triumph_communes
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Roster is meh.
Tage Thompson was the best player in this last year. Wooo boy
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13 hours ago, LGR4GM said:
I think we should wait until the season to see how things change. The rfa stuff is not a pass, it's a reality.
Do not want. He's 1 dimensional and the league figured that out.
Being 1-dimensional doesn't really matter if he's on a line with Eichel, where teams are spending all their attention on the center instead of the winger. And Eichel loves to pass. And Skinner on the other side? That would be fun to watch.
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He is the reason I thought Rodrigues was going to become a piece in a trade to put a Ristolainen deal into our favor. I wouldn't be surprised if he turned into a decent 3C. His size isn't a big problem if our defense is not small, and other than Pilut and Nelson we don't have defenders who are struggling with the physical game.
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22 minutes ago, Randall Flagg said:
You can love a bad coach - I'm not sure why that would be seen as convincing evidence that a player dipping from a form he never returned to has nothing to do with said coach.
The point is, I'm not buying the good seasons under Ralph as being due to his hand while hand-waving away the bad ones. We did that ***** with Housley too - the Nashville D became great BECAUSE of things he did, he wasn't just along for the ride. Many posters argued that who would scoff at that notion today, but we're always ready to attribute good things to the new guy and excuse away the potentially inconvenient ones.For the record, I don't actually believe that Krueger ruined RNH. I just don't think he was some secret sauce for Yakupov that Nail just couldn't handle not having. I think Nail benefited from an absolutely wild NHL that season, and the fact that it's the low-IQ guys who tend to burst on the scene, quickly get figured out, and be incapable of ever adjusting to that.
I think Yakupov flourished as much as that flawed player ever could because Krueger heavily utilized him on the PP in a way that played to his strengths, and otherwise hid his weaknesses in ways that no other coach could, even after Krueger already paved the way for him. And have you looked at the D-corp that team had?!
Krueger was my #1 choice for a coach before Housley was even fired. He was my #1 before Housley too. He is a player's coach, and that is what this team struggled with the most over the last few seasons, both with Bylsma and with Housley. Disconnect between coaching staff and players and their buy-in/motivation. This is the BEST coach out there to bridge that gap. He literally wrote the book on it. And he is a guy who Team Canada thought was world-class to use for his Xs and Os and video breakdown analysis, so it's not like he's some Ted Nolan either.
I understand your devil's advocate position, but I countered it with what I considered objective facts of the situation that could readily explain the drop regardless of the coach. A sophomore player who struggled post-injury, and had a lock-out summer before he's really understood how to off-season as a pro, struggled to put up numbers under a new coach/system is not just the coach's fault. Especially when the player loved the coach and was shooting below his career averages that one shortened year.
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14 hours ago, Randall Flagg said:
Did he also ruin RNH, a first overall pick with a wonderful rookie year that was followed by a very disappointing one with Ralph?
If not, why attribute one to him and not the other?You mean the player who barely scored after his 20 game absence for a shoulder injury the season prior? He needed to find his groove post-injury. Plus, RNH LOVED Krueger. Couple this with his below typical shooting % and I wouldn't look too far into it.
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Krueger made Yakupov look like a budding star. That Edmonton roster was atrocious. I would take their finish to the seasons with a grain of salt.
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14 hours ago, dudacek said:
This is quite interesting.
The Sabres apparently have a top 10 D corps
https://thehockeywriters.com/ranking-nhl-teams-by-defencemen/
Toronto has the 7th best with top-pairing Cody Ceci; You sure this isn't a satire piece?
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This is going to be an exciting training camp.
I also still think Risto is moved for more forwards, making camp even crazier.
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21 hours ago, LGR4GM said:
Escrow will cause the next lockout. The players hate it.
And I hate paying taxes. They just don’t understand that math. Alternatives to escrow are even worse
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1 hour ago, Huckleberry said:
McCabe isn't a spare part lol
He is if Gardiner signs medium term
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Risto+spare parts for Mantha, yes easily
Would they take McCabe+Smith?
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McCabe+Risto+Rodrigues for Rakell+Kase
Sign Gardiner with remaining space
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14 hours ago, SwampD said:
What does this mean?
There is literally no offensive production with him on a line. It always dies on his stick.
*all anecdotal, no fancy stats
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Okposo is such a possession anchor to put on any line other than Girgensons+Larsson
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5 hours ago, GoPuckYourself said:
I'll just wait for the Chinese knock off of this, I can only imagine what this is going to cost in the Sabres store.
Chinese knockoffs have been better quality than whatever fanatics crap you buy at the team store. Can’t imagine why this would be different
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so pretty. I love white gloves. Sad they're only for a year. I hope when they move to royal blue, the white jersey looks exactly like this except with the lighter blue and a switch from gold to yellow (that is, no shoulder-pads like the originals)
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8 minutes ago, pi2000 said:
Can someone explain to me why he'll make better decisions if he gets fewer minutes?
I've played my entire life and never once have I seen a player get better by playing less.
He forms bad habits slinging pucks up the boards playing with idiot wingers who can’t get open and d partners who can’t catch a pass while playing too many minutes per night. His only chance at getting rest is from nearly icing it.
Hard habit to break but a new coach can do it. I bet he excels elsewhere. It’s on him if he gives Krueger a chance or not.
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Risto was open about complaining being paired with guys like Scandella who he couldn’t trust to pass it to because they’d fumble it. He’s stated as much. He is a good player, he just needs a change of scenery.
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I think we already had a decent team, barring the abysmal defensive depth, and they only got better and completely reworked that depth.
I think coaching will be all the difference.
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Welp, there goes his trade value if he had any
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1 hour ago, GASabresIUFAN said:
..... and now back to our regularly schedule thread.
Jokiharju and Gilmour make the team out of camp as our 3rd pairing.
Jbot finds away to trade Risto and Scandella.
Question: How much of Scandella's salary would you retain to make a deal? Sending him down would have 1.07, but he would have to be replaced on the roster with someone like Gilmour making 700K, which is a net cap savings of 375K. I'd like to net 2 mill in savings, so I think the most I'd retain is 1.3. Thoughts?
Who cares how much it’s only for this season. If you have to retain you do it.
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12 hours ago, Randall Flagg said:
He had more problems than that, including a propensity for his only regular even strength offensive play to be peeling off the boards and then losing the puck in no man's land between the circles and the point men
I saw absolutely nobody for him to pass to so he’d get in trouble. But to each his own viewpoint.
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If Botterill wants four scoring lines, Ruostalainen is making the team as a center and Okposo will be in the press box.
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Mittelstadts only problem was conditioning and he’s had a full off season. Y’all are way too hard on the kid who played with trash all year and was obviously sucking wind.
Hope he finds a Risto trade. Glad to hear hes putting vets in the hot seat.
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The Krueger Crux? "Not thinking out there"
in The Aud Club
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Krueger has a very unique power play system