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Savoie being in play surprises me a bit, and I love him as a prospect. But, good. I mean, your above statement means our probable 4 best prospects are in play. Very interesting. That KA feels he can even potentially use those pieces as trade chips is a very positive development imo

That “certain point” was exactly the moment he laid out Laine

Your are stuck on a point of contention I’m not contending - - - Savoie isn’t better than Bloom because he’s faced better competition. I’ve never argued that lol. He’s better cause he’s better. 1.38 points per game last 2 seasons in junior vs Bloom’s 0.97 points per game the last 2 season in junior.

My point, for the 3rd time while my patience remains in tact, is that *Josh Bloom* is facing competition he has risen beyond.

But I was correct on age, I was correct on experience, and my comp about lesser competitor was about Bloom’s competition being lesser relative to *Bloom’s abilities* not Savoie. So, smiley face emoji?

There’s a poster on here who comes at me every time I mention Bloom as a prospect, can’t remember if that’s you or not but I’ve always got the impression it was some sort of relation. Let me be clear: I like Bloom as a prospect. Every system needs guys like that - he’s done nothing since being drafted to make me question the pick, or think he hasn’t performed up to the level you’d want, in correspondence to where he was picked, to think he’s off the track he needs to be, to carve out the role in the NHL he could reasonably achieve. My point is merely that he isn’t the type of prospect, as he currently stands, that is elevating our pool beyond the other teams of the league. At least, he’s not one of our x-factors at this time - his good performance this year in junior keeps him on track for reasonable expectations, where many drafted around where he was have already fallen off by now. But his production hasn’t exceeded expectations to the tune of him taking up rank alongside the Savoies and the Kulich’s of the pool. Lots of teams have guys in the CHL ranks doing what Bloom is doing. If he represents a prospect elevating our pool beyond others, it’s in the sense that we have have a better depth guy than they have. Can he just smash expectations and become an all-star? Of course. That’s what I hope happens. It’s just not what the data is suggesting at this time. - - - For the record, Savoie has played 35 CHL games since being drafted. Bloom has played 111. Stuff like that matters.

It’s less about age (though 6 months is still notable) and more about experience. Historically speaking, players putting up merely point a game as 2 year overagers in the CHL isn’t very noteworthy. This is just a fact. By overagers I mean this is the second season, post draft, that Bloom is playing against a bunch of guys most of whom won’t sniff the NHL. He’s been there for a long time. Covid will have limited games but that’s relative and most players were affected. If he has any NHL shot at all, he SHOULD dominate. Im glad he is. It keeps him in the running for being a mainstay NHLer one day - - - Not really sure where Savoie comes into the discussion - there’s no comparison between him and Bloom as prospects. That’s not an argument I personally need to make, and I wasn’t looking to make a direct comparison. Only, Bloom as 2nd year in CHL post draft and how that’s translated historically. I also expect Savoie to dominate the CHL being a post-drafted player, Bloom is just another season on in that equation.

He’s clearly big mad, is thinking Beniers will get the puck there, so he, presumably owing to low-hockey IQ chooses to put himself out of position to get the retaliatory hit - the puck doesn’t come fast enough for either Myers’ or Beniers’ liking so Myers said “eff it” and delivered the contact anyways. Id argue it’s a defenseless player as he is in actuality nowhere close to possessing the puck at said time, and is looking the other way. However, doesn’t look like there is contact to the head. What’s Myers’ discipline history like? Did Beniers get hurt? If both of those are in the negatory it’s probably just a regular penalty by way of the League

Actually a ton of great history between the teams re: common players

Maybe a bit of both. But the culture has gotten more interesting/grown on me over the years, for sure. Lots of cool music/film/art festivals dominate the summer frame and the pub scene is honestly very good. Too hip for me nowadays even. The days of the long dearth of frigid winter have gone the way of myth, here. The average daily temperature of the December we just got through was -9 Celsius (15.8 Fahrenheit). Looks like it’s -2 Celsius in Buffalo right now. It’s really not THAT cold. July in Buffalo and Winnipeg both average 79 degrees Fahrenheit. I think both cities get great summers. I bet they are pretty akin, honestly, as cities.

Well I sure as sh*te wasn’t going to wear my E*chel

Was really satisfying to turn the page and see the answers on the other side cheers

Buffalo Sabres: 25-19-3 (14-7-1 on road) Winnipeg Jets: 31-17-1 (17-6 at home) SPOTLIGHT: Rasmus Dahlin (53) and Josh Morrissey (51) enter into the game 2nd and 3rd in d-man points respectively. Battle of the Norris contenders. YOUR Buffalo Sabres visit beautiful Winnipeg to do battle with the Jets. The Sabres sit a mere 3 points back of Washington for the final playoff spot in the East, but with 3 games in hand. We control our own destiny, now, and every week we’re still in the thick of a playoff race is another week longer than we’ve been in years. In the words of Otto Octavius: “Ladies and gentlemen, fasten your seatbelts.“ 2nd in the West, the arrival of new coach Rick Bowness has somewhat unexpectedly found a way to create lift for these Jets. Backstopped by a Connor Hellebuyck once again returned to Vezina form, the Jets are a tough out on any given night. Particularly at home, where they have only dropped a minuscule total of 6 games all season long. They have a very good home record. But we have a Tage. Get to their net early, get to their net often. If not, I may be subjected in arena to a chorus of “BEST TRADE EVER!” chants, the fact no component of that deal is anymore relevant to either team a minor detail to the fans of Winnipeg. The Winnipeg way. • Sabres dropped a 4-2 decision in Buffalo to the Jets on January 12, tonight completes the season series. - - - I saw Reinhart score his first career hat trick in this barn, Pat LaFontaine signed a hockey card for a star-struck kid me, during warmups, in the old barn here, and in my oldest memory from watching the Sabres live, the Jets beat Hasek on a 4 on 3 PP to lock up a win here and start off a decades long period where I never saw the Sabres quite able get it done, for even a single win live. But that’s all changed. It’s been changed for a while, actually. Hey, let’s have a good effort tonight. As always, go Sabres. Already made my selection for this one, I’m ready for us to rough these fly boys up and send ‘em back to Top Gun:

To something @inkmansaid, perhaps the only scenario I can see under which they let VO “walk” is if he’s kept next deadline, while no extension has been reached, under the prism of him being our “own rental” for the playoff run next season we are hypothetically gearing up for at that time

Well no not technically but they generally go hand in hand, as we are seeing currently

Safari on iPhone

Making a top 10 list is kinda funny because a more representative list would be: 1 McDavid - - - 2 10-15 guys who are all pretty close / comes down to what you want / depends on the season / depends on the week / all have a valid argument...type stuff I don’t know that there’s enough of a gap between many spaces in the top 10 after McDavid to think it’s at a level to offset the variables like team and line mate strength, etc. To the point of being able to form any kind of definitive list It’s certainly a fun discussion though. but it’s Connor McDavid, and then after a sizeable gap, a bunch of guys who have an argument for 2nd.

There was discussion about whether his 34 point pace was theoretically “enough” for a 3C

Cozens and?

I mean, the Leafs 3C has 15 points.

He’s having a top 10 season in the NHL, ya. Going to be tough for the opposition to knock him off significantly, size isn’t everything but when you have little man’s skill and, as an opponent, the size is what you need to get beyond, to attack said skill...well, in the words of Lucius Fox: “Good luck”. Things like this fluctuate and can be heavily subjective so can I see him being, say, top 20 next season? Top 5 the next? So forth? Ya. The rub is that Tage being a top 10 NHL player right now means we have 2 top 10 NHL players right now

Got a little emotional watching Letang’s post game speech. Dude has been through a lot. Glad it was him who got the winner.

I’d take him back before Comrie to a certainty if he continues to perform better than Comrie. The stats don’t lie Guys who have 28 nhl starts 10 years after being drafted are, believe it or not, dime a dozen.

What image format is this? I can never see your posted images

Mentioned this when sds was putting the pace graphic together, the cutoff seemed abnormally high last year, had said I wouldn’t be surprised if it ended up a bit lower. 93 wouldn’t even be very odd, and I’d certainly take it.