JoeSchmoe

Other than the ATM line, the rest of the team has lost the jump they had when Granato first took over. Dahlin had some plays early on that looked slow by my beer league's equivalent.

What's with all the doomsday talk in here? Also, with the Allen-Eichel comparisons, the QB position is the one position in the 4 major sports that can far and away affect the teams' outcomes more than any other. Couple that with having possiblity the league's best target to throw to. If Eichel as a playmaker had the same effect over the game as a QB, and the team brought in Alexander Ovechkin (hockey's Stefon Diggs equivalent) to finish his plays for him, we'd be talking about the 2nd coming of Mark Messier.

I've had an account here for a while, but I've only been posting semi-regularly for the last couple of months. I'm on some skiing forums where the members plan meetups several times a year at different mountains around North America. I've never joined in, but would do so if i had more vacation time off work. After a few beers tonight, i was thinking if/when the Sabres ever made the playoffs again, I'd probably want to head across the border and celebrate with fellow fans. Have any of the old-timer board members here ever gotten together for that sort of thing?

When will Caggulia get the Eakin treatment? I'd rather see Fogarty in there.

As a casual football fan, I dont get the hype.

Is everyone who normally posts one here watching the draft? 😴

Maybe you're seeing something I'm not, but I really haven't liked Caggulia. What is it you like?

Samuelson is too slow. He needs to get faster to be a legit NHL D.

The locker style wheelie bags most kids use are pretty big and bulky. I know one kids team that banned them because the rink they played out of had really small dressing rooms. With carry bags, they could put them under the bench.

In my opinion, we're not even close to being the worst team in the league right now. This team getting a top pick in the draft has to be some sort of concession from the hockey gods for the undue pain inflicted by Ralph.

My daughter is the smallest of the small and was out of her wheelie bag by Peewee... Even with all the extra crap she keeps in there (old jerseys, extra clean/dirty undergear, backup equipment in case a friend forgets hers...).

Peewee is too old too. Atom/Squirt would be the limit.

If you want to play with the surgeon analogy, would you want to go under the knife with someone that killed their last patient? ☠️

How come?

I'm sure he'll be fine in another year or two, but in my dissenting opinion, he hasn't looked so good at the NHL level. Small sample size, and its tougher to assess D unless you're specifically following them (which I haven't) but I've noticed him standing still more than I'd like, and he seems slow to make the outlet pass. I think he might be better off finishing the season in ROC even if he's still better than Irwin.

I feel like the big difference between Skinner now and when he was scoring is his shot. He's got a little pea shooter going right now. I find he still gets the puck to the dangerous areas, but can't finish because his shot sucks.

Where's Olofsson?

Most of our players are on the upslope of their learning curves. Assuming we resign our FA's, here's where our core guys for next year are... Cozens, Samuelson, and Dahlin are very low on their respective learning curves for their ages at their positions. They have a LOT of room to get better. Mittelstadt, Thompson, Aspland, Ruots, Bjork, Borgen, Bryson, and Joki are all on thr upward slope. Reinhart, Eichel, Risto, McCabe, and Skinner, Girgs are all at their peak ages. The only player at thr drop off is Okposo. With goaltending we could be good.

The Sabres aren't using their speed like they do when they're most successful. Especially once they get to the blue line they seem to be slowing it down Ralph style.

My question was what place they'd be in the North (w Granato / wo Krueger... pick your flavour) not the East (aka Division of Death). I ask this as a Canadian that has to listen to how awesome the Leafs are this year 24/7.

You don't think higher based on quality of completion and no RK? Keep in mind that going by last year's records, the Oilers would be the top team in the North with a .585 pt%. Comparing them against the East teams records from last year, they would be 6th, behind NYI that was .588.

What place is this team on right now if we had Granato the whole year and we're playing in the North Division?

By my count, Hamilton is in Reinhart's head.

This article stinks. Someone needs to throw that expected goals for stat straight down the toilet. 💩 Somehow, the Sabres' weak outside shots under Krueger taken by Hall, Skinner, et al seem to fool the algorithm that we should have been scoring more. No way. We weren't scoring because the shots all sucked. Before, our slow attack and/or dump and chance allowed the entire opposing team to get back to their zone to defend... Which caused a crap load of weak scoring chances. Now we're actually getting the puck and players to the slot and the high danger areas, and often doing so with numbers. But somehow our XGF didn't change much at all?!?!

Or just play the stick game on their top players. Marchand might want his ankles for the playoffs! 🤪