Curt

So you would trade #8 overall for a 24-27 year old, 50-55 point RW under contract for 2-3 more seasons, then UFA, at $5-6M? Its just hypothetical, although I know I was rather specific.

Yup, just like the Pittsburgh Penguins and Washington Capitals............

Seriously, Rossi seems pretty ready. That’s true whether he ends up going 3rd, 5th, 8th or 10th. I think Lafrenière and Rossi are the two most NHL ready guys.

Whaaaaatt? Rossi is one of the most NHL ready guys in the draft, I think. He could possibly be in the NHL next season, and if not I think 2021-22 is a certainty. So what difference does the strength of the draft make if every prospect is an unacceptable waste of time?

Somewhere there is another thread about the Sabres pick being #8 overall. We have know that it’s #8 and been talking about it since June 26.

True, but if your center depth looks like Buffalo’s has for the past 2 years, you are screwed no matter how you deploy the wingers.

4 fer Monday: 3 pts for regulation win, 2 for OT win, 1 for OT loss, 1 each for a tie. 5 min OT played at 3 on 3, then its called a tie. That’s the best set up. Don’t ever give a goalie a contract longer than 4 years. Never ever. Kevyn Adams is going to prove out to be a decent GM who effectively manages the organization. Modernizing the structure of the organization’s hockey department, greatly improving the drafting and player acquisition targets. The Buffalo Sabres will end their playoff drought with Adams as GM. The goat head is a great crest and should be incorporated into the Sabres new 3rd jersey.

I think in some scenarios it could make sense. If you have a true superstar player good enough to hold his own skating with a couple 3rd liners, you can then stack the 2nd and 3rd lines so then consistently win their matchups. It’s not so crazy. Pittsburgh has done it at times.

Couple notes on this. First, they had one of the largest, if not the largest, scouting departments in the NHL, and even with the cuts I don’t think they are the smallest in the league. Second, we don’t know yet how large the department will be going forward. It’s possible that it stays as is, but it’s likely that Adams/Crowe/Nightengale bring in some additional people of their own.

Who is going to win, and why?

Just nit picking, but even Olofsson wasn’t that successful. On the PP, yes, but not at ES.

I agree with you. No, I wasn’t referring to anything you said. Was referring to the comment that I originally replied to, which you then replied to.

Agreed. I just don’t agree with the idea that anyone can be so sure that Adams is a disaster in the making before he has even really done anything. And in this case that his experience/qualifications are no greater than any poster here, which is a ridiculous statement.

The increase in scoring rate would equate to 11-12 points over a full season. It’s a significant increase, not a decrease as you stated it to be. You had your supporting facts wrong and that really undercut your argument, it’s ok to just eat the crow on that, but your criticism of Krueger‘a handling of Dahlin is reasonable. The counterpoint would be that it may have been in the best interest of Dahlin’s long term development to spend that time tightening up his defensive game with the end result of him becoming a more complete and better player. I don’t think any of the bolded stuff is very relevant to the discussion.

Yes, which I’m pretty sure no one on this board has. He has about 20 years of experience working in various roles at the NHL level. About 10 as a player, a few in coaching, a few as an executive. He isn’t just walking in off the street here. Garth Snow was never anything other than a player before he was hired as GM. This fatalism about Adams being a disaster of a hire before he has even done a single thing is rather silly.

His production did not fall this past season. It increased, despite the other stuff you said.

This is unfair. He was a long time NHL player, has a few years of coaching experience at the NHL level, and several years of experience as an NHL executive.

Best wings in Buffalo are certainly Reinhart and Skinner, followed by Olofsson, Johansson, and Kahun.

You’re points are valid. I have a hard time seeing regularly open schools not being a catalyst for increasing infection rates. I guess we’ll see how things go.

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/daily-covid-deaths-per-million-7-day-average?time=2020-07-12..&country=USA~GBR Perhaps in cumulative total, but not recently. UK had a very high peak early on but then quickly and consistently trended down. US has recently seen an increase in cases and deaths, driven by the large outbreaks in several southern states.

Cases/Deaths in UK are currently much lower than US.

And what if that person had COVID and caused the infection of several other people? There are certainly trade offs. This line of thinking makes a lot more sense as a critique of the system than the complaint that someone at your workplace was using a thermometer that didn’t seem to be working right. Anyway, were talking about the accuracy of these thermometers. In my experience they seem to be pretty accurate at my workplace. However, there usually is not more that 5 people entering consecutively, so I don’t know if that makes a difference.

What if, in the month of August, it stops 3 out of the 7 people who would have walked into your hospital with fevers from entering? Does that make it worth the effort, or is that just fluff? Im not arguing that these devices are fail safe, but at what point is something better than nothing? I get the impression that you carry around this idea that if something isn’t near 100% effective, it’s just a wasteful annoyance.

Did you guys miss the initial draft lottery?

Depends on your definition of physicality. Will Dahlin become a hulking, terrifying open ice headhunter? No. But maybe he can get stronger in the corners, in front of the net, and fight through checks better.