Thorny
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There's an old saying in Tennessee — I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee — that says, fool me once, shame on — shame on you. Fool me — you can't get fooled again.
Fond memory. Always loved this moment :lol:
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Hot Fuzz
doesthatcount?
Absolute classic movie. In my top 5 overall.
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A lot right with this post in that we haven't improved the defence enough and need to acquire more.
What's wrong with it though is the implication Falk and Fedun were the problem.
Guhle/Falk/Fedun as our 7/8/9 matches up well with the rest of the league.
Our issue was with Bogosian and Kulikov at 2/3 and Franson/Gorges at 5/6.
The latter were incapable of moving higher on the depth chart and the former were disasters in their roles.
I think between Guhle, Antipin and Beaulieu we've probably upgraded the 5/6 positions, but the 3/4 is still a huge issue.
This.
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Grigorenko not given qualifying offer.
That trade continues to be a large chunk of Murray's legacy in Buffalo.
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He'll get north of 7. I would almost bet he'd become our highest paid player over O'Reilly.
I don't think it's impossible, I just think with extensions coming up especially for Eichel, we're going to need to alocate other areas.
Fair enough, but it might be high time to invest some $ on the back-end, or we could be looking at a 7th straight year with no playoffs.
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Way to much cost in that, as well as the fact he's a one trick pony. I would rather take a look at a more reasonable case.
That would depend how much Shattenkirk gets. And also our ability to move on from Moulson/Ennis. And how much Beaulieu gets. McCabe and Antipin aren't making a ton. I don't see a problem with paying for another Defenceman. We have cap space.
Don't think there's too much cost in that at all.
Everyone says we can't afford to pay Kane, or acquire a Defenceman, or add forward depth for the same reason, quoting some combination of those things, as well as Eichel and Reinhart coming off their ELCs. We can't do ALL of those things, but there's room for something. We have the cap space to maneuver, and we don't lose that simply by extending Jack and Sam in a year.
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I could see us getting Shattenkirk for some reason.
McCabe - Ristolainen
Beaulieu - Shattenkirk
Antipin - Bogosian
That would be a solid defence. Sign me up.
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Me too, and I think he'll end up playing more games with the Sabres this season than with the Amerks.
Jeeze, let's hope not!
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Cal's going to play AHL forever regardless of what team he signs with.
FTFY.
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Terrible class.
Selanne the only deserving nominee.
(I just turned 50, there's a lot of more fist-shaking to come.)
Kariya definitely deserving, in my mind.
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Zack Kassian has agreed to terms with EDM on a three-year deal worth a total of $5.85M.
Per McKenzie
Nice signing.
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It's beyond past time to admit that this guy is a bust and can't play in the NHL
Definitely.
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Hopefully for Rochester. If so, good signing.
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Speaking of him. Did he even get re-drafted? Some were very concerned about not signing him but I can't find any news on where he was picked? If he wasn't then I presume he can still be signed as an undrafted free agent? For the record, I still don't care either way if he's signed or not.
Oh lord.....Maybe I'm just showing my age but I remember (not so) fondly the 'Roy and Tim are 2 top 20 centres in the league. You can't have enough high end centres in your organization. I also agree you can't have too many high end D in your organization. One guy seems to be concensus ranked in the top 6, other guy was ranked by multiple people/services as outside of the top 10. The only mild surprise is the selection was Mittelstadt over Vilardi.
And considering Vilardi fell all the way to the Kings at 11, I guess in retrospect even that bit isn't surprising.
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Putting aside the nice draft from Botterill, as of now the only upgrades we've made to next year's team are the additions of Nathan Beaulieu and Victor Antipin.
What additions would we still like to see Botterill make (perhaps this week/weekend) to better help prepare the Sabres for what needs to be a legitimate playoff push this coming season?
Or is that all we should expect for roster upgrades? Would this leave the Sabres with a realistic shot of playoffs?
I'd like to see Botterill bring in at least a 5/6 D man to provide needed depth and bump Gorges to the press box. I'm also hoping for a depth forward or two, particularly one that has the potential ability to play on LW in the top 6. Without that addition, Ennis is currently slotted in a top 6 role.
Thoughts?
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At the present moment:
O'Reilly
Eichel
Okposo
Ristolainen
Reinhart
Kane
McCabe
Future projection:
Eichel
Reinhart
O'Reilly
Ristolainen
Okposo
Kane
McCabe
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I think we got our Schultz/MZD in the Beaulieu trade
We need to destroy all possibilities of people squeezing Josh into the left side, whether it's via trade or free agency etc.
Yup. One more low-key addition to bump Gorges/Falk down to 7/8 and I'm satisfied.
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Both Centers have been projected as wings at the NHL level
Not necessarily Mittelstadt. He certainly has the speed and skating for NHL centre. TSN had him projected at 2C.
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Thread title should say Mittelstadt! :lol:
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Off the top of your head, can anyone name the 4th round picks or later in the last 5 years we've had? There's 2, maybe 3 posters that can get all of them (though I doubt it), a handful that can name a handful, and the rest of us can't remember any of them
Hagel, Osmanski, Nyberg, Budik?, Murray, Estephan (didn't sign), could probably get a few more but by no means anywhere close to all.
Hagel actually does look promising.
This would be like me asking the Classical Mechanics prof for my current grade as soon as he hands out the syllabus on the first day of class
He could pull something out of his ass but it will be a worthless piece of information
I agree, but this is a fan message board so that's kinda what we're here for, so I'll guess, for this draft, an overall grade of B+.
Mittelstadt could turn out to be the best player in the draft. Wish we woulda got a blue chip defender, but overall it was a balanced draft.
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There.......is.....another.......Mittel........never mind.
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It's certainly an amazing name to say. Probably the best in the draft.
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How the hell is he still here
Maybe he really was just trolling?
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It's definitely nice to have a blue chip goaltending prospect in the system.
And we added another forward blue-chipper.
Still looking for that defensive blue-chipper though. Maybe through trade?
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Finally saw "As Above, So Below" yesterday. It was suprinsingly effective at the start, playing up feelings of claustrophobia. But it falls apart as it goes along, becoming pretty standard by the end.