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2 minutes ago, Gatorman0519 said:
Year 4 and we went backwards. Should be replaced immediately.
I don't disagree, but since that's not happening, we have to hope that Adams gets a clue and instead of bringing the failed team back in it's entirety, he actually becomes more aggressive and fixes the roster issues.
Here are the assets that KA should consider moving to fix the roster issues.
Forwards - Benson, Skinner, and Krebs
Defense - Power, Samuelsson, Johnson
Prospects - 2 of Kulich, Savoie, Rosen & Östlund
Draft picks - 1st rd pick in 2024
The Sabres should be win now mode and prospect development needs to start taking a back seat.
The Sabres need toughness upfront and on defense. The Sabres need playmakers. The Sabres also need to be better defensively. We need 3rd and 4th line centers.
Also time to move on from Girgensons.
So why are Benson, Power and Johnson on my list? Well you need to give to get. IMHO Byram might make Power and his huge contract expendable. We'd garner a significant return. If Ott offers Brady Tkachuk to us for Power would you say no? I wouldn't. Benson is also expendable for a team in win now mode. He'll need another 2-3 before he is starts reaching his peek. Can we afford to wait? if the answer is yes, then package Savoie in a deal to legit center help. Maybe someone like Boone Jenner.
Johnson vs Mule. Right now, one of these 2 are our 7th D (assuming Power isn't traded). Both should have good trade value.
Skinner and Krebs. Krebs is not a center in the NHL, certainly not one for a playoff team. Could he someday grow into a useful NHL player? Maybe, but that day isn't today. To bad really, he was supposed to be a gifted playmaker. Skinner just eats a ton of cap, and we need the roster spot and the cap.
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The truth is we don't want or need any of these players to graduate next season. Besides Levi, Savoie and Novikov have the best opportunity to see NHL time next season.
The goal for next year should be get to and win in the playoffs. Development of prospects should be taking place in Rochester and not in the NHL
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The Mitts trade took guts and gives me some hope that Adams might be willing to be more aggressive in solving his roster issues.
We have seen growth from Adams in this area. Over the last 3 failed seasons he has ratcheted up the price tag of his free agents. One 1, since the old care sell off, he signed $1 million guys on 1 year deals like Pysyk. Year 2 were $1.5 to $2 mill guys with 2 year deals in Lyubushkin and Comrie. Year 3 were $3 million guys and Clifton received a 3 year deal.
He was also seems a fraction more aggressive on the trade front. Last season he moved a 2nd for Greenway at the deadline. This season he made a huge hockey trade of his leading scorer and top utility forward for a young top 4 D. So far both teams a getting what they wanted out of the deal.
Could the Mitts trade signal that Adams is finally serious about doing what must be done to remake his roster?
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What really has Kevyn done?
1. He has built a roster where the guys like each other.
2. He has built a deep pipeline of potential NHL talent but no elite players except maybe Levi.
3. He has built the youngest roster in the NHL with many good and solid players but with no elite one except Dahlin and maybe Byram.
4. The team is producing marginally better results than the two prior administrationsHere is what he hasn’t done:
1. Build an organization and a team culture that’s focused on winning and has accountability for players, coaches and staff when the goal of winning isn’t achieved.
2 Build a roster capable of even making the playoffs. They aren’t physical enough. The forward groups also lacks capable playmakers or enough forwards willing to back check
3. Bring in good players from winning organizations who have a winning expectation for themselves and their teammates and demand accountability in the locker room. Guys like Drury and Numminen. Yes those guys are hard to come by but not impossible.
4. Clean out the roster dead wood quickly enough. VO, KO, Girgensons, Jost, Bryson, Comrie were all retained and brought back this season. None should have been here at all and none should return.
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Whatever Adams has done to or for the Sabres hasn’t been enough to end the playoff drought. What more needs to be said.
A competent GM would make substantive changes to his roster and coaching. Therefore I’m expecting more Ostrich head in the sand management this summer from the Sabres.
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Speaking of Sabres prospects, who do you think has made the biggest improvement this season (I'm excluding Benson and Ryan Johnson from this discussion as they have been Sabres most/all year.
Here is my short list.
Savoie. Going from 1.5 pts per game to 2 pts per game is pretty impressive.
Novikov. Making the jump from the KHL to the AHL and basically being the Amerks' best D (+14) at 20 years old is pretty impressive. I also like the step up in offense with 18 pts in 53 games.
Strbak - Looks to be having a very solid rookie campaign at MSU
Neuchev - Finally showing his O chops at the AHL, with 26 pts in 46 games, with most of the points coming recently
Komarov - 66 pts in 59 games. Up from 39 in 62 last year. Not bad for a 6'3 D taken in the 5th rd who was known primarily for his physical game.
QuoteVsevolod Komarov, RD, Drummondville Voltigeurs (Buffalo Sabres)
After another great month, during which he scored 12 points in 12 games, Vsevolod Komarov leads the QMJHL in points from the blue line.
His offensive touch was evident even as far back as his draft year, the first he spent in the league with the Québec Remparts.. Defenders would come up to pressure him at the offensive line, not knowing his abilities, and would fall to one of his timely shot fakes. Two years later, Komarov is pulling off even more of these moves.
A true quarterback for the Drummond Voltigeurs, the defenceman has guided the team on their win streaks. He dangles, distributes the puck, and fires. And his impact has also extended to the defensive zone, where his strength, stature, and length shine.
The question is if Komarov can become more than a great QMJHL defencemen. He has NHL tools and shows some creativity, but to give himself a better chance of reaching the top league, he will have to develop his mobility and reads.
Östlund - Made the jump to the SHL and put up solid numbers with 23 pts in 38 games.
QuoteNoah Östlund C, Växjö Lakers (Buffalo Sabres)
Östlund wasn't immediately entrusted with a top scoring role in Växjö; instead, he has assumed more of a supporting role, seldom playing alongside the team's top scorers. Nevertheless, he stands out as one of the best scoring chance drivers per minutes played in the entire league. Whenever he's on the ice, Östlund commands possession, excelling in retrieving pucks and contributing to play in all three zones—a consistency evident throughout his young career at various levels.
Operating within the league's premier defensive system (although this may not be the case with Buffalo in the NHL), Östlund's game has benefited significantly. He exhibits a knack for manipulating defensemen with the puck on his stick, swiftly shifting directions while skating. However, he seldom controls the pace solely with his hands. Despite his standout performance in numerous aspects of the game at such an early age in the SHL, I envision him as more of a middle-six player, mirroring the role he currently fulfills in the SHL. Renowned for his reliability, high work rate, and elite sense to maneuver on both sides of the game, Östlund may lack some offensive superstar qualities skill-wise. Nonetheless, with his motor, he could potentially become a 60+ point producer at some point in his NHL career.
One other note: I'm honestly a little disappointed with Kulich and Rosen. I thought both would take a bigger step forward this season. I was hoping one or both would put together a JJP or Quinn type AHL season, but it hasn't happened.
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Just another feather in KA's cap.
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4 minutes ago, jad1 said:
Watch the defensive zone coverage, power play strategy, and the opposing zone net-front presence. Coaching is the problem.
I was being sarcastic.
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So, lets see if I understand this. The Sabres jumped out to a good start and a two goal lead, played hard for 2 period, and then folded when they got behind.
Coaching is definitely not the problem.
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This game will F-up a goaltenders numbers.
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5 minutes ago, Billznut said:
Other than that, we are soooo close.
To scheduling tee times.
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Wow. Talk about a 3rd period collapse.
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2 minutes ago, Thorny said:
Not really. Cutoff will probably be like 90, not 95
Not sure where you came up with that number, but Washington is the bottom wild card right now (by points %) and they are on pace for 92 points. We need 93 points and with 71 currently and 24 games to go, our max points is 95 if we win at 12 games. Lose one more and max goes down to 93.
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Margin for error is now officially gone. They basically have to win out to have a chance at making the playoffs.
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To get to 93 points, the Sabres need to go 10-1-2 or 11-2 the rest of the way. Given the way the Sabres are playing of late, I see 7 games the Sabres should win (WSH (2), Det, CGY, PHI, OTT & NJD).
The good news for the Sabres is that Fla and TB may have already clinched playoff spots before we play them the last two games. That still leaves Van tonight, Edm, Tor and Dal. We must find away to go 2-1-1 in these 4 games to have any sort of a chance. It’s going to take an effort like we saw against Sea every night.
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Robinson has hands made by Lodge, but he certainly gives an honest effort very shift.
What a friggin stupid penalty by Krebs. If your not going to contribute on offense, the least you can do is not take stupid penalties.
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re-sign versus resign.
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28 minutes ago, Wyldnwoody44 said:
For a competent GM, probably a nice haul.
For KA....
Despite my obvious distain for the way KA has managed the team for the last two years, even I will admit he has received good value on his big moves. Mitts for Bryam, whether I agree with the premise of the trade or not, was very good value. Greenway for a 2nd is good value, Jack for a 1st, Tuch and Krebs is reasonable value. The only one we might argue, especially considering his growth as a player since he left, was Reinhart for Levi and a 1st. If Levi becomes the franchise goalie we hope, then even that's good value, but possibly two years two late since we have need a no. 1 goalie for 3 years.
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1 hour ago, JoeSchmoe said:
Moving Krebs for a better 3C would be key. If we're dreaming, we can get a guy who'll battle for 1 or 2C, to keep TT and Cozens honest in the offseason.
Do you really think Adams won’t re-sign Krebs and anoint him the 3c next season?
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1 hour ago, Buffalonill said:
Of course they would but who knows what Byram is in 2-3 years
Anchoring his own pair after they trade Power, because they won’t pay both Bryam and Power.
What is Power worth in trade?
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I’ve been thinking about this question and ultimately it’s about bringing in the right vets.
Where would the 05-07 teams be without Teppo, Grier, Lydman and Drury?
They still have to have tread on the tire. They must fill an important role on the ice and don’t necessarily have to be leaders off the ice.
Guys like Drury that change the culture of an organization are few and far between.
The Sabres need better center play, better physical play, better D zone coverage, better coaching and better roster construction. Can a few vets fix all that?
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Comrie Levi, Levi Comrie? Playoff chase? Let me think? Levi!
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Holy small sample size Batman.
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Bryan. 😉
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Is there an Aggressive GM developing inside Adams?
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My preference is to leave Levi in Rochester, but budget may prevent the addition of an outside goalie.