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How soon till Eichel is blamed for this? /s

My (very under-researched and amateur) rankings for who I want the Sabres to draft would be: 1. Wright 2. Cooley 3. Nemec 4.Slafkovsky 5. Jiriceck I would be estatic to get any one of them, but other than Jiriceck I don’t think there’s a shot any of them will be there at 9, and Jiriceck is not close to guranteed to be there.

I absolutely agree, but the thought of having 3 potential 1D (1 already reaching that level) is very exciting.

I’d love for Nemec to fall to 9 where we could very well be picking. Really would solidify the future of this defense.

I would disagree with the bolded, mainly due to two reasons. One, I’m not sure if JJP’s defensive game is quite ready for the NHL. It very well may be, but the second reason is due to the inevitability of injuries. Mitts missed 40 games, Girgs missed 30, Oloffson missed 10-15 (which maybe should have been more), Tuch missed 40 games. If we bring in a 2nd line winger, there will still be opportunities for JJP to make the lineup.

I don’t think the middle 30 games is a red flag, he was playing through injury, but we are too thin and had enough injuries, where Oloffson at half or a third of his production was still one of our best 12 F at the time.

Cozens has been improving his FO% and was 51.4% on face offs in March. He was sub 45% for the rest of the season.

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Sabres were a little overwhelmed to start that period but slowly brought the play back to pretty even overall throughout the period (maybe even slightly better for the Sabres). Showing some good work today

That was a pretty nasty redirect

This also probably has a good bit to do with matchups, that line matches up against the other team’s top 6 pretty frequently.

Sabres are being a very physical team tonight

Tage hits 30!

Asplund looking good tonight

Yikes Fitzgerald

Nice move by Thompson.

I’ve been coming around on Bryson more, I think if we can add a vet Rd that can eat minutes with Dahlin, we could be in a good place with splitting the remaining minutes pretty evenly with Samuellson-Jokiharju Power-Bryson or some combination thereof. As for our forwards I think we stick with Skinner-Thompson-Tuch for line 1, I think Cozens takes another step to be a capable ~55 point 2C (went from 26 points per 82 pace last year to 40 points per 82 pace this year), and Quinn and Krebs take wing spots off him. It’s also possible we see Quinn and Tuch switched to give this line more veteran presence. Mitts and Oloffson on the third line, with probably Asplund, I don’t see KA wanting to block JJP in. I imagine we get an Eakin replacement (hopefully improvement) and Okposo and Girgensons can take the wing spots for that line. The most important area we need to improve on is goaltending. Get a 1A guy somehow, preferably for about 2 years. Get an Anderson/Tokarski level guy to battle UPL in camp to not give him a free pass.

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Sabres are currently on a 3 game winning streak, 5-1 in their last 6 and 7-3 in the last 10. Of those 10 teams we’ve faced, the only ones not currently in a playoff spot are the Vegas Knights and the Canucks who are within 3 points of a playoff spot.

adding 27.8 points to our current points would put us at 9th in the conference just outside the playoffs. That’s also not accounting for the teams above us having injuries as well.

Also a 2023 second in that deal.

I’m fine with it, his contract expires this year and this doesn’t put them over the top, just a waste of future assets imo

No, any retention has to be for the length of the contract.

Thoughts on Adam Larsson from Seattle for a potential trade target?

7-3 now, love to see it