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On 8/8/2023 at 2:48 PM, Thorny said:
Samuelsson is “complimentary” in thats he’s a real life human nhl body who can physically exist beside DahlIn, sure. He had the skill set to be capably assigned very limited duties on pair 1 because Dahlin holds most of it down, facilitating a player of Samuelsson’s ability being able complete the pair: we can ask so little of him.
But again, what I took issue with was when you said Samuelsson “allows” Dahlin to be Dahlin. He doesn’t. Samuelsson, in particular, isn’t providing or unlocking anything your league average NHL defender doesn’t (I believe metrically he was below, actually). He’s assigned the duties we don’t lump onto Dahlin, so, sure, the assignments “allow” Dahlin to focus on being Dahlin. We can assign those duties to any second pair defender who’s actually a second pair defender
“Look how much better Dahlin is without an ECHLer in Bryson tanking his stats. Samuelsson is the perfect compliment.” Ya, like, he’s perfect because he’s actually a good NHL player lol. *he did not provide stellar D*. He didn’t even provide GOOD D. What exactly is he complimenting Dahlin with, particularly? Actually asking. Point me to an actual stat that illustrates his value or something he’s first pair quality at - like actually, please create a statistics based argument for what he did at a first pair level, or even for what he provided that any other actual 2nd pair quality player might not provide. Not a rank, minuscule sized, correlation dominated, short stretch of overall team record
Samuelsson did not provide anything special last season. Go argue with the stats. Or go figure out how strong and powerful Barbie is, whichever. You’re wildly off the mark on both
Your comment comes across as pretty negative, but I mostly agree. Samuelsson was fine last season but I was a little disappointed. I think he performed at the level of an average 2nd pair defenseman, which is fine, but I don’t think he brought anything that allowed Dahlin to do anything he couldn’t do with just about any other 2nd pair guy who plays decent defense.
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22 hours ago, Sabres Fan in NS said:
I think Power may win a Norris before Dahlin.
He may, but I don’t know if it’s possibly unless he bumps Dahlin off of PP1 duty, and I don’t know how that happens.
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This is good for trade for Pittsburgh.
Yeah, they are old. Yeah, their prospect group is bad. Yeah, they PROBABLY won’t be able to win another Cup with this group.
The thing is, they have elite talent at the top of their lineup, and that gives them a shot at competing. As long as you have that, I think it makes sense to go for it.
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On 7/30/2023 at 9:53 PM, pastajoe said:
A goal should count no matter how it goes into the net, including kicked in and high stick. Both take skill and are too subjective to call properly.
Also 3-2-1 point system; 3 for regulation win, 2 for OT/shootout win, 1 for OT/shootout loss.
Scoring a goal with high stick or kicking it in would take skill for sure, but I think the issue is player safety. You don’t want guys swinging high sticks to try to score and accidentally clipping eachother in the face, or kicking their feet that have giant razor blades attached to the bottom.
As for the points system change, I’m all for it. I could actually take it a step further. 3 points for a regulation win, 2 for an OT win, 0 for an OT loss. Really encourage these guys to go for wins in regulation. Also, 1 and 1 for a tie, because we should eliminate shootouts and bring back the tie too.
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1 hour ago, That Aud Smell said:
Christ I hope not.
I don’t think there is really anyone else. Olofsson will probably be filling Quinn’s spot on a scoring line and PP.
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28 minutes ago, That Aud Smell said:
His choice of words, which was poor and imprecise.
Better words?
This isn’t that deep.
Yeah, it’s ok. I would say the same thing about Lance’s words. I feel like you are overthinking it.
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On 7/25/2023 at 11:41 AM, That Aud Smell said:
I'm (risking) being a pedantic as#hole, but sometimes the shoe fits so I wear it. Lance wrote that the Sabres would be looking at Murray, among other fringe forwards, in order to fill the void left by Quinn. If he'd written that Quinn's absence opens up a roster spot for a fringe forward to claim - as you suggest - I would have glossed right over the statement of an obvious truth.
Ok, yeah, I think you are just being nitpicky then.
I think it’s totally plausible that they could pick Murray to be the guy who sits in the press box to start the season.
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On 7/22/2023 at 8:24 PM, That Aud Smell said:
My issue was that he was noting those players in answering how the team would compensate for the loss of Quinn.
Well, he is reporting to you that those are the guys who compete to fill the roster spot. He is reporting that Olofsson will be kept around to try to fill the scoring void. I’m not sure what else you want from him.
He can’t tell you what the lines will be to start the season. He can’t tell you that they are looking to sign a veteran scoring winger if they aren’t.
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On 7/22/2023 at 6:02 PM, That Aud Smell said:
I like Lance well enough, but it’s difficult to take him seriously when he writes this in response to a question about how the Sabres will compensate for Quinn’s injury.
Brett Murray, for one, has absolutely zero bearing on how the Sabres will fill the void left by Quinn’s injury.
Olofsson will fill Quinn’s spot. All those other guys will compete for a roster spot. That’s just reporting the facts. I’m not sure what you are taking issue with.
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14 minutes ago, dudacek said:
They aren't bigger, aren't more experienced, aren't more battle proven, aren't faster, aren't more competitive, aren't deeper...?
Where's does this come from?
They have a Tkachuk.
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3 hours ago, DarthEbriate said:
Tarasenko won't replace DeBrincat's scoring straight up
Honestly, he might. Debrincat didn’t have a particularly good season for them. 27 goals, 66 points. Tarasenko had injuries last season but put up 34-82 in 2020-21.
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Just now, Huckleberry said:
Yeah but we are not getting worse either, I think Clifton is an uderrated signing. Greenway might surprise us next year.
Goalie with Levi is a question mark for the entire league, but I believe in him. Personally I think Comrie might make a good back up this year.
Yeah, sure. Sabres should be better too but I’m not sure if it will be to the same degree as Ottawa.
Them adding a legit top 6 C and top 4 D is tough to match. Losing Quinn hurts.
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45 minutes ago, mjd1001 said:
Length is becoming a big issue for me. If a movie is long (over 2 hours, or 3 hours for sure) I'm already reluctant to invest time in it. I like Sci-fi (especially the stuff in space) so right now the best thing I'm watching is Strange New Worlds. Each episode is independant of the others (not like with most 'shows' where the story goes across episode to episode) but the quality is so good that its like I'm watching a movie-quality plot but each one in an hour or less.
Have you watched Black Mirror (on Netflix). Similar format, sci-fi, each episode an independent story under 1 hour. It’s very high quality.
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53 minutes ago, Night Train said:
Local paper states he's going out to Washington to play next year.
Probably correct, but they have no way of knowing for sure yet.
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13 minutes ago, Buffalonill said:
Welp now I'm confused why dahlin Wasn't Announced first .
Waiting for Dahlin to return to Buffalo for the in person signing photo ops and interviews/press conference.
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3 hours ago, Huckleberry said:
This is like 2022 summer all over again and where did they end up ? Only thing I liked from both summers was adding debrincat.
Losing Norris for 74 games was a big blow for them last season. They didn’t have their 1C coming off a 35 goal season for basically the whole season.
Also, Chychrun. They added him but he only played 12 games for them. Hard to imagine he will play close to a full season, but I’d imagine they will have him for 50 games this season.
So they are also adding a top 6 C and a top-4 D to their lineup, and they should get continued development improvements from some young guys. They should be improved over last season..
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2 hours ago, dudacek said:
I watched the Canucks version of embedded at it was pretty clear that Adams tried to move up to 11 and Allvin rejected the offer. They were apparently locked in on Willander and didn’t want to risk losing him.
I wonder who the Sabres were chasing?
Was it Benson or Willander?
If Adams was still trying to move up to 11 when Canucks were on the clock (after 10th pick had already been made) then the only possible targets were Tom Willander, Danil But, or Zach Benson.
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1 minute ago, LGR4GM said:
Ottawa did a thing
Similar to what the Sabres did with Hall.
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14 hours ago, Buffalonill said:
Jack Quinn has showed more potential in 1 year then Lafreniere has showed in 3 years .
No one here would trade Quinn for Lafreniere straight up
I would! (I think, it’s very close). Lafreniere isn’t a bust.
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50 minutes ago, Taro T said:
Won't be common moving forward but having the writers guild and the screen actors guild out on strike will further delay things for the near term.
Chat GPT will take over and write scripts just as good. 😉
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4 hours ago, LabattBlue said:
Not the only example, but I started watching Mayor of Kingstown over the winter. Got all caught up with season 2 ending this spring. Now I just read that season 3 might not air until 2025. WTF.
Well, there are sometimes annoying delays in the release of series shows like that.
But with Mayor of Kingstown, the delay is completely understandable. In January, Jeremy Renner, the star of the series ran himself over with a 14,000 lb snowcat plow and broke like every bone in his body. He almost died. He wasn’t quite up for filming this year.
Covid shutdowns also were a huge issue that affected filming the past couple years and caused an abnormal number of delays. I wouldn’t expect that to be as common going forward.
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28 minutes ago, GASabresIUFAN said:
Is Boston even a Wild Card team without Bergeron and Krejci?
That’s what I’m thinking about. I have a hard time projecting them to miss the playoffs, but how far can you get with a C group of Pavel Zacha, Charlie Coyle and Morgan Geekie?
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20 minutes ago, SwampD said:
I'll believe it when I see it. For the past 5 years, they've had a Mark Twain like recovery.
I don’t know what a Mark Twain like recovery is.
Bruins have recovered from what the past 5 years? Only big change for them in that time was Chara leaving.
The thing that makes the current Boston team different than their past 15 years is that they have always had good players under 25 coming through their team to replenish, and they simply don’t have that right now. There is no help coming up.
Do you honestly thing they are just going to keep chugging along, winning 50 games a year? Go look at their actual team.
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Dahlin or Power, Who Will Have The Better Career?
in The Aud Club
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Dahlin vs Power
Power might have more upside in terms of raw physical tools. He is bigger, at least as good a skater, maybe better, and has comparable puck skills. His size plus skating ability give him a pretty high ceiling defensively.
Dahlin is more physical (and nastier) at this point, though I’d expect Power to catch up over the next few years. One big difference I see between the two that leans in favor of Dahlin is that while Power can calmly evaluate a situation and make a high quality play pretty consistently, Dahlin will sometimes create a dynamic play that no one knew was even possible.
I can’t really pick one over the other. They will be different and a lot depends on how Power develops.
I also want to cation people against putting too much stock into comparing rookie Power to rookie Dahlin. Very different situations. Different team environments and rookie Power was a year and a half older than rookie Dahlin was.