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On 4/29/2023 at 10:56 AM, Amerks8796 said:
Syracuse owner is notorious for only ever scheduling weekend games. The Crunch basically have the run of the building and they almost never play weekday games.
I mean, not a bad strategy to try and maximize attendance. In situations where the margins aren't great for minor league teams I can't fault him.
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20 hours ago, Gatorman0519 said:
Who would of though in 2023 we are still feeling the effects of this?
Only because Murray got impatient and started trading away all the assets the Sabres acquired for players that didn't work out instead of being more patient and letting them develop and draft well.
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I don't think so. He is a good player but I never once thought I was watching a future hall of famer.
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1 hour ago, TheAud said:
I realize he's left handed, but Samuel Girard would be OK with me. Fits the salary cap, term, and age window quite well. He's #4 in Colorado and would be a great #4 in Buffalo too.
You have to just chuckle when looking at JT Miller's contract compared to Cozens and Thompson.
I'm not sure what the point is with Miller. He never scored more than 23 goals or had more than 58 points until he went to Vancouver and had 7 years in the league at that point.
So yeah, he is outperforming his contract pretty largely now after a 99 point year followed by an 82 point year, but not even the biggest JT Miller fan would have predicted that.
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Maybe if Berglund would have worked the way Thompson has to improve he wouldn't have flamed out of the NHL.
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1 hour ago, PromoTheRobot said:
Oh I think he gets paid by Audacy. I don't think he's a full time employee anymore.
Ah gotcha...
1 hour ago, PromoTheRobot said:Sorry if I took your comment the wrong way, like the Buffalo News is the way it is by choice. (I guess it is a choice..the choice of their new crappy owners.) My wife worked for newspapers for years as an editor (and me as a freelance stringer for 3 years) and the combination of bad owners, plus the reality that no one reads papers anymore, even the emergence of Craiglist destroying the want ads pages (a real cash cow) all contributed to this sorry state.
They moved print operations to Cleveland
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26 minutes ago, PromoTheRobot said:
I'm not sure if the hierarchy but I think Paul works for ch.4 and moonlights with WGR. He was let go by Audacy as a full time reporter a year or two ago.
The weird thing about sports journalism these days are the citizen bloggers filling the void that the mainstream media left behind with its staff and budget cuts. Some of them are good, others not so much.
You're embarrassed but do you understand what is happening to papers like the Buffalo News nationwide?
Hmm...he is listed on Audacy.com and on WGR 550 and lists his employer as WGR 550. He has also been travelling with the team again except for West Coast trips. If he is being paid by WIVB it seems a little strange...
His articles on games are on WGR 550's website, he talks in the pregame, intermissions and post game on WGR and he has regular spots during the week on WGR. WGR is the official Sabres radio station.
That is a lot of time and content for Audacy if he wasn't working for them directly.
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On 4/14/2023 at 9:57 PM, Misanthrope said:
If he is on the roster by the opening game I will change my GM grade from an A to a C. That is all
Your grade doesn't mean anything.
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Paul Hamilton follows them with WGR 550...we would still have one even if the newspaper didn't have one.
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On 4/22/2023 at 6:06 AM, Buffalonill said:
Wings with wing stops ranch is heaven.
Definitely not from WNY. Banned. I fought the ranch on wings crusade for years in the Midwest, don't need to fight it here.
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20 hours ago, LabattBlue said:
Forwards, defense, goaltending, scheme?
Once again, I didn’t watch many games this year, so I don’t know much except they were near the bottom of the league in PK.
They seemed to do well a lot of times keeping the puck to the outside but there were a few continual issues that seemed to cause problems a lot.
1) Goals on a quick play 5-6 seconds after losing a faceoff in their own zone. This happened way too much from what I remember. Would seem to get better and then would randomly happen again. Obviously they aren't going to never allow these but the number of times this happened was too many.
2) Goals off rebounds from point shots. Either because the goalie allowed a rebound or because the Sabres were not in proper position to stop them from getting their sticks on them.
3) Goals from guys wide open. This was another maddening thing. They would go 3-4 games where this wouldn't happen at all and then it would happen 2 times in the same game or 3 games in a row.
4) Goalies simply letting in goals they should have stopped. This was another huge one. Too many times our goalies let in goals that shouldn't have been goals. Clear look, shot coming from far out and not a one timer and just cleanly beating them in a way that shouldn't happen with the regularity it did for NHL goalies.
5) Inability to clear pucks out when they have control and a seemingly easy way to get it out of the zone. Too many times when they struggled, this was an issue. Again, wasn't constant...they would do great on 3 PKs and then be terrible on 1 and it would end up in their net.
Seemingly it was an inability to eliminate all of the above on a consistent basis like the good PK teams do. They'd do it well for 3 games and then suck at it for 3 games. They'd do some of these things well during games but then be terrible at the others. They'd do all of it well for 3 out of 4 penalties in the game but suck at it for the other.
Like everything else it seemed this season, inconsistency in their game was a constant, which was to be expected on some level as a very young team, but you would have liked to see more improvement in this area over the course of the year with how bad they were.
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7 minutes ago, DarthEbriate said:
His interview played during the game 1 intermission last night had him stating that it's been his dream to play in the NHL and he loved his experience in Buffalo last week. He said the best part is he doesn't change his game whether he was in the AHL and NHL and that's exactly what the Sabres bottom 6 needs. I'm guessing that as long as he is given a legit shot in camp, he'll be staying North America next season.
Given the Hinostroza UFA + leave situation to close the year and that Kulich is a kid, Rousek has the inside track at the 12/13 slot even with Savoie making the team out of camp. I'm thinking Rousek is a Sabre on opening day next season, and only gets sent down during the season if he's scuffling or needs to be playing everyday. But with injuries, I'd say he plays 40 NHL games.
Maybe it is a case of fulfilling the dream is complete and now he can focus on other things like being home? How important those things are to each player are different...
And if he does and wants to come back after the Sabre still hold his rights correct? Sort of like Pilut?
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13 minutes ago, Contempt said:
Given my posting history I'm sure most of you will reflexively say yes. Regardless. Went to BWW tonight with my boys. Ordered 30 wings to share amongst us. Counted the bones and got 28 wings. Nicely brought it to the to the waitress' attention who fixed it. Am I the AH for thinking if I bought 30 of something for more than a dollar each that I should actually receive the number I ordered??
YTA for going to BWW...that place sucks. 😂
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43 minutes ago, Taro T said:
Not many, but the list includes the '05-'06 Canes squad.
And the GM's experiences with that team seem to have greatly shaped his views towards team building and trying to sustain success long term. That team was unable to sustain the success long term. Everything the GM has said and done indicates that he expects the best way to be the one team in any given year that hoists Lord Stanley's Chalice is to be one of the handful of teams every year that has an opportunity to catch lightning in a bottle and you need a lot of luck to go with the skill and plan to be that 1 team that does actually win so he likely isn't EVER going to go ALL IN on any 1 given season. (The exception possibly being when Dahlin is getting too long in the tooth to be a top player for more than just 1 or 2 more years.)
That will always be the Cup we got screwed out of with defenseman dropping like flies...if McKee even plays and didn't have a crazy infection prior to game 7 they likely win that game taking a lead into the 3rd.
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2 minutes ago, Buffalonill said:
I don't get how it's not playoffs or bust next year.
And Organization mindset pisses me off It shouldn't be playoffs it should be championships .
How many teams win a Stanley Cup the first time in the playoffs as a group? Almost never. It even took the great Oiler teams 3 or 4 cracks at it to get their first one and they were nearly dismantled due to this.
If you expect them to win the Stanley Cup next year you are likely to be unhappy due to having unrealistic expectations.
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1 hour ago, Contempt said:
So is the experience not valuable for everyone else? So next year most of them have at least a series under their belts? Or are we off the train that experience in big situations matters?
Did it matter to New Jersey who improved 47 points?
I expect the Sabres will have a 2 year point improvement of the same ilk(probably closer to 35 points)...probably will end next year around where Jersey ended this year.
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35 minutes ago, Buffalonill said:
If they dont trade for a vet goalie its going to Be a train Wreck again ..
You can't put that much pressure on a rookie Goalie
Unlikely. The team will have grown and improved with a year of experience. It might not be good, but it will be better than last year.
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On 7/15/2022 at 11:45 PM, matter2003 said:
Sabres are eliminated from playoff contention in the final week of the season, but finish above 87 points on the year.
Skinner and Thompson are twin 40 goal scorers.
Dahlin is a Norris finalist.
Comrie plays much better in net than most people expect and is above average in goalie metrics.
I don't think I like the Hutton comparison...Hutton was at the age where goalies start declining. Comrie is just entering his prime.
Spot on with the first prediction, very close with the 2nd, likely correct on the 3rd once Norris finalists are announced, way off on the last unfortunately.
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I hate hate hate!!! they do divisional matchups for the 2/3 seeds. Just have it set up 1-8 by points and leave the forced divisional matchups out.
Toronto starting out strong as usual I see...
Not quite as bad as the NBA which is turning into a joke with their 9/10 seed playoff games against the 8/7 seeds. Why bother even having playoffs and playing the season if you still need playoff games with the final 4 seeds? Why are you rewarding a team potentially getting lucky in a game over 82 games of results?
And now their in-season tournament next year? WTF is that,??
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3 hours ago, French Collection said:
Montour would not be putting up those numbers in Buffalo. It’s too bad the Sabres didn’t realize he could be a PP QB, could have got more for him.
Dahlin is better than him at both ends, while Power and Mule eat up a lot of minutes. He is better than Joki but I don’t like his defensive game, too much of a riverboat gambler.
Who's spot would he have taken? Dahlin's? No. Power's? No.
At best he was a 3rd option if one of those two was out but that was rare.
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11 minutes ago, Pimlach said:
He means top 18 player on in HIS team, not in the league, just like you mean top 22 player (i.e. a starter) on the football team, not in the league.
There is no way NHL scouting of 18 year old players can be as accurate as NFL scouting drafting ~22 year old players form college. Age means a lot but is not the only one factor. Also consider the in the disparity in the competition across the USA, Canada, Europe, and Russia versus College NCAA Division 1.
I think the league disparity is probably what hurts other sports the most. Football is the one sport where you have one consistent place to draw talent from and it's all in the US(outside a very very very small percentage of players that go through the NFL International programs).
Every other major sport in the US...hockey, basketball and MLB have players coming into the draft from numerous leagues and countries.
Then soccer, which is most popular worldwide, doesn't even have a draft, they have youth programs where players start training from the age of 14 or even younger at times and come up through their system and become part of the senior squad after being part of the U18 and U21 teams(or just make the jump straight from U18 if they are stars).
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52 minutes ago, tom webster said:
Why is it sad? It’s just a function of the sport. There are 22/23 spots on an NHL team. 12/15 NBA. A third liner in hockey would be a top 18 player. A starter in the NFL could be the 22nd player.
Not really. If there are 3 forward spots on each line and 32 teams then a 3rd liner would be like a 65th best player not 18th. And that's only considering offense, not including D or goaltenders.
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17 minutes ago, GASabresIUFAN said:
Didn't help last year. The same front office gave us Lyubushkin, Clague, Stillman, and Comrie. Not exactly an endorsement.
And 91 points. Most in 12 years.
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27 minutes ago, tom webster said:
Actually, football is the only draft where you expect a player at the 27th pick to be a starter.
Pretty sad and says something about the other drafts then. Ie, if you are drafting the supposed 27th best player that year, you should be pretty certain he is a starter. Other than that, it's a pretty epic failure in your leagues draft process.
The Stanley Cup Playoffs 2023: First Round GDT
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Hahaha Boston goes out in the first round after the best regular season in NHL history. Didn't Tampa Bay also have a great regular season and go out in the first round a few years ago??