JoeSchmoe

You could buy a pair of skates for an underprivileged kid. Maybe one with a rink nearby so they don't need a ride to go use them. Maybe one with a hot mom, that you could charm with your upbeat charismatic personality. I used to work with a single dad who told us he would wear our company jacket to his kid's soccer games. Funny guy. His words: "To the dads, this says {our company name}. To the single mom, this says Dental Plan." 😆

This an interesting take on a lost wager.

I think he will.

What I don't like about Z is that since he's not really good at offence he gets used on the PK and he's not good at that either.

I know I'm a minority here in thinking this, but I would have preferred to see him go. That said, one year is okay by me.

You're right with the sentiment of your post, but I think Vancouver might be an outdated example. Unless of course access to Fentanyl is high on your list of quality of life.

Not saying how accurate or inaccurate the poll was, but given the fact I'd expect most UFAs (but not all of course) to be closer to their settle down days, old guy criteria is probably better than young guy criteria. The entry level and RFA guys don't get much say where they're playing, so a poll that catered to their lifestyles would be a bit of a useless exercise.

I don't like him, but I give him credit for going Vince McMahon on the booing. Good entertainment for sure.

My distaste for an expansion team winning due to a rigged draft far outweigh any feelings for or against what someone who used to play for our team does.

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Not Sabres, but John Tavares and Lionel Messi have never been seen in the same room.

When I went to a Pittsburgh Pirates game, the guy that sat beside me showed me his homemade Pennsylvania State tattoo.

I'm going to go out on a limb and say it's not so much that Canadians are taking the tournament more seriously, but I think the Euros are taking this tournament less seriously. Like most of the top talent in Canada, the rest of the stars around the world (for the most part) are also sitting this out.

You and Marvin must have some ESPN or something to know what I was thinking. Forecasting trades is as big a time waste as it gets. Much worse so than me creating this thread. 😁

Haha! Wrong take. Speculating on trades is a colossal waste of time, and as 6 year Sabrespacer veteran, I know a thing or two about colossal wastes of time. 🥴

Jorge the defenseman of the Cartagena Ice Monsters from the Colombian Coastal League. Either him, or someone else... maybe as part of a package.

My problem is if you draw out the organizational depth for F's, and then do it for D, there is a huge disparity. Based on his draft pedigree, he could fetch us a good return on the backend. If we don't deal him, he'll have a hard time displacing any of the F's that are already on the team or further along than him. Even if he were lucky enough to crack the lineup, the incremental improvement he's likely to provide won't measure up to the large incremental improvement we could get by improving our #4 and lower defense.

One thing I'll give Rosen/the Sabres credit for is he seems to be the first of the drop off point in picks that have done much to date. Most picks above him have seen NHL playing time and most picks below him haven't. Can't hurt to have taken a flyer on him, but I stand my the notion they should have took a flyer on a player of similar stats but larger size.

This is how.

In my post above, I show that #8 was among EU skaters only. World wide, he'd have been much lower.

I went to the Wayback Machine. That #8 ranking was from NHL Central Scouting for EU skaters. Here's what was listed in EP on June 2021.

You "rest your case" in saying he's underrated because I said there are 10 Fs on the team he's not likely to pass. Not sure what else to say.

Are you saying you're projecting him above Tuch, Thompson, Skinner, Cozens, Mitts, Krebs, Quinn, JJP, Kulich, Savoie? I wish I had your crystal ball, because I don't see it. He's worth more in exchange for a D prospect IMO. If that's criminal... I don't want to be law abiding.

He's well behind where our other prospects are/were at his age. Even if he starts tracking upward, the likelihood of him beating out any of our existing or projected top-10 is quite low. Does he really fit with this crew, or do we need size/grit/checking? Tuch, Thompson, Skinner, Cozens, Mitts, Krebs, Quinn, JJP, Kulich, Savoie He'd be far more use to us if we could flip him for more help with our D pipeline.

Elite prospects used to have all the predraft rankings and the highest anyone had him was the late teens. Many/most were sub-20. Sabres reached on him after a strong U18 tournament.