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Take it with a grain of salt. There is a ton of politics in how the Russian team is selected. Players are often passed over because they play on the wrong team or they aren’t a favorite of the hockey federation. The Athletic did a piece a few weeks ago with Novikov on the team and Poltapov as a possibility. The article talked about his hard it was to project the Russian team because of the politics involved.

These kids have already seen enough of a losing culture. The goal is to build a cohesive team that learns to play as a team and win as a team. If you want the players to learn how to win you have to give them the tools that give them a chance to win. We have all talked about how great it would be for our stud prospects to get playoff experience in Rochester this season. However KA’s goaltending decisions are keeping the Sabres from winning close games and are now significantly hindering Roch’s playoff chance. This is simply untrue. Yes Ullmark was often injured, but when he played the Sabres were a playoff caliber team over RK’s seasons. As mentioned many times in other threads Car put Nedeljkovic on waivers prior to last season and we had the first claim slot. This season Vanacek was exposed in the expansion draft. Wash re-acquired him from the Kraken for a 2nd. My guess is Wash might have traded him to us for a 3rd prior to expansion draft, especially when you consider that we had a open goalie protection slot in expansion because Ullmark was a UFA. These are just two recent examples and both are top 30 goalies. We also stupidly let Petersen get away.

There is no question that goaltending in Buffalo and Rochester is KA’s greatest failure to date.

The sad part is Buffalo wins the last two games if it had NHL caliber goaltending. It's time for someone (TP?) to put pressure on KA to fix the damn goaltending.

Do we have two of the hardest shots in the NHL with TNT and VO?

TNT is dynamite.

We just saw why Caggiula is a JAG and Cozens isn’t getting enough shots. Time for DG to put Hayden on the damn bench and play R2 on Cozens wing.

To bad he doesn’t play with real wingers.

Lol

No one hated Tage, most thought, me included, that he was never going to amount to more then a depth player. Now we know that RK was the problem/

That was a terrible non save Tokar.

He’s there to bring toughness I guess. In today’s NHL he’s a waste of a roster spot. If we need to add a tough first player, he should at least add some offense.

Nice save Tokar

I like the change of moving Asplund to center between KO and Z. But why is Hayden ever in this lineup?

Nathaniel.

TNT is dynamite.

Honestly I think Bryson has been our most consistent D this season and he has had to cover for Miller

Why is that a surprise? Jbot’s crew did a good job of evaluating Jr players. Cozens, Mitts, Samuelson, R2, Bryson are all Jbot’s picks and there are more coming.

We were terrible against the run last year and nothing changed. If Milano or Edmunds are hurt, we suck against the run. This is a scheme issue and a depth issue. Frazier doesn’t seem to know how to adjust his 4-2-5 to help when one of the star linebackers is out and Klein is not enough depth. Honestly he needs to play 3 linebackers to stop the run. Poyer, Hyde, White and Wallace are good enough to move to a 4-3-4 to stop the run.

I tend to agree. I think he gets a call up to see how he does against NHL competition late in the year, but I think Fitz actually has a better chance of making the Sabres next year as a depth stay at home RHD. Pysyk’s return will be a factor in how the RHD plays out. I do think Oskari will eventually make the Sabres

The going cheap ones resonates.

Freeman wasn’t commenting on North Buffalo’s post, but your “sounds familiar” post.

This is not exactly correct. Jbot drafted UPL and Portillo, so 2 goalies in his 3 drafts with Ullmark and JJ already in the pipeline when he arrived. He also used good picks on them, using a 2nd on UPL and a 3rd on Portillo. TM only drafted one goalie, JJ, but traded for Lehner. DR drafted Ullmark and Cal Petersen. We have had goalies in the pipeline, but we haven’t developed another Miller. Ullmark became a starter and losing Petersen has really hurt in the end. I don’t think we are having this discussion if we managed to sign Petersen.

Works for me. Here are a few more. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.thegazette.com/minor-league-sports/chaos-for-ushls-omaha-lancers/%3famp=1 https://www.google.com/amp/s/nhl.nbcsports.com/2021/11/19/ushls-omaha-lancers-idle-as-player-treatment-investigated/amp/

Yes. Chadd Cassidy is available.