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  2. GDT 11/25 Sabres @ Lightning 7pm et. Msg-b

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    Getting sick of Tampa getting away with murder game after game.  In a fair world, Kucherov would still be suspended for as long as Sobotka is out, and Cernak would've been ejected in preparation for his long hiatus.

     

    But no, refs gonna ref.

     

    Special teams is a PROBLEM.  They feel good that they are passing around, but don't recognize they aren't ever being dangerous.  Same kinds of issues they have on 5v5 for stretches.

     

    But this game felt more like a goalie problem.  Vasi made nearly every breakaway save.  Hutton let them all in.  Sucks, goalie problems are very difficult to fix, especially when you're up to the cap.

  5. Jack Eichel: Eliteness

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    He is an elite talent.  His talent makes up for his hockey IQ at times, but he still appears to be learning the game.  His attitude was always what has been holding him back though, and he's maturing.  That's going a long way.  Oh, and his wingers.  He needs Skinner back.

  7. Buffalo Bills 2019-2020

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    19 minutes ago, darksabre said:

    I think the thing with Allen, and also the entire Bills team, is that I'm not sure how good they are, but at the very least I don't think they're bad, so really that's an improvement over the last few decades.

    Defense is generally good, even when they get run over.  Offense is good enough, but is awful when the playcalling is awful.  Hopefully, Allen calling his own plays can fix the latter.  Daboll learning to trust the run helps too.  I think they need some new receivers and a replacement for Gore before the offense can get to a 'good' status.

  10. 2019-20 Sabres Prospects

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    2 hours ago, freester said:

    We have 3 top 6 forwards (4 if you count Johanssen)  You can't win like that in the NHL. We need 2 more top 6 forwards immediately.   Bottom 6 players are a dime a dozen.  They are readily available.  Please don't ever say Mitts is a top 6 anything.  At this point its not clear he's an NHL player.


    this is the prospects thread. You’re posting as if it’s the roster thread. 

  11. Non Sabres Deadline Trades/Rumors

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    hmmm.  Nashville would buy Turris out before they retain more than 2 million.  But something is going on in that locker room.  Turris would be much more useful than Okposo, even if it sticks with us longer:

     

    Turris (33% retained) + Granlund (9.75AAV) for Okposo + Scandella (10.0AAV)

     

     

  12. Non Sabres Deadline Trades/Rumors

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    3 minutes ago, freester said:

    Sam Bennett sucks. He is no better than Vesey.  

    Eh, he's a unique player.  More valuable to a team than a Vesey, who can easily go invisible for entire games.  Bennet is no top-6 talent, or a winger to slide up and down a top-9, but he plays a heavy game that makes any line following him up happy the other team had fear struck in them, and that's an element this Sabres team really lacks.  Not that I'd give up much for him, or have him as the main target of any trade, but I think anyone is silly if they don't think he'd be a major addition to our 3rd line.

  14. 2019-20 Sabres Prospects

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    1 hour ago, LGR4GM said:

    Let me spend the next few minutes on this... 

    1) Actually Reinhart isn't locked up at all and neither for that matter is Mittelstadt. In addition Mittlestadt to date has not shown he can be a top 6 player. So that is a big leap. Further Cozens has not shown he is a top 6 player if either of those 2 guys fall below that expectation everything else you lay out falls to pieces. 

    2) Tage might sure but let's say he doesn't. Who is up next? In this very real scenario Mitts and Tage are bottom 6 players. So you now have only 4 top 6 players on your roster or in your prospect pool. Let's continue though. 

    3) I would agree that Asplund appears to be headed for 3rd line status and that Pekar has the potential for that although like Tage we don't know. 

    4) This is my favorite sentence because of how contradictory it is by not only reality but how you wrote it. First Dahlin, Jokiharju, Montour, Miller all have contracts going forward or are RFA's and are younger. So I just listed 4 defenders going forward. Second at the beginning you say "We need defenders even sooner..." we just put Gilmour on waivers because we have so many NHL level defenders on this team. The best part is you end the sentence with "and we have a handful of them." So which it is it? We need them or we have a handful? 

    5) How can anyone look at the pipeline and be stressed? Ok I will take this. Name 4 players in the pipeline that have top 6 potential. We have Cozens. Hell I will give you Tage. That's it. There aren't any hidden offensive gems right now. Now for fun, and I mean FUN!, let's do the defense. Not currently playing in Buffalo you have Laaksonen, Borgen, Johnson, Samuelsson, Pilut, maybe fitzgerald. There's 6 total defenders but 12 forward spots. So even if you have an extra top 6 forward all that does is make your bottom 6 better because one of those top 6 guys has to play there.

    6) Just like a guy named Gym you took the time to prove my point for me. Murray didn't do Botterill any favors and only managed to get us Olofsson and Asplund and yet you are arguing our prospect pool at forward isn't f####d? I mean you yourself lay the ground work for why it is. Anyone coming to the conclusion that the forward part of our prospect pool isn't bad isn't paying attention to the Sabres pro team or who and how we have drafted especially in the last 3 years. 

    Since Jason Botterill became GM the Sabres have drafted 18 players. 8 forwards, 8 defenders, and 2 goalies. Again there are 12 forward slots and 6 defense slots. A little bit concerning since Murray left the cupboards empty and we have barely addressed the lack of forwards of high quality in our pool. 

    There were no contradictions. 

     

    Our only long-term defender before Botterill was Guhle.  Ignoring Dahlin, now we have Joki, Montour, Pilut, Laaksonen, Samuelsson, Johnson...

    Our only top-6 forwards on term before Botterill were Eichel, Reinhart, ROR, Okposo lol, and Nylander??.  Now we've swapped ROR with Skinner, and added Mittelstadt (who is at least a top-6 LW, if you think less you are crazy biased), Cozens (future ROR replacement) and Tage (huge framed forwards ALWAYS TAKE LONGER TO DEVELOP).  Oh, don't forget Ristolainen has been made completely redundant as has been shopped for over a year now to fix the forward position.

     

    Yes, we need forwards.  One Top-6 quality guy long-term would be nice, especially since half of what we have is too young to help today.  But we need depth guys more than anything.  And Murray left him with little to none.  Funny to argue against a guy working with cap hell, turning over the roster 10+ players each season so far, and a bad aura players love to talk to the press about.

  16. 2019-20 Sabres Prospects

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    Posted · Edited by triumph_communes

    Don't understand what this crazy strong 'need' for top-6 players is when we already will have:  Eichel, Skinner, Reinhart, Mittelstadt, and Cozens locked up for the next decade.  That's room for one top-6 player.  And that's assuming guys like Tage can't fill that role in a year or two.

     

    We need solid 3rd liners, and that's what Asplund and Pekar are.  We need a solid goalie, and we have 6K in the ranks.  We need defenders even sooner since only Dahlin+Joki are long-term locks, and we have a handful of them.  I don't get how anyone can look at our pipeline and be stressed.  I think its just impatience.  Rome wasn't built in a day, and Murray did Botterill almost no favors building up a propsect pool.  Ok cool, he got us 3rd liner Asplund and 3rd liner PP specialist Olofsson with a 7th round gamble.  Otherwise he traded all his lottery tickets away and picked a lot of the wrong guys, especially with all the 2nd round picks that amounted to nothing in the end.

  18. Non Sabres Deadline Trades/Rumors

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    2 hours ago, LGR4GM said:

    Construct our lineup with Reinhart gone but Gudreau in. It isn't better it is the same. The only difference is Gudreau probably scores a little more than Sam but I got bad news for everyone yelling about bigger forwards and net front presence. 

    That's where you're wrong, kiddo!

  24. GDT: 11/19/19 Minnesota @ Buffalo, 7 p.m. EST

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    So much overreaction. They weren’t hemmed for nearly any part of this game, nor any of the games on the loss streak. Special teams took a dump. Spending half the 2nd period on the PK doesn’t help scoring. If anyone should be ragged last night it’s Mittelstadt. 
     

    I really think they are just one or two solid forwards away from making a difference.  Oloffson isn’t good enough to play 1st line with Reinhart as the opposing wing. Two guys who are just too weak on the forecheck.  Johansson injury is holding them back, but otherwise Sheary and Skinner were causing havoc last night you can’t complain about that.  Need better finishers on the bottom lines. Mittelstadt needs a vet pairing badly. He coughs things up too much to be successful himself and gets lost alone playing with low talent 4th liners. Though I really think he is better off on the wing. 
     

     

    these trades need to come yesterday, but I do believe one or two decent forwards can make all the difference. Oh, and a shake up on the PP strategy it’s too stagnant. But to trash Botterill for not making any changes? Lol, Jokiharju has been a complete steal.  It takes two to tango, too many people forget that. 

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