JoeSchmoe

Yes?

With his edges, hands, and vision he's a ppg player. When he's down low in the offensive end, he's always creating something a lot of times out of nothing. To be able to rack up what he has already from the point tells you what he can do.

I don't recall Hedman ever being close to as bad defensively as Dahlin. He just didn't rack up the points like he does now. Dahlin is worse than replacement level defensively, and there have been many, many 21 year olds in the league that have played much, much better defense than him. He's a forward pretending to be a defenseman. Put him in a position that comes naturally to him, where he can succeed.

He has elite edges (maybe the best the Sabres have ever had) and hands... Also he's near-elite at creating plays in the offensive zone. He is at or below replacement level at playing actual defense. He's a forward trying to be a D. Give him a few games upfront once Samuelsson and Laaksonen are ready. We will be better for it.

Dahlin is the leader of this slowdown garbage they're playing. He's not good at defense. I'll die on the hill to say he's a forward and not a defenseman.

Sabres have sucked since Hayden started playing in the lineup.

We have a bunch of scrubs in the lineup that have no other skills but fast skating ability. When they choose not to skate we're done!

Nice PK, but I would otherwise think Krueger is back behind the bench.

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Here's my May lineup for this year, though it could need tweaking due to me mixing up left's and rights by Olofsson - Mitts - Aspland Tuch - Thompson - Cozens JJ - Krebs - Quinn Okposo - Girgs - Murray/Skinner Hagg - Dahlin Joki - Power Bryson - Samuelson/Pysyk

I've been working all day and haven't had a chance to follow these threads too closely... But has anyone been posting any future lineups with Krebs, Tuch, JJ, Quinn, and Power? Holy crap... We have a chance to be good... Maybe real good... and maybe by the end of this year (though I still don't trust the goaltending).

I'm not a Peters fan, but at the same time, I'm happy for him that he got the story before anyone else. Still, I'm not sure what he meant when he says he's "truly sorry for you all".

Can we call it the Hinostroza line?

100% agreed. Hopefully the butt hurting of some posters missing Reinhart (or O'Reilly or soon Eichel) will fade out completely in favour of what the current group, and the one at the doorstep are bringing.

In CCHL save percentage, the gap between 1st place Levi and 2nd place was greater than the gap between 2nd and 13th place.

It's not 14 games. He also dominated in junior A.

Yep, 2018-19 was his last decent season. Since then has been replacement level or worse.

Levi's play in the CCHL also has to be considered. Yes it's a tier 2 league, but he was so good that Hockey Canada saw enough in him that they took him over all the CHL major junior goalies. And by his play in the tournament, they were right.

It'll be Cozens' as a Minotaur, with a "White-Horse" body.

I must have missed this memo.

I stand corrected. Vinnie stays, Bjork and Hayden gone.

I'm sitting him and Bjork when Mitts and Eakin come back. (Did I just say I'm dressing Eakin? 🥶)

I think this is my favourite goal image. This and the Mitts one.

UPL was 20th in the ECHL for save% for goalies that played 10 games or more. Thats getting by, not succeeding. This is his 3rd season in Roch and he hasn't gotten better. I would like to send him to the ECHL until he's firing close to being a top 5 goalie.

You saw him in the preseason, right? UPL is not just a little bad, he's a lot bad right now.