DarthEbriate
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6 hours ago, DarthEbriate said:
Benson - Norris - Thompson
Quinn - McLeod - Tuch
Zucker - Kulich - Greenway
Danforth - Krebs - Doan
(Malenstyn)Greenway week-to-week..., eh? This lineup looks less likely for opening day.
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There is so much cap space available next summer. Every UFA should take it to 7/1/2026. It's silly cap space, because teams didn't use it this year. A team could sign McDavid and Tuch. And their competitor could sign Eichel and Kaprizov.
Sign with the Sabres for $9M this year... or $11M next summer. Or... and here's the fun part... go get join a winning franchise instead.
(And I know they'll all just re-sign with their current team for less than they should.)
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Huh. How are they going to do the rotation, then? Tuch or Thompson has to give up an A for Samuelsson to have his A in home games? That's as silly as it was last year.
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35 minutes ago, LGR4GM said:
Flip Doan with Greenway.
By Thanksgiving, absolutely. For opening night, I'm going by the tried-and-true Ruffism of keeping all newcomers together on the same line. Greenway-Zucker gives Kulich the experience to play a solid checking game.
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15 minutes ago, LGR4GM said:
Yea
... no Detroits window isn't opening
Agreed. Just going by the label on the chart. I can see Detroit and Buffalo swapping positions this season, and again after next season, depending on how UFAs play out. They're both in 1C purgatory. (Yes, Larkin looks good on Team Canada and he plays with speed. But... he's not striking fear into any championship contender in the playoffs.)
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1 hour ago, GASabresIUFAN said:
This graphic encapsulates the Sabres perfectly.
15 years and they are no closer to contending than the year they started the rebuild. Disgusting.
And their little arrow shows that they were near where Detroit was the previous year. Just spinning.
The best outcome of the season would seem to get back to the Detroit - window opening - this season. And the other outcome is they slide to where Nashville is.
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Benson - Norris - Thompson
Quinn - McLeod - Tuch
Zucker - Kulich - Greenway
Danforth - Krebs - Doan
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Invitee d-man Aidan Fulp is a Leap Day Baby. Nice.
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57 minutes ago, LGR4GM said:
The Sabres being too lazy to update the heights and weights on this speaks to how the entire operation works.
Every year.
But it is fun to see someone on the Prospect's Challenge roster gain 10 pounds in 4 days for the Training Camp roster. And then lose 10 pounds for the regular season when they report to Rochester.
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Baker Fairburn Hockey Show podcast pointed out that the contract pays the same $825k in the AHL as well. That this isn't a PTO or a "reboot your career" 2-way contract is an interesting choice. I'm now curious as to what Adams has to say about Luukkonen's injury in the preseason press conference tomorrow.
Speculation:
I'm mildly shocked Georgiev didn't somehow get a No Movement Clause out of it to control where he's traded to in the event Luukkonen recovers quickly. Signing another backup at full price, when you already have the backup (Lyon) and the future/understudy (Levi), for a starter who has no timetable for return and the injury is undisclosed instead of a UBI/LBI distinction is... odd. I don't want to learn that our starting goalie is suffering from a case of idontwannabeinbuffalitis. That stuff's contagious.
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7 minutes ago, LGR4GM said:
Yea you can.
I needed to add more ever ever evers to emphasize my point. 😇
I do wonder what Adams will try to fix this upcoming season/offseason. NHL-ready #1 centers would be a good target. Trade Norris for one and add two more in the draft. I'd say goalie but they already have nine in the system, so I figure they're already starting to address it.
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14 minutes ago, LGR4GM said:
Let's go live to "players Buffalo should have drafted instead"
While I believe it's much too early to grade a draft, my main response is: you can never have too many big RHD. Never ever ever.
Nice rush goal from Mateo and Nadeau. Jacksonville top line preview.
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8 minutes ago, Ctaeth said:
It is neuchev's first game back since march, I think he should maybe get a pass in this particular instance
I don't expect Neuchev to try to annihilate someone. But as a counterpoint, it would have been a good time to test out the new shoulder.
However, what I'm most disappointed by is that by avoiding any check, it led to a Pens scoring chance. Separate the man from the puck and dump it back in and go for a change.
6 minutes ago, dudacek said:David Bedkowsi has continued his terrible play from the 1st game.
Telegraphed passes like using he's using a rotary phone.
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Morning hockey. Missed opening goals.
Neuchev could've decapitated a guy and... stepped aside. Which is nice... in a practice.
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9 minutes ago, PerreaultForever said:
Just be glad they didn't trade for Fedotov.
For a 2nd.
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1 hour ago, 7+6=13 said:
Many of the Sabres players really like soup.
The Sabres may have no reason for hope, but Soup is above reproach.
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16 minutes ago, freester said:
Where can I watch the game?
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We've got a game tonight!
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2 minutes ago, shrader said:
If this is long term, I’m thinking this is the start of the Levi era.
I'm guessing this as well.
Georgiev had a good age 26 season, but it's otherwise been a downward spiral for him. He gets a chance to get a mini resurrection to his career --- but he is not blocking Levi if Luukkonen is out for a longer term. No timetable seems... either like normal Ruffspeak or a bit alarming.
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36 minutes ago, PerreaultForever said:
Oh no they most definitely can be worse.
Now because of the Olympics it's unlikely a big name holds out or wants out this year. But,
scenario 1 - Dahlin asks for a trade and the team quits all around with that news.
scenario 2 - injury injury injury. There's no depth. We lose Tage and Dahlin we are sunk. We lose all the injury prone at the same time we are likely sunk.
scenario 3 - the goaltending is not just bad but garbage
scenario 4 - Ruff starts to get frustrated, starts to grind them and they quit on him.
All very possible along with sophomore slumps or Quinn still sucking and so forth. Possible success above last year's level hangs by a thread here.
Strictly because we're in the hopium thread I offer refutations.
Scenario 1 - I don't think a Dahlin trade request happens before this season's trade deadline. They have one season to go for it.
Scenario 2 - True, but no "fringe" team can lose their leading scorer and a Norris-caliber defenseman. A great team, sure. A borderline team: no. For example, take Quinn Hughes and ... Pettersson? out of the Canucks lineup. No chance.
Scenario 3 - Georgiev! Anyway, it's about committing to team defense and giving whoever is in goal a chance. If UPL stays upright and doesn't overslide his net, he can be effective.
Scenario 4 - If Ruff is that out of touch, he should just retire. There's no reason to grind the youngest (again x5) team in the league. And he doesn't have anything to prove. What's at stake? His job? He's a lame duck. He can cruise. And maybe that attitude will help the players relax.
But yes, they could all still be sorely underwhelming, even with improvements from last year.
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Hmmm. Someone isn't ready for the preseason. Because he's not an upgrade on anyone except Lyon, and Lyon is a proven backup who knows how to sit for a time and come in and give you .900.
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Just for fun.
Ristolainen and Power age 20-21 seasons compared (removing their initial partial seasons)
https://stathead.com/hockey/versus-finder.cgi?request=1&seasons_type=perchoice&player_id1=ristora01&p1yrfrom=2015&p1yrto=2016&player_id2=powerow01&p2yrfrom=2023&p2yrto=2024 -
14 hours ago, mjd1001 said:
On a side not but related....sometimes the networks take it too far.
About 7 or 8 years ago the Indy500 was on TV and I was watching. Like it often happens, 2 cars were fighting for the lead with only a few laps left, swapping the lead ever 1/2 to lap. Some geniuses decided to not even do 'split screen', but to put 2 pictures on the broadcast....one in the upper corner, one in the lower corner. So what you ended up seeing was some empty space and each picture was only 1/3 the size of the screen.
What was the split screen for? Well, if you wanted to watch the last couple laps, the cars fighting for the lead, it was now in the upper left corner of the screen, maybe taking up 30% of the screen. The other view? Close up of the faces of the wives, with their hands covering their mout looking nervous.
Auto racing is famous for that. I don't remember if its worse on the Indycar broadcasts, Nascar, or F1, but on occasion they will show you the winner cross the line, and there are other cars still finishing the race, still fighting for position. But nope, the Camera cuts to the wife/girfriend of the winning drive so we can all see how happy SHE is. Doesn't matter if your favorite driver was in the middle of a pack fighting for a top 10 finish that may move them up or down in the standings. Gotta show everyone how happy the wife is 3 seconds after the winner crosses the line.
I get it pre race or post race. I don't like it but I get it. But when a big race is on the last lap or finishing, no one is being 'drawn into' the broadcast at that moment for much other than to see who wins and how they do it.
The 2 split screen makes almost no sense. Just do a single extra picture in the upper right...
For racing, everyone is in fire suits and helmets, or worse -- in a helmet and moving 200 mph. The only people they can show with emotion and faces are the team chief and the wife. It's a tricky broadcast to show the humanity. They're better now with the mic'd up style radio and tons of onboard cameras. But back in the day, filling a 2-hour race was a challenge beyond the cool nyeeooommm sounds.
Edit: Off Topic, but on the topic of nyeeooommm sounds... Our GM had to go and ruin everything with his talk of palm trees, but I still have the Sabres cars built and ready for action.
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I don't gamble -- I'm not scum and I don't like being told the odds. But if the Sabres over is 82.5, I'm taking the over immediately.
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Adams: we have an elite D corps
in The Aud Club
Posted · Edited by DarthEbriate
They have a 1OA, 1OA, 4OA, and they're most excited about Kesselring... a 5th round pick who was a 3rd pairing guy in Utah -- who played up in the lineup last year because of his team's injuries.
But Kesselring spent the bulk of his time with Ian Cole, Sergachev, and Olli Maata -- three guys whose play in their own zone would place them #2 behind Dahlin on the Sabres blue line. Now, Kesselring has to elevate and cover for his partner, rather than the be the guy who is free to just play. (Unless he's paired with Dahlin.)
It's an opportunity for Kesselring, for certain. But it's also very much a big pipe of hopium.