GoPuckYourself

Terrible but i can only imagine how much of this goes on and we never hear about it in all professional sports.

I don't follow college hockey but some of those guys after looking them up look promising, I won't act like I know how college hockey stacks up to the other minor leagues as far as competition etc. but I'd like to see them take a shot on 1 or 2 of those guys for sure.

Easy there Francis, I was somewhat messing around.

And you state I'm harsh on Dahlin? I don't believe I've ever said "Die a fiery death" when talking about him.

i mean the tank concept never really sticks imo as you can want to lose all you want but the players will never be on board with that, Coaches are probably never on board with that. The best thing a GM can do is trade all the talent away and that still doesn't guarantee you'll get the #1 spot because this is still professional sports at the highest level and competitors at the highest level. If losing on purpose was a thing then you'd be hearing about this on a much deeper scale with bitter coaches, ex coaches, ex players etc.

All of them but Girgensons are gone so I'd say probably all of them in some way or another.

Solid game, Kempfer played out of his mind.

Skinner Thompson Tuch Mittlestad Krebs Quinn Asplund Cozens Peterka Hinostroza Gigenson Okposo Dahlin jokiharju Power Samuelsson Bryson Pysyk UPL Georgiev

Line 1- Skinner-Krebs-Tuch Line 2- Oloffson-Thompson-Quinn Line 3- Asplund-Cozens-Okposo

He would immediately make our roster and you will see many of the other kids join and we'll be fun as hell to watch!

I'd have to say he genuinely believes that and you can just look at the Rochester Americans who are 2nd in the division and that he's seen many of them first hand.

Wow I didn't know about this, unreal luck we have this year or lack of.

Thanks!

Can I ask why this thread was brought back up? Just curious.

Agree to disagree on both.

I've been on plenty of times, I'm like a ninja!

Why do you give Dahlin a pass but everyone around him is useless? Night after night I see Dahlin pass it to the opposite team or stand around why the puck is in net. I don't doubt he also brings offense to this team but his defense sucks and he's literally a defensemen so he should at least know how to play the position correctly at this point. I get the players around him are supposedly not of his caliber but aren't those types of players supposed to elevate the play of others? I know someone is going to say his game is offense but he's still a defensemen and needs to play as such on a consistent basis. I'm not saying trade the guy but let's get a former Sabre or defensemen in here and teach him the ropes, it's almost a game by game basis he *****'s the bed in 1 way or another. Also, if you thought we were going to win this season I'm not sure what kool-aid you were drinking, I think this is a great growing season for many of the Sabres like UPL and some of the other guys got a taste of it also (Krebs-Peterka) etc. This should of been a foregone conclusion that we had not shot at playoffs so I'm not sure why everyone is up in arms.

4’1” Nico Hirschier out muscles these wimps.

Philly and Boston are tied for me.

The key word should be the right vets. Okposo clearly looks like a different player out there and it's awesome to see, Girgensons always was probably good at teaching it seems, Tuch looks like a lead by example type and I don't know enough about Jankowski but hopefully we have the right vets.

His defensive play will always be the question. I see everytime he scores a goal some poster on here writes something like "I was told he was a bust". His offensive play has gotten better but I still see the same mistakes, like falling down the other night and creating the odd man rush or in the Pens game on the 2nd goal he was out of position basically not taking anyone and it's a common theme. I wouldn't give up on him yet but he needs to be paired with a solid defensive defenseman and I don't think we have that player yet imo.

I knew Korab for smashing people through the Zamboni door not scoring goals.

No doubt

Come on Gordy Howe Hatrick for Fitzgerald.

Dahlin standing around on that goal.