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5 minutes ago, Buffalonill said:
You have to put him with power then
While he did play a lot in his 8 games with the Sabres, I don’t know if he’s ready for 82 games of first pairing minutes. I think Samuelson-Dahlin is the more likely route, with Power-Joki? as the second pairing. And if Power plays at a high level, I think having Power and Dahlin on different pairs would give us one of them on the ice for 48 minutes which would help to tilt the ice our way.
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10 minutes ago, sweetlou said:
If Flyers are serious about Gaudreau they need to shed JVR. If you have Gaudreau for the next 7 years are you worried about a mid to late 1st rd pick?
I would definitely take JVR and Florida 1st and give Philly back their 2nd.
If I’m giving Philly back their 2nd, I’d want philly’s first. I would happily accept JVR+Florida first though.
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3 hours ago, Carmel Corn said:
I don't understand the high grades for the 2018 draft. We had 1OA, Dahlin was the consensus #1 pick....what else were we going to do? Samuelsson I like, but the rest of the 2018 draft was a tire fire.
Getting Samuelson in the second is very good value. Anything outside the first is a crap shoot, and getting a top 4 D outside of the first makes it a win.
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I like it, hope it doesn’t rule out going after another middle 6er though.
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1 hour ago, woods-racer said:
year GP G A P +/-
17-18 78 42 56 98 16
18-19 68 21 51 72 -25
19-20 55 25 49 74 7
20-21 33 8 20 28 -421-22 41 20 22 42 -10
His last really good year was 17-18 and previous to that he was oft injured back to 11-12 but was dominate when he played. I can't look at 20-21 and try to compare it to anything so I lined it out.
Unless he really has a great summer training/rehabbing I believe his stats will continue as we have seen for the last 3 full seasons.
https://www.nhl.com/player/evgeni-malkin-8471215
You can look at his full stats for his last 5 games played. Crosby got hurt and his minutes greatly increased for the next 2 games, then they dropped right back down for the last game. He is a Wiley old veteran that will give you all he has when the team needs it the most, but I'm sure his excellent days will be at best sporadic for the rest of his career.
19-20 looks like a damn good year. 74 points in 55 games is the equivalent to 110 points over 82 games.
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4 minutes ago, Thwomp! said:
I'm most interested in who wins "best vampire name" between Joel Ratkovic Berndtsson and William Von Barkenow Lofberg. Lofberg has to be the front runner in that contest.
Lofberg gets the easy victory.
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11 minutes ago, thewookie1 said:
Any interest in Weegar?
If he’s not too expensive, sure. He’d be a great partner for Power, but 1 year on his contract makes it so I don’t want to give up a whole lot.
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I’m gonna go with an A, after having a few days to digest and think about it. A couple days ago, this might have been an A-. I loved the Savoie pick, he was the guy I wanted most at 9 (unless Jiriceck or Nemec somehow fell), and I was quite happy when he fell into our laps and KA snatched him up. Östlund I wasn’t as high on, but after reading up on him, I’m quite happy with the pick. Kulich was great value at 28. I wasn’t very happy with the Leinonen pick, but I’ve gotten higher on it as time has gone on. KA has added 2 goalie prospects to the Sabres, one was Levi before he dominated the NCAA last year, and the other Leinonen. If they truly had a first round grade on him, I will trust their judgement a lot more than mine. Neuchev and Lindgren were great value picks in the 3rd and 4th. I think we got 6 guys with legit NHL potential, and it wouldn’t surprise me if we had 4 or so future Sabres from this draft, which would make it a highly successful one.
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On 7/9/2022 at 11:26 AM, Buffalonill said:
The point is you will see those guys in 3 years.
Goaltenders take 6 years
If goalies take 6 years, then it’s more important that we draft them sooner rather than later. IF Levi works out as we hope, we won’t have much issues with our tenders but that’s no guarantee. But if he doesn’t, without other goalies in the system we would be in a world of hurt. You may have seen Warren in 3 years, but if we waited till next year to draft a goalie, we wouldn’t see them in 7 years, whereas if we draft a similar caliber defender next year, we only wait 4.
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16 minutes ago, LabattBlue said:
Then Adams should be fired…and you are delusional. 😂
That was more of a joke than anything else 😂
Though to be honest, 1 more year of futility would be worth it IF we got Bedard. There’s no guarantee to win the lottery though, so it’s not something I’d want to go through.
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7 minutes ago, dudacek said:
He won’t be LTIRed, he’ll just be put on regular IR.
That opens a roster spot but doesn’t give us cap relief
He could very easily be put on LTIR. Putting a player on LTIR DOES NOT affect the cap space of the team or the cap hit of a contract. It instead creates cap relief, where a team can go over the cap. Having Bishop on LTIR would result in no change to the total cap hit of the team, it would just create cap relief space in the event that the team went over the cap.
Here’s a link explaining how LTIR works
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7 minutes ago, Brawndo said:
I would add Danton Heinen to the mix. He is a defensively responsible forward, analytics darling who put up 33 points last year.
He was not qualified by Pittsburgh for cap reasons. Evolving Hockey predicts a 3 year, 2.6 Million AAV
Sounds a lot like Asplund. With our centers all being young, and with JJP and Quinn looking to make the leap to the NHL, another defensively sound forward that can chip in offensively would help balance our lineup a good deal.
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Just now, SDS said:
In the spirit of the post talking about people talking past each other… I think most people advocating for this type of trade is inferring a Taylor Hall situation where Chicago can’t get Kane’s true value because Kane forces his way to one team.
If Chicago is only interested in true value and doesn’t want to unload a salary, then the deal is dead for everyone.
So what your saying is in this scenario, unless Chicago is able to get what they think Kane is worth they won’t trade him?
I don’t think that makes a whole lotta sense. IMO they are tanking, and are currently trying to accumulate young assets. If they don’t trade Kane they get nothing for him. I would think they will take what they can get for Kane, similar to how we took what we could for Hall. It wouldn’t surprise me if it took until the trade deadline for him to be traded though. -
5 minutes ago, DarthEbriate said:
We'd have to get to the cap to use the LTIR, though, correct? That'd be a lot of additional spending in order to save on the Bishop insurance.
I may be wrong, but I believe he could still be LTIRed if we were not at the cap- I think we would need to be at the cap to get the cap relief associated with him being on LTIR.
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5 minutes ago, Contempt said:
What thing that Terry has strongly wanted had ended up being a good thing?
It’s not Hockey, but supposedly Terry really wanted Pat Mahomes. Im happy with Allen, but there’s no denying Mahomes ended up being a good thing.
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1 minute ago, Dr. Who said:
The other thing I've read is he is so irresponsible/indifferent on defense that he broke Dach. Still think on balance, you get him if the price is right.
Dach wasn’t playing as his center, correct?
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Just now, aristocrat said:
So I've seen talk about how Kane made Debrincat and he can't reproduce that in Ottawa. Well wouldn't we want similar result from say Cozens? What if he can turn Cozens into a ppg type player for the next couple seasons and accelerate his growth? Would have two legit top lines in the entire league. Olofson, a first and maybe Portillo or Peterka? Quinn is untouchable to me. Sign Kane to 3 year extension.
1 year of Kane is not worth that much to me. If it was a sign and trade it would be more expensive, (probably similar to your proposed trade) and I don’t think I would do that. By the time we are really ready for cup contention, Kane will likely have slowed down a decent bit, and his cap hit likely won’t match with his production. Not worth it IMO. If we can get him at the cost we got Skinner, I’d do it, but not much more.
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Adams plan: the team plays great but is handicapped by poor goaltending. The Sabres finish 10th/11th in the league, and then miraculously win the lottery. Bedard is added to an already skilled young forward group, and the Sabres use 3 2nds on RD to balance out the roster. Sabres win 5 of the next 10 cups.
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55 minutes ago, matter2003 said:
I'm interested in why they selected C 3 picks in a row...was it truly best player available on their board or did they specifically target the position?
Seems like Savoie was a no brainer pick, but why the other 2 on top of him?
Savoie was a no brainer, and to me looks like a guy that could end up at C, or he could end up as a RW. Östlund I think either ends up at C or doesn’t really stick. Kulich looks like a guy that can play anywhere in the lineup, if he develops well, he could be a top 6 winger or a 2nd line center. Or he could play further down the lineup in whatever role you want from him. I think they were all BPA according to their board, and at least Savoie and Kulich were among the BPA according to the media.
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14 minutes ago, sweetlou said:
I don't mind the AAV of $3million, but as a career backup I only do two years, maybe three.
He’s not really even a career backup at this point in his career. He’s played a total of 28 NHL games, 19 of which came this past season. Before that, he had not had more than 3 NHL games in a season.
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Remember when Pekar was the second most exciting prospect at Dev Camp? (After Dahlin of course.) I would expect Pekar to be there and he won’t come close to cracking top 10. My how times have changed.
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1 minute ago, LabattBlue said:
Year of the goalie will be….?
Hopefully never, I’d rather there just be the odd 1 goalie a year added to the system. Topinen this year, Levi last year, ??? Next year.
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9 minutes ago, dudacek said:
Yeah but 5 centres!
Adams can take the next 2 years off again 😄
Wait, so @Thorny is James Patrick and you are Craig Rivet?
2020/2021 were the years of the wingers, 2022 the year of the centers, please KA let 2023 be the year of the Dmen.
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3 minutes ago, LGR4GM said:
There's still a few players left that are intriguing.
Such as? I’ve reached the point where I might recognize 1 name of who’s left, maybe.
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I think the only way we add a forward is if it’s a JVR type deal, where we take on cap for assets.