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Anderson ~20 games where his stats are subpar, but the team plays well and the Sabres have a positive record with him. Comrie ~40 games where his stats are solid and the team plays well enough to have a decent record. UPL ~18 games with good save percentage and GAA, but the teams record leaves some to be desired. Subban/Houser 3-4 games total as fill in for injuries

I’d guess they switch whoever it is in the third game.

Something I’d like to throw in for Liger’s argument. If your point totals are accurate, that would give Detroit a high end forward group. Last year, 159 forwards hit 40 points or more, which averages to just under 5 a team. This would give them 7+ forwards. 40 points from a third liner is really good.

When Sam Reinhart signed that contract, he had a Career high of 65 points, it’s only after he signed that he reached 82 points.

He was invited to the Sabres prospect tournament

The tear down wasn't even finished a year ago, Eichel was still a member of the Sabres. IMO, not enough time to see if the GM is being aggressive. But this question is a little silly, because it implies that there were aggressive moves during the tear down, and your original point said since the Hall fiasco, and the majority of the tear down came after that. I also wouldn't consider getting assets with a cap dump an aggressive move to build the team, as it is committing to a long term rebuild. The Sabres wouldnt really be any better with Monahan, unless he recovers in a big way.

How could we forget? You only bring it up every other week. 🙂 (Just poking some fun)

I have a lot more confidence in KA and his plan than I have had for the past few regimes. Time will tell for sure, but the drafting and development plans appear to be significantly ahead of were we've been in the recent past, and that will bring more success down the line. This is the deepest roster we've had in the past 10 years IMO, and the prospect pool is stacked. We're heading in the right direction, and I think it's only a matter of time until that shows up in our record.

I would have done that trade from the Sabres end. If Monahan is over his hip injuries and returns to form, we get a good player for a year as well as a first down the line. If not, then the Amerks get a good C and the Sabres get a first down the line. I don’t see much of a downside.

I'm expecting about 40 points in a middle 6 roll. I think his power play time goes down by about half, and his even strength dips slightly, while his PK time remains about the same. Im thinking he ends up about 6th in Sabres forwards in TOI/G.

Replace Quinn with Peterka in that statement then. The Sabres had a lot of injuries last year, and Peterka got called up and played 2 games. The sabres were a considerably less deep team last season, as they iced the worst line in hockey for a stretch (which was well documented here, if you recall the thread on Hayden-Eakin?-Bjork). Despite that, Quinn and Peterka who were dominating the AHL in their D+2 seasons (to a rare degree) only played 2 NHL games. Now, the Sabres are deeper and hopefully have less injury problems. *Knock on wood* I doubt that Kulich would get playing time on the Sabres in his D+1 season.

I'd have to agree, Hard to see him outperforming Quinn's performance of last year in the AHL, and we are a deeper team this year.

That was actually year 2 of Josh Allen (seems like so long ago), where the Bills made the playoffs and faced the texans in the wild card. The following year was when Josh became a star nationally. The only playoff game Tyrod played for us was against the Jags.

Wasn't this a discussion of where they slotted in the lineup (and what lines they slot on)? If a 3rd liner has enough PK time that he is in your top 6 of forwards in ice time, that doesn't really make him a second liner. Now that wasn't the case with Okposo last year, as he was a second liner for us (I believe in terms of EV ice time), but it could be the case next year. Being good on the PK does count as part of a player's value, but minutes on the PK don't really reflect where they slot in the lineup for the rest of the game. Oloffson slotted about equal to Okposo in terms of ice time outside of the PK.

Really the only reason Oloffson is behind Okposo in TOI is due to Okposo playing a significant roll on the penalty kill. Okposo averaged 1:24.5 penalty kill minutes a game, whereas Oloffson had just under a minute of PK time over the whole season.

Not putting too much stock in his rankings. He had Toronto up a Tier for goaltending, and their defense in the second tier.

I’m a pretty young fan (entering senior year of college) and I’d always rooted for the Sabres with my Dad growing up (usually listening to RJ on the radio). But the first game that I still remember watching was the last time they were in the playoffs, the game where Pominville got hurt against the flyers (game 5?)

That’s a quick release

Yup, I’d agree with all of this. Bedard and Michkov are definitely ahead of where Wright/Savoie/Lambert were a year out of the draft. The only reason I said near-lock for Michkov was the Russia situation, if he was from anywhere else he’d be a top 2 lock assuming he doesn’t turn into a pumpkin.

Even the players at the top aren’t locks to go there. Bedard is pretty much a lock, and Michkov is close, but remember last year, the top 3 were Wright, savoie and Lambert, with some having miro in the that tier as well. Wright ended up 4th, Savoie 9th, Lambert 30th and Miro 20th.

I think it’s a call to the fan base similar to how there’s #mafia or #billsmafia on similar posts for bills stuff.

While It may make sense for Tage to sign a contract now (coming off a 38 goal season), I don’t see much incentive for Cozens to sign now. Signing a bridge deal is possible, but would expect him to try to have a big year this year and increase his value. And he wouldn’t want to sign a long term deal if he thinks he can break out still, which I’m sure Cozens thinks he can.

I would be very surprised if the Isles traded Barzal, and even more surprised if the Sabres were to go after him. That being said, Cozens-Barzal-Asplund/Tuch would be an great 2 way second line.

To be fair, they also do have some bonuses attached. I believe Boston has about 4.9 in eligible bonuses that are pretty attainable. They are currently over the cap, though LTIR will fix that. However, they won’t have cap left for bonuses, which is allowable (up to 7.5% of the cap), and the amount you go over is taken from next years cap space.

In an ideal world, the Sabres would have a competent starter and Comrie would only need to play 25-30 games, but I don’t see Anderson staying good/healthy for 50+ games. Unless UPL blows the Sabres away or Comrie gets hurt, I don’t see him playing less than 30 games.