but he has been among the 5 worst goalies in the NHL over the past 3 years so I find it hard to believe someone is going to want that contract unless Anaheim literally pays them to take it with extra draft picks.
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I mean, now even guys that are terrible for several years are demanding trades as if they are a hot commodity??
What the hell does he think Anaheim is going to get for him and another team taking on that albatross of a contract, a bag of pucks? A few sticks?
Flipping the logo: almost one in three fans say it's not worse! (Now close to 30%!)
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We need to see them right next to each other to be able to compare