mjd1001

What I need to know...2 things: -If Kesserling were not here, who would be getting those minutes. Meaning, how much of an improvement (overall) is Kesserling over the minutes without him? -Who will be getting Peterkas minutes. How much of a downgrade (overall) will that play have vs JJP.

I voted for make the pick but honestly... I don't care. The team has worn me down... More so the fact we are seeing so many moves in the off-season and none by the sabres. So far... That has worn me down.

A lot of those above names aren't all that great for me for Peterka. You don't have to trade Peterka, he's restricted. So, if you are going to trade him I am looking for 3 things with a player in return: -Makes the Sabres better right now than Peterka does (due to talent and/or fit) -Cheaper than Peterka (use the money saved in other places) -Makes the team better than Peterka in 2-3 years from now (talent and/or fit) You aren't getting all 3 of those, another team would be foolish to make that trade. But I want 2 of the 3 (pick whatever 2 you want). If you aren't getting 2 of those 3 things, they don't move him.

I don't like those numbers and I think at the end of the deal the contract will look bad but I probably would still do it. He certainly is not a bad player and he's more complete than Skinner, you just have to look at the possibility of buying the deal out in the last 2 years or so. If that's what it takes to keep him here, it's probably a yes for me.

Feels very similar to the Bills up until they drafted Allen.

I haven't looked at the Sabres cap lately so I don't know the numbers, but if going 3 years, I would offer him as much as I can, SHORT of causing problems with re-signing Tuch and Benson and McLeod. If I can get those 3 locked up (and Bryam and/or who you get for Byram) and then STILL have money left over for Tavares, spend away. That $4.4million cap hit for Skinner this year and the $6.4M cap hit for his buyout next year kinda stinks right now.

On individual player scouting, on strategy, on evaluation, yeah, the team's management probably knows multiple times more than the average fan. But on what general direction the team should take? is it time to buy or sell near the deadline? is it a point in the offseason to rebuild or to go 'all in'. The start player who 30 years old, do you give him a long term deal or not? A lot of those things are 50-50 choices...coin flip things whether they work out one way or the other. The 'average fan' can think they know more than the team's management because a lot of time the 'average fan' has a 50 percent chance of making the 'right' long term decision while the management has 50% chance of making the wrong one.

But they found him in less than 2 hour runtime of the movie.

Maybe, I was just looking at the transactions pages from the NHL.

The fun of being a Sabres fan: -NHL player transactions (trades, signings, extensions, etc): In the past week, 26 of them. 0 from the Sabres. -Since June 1 (last 3 weeks). NHL total transactions, 57 of them (mostly re-signings, a few trades). 0 from the Sabres. -Since the beginning of May, there is ONE Sabres player transaction, Signing D Erik Brannstrom to a three-year contract. The rest of the NHL well over 100. I mean, I'm not a person to say make a move the the sake of it, but there really isn't much to talk about here lately. You would think the team that has the longest playoff drought would be one of them that would be wanting to make the most moves to change things.

I'm ok with a ban on fighting...but if, only IF they start HEAVILY penalizing all the stick work, late hits, head shots, etc that lead to many fights. You do any of the above and someone can't respond to it in a fight, even if the refs miss it then the replay of the offense after has to be heavily penalized. I'm talking multi-games suspensions for stuff right now in the NHL that gets only a 2 minute or MAYBE a 5 minute penalty. You want that stuff to stop, make it prohibitive.

Look at the stats and the analytics over the past 3 seasons combined, Everything points to him playing without Hintz doesn't change his game that much. But Hints playing without Robertson is a bigger issue. Hintz needs Robertson WAY MORE than Robertson needs Hintz. To break it down another way: When Robertson was on the ice in the past 3 seasons without Hintz, the team scored a goal every 23.8 minutes When Hints was on the ice in the past 3 seasons without Robertson, the team scored a goal every 42.2 minutes.

I'm not to far away from you. Since I was a little kid (under 10) I have followed this team. Through the drought, I wasn't happy but I followed the team. the Kruger losing streak? Never walked away from the team. I posted about pretty much every game on this forum over the last few years. BUT, last year I wavered a BIT after the 1st of the year. For the first time ever, in almost 40 years since I was in elementary school I wavered a bit in my fandom. Now, for no reason that I know of, this offseason I have wavered a bit more. I think in the past 2 months I have maybe posted on this forum 20 times? I would do that in a few days in the last few offseasons. I think a guy like Alex Tuch, a Sabres and Bills fan his whole life...WANTING to come here to play here.......even the rumors of him wavering hit me hard. They need to start next season strong. If they aren't in a playoff spot after the first month, its a problem. If they aren't in (or competing) for a spot the entire season (meaning to NOT ever fall more than 3-4 points out of the 8th spot), its a big problem.) If this team fails to make the playoffs next year, and/or is a negative goal differential team again, I personally might get to the point of canceling the cable package and agreeing with you. Many fans have walked away from the team in the past decade. Others (many/most of us on this forum) haven't, and some never will. Its getting to the point where everything is just negative, I'm a happier person when NOT thinking about the franchise.

I respect that, and I even admit that I feel that 'energy' when at a big game. But for me, I don't really want it. The bigger the game, the MORE I want to be at home by myself, to really get into the game, to watch every nuance that is happening, the less I want to be sitting next to "Joe from Cheektowaga" who is yelling and swearing and cheering and wanting to give me (and everyone else) a high five after every score. Again, I'm not denying the energy of it and even feeling it in a positive way, but for some of us, it can take away from the nuance of the game. I'd almost rather have my 'at the arena' entertainment involving those around me to be between periods/quarters, before the game, in commercial breaks...etc. During the game I want nothing distracting me from the game itself.

I think the NHL believes, maybe its true, that winning is NOT all that matters. Toronto is a great example. The 'everday' fan has been mostly priced out of the games. Yeah, there are some, but a lot of the crowd seems to be from a higher 'social-economic' class. And do they want the team to win? Sure they do, but it also appears for them its more about a 'night out', its about bragging they were at the game, its about the food, the entertainment. Then look at other cities. Kids days games are popular, and do the kids want the home team to win? Again, sure they do, but many times they are just as happy with the music they can dance to between commercials, the games on the ice between periods, and they are happy to cheer for the home team when they score 3 goals, even though the opposing team scores 5. Personally, I don't go to many games anymore. As a fan, I think I can see more, interact with others more, just get a better experience as a 'fan of the game' at home than I do in the Arena. But the few times I go to the arena, I want to be entertained. Again, I can see the on-ice product just as well at home, maybe even better, so if I'm going to the game, you better give me good food, good entertainment, stuff I CAN'T get at home. So yeah, I think the NHL, most sports leagues, and even the Sabres are going to lean into the entertainment aspect of the gameday experience. Maybe not so much to get more people to come out (winning will do that, but the marketing dept can't fix that) but to find out what people are into and see how they can extract more money from the people that do show up.

Thompson and Dahlin are top players. The key thing is hope for better goaltending, it was awful last year. Cozens being gone for me is a big thing. I think the Center combinations including Norris, Tage (possibly), Krebs, and Mcleod are better than taking any of those guys out and putting in Cozens.

Agree on the first part. +/- though? By itself it may be useless to many, but in context with other stats or simply observations It has some value.

I agree it is really slow. We just got back from Boston. Not exactly a city known for getting things done quickly..but the Seaport District...Its basically a brand new small city that has been build in the past 10-or-so years. All glass office towers, luxury apartments. Probably 15-20 (at least) 20+ floor buildings. Luxury apartments. Artwork and fountains along the street. Movie theaters, all kinds of restaurants, rooftop bars, brand new hotels, even some brand new subway stations (although its more of an underground electric bus). Yeah, I know Boston is bigger, but again, its not a city people are rushing to move to. And they took basically a bunch of abandoned warehouses and parking lots and turned it into a shiny new city about the same time, or less, than Canalside has been developed.

So, I haven't looked into the numbers that much, and maybe someone brought this up...but the Rangers were supposedly interested in Peterka, right? Is trading Kreider the start of moves to fee up money to put a decent sized/bigger offer sheet for Peterka?

Emotional drivers. We were coming back home from Boston last week and at one point on the Thruway there was a line of vehicles in the right lane going really slow (maybe 10mph under the speed limit, it was led by a slow truck). It took me a while to change lanes to the passing lane, because a lot of people behind me got over there before I could. So I'm patient, wait for an opening, and then when no one is left behind me, I move to the right lane. There was a woman in a small SUV that was WAY behind us, but she had to be going 80-85+ mph. She came up behind me. Now, I'm back up to speed, passing the slow left lane vehicles at a pretty good rate, but this woman starts tailgating us as I'm certainly not going 85, waiving her hands, and eventually she got to the flashing the headlights. I'm not holding up the right lane, I did not come close to cutting her off. I'm passing pretty quickly the 5 or 6 cars and trucks going under the speed limit in the right lane. I just don't want to drive well over 80mph like her, so how does that cause her to act like she does? On a side note, the Mohawk valley visitors center....NY state get your stuff together. The new WNY visitors center on Grand Island has people working there selling food and drinks, a mini-market area called 'taste ny' filled with NY state food and products, a large area to sit in, and clean bathrooms. The Mohawk valley one? Its not that much older, its tiny, it has 3 ev chargers all out of order, bathrooms that haven't been cleaned in a while (when we got there), and their 'taste NY' area is a few vending machines.

I guess you take what you can get... But a late first is pretty bad. Look through the history of late first round picks, very few of them actually amount to much in the league. You'd be trading him for the proverbial lottery pick, but one without a high expected payout. And even if you win, you're not going to get that payout for years.

I hate to be the guy who says this but... It depends both on the return... And what you would have to pay him to keep him here. That's really the cop-out answer, but it's true for me.

I like listening to him, but it seems like his 'sources' get things right 10 or so times a year, but he puts out hundreds of 'possibilities'. What he says is entertaining and occasionally correct, but you could make a lot of money betting against him all the time (maybe more so than other sources out there).

Just glad he's not here anymore.

Its not about just Peterka...its about Peterka IF they also get Marner.