DarthEbriate
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Ristolainen. Only being relied upon for 20 minutes a night vs. 25, and having a better surrounding cast will make his life much easier. Then, we might see him be able to put together more than half a season of competent hockey. Now... as to whether he's a Sabre during the season or not... he is one for the moment.
Strictly Sabres, I'm for Mittelstadt as the most overall improved (he'll look like he belongs, but not in control... sort of like Reinhart's first full season). And for our overall success, assuming the team plays more cohesively defensively in general, it has to be Hutton and Ullmark who show the greatest statistical gain.
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2 hours ago, New Scotland (NS) said:
He certainly has the HOF player thing happening. Probably top 10 all time, but he was run out of Carolina after spending most of his career in that organization going back to The Whale days. I really do miss The Whale. Time will tell, but a lot is going to depend on how they manage the expansion draft. If he can come close to replicating Vegas then he will be off to a head start.
I caught one of his interviews with local sports radio on the drive home from work. Seems measured, calculating. I like that he did scouting, then assistant GM, then on the bench for a season, then back to assistant GM in his years leading up to this gig. He's dabbled everywhere. He's JBot-esque learning under Rutherford and building up an AHL roster as AGM (he was the overseer of this year's Calder Cup champ Charlotte Checkers. Wow, many Cs there.
It's all about the expansion draft. He has a harder job than McPhee did because the league's front offices are going to protect themselves much better. But with the same parameters he'll still make a killing in accumulating picks to take the players that the other teams want to give up.
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Part of why we liked him is because GMTM was ZFG. The trouble with being glib is it runs into problems with accountability and relationships. JBots is running a professional ship now. Did ROR request a trade? Did Pegula demand a trade? Why trade a #1B center for so much salary coming back... all we can do is speculate. And that's good! JBot won't let the reasons slip, ever. GMTM would've inadvertently ZFG'ed that out already. And this means JBot is going to manage the owners, and the players, and the cap. He's got the players' backs, knowing that he's also going to cut them or not give them as much money as they want. But that is now known around the league. Lehner might have been miffed about the Sabres team (because we stunk, and he contributed to that) but he had good things to say about the organization helping him get right, even if that meant moving on. That's good for free agency and veterans. And Nylander has a legitimate gripe, and Bailey and Baptiste probably didn't get a fair shake with the new GM --- but they're trying to catch on with other teams and are saying "it's business." This is good for the long run. You can get a lot of things accomplished by keeping an orderly starship (and drafting well).
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49 minutes ago, Brawndo said:
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That's a suspiciously cropped photo. Reveal the robot hand!
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@SABRES 0311-inspired. (and it's probably been done in this thread already, but... it's summer of 2019 now). Best road-trip music?
Obviously, I'd say Star Wars sound tracks back-to-back-to-back. And yes, I have done this once many years ago. It wasn't as much music at the time and the scenery slid right on by.
A personal favorite... my car's aux jack died so no iPod for a cross-country adventure. So I stopped in at used CD stores along the way, plus one album I found online for much cheaper than it should have been: 87' Laments -- a live Prince album from the Sign o the Times tour. Delicious while driving.
Edit: After my lengthy entry. What's everyone's best road trip album/track?
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20 hours ago, nfreeman said:
This makes it less likely that Asplund make the NHL roster, right?
Out of camp, yes. But Rasmus-3 will get his callup this season. I want to give him half a season in Rochester to ensure he's putting it all together. Make it impossible to keep him down.
Two thoughts on it:
- Larsson and Girgs are now easy, cheap grinders to move at the deadline for picks (if they're having healthy seasons and we're out of the playoffs) -- and that'll get Asplund up.
- If some hybrid 2nd line of Mitts/Reino/Johansson is effective at center (or we still acquire that magic 2C) then there's no need to rush Asplund, even if he's ready. Detroit Red Wing style... he'll appear and the team will get even better at the midway point.
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On 7/10/2019 at 7:30 AM, SABRES 0311 said:
San Fran was a bit of a shock. I couldn’t tell if I was driving on trolly tracks, a bike lane or a car lane.
It's one magical city to drive in. And even better for parking.
And you listened to CCR the entire way? But roadtrip music... I guess that would be a post in a different thread.
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On 7/11/2019 at 6:54 AM, shrader said:
I walk by the VA hospital out here occasionally. They always have some sort of truck/trailer parked on the side for the “Durham VA Department of Emergency Response”. They do in fact use the abbreviation D VADER
Hopefully, the vehicle is black, well-polished, and ... with some blinking lights.
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5 hours ago, Randall Flagg said:
I vividly remember explaining to my girlfriend (who patiently waited without rolling her eyes) that Girgs and Grigs finally solved the center woes and would be integral to our first cup at last!
Memories make us rich. Grigs once broke Gretzky's points record in an EA NHL campaign season is all I'm saying.
5 hours ago, Brawndo said:I really do not want my highest paid defenseman to have to be sheltered on the third pair in an attempt to maximize his value to my team.
Trade Him
It's true. He shouldn't be on the third pair. But with Bogo and Pilut out, this could take longer to come to fruition than we hope (although I think the move happens before August 10th). We simply cannot carry this many D-men into the season, and it makes no sense to have someone on the 50-man limit being stashed in ROC and stunting the prospects' development.
JBot, you may fire when ready.
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5 hours ago, GASabresIUFAN said:
I think you should change the thread name to are we overlooking Defensive Contribution to our offense.
With the acquisitions of Gilmour, Miller and Jokiharju, Jbot is certainly not overlooking the defense in his roster surgery,
Roster surgery... JBott's gone and gotten us a brand new set of android limbs. (For the ones we've lost in various combats.)
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9 minutes ago, Randall Flagg said:
Is Vancouver less likely of a trade partner now that they've signed Myers? They have Myers, Tanev, Stecher down the right side. Obviously not ideal, but Risto doesn't make it better in a meaningful way (he's not going to drag their defense from not-playoff-caliber to playoff-caliber by himself)
It's just a matter of if they figure their defense needs size and snarl. Because none of those guys plays a rough game.
5 minutes ago, LGR4GM said:They probably aren't trading for Risto ?
True. Thus adding Reinhart and + extra stuff. But they're also not sold on Tanev. They had the chance to lock him up, but didn't. He's a bridge and not elite. Like Myers and like Ristolainen. But you have all three of them and they've got what we've got --- three 2nd pairing guys to play the entire game.
20 minutes ago, Scottysabres said:I believe Boeser and Horvat are players you build around, I don't believe Vancouver is going to move them.
I build around them, too. That's why I can give them a bunch to get them.
All this is just to look for a flawed team and do a massive swap. But it's all true... Vancouver doesn't look like the team this time around. But which franchise.... (I just wanted to avoid the obvious of Winnipeg, Anaheim, and Vegas, but rather look for a player I would want on a top line.)
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All these defensemen... even with Bogo and Pilut hurt to start the season, we've got to move somebody. And you don't want to have to protect all of your D in 2 years.
Idle thoughts beyond Winnipeg and Vegas.
We like to trade with Vancouver. Would you consider: Risto + Reino + a D prospect + balancing picks for RFA Boeser (sign-and-trade) and C Horvat (5.5M) + balancing picks? (Vancouver just got JT Miller and has Petterson for center... Horvat is an excellent 3C. For the record: I don't move Reino, but I adore Boeser.
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2 hours ago, Randall Flagg said:
Labanc signed for 1 year, $1 mil. San Jose has Meier, Hertl, and Labanc locked up for under $12 million in cap space. Offer sheets are a thing, these guys were RFAs this year (Meier, Labanc) and last (Hertl). Why do teams let the Sharks do this?
So.... 17 goals, 56 points, and a really good playoff run. Sure, he hit's FA faster. But this is preposterous.
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23 hours ago, Thorny said:
According to this site he played a ton of C last season:
https://frozenpool.dobbersports.com/players/marcus-johansson
I just went by faceoff numbers. His first couple seasons he took about 600-700, then down a bunch, and in 2015-16 he took about 300. Since then, though, he's under 100 face-offs per season. That's not really a center. Note: He's also been pretty weak at face offs at around 42% wins for his career.
Now! We could have him with another player who's good at face offs. Didn't we do that with Ott? He was good in the dot, so he took the draw, but played the wing? Though, I think that's just messy.
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23 hours ago, Thorny said:
If you are on a ship, red is certainly bad, as it means you may be about to die in a horrific accident/mission.
I think we're discussing different style ships. But yes -- if aquatic or Earthly, red is not ideal. I'm more about the color of the turbolasers, though... as is my idiom.
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Red is evil. Blue and green are good, and purple is Princely. Unless you're in a ship... then green is bad and red is good. Unless you're in GI Joe, then blue is bad and red is good.
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I've seen a lot of strange stuff, but I've never seen any chart to make me believe there's one all-powerful Fancy stat controlling everything. There's mystical plus/minus controls my destiny. It's all a lot compete level and puck luck.
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2 minutes ago, inkman said:
One more guy ahead of Sobotka on the depth chart. That's all I need to hear.
But who will take... left-handed?... faceoffs? ?
Edit: Just mocking up lines... all those St. Louis Blues we acquired are outside of the top 12. It's all clouds under the planetary shield at this point, but darn it this latest roster would look good with a ROR-type on line 2.
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2 minutes ago, dudacek said:
Our depth continues to grow as Botts continues to push his development through competition philosophy up from Rochester to the big club. I count 12 veteran NHLers and another 8 kids threatening to break the ceiling.
And Ruotsalainen, too.
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Just now, Gatorman0519 said:
This is where Kruger comes in.... he has a knack for seeing out of the box
Center by committee. All five skaters on the face-off dot at the same time. (I am not a committee.)
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If there's a second line center in the universe, we're still on the roster that it's farthest from.
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He broke into the league with the Caps as a center, but his faceoff [attempts] dropped year by year. He's been a winger exclusively the last few seasons.
As for the player, there's the health worry (concussions), but the term is fantastic, the pricetag is good, and he is definitely middle 6. Logjam on the left wing.
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The mighty JBott asks why he must pay Elie 50 thousand.
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2 minutes ago, Curt said:
Listen, I’m just saying that they good at defense. Neither of them are any good at creating scoring opportunities, but at least they can play defense, get the puck out of the Dzone, and cycle it around in the Ozone a bit. What do you want from your 4th line?
This, plus penalty killing (ideally with the threat of a shorthanded rush up ice), rousing up the crowd with a body check (remember that one shift from... a day game... this past season where the Sabres threw about 5 checks in a row and the entire arena was rocking?), and being able to score the occasional goal 5 on 5.
Additional perks: 1) being trustworthy enough to be on the ice to take a shift when the other team has pulled the goalie and 2) one critical goal for per playoff series.
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Jbot Referendum - Is he Good or Bad or Are You Unsure?
in The Aud Club
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Is this thread the prequel or the sequel to the "Tim Murray was a complete disaster" thread? That will sway my opinion.
JBot is building the foundation for the future (Rochester may have bowed out meekly in the playoffs but their season was very good; Cincinnati was even better in the regular season, but also whiffed in the playoffs). Playoff exits notwithstanding, the overall structure and competition in the organization is much better. He's building a speed roster; I think that's good.
But so far, no playoffs for the Sabres -- which is the single most important measure. He got fleeced in one trade; fleeced Carolina in another; and ... had to move Kane at the deadline because he wasn't likely to re-sign here -- that happens every year, and it's a push -- (unless Johnson becomes and elite defender, then yay!).
I'm voting patience. And I vote for sacrificing Han and Leia. Because I honor what JBot is fighting for.