triumph_communes
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No. Unless we win cups
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KA went out of his way to praise Bales at year end presser. Think this is a mistake.
Our Special Teams and Defense needs new coaching. Granato needs to hand off goalie pull decisions to someone else, he himself doesn’t get it at all. So many games lost because a goalie who was clearly out of it wasn’t pulled early enough.
Top 4 UFA D is the only thing that really matters this off season. Now is the time to pick up a vet, there is nobody in the system he is blocking. I hope we don’t re sign Okposo or Girgensons. Trade Oloffson if you aren’t going to use him.
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5 hours ago, GASabresIUFAN said:
After the draft and with the addition of Ford, how are people feeling about the Bills right now for next season?
McDermott calling the shots and has the most weapons he’s ever had. I disliked Frasier
Offense only got better.
Josh got rid of a distraction
We’re a contender. If the media sleeps on it even better
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On 4/25/2023 at 9:41 PM, GASabresIUFAN said:
Do yourself a favor and look at their analytics. These are all mediocre to bad hockey players. Joki, Stillman, Clague, and Bryson are not championship-caliber hockey players.
When a GM makes a mistake, like Stillman, who is on a cheap contract, he can move on which is what KA should do. Sending him down keeps him in the organization for emergency use. Stillman is not a 5/6. If a team as bad defensively as Buffalo was last year is only willing to play him 12 minutes a night, that tells you he really isn't good enough to be a 3rd pairing player. He was being used because the other options were worse.
There is no reason, especially with our cap room for KA to make us suffer through another season with 50% of the D group that stinks. It's also more important than ever to upgrade the D group. We are a playoff-caliber team and need better D. We also need a stronger D group to protect the young goaltenders. We also need guys under contract with term because we have no near-ready prospects in the pipeline. (This is a prospect thread after all.)
Analytics say nothing about systems and coaching. Stillman was misused by bad coaching. He is perfectly serviceable and a big part of their late season turnaround. Nobody said he was top4 and it’s quite clear that’s the top of KAs list this off season. There is no ‘just be patient and wait’ on defense like there was in goal that justified his inaction.
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Josh was lost without Beasley. We got a big Beasley. Guy will be slot more often than not, the TE name is just a label
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On 4/21/2023 at 12:22 PM, GASabresIUFAN said:
He was asked about the goaltending, but he did not have to praise UPL because he comes off as disingenuous. All he had to say was he saw progress in a young goalie and we’ll evaluate our goaltending this off-season. That way he is free to proceed with any solution.
Now, if he trades UPL after praising him he going to look worse. What’s he going to say then? We traded UPL because we didn’t want that much youth in goal? Or We wanted a more veteran presence with Levi? Or we just thought he wasn’t good enough and we traded him because we didn’t want to lose him for nothing when we send him down.
I think the guy who traded Eichel and turned the franchise around is going to be okay.
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He is poised to take on a third line role. Would be weird to see him ditch that opportunity.
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It’s fair to discuss the rookies but we have an entire year before any decisions have to be made at all with them.
What is clear is that we don’t have room to sign a long term UFA to high dollar without kicking out one of the rookies we have.
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On 4/16/2023 at 6:07 AM, LGR4GM said:
This isn't going to be what happens. Tage won't be injured and Quinn and JJP aren't going to get demoted for Greenway. Quinn in particular, we should expect him to add 10g10a next season.
I'm still amazed how virtually the entire board has amnesia that Tage Thompson was injured from the all star break on. You don't take your 90+ point, 45+ goal #1 center and move him to 2nd line wing because Mittelstadt played well for 2 weeks (yes he played well at others times this season).
Recency bias.
Then you call the Greenway-Cozens-Thompson line the top line and the Skinner-Mittelstadt-Tuch line the second line.
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There are players you want for 1-2 years you wouldn’t want for 3+. ROR, Hanifin, etc are those types of guys. It’s a personality thing
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On 4/13/2023 at 9:30 AM, GASabresIUFAN said:
Do you also think that KA won’t bring in help on D when he has 8 D already signed or under team control?
False equivalency.
Comrie is an NHL caliber backup. Bryson is not an NHL quality defenseman.
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I look on capfriendly and there’s a dozen UFA defenseman who we could sign as a 2nd pair at worst. If he doesn’t sign one of those guys it’s a failed off season.
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UPL is trade bait for a younger bottom pairing defenseman who isn’t awful. Or a younger 4th liner who isn’t awful. Both needs we have. Comrie will be fine as a back up. Problem then is what happens when there’s an injury to Comrie that is inevitable? We’re gonna draft more goalies it seems.
1 hour ago, Weave said:I suspect I have a higher opinion of Stillman than most. I really like what I’ve seen of him. Really solid under the radar pick up IMO.
Dude made like two bad defensive plays his time here. Bryson makes that many per shift. Go get the top UFA on the market KA- he only needs to end up being a solid 4D cause the top 3D are locked in for a decade. Don’t hold back. Stillman I think beats out Jokiharju as the 6D, who is the one we need to push out to 7D.
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He came in with high expectations because of the trade. Can’t hold that against him.
Hard to judge someone playing with Okposo and Girgensons. That trio regressed defensively quite a bit from the Larrson days, but they scored a little more. Still a net negative.
He isn’t a great center right now but he may improve with a little more time. Not physical enough to play physical, not fast enough to keep up, and his hands are still too hot to be a skill guy. He gets a little more strength and maturity and he will be useful.
No hurry or motivation to move him, he can come back and repeat and be fine.
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Coaches get a C+ They didn’t fail like Krueger, but they definitely made a bunch of terrible decisions in the first 2/3 of the season that cost us the playoffs. They get props for making a bunch of send offs have great turnarounds. Jost, Greenway, Stillman all we’re far better than they were on their former teams. The PK is atrocious, the PP is atrocious and only propped up by Thompson’s killer shot. Our defensive zone awareness needs work, improvements were seen, but against some teams they are still utterly lost out there. It will be a disappointment to not upgrade assistant coaches this off season.
KA gets a B. The goalie situation this season cost us the playoffs, but not letting anyone get in the way of Levi was the ultimate goal and all we needed there was this season. The waiver pickups all had turnarounds. He kept Terry at bay and held strong to the plan- this deserves credit. He knows he needs a defenseman and was in on this seasons blue chip down to the wire. Next season playoffs is the expectation and not making it is a failing grade
Cozens is a stud. Quinn is progressing well. Peterka is improving.
Krebs had a tumultuous season. He looked great in March when everyone else sucked and then looked phased in April when the rest of the team turned around. Progression from his pretty bad early season. Interesting to see where he ends up with different linemates next year.
Skinner/Tuch are both prone to getting hot and cold, but they are big parts of this teams turnaround. Love it.
Power had a slow start as expected from a young rookie but was forced to step up and has. He still has a lot of improvement left in him too. He needs to work on his shot, it’s holding him back.
Mittelstadt had enormous growth this season. He needs to be paired with talent and now he can keep up. Honestly I like him as a 1C with Skinner/Tuch. We need to spread Thompson out to other lines to be a dynamic team anyway.
Lyubushkin was in over his head, slow start, but ended strong.UPl/Comrie big disappointments. Doesn’t matter, got Levi
KO has ‘it’, but he is slow. Girgensons is pretty toast. Not interested in them returning. If this team runs it back and adds rookies it’ll make the playoffs. If they sign a stud defenseman they will compete. It’s going to cost, but now is that time.
Hope everyone has time to heal up. Dahlin, Thompson, Samuelsson, Cozens, etc all were noticeably playing injured at the end of season.
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Marty Biron says he sees Levi being the next rookie to get 30 wins
Ill trust Biron over any of y’all when it comes to goalies. He IS the starter. Only squabbling over the backup is worth discussing. And with two goalies on contract and no cap problems, having both of them duke it out if one isn’t traded away is a pretty simple decision.
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Hockey is better with less than 5 players. There I said it.
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VO has value. Will be interesting
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They in the way of Kulich
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Just now, Carmel Corn said:
Don't agree with the call.....BUT what I really want to see is Donny go ballistic! I don't care if they call a bench minor...but he has to show some EMOTION that the call was pure BS! I want to see more fire out of him at times like this, especially when the other team has all the momentum now.
I miss Lindy
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NHL needs to fix their rulebook
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7 hours ago, GASabresIUFAN said:
Not one person is disrespecting Levi. I think everyone here is astonished by how well he played. Not one person here thinks he isn't the future in net for the Sabres. I also think everyone here believes Levi will be part of the tandem in the net in Buffalo next season.
The question is how do you properly support this top prospect? Option A. Do you anoint him the starter and just get a competent backup? Option B. Do you bring in a good starter to take the pressure off and hopefully build a tandem like Boston has? Option C. Or do you bring in someone as a veteran mentor who can start if necessary but would willing to take a back seat if Levi proves ready to be the man?
I would guess KA goes with Option C.
Ya I’ll take this off season off this board is full of loud, bad opinions. Nothing is happening in net when we have three goalies signed.
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So much Levi disrespect in here
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2 minutes ago, CallawaySabres said:
If we had even 1 decent backup, he would have played last night…
We just got unlucky last night. Nobody plays a back up in the playoffs. We finally have a solution in net I don’t understand why it’s a focus again.
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GDT: The real semifinal. Round 3.
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Carolina has done nothing wrong but play some good hockey.