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  5. The Ryan O'Reilly Contract Extension

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    You are over (or perhaps under) thinking it. There is only one explanation: he's worth $7.5m because someone is willing to pay him $7.5m per year. Period.

     

    Any comparisons to other players, their stats, salaries, etc., is just noise that misses the point entirely.

     

    GO SABRES!!!

     

    "Top dollar" is a constantly moving target. Compared to others, he's not making close to top dollar; he's closer to "middling dollar."

    As contracts continue to escalate in value, his deal will look more and more middling, too.

     

    GO SABRES!!!

    Sabres view him as potentially their Jonathan Toews...about 10-15 points less a year for 4 million a year less...now he just has to win some cups

  6. I guess Irbes not good enough for Bylsma

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    Nothing against Irbe but how can you tell if a goaltending coach is doing a good job? Who was Hasek's coach? Was he great because Hasek was? Just asking.  It's like a QB coach...how do  you know if they're any good if the player is not.

    I think in this case its pretty easy as you had 3 goalies who played very well with Buffalo and pretty bad on the teams they were traded to.

     

    If that isn't good enough I don't know what would be.

  10. Ryan O'Reilly and Jamie McGinn traded to Sabres

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    Posted · Edited by matter2003

    Need to get a dman in FA and another to develop

     

    Pysyk was ready all last year to be a regular in the NHL...Nolan was pretty frustrated about him being kept in the AHL...

     

    Risto, Pysyk, Bogo, Gorges, Ruhwedel and Weber as a top 6?  I can live with that...if they could add another D as part of a 2nd pairing even better...

     

    McCabe possibly ready to make the jump as well?

  11. Ryan O'Reilly and Jamie McGinn traded to Sabres

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    Posted · Edited by matter2003

    Scouting report on McGinn:

     

     

    Assets: Can play a sound defensive game and also displays streaky goal-scoring ability. Works very hard when on the ice and is also quite versatile up front.

     

    Flaws: Doesn't have great playmaking skills. Must display greater consistency in all areas of the game in order to maximize his National Hockey League output.

     

    Career Potential: Industrious and streaky winger with a little upside.

     

     

    Sounds like a good 3rd liner

  12. Ryan O'Reilly and Jamie McGinn traded to Sabres

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    Posted · Edited by matter2003

    Buffalo overpaid..  But let's see how it works out.  All of a sudden, Buffalo is strong down the middle.  Does Reinhart even crack the lineup this year?

     

    Maybe not, if Grigorenko wasn't going to sign a 2-way deal and the Sabres weren't going to give him a 1-way deal and he would have just signed in the KHL...

     

    Either way we got an established really good player that is backed up with really good advanced metrics for we don't really know what.

     

    But like Time Murray says, you can only have 50 players under contract, and we have a lot of ammunition for trades, so using up a little extra to get a player you want isn't going to hurt that much...

  16. Trade: Lehner and Legwand to Buffalo

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    Posted · Edited by matter2003

    Reaallllyy reaching on that one, eh Eleven?  :lol:

     

    I am happy that he is young, cheap, an RFA, and a big, nasty goalie. I'm not happy with the price we paid because I wanted to use #21 to move up or trade for another forward, but so be it. I'll have a more firm opinion when I see what Talbot and company go for. 

    But how many forwards can we have at one time?

     

    some combination of Ennis, Kane, Moulson, Girgensons, Rheinhart,  and Eichel will make up the top 2 lines(with maybe Girgensons moves to a 3rd line center), so that is going to open up 1 spot on the wing, and I'm sure we have no shortage of up and coming prospects to fill that position, or even someone with some untapped potential playing with a highly skilled center such as Foligno or maybe even Larrsson...

     

    We have plenty of 3rd and 4th line players, so no worries there...

  18. Official: NHL expanding to Vegas for '17-18

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    Glendale city council voted 5-2 to dissolve the lease with the Coyotes, 2 years into the 15 year agreement citing a loophole whereby they are allowed to terminate a contract if the other party hires an employee away from them. Apparently IceArizona hired away a city attorney in 2013 and made him general counsel of their operation.  The Coyotes have filed for a temporary injunction and have filed a lawsuit seeking $200 million in damages.  What a mess.  Trying to force hockey on a market that obviously doesn't care about it.  Just move the team somewhere else.  Maybe Las Vegas?  At least the newness will help for a few years...

     

    http://sports.yahoo.com/news/glendale-votes-cancel-lease-deal-coyotes-024722266--spt.html

  20. Did GMTM take a veiled shot at Ted Nolan during the WGR interview?

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    Nope. No. And arrrrrgh. Way too much parsing going on here.

     

    1. Murray never interviewed Nolan.

     

    2. And Murray just said that there is not anybody that would do what he is describing. (Why would that not include Nolan)

     

    Murray stopped thinking about Nolan more than a month ago. (Unlike this board)

     

    If there is anyone not stuck in the past it is GMTM.

     

    Parsing as in taking parts out and putting stuff in?  Not at all..well, other than taking out the "ummm"/pauses, etc that Murray said/did.  That quote is unaltered, its exactly what he said---I went back and typed as I listened to the audio...

  21. Did GMTM take a veiled shot at Ted Nolan during the WGR interview?

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    Posted · Edited by matter2003

    Forgot to post this but when I was listening to the interview and heard the comment I immediately thought it was a veiled shot at Nolan, who is not an X's and O's coach...

     

     

    The section of the interview starts around the 12:00 mark of the interview where they are talking about what kind of coaching candidates he is looking for...

     

    http://www.wgr550.com/Sabres-Tim-Murray-discusses-Babcock/21546278

     

     

    Anyway the comment was:

     

    "These coaches are pretty smart, they're very aware of analytics, they're very aware of a lot of things...I don't think there's anybody, not even the most old school guys that are gonna come in here and say 'We're gonna work hard, we're gonna forecheck hard, and we'll let the chips fall where they may.' There's way more preparation involved than that.  These guys aren't stupid.  This is a big job, and they come in prepared and try to wow you."

     

     

    I was like...whoa...sounds like a direct shot at Nolan's "work hard and forecheck hard" mantra, lol

  23. Top Ten All-Time Sabres Goaltenders

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    So hard with the different eras...scoring was so much higher in the 80's and early 90's...now the defensive systems, blocked shots and ridiculous goalie equipment make it so it's like trying to score on one of those intermission giveaways where the entire net is blocked off except for an area as big as the puck with an inch of space on either side...

  24. All about the Babwatch -- Sabres out

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    Well, you are right about the taxes -- although the difference is, distressingly, increasingly marginal -- but that quote indicates that Toronto's offer was better than the Sabres' offer -- which bolsters the theory that if the $$ was roughly equivalent, Babcock was inclined towards Toronto.

    Not when you factor in cost of living it isn't.

    I'm on board with Disco Dan. If we hire him, I'll send you my seat numbers and you can get a seat next to us.

     

     

    If you had a prospect accept an offer verbally, only to find out the day they were supposed to sign that they took an offer elsewhere, you'd judge that person as shady. At least I would, I know I would because it's happened to me.

    Yeah I'd lean on the shady side...

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