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Honestly all the news has been good. We know and his team knows he is alive, responsive and making progress. He has a future and that is an awesome development.

I’ve never listened to many podcasts. Just curious who people here listen to.

I don't know where you get that number. Hockey-reference has his Ozone starts at 52.6%

This is a much better post then your last one.

Actually they aren't. Players in the top five are historically better. After that from picks 6-25 the player's odds of playing 100 NHL games are about the same. https://dobberprospects.com/2020/05/16/nhl-draft-pick-probabilities/ Dobber wrote an interesting article about that a few years ago and their results were very similar to what Scott Cullen published when he was with TSN discovered about a decade ago. I found a copy of Cullen's stats on a spreadsheet I had from 2009. He wrote then that a pick from 5-10 had about a 74% chance of playing 100 games and while it varied some from class to class, picks 20-25 had a 72% chance. After that it feel quickly. It stays at about 25% until mid way through the 3rd and then it fall quickly into the low teens.

I want them to upgrade the defense. DG himself has stated that he has saddled that line with the depth D.

Z is a decade into his career and Casey isn’t. I’d expect Z to know his role at this point.

Z was a top 15 pick. Why isn’t he an underachiever under the same standards being applied to Mitts? Z’s best season is 30 points but over the last 6 years he has averaged about 18 points. Casey already has 20 points in 36 games and is on pace for 45+. What more can Casey do with his role when DG admittedly has saddled that line with lousy D?

I didn't realize that Spacek was Jaro Spacek's son.

Oh by the way, I think people need to rethink what their expectations are for anyone forward drafted 8th overall. https://www.hockeydb.com/ihdb/draft/draft_by_pick.php?position=8 I went and looked at the history of that draft position for the last 25 years and for the most part the players end up being middle to bottom of the lineup forwards. For every star like William Nylander and Sean Couterier, you have 2 or more complete busts like Scott Glennie, Alex Nylander, Alexandre Picard, or Zach Hamill. You also have a large group of role players like Taylor Pyatt, Mark Bell, and Pierre Marc Bouchard

Robertson vs Thompson Robertson - age 23 - YTD 39gm 26g 29a 55 pts - Career 167gm 84g 96a 180 pts Thompson - age 25 - YTD 36gm 30a 25a 55 pts - Career 259gm 86g 72a 158 pts As much as I love what Thompson has become, Robertson is as good a player and is 2 years younger.

Casey is on pace for a 46 pts season. That's excellent production for a 3rd line player making only 2.5 million. There has been constant talk on this board about how Casey is a turnover machine. The stats don't bear that out. His 2.15 Gva/60 is 65th worst among NHL forwards, which isn't great, but not terrible either. Skinner is the Sabres worst forward on giveaways at 2.20 per 60. (57th worst). None of these guys are even close to the 4.72 by Pastrnak (NHL's worst), or even Kucherov (3.90), Barzal (3.84), Draisaitl (3.71), or McJesus (3.31). On takaways, Mitts is second at on the team at 2.36 behind only Tuch at 2.46. Mitts is a net +2 between Gva and Tka. Skinner is the closest we have to a "turnover machine" and he isn't even that bad. His net -6 is the worst among our forwards. The only other - Sabres forwards are Krebs (-1) and JJP (-2). Oh by the way Casey has 2g 5a for 7 pts and a +2 in his last 10 games. I thought it was very telling that Casey was the player DG promoted to the top line during Skinner's suspension. I'd love to see the chart which shows what D Casey and VO were most often paired with.

@Taro T I agree with your long post. Mitts has been significantly better since moving to wing. I like the chemistry developing between him and Jost. DG mentioned a few weeks ago that part of that lines problem is that he has given them significantly more PT with Bryson, Bush and other depth D. It's hard to create offense when the D can't even get the puck up to the forwards.

Why? He costs more and gets hurt more. I’m also not sure how he’d fit into KA’s plan. I think he has VO’s slot going to Savoie as early as next season.

2nd best forward probably. I’d argue that Robertson, Dahlin, Morrissey and even Ullmark are having equally great seasons.

On the Fly last night had a graphic that this is the 4th fastest a Sabres has reached 30 goals. Mogilny was 1st, Patty was second, and honestly I don’t remember who was 3rd, probably Gare.

So the Sabres prospect game at 2:30 and the Bedard/ Fantilli show vs the Hughes/Cooley show at 6:30.

What Thompson is doing in the NHL is unprecedented. I’m not sure there is another case in NHL history of a player of his age going from bust, to 30 goal scorer to NHL Superstar in 2 years. Think about it this way. He had 18 goals in his first 145 games, 38 in his next 78, and 30 in 36 games this season. That means for the 2nd year in a row he is on pace to double his career goal production in a season. Crazy. UPL clearly still needs work, but the biggest development is his compete level. I think the consistent effort is one of the things management wanted to see and UPL is finally delivering. When Comrie returns, UPL needs to go down, continue his compete level and work on some fundamentals like high glove side. Fyi Det is carrying 3 goalies and they just waived Vrana because of it.

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You should. It made a big difference.

Serves me right for listening to Ray. At least is was our 3rd OT win.

Honestly it’s a little bit freaky. Hopefully Damar gets the game puck. i also believe that the Sabres are now 3 for 3 in OT.

When I had Covid in Dec 2020 the docs had me sleeping on my stomach for 6 months to force air deep into my lungs to help clear the lung infection. My lungs were finally clear in March 2022. That is not a typo.

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