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Krebs has been a turnover king that needs to relearn his game for the pro level. Just like Tage’s spin moves didn’t work in the NHL until they did, Krebs passing won’t work until he relearns the window. Tage finally clicked last year. If there is hope for Krebs is we’re waiting for that click. but he’s never going to be a finisher.

That’s just due diligence.

Yes you are correct. He got better after all the Covid crap finally gave him the break he needed day 1 of season and became decent again. The comment meant to say I don’t foresee a regression.

Ooooh boy opinions times. I love July Joki didn’t regress, he was filling in for more minutes than he shouldn’t been. This is why the Luby signing is ideal. we are running on okie memory here if we didn’t notice two major inflections in performance for the team last season: 1. Tuch coming off injury 2. Anderson coming off injury until he broke down Whole different team with Tuch in the mix to no surprise here. Culture is everything and his attitude is contagious. No sour grapes in the room to stop the spread. Before Tuch came in the team wasn’t deep enough nor competing hard enough. The goalies. After this first week we were playing sub-replacement basement tier goaltending. Bad. I mean historically bad. Take that # of games and save% and apply it to 80% of the playoff teams and they don’t make the post season. We don’t need outstanding goaltending to make a 20 point standings difference. We only need average. When Anderson returned we got average goaltending for a couple months and it showed. His age showed up really quick at the end and that should be our major warning- do not let him play more than 25 games- but as far as assessing the team goes this is everything. Garbage time or not, we stopped playing playoff teams backups and was still winning games. Even knocked a couple hopefuls out of the playoffs (Vegas has dug their own grave on a burial ground). Not to mention we added Power, plus a bunch of rookies are just aging/growing into their climb above replacement level contribution. Granato is completely right, the team didn’t need to do anything it already did over the last 12 months at the expense of last season. The way they played at the end was all sustainable hockey with sustainable average goaltending and nobody other than a replaced goalie on their downward trend. Okposo and Girgensons being the exception they have pretty much flatlined and that’s fine. Are we better than Ottawa? Oh yeah. They had good goaltending and didn’t fundamentally improve their deficiencies they just added patches slopped with peanut butter to the torn up jeans. Isn’t going to last. Better than Detroit? They had nearly as bad of a goalie mess as we did. And they took an equivalent gamble as we did to improve. We can argue even improvements in this department. However, when they had decent goaltending they didn’t show a winning pace. They were treading water the entire time. That’s one sign of concern I have. Secondly they just had massive turnover. Coaches, players, etc. Probably needed, sure, but it usually takes some time for all of that to gel. Be it half a season or whatnot. They lack a lot of raw talent too outside of his holiness. They no doubt improved but I think they have too much to overcome before getting too far. Penguins are stumbling. Boston is stumbling. I think not getting to the playoffs is a major disappointment for where Buffalo is at. It’s finally time to break the curse.

Sometimes a program is too strong to let one guy ruin it.

Lol that save

Nobody can score. We suck!

There’s not a single spot on this roster guaranteed. Arguably every position is up for grabs even 1D and 1C. Every spot has depth and up and comers knocking at the door

We will beat Toronto in first round of playoffs. dubas will double down on the vets

Buffalo was only out of the playoffs because of abysmal goaltending. If they got average goaltending now they’re jumping way ahead of these teams.

They could pay him 8 mil for 2 years and it’s be just fine. This is his peak contract. Good for 7th rounder VO. 2 year term is all the team could have ever wanted.

Another one good. I thought Pilut was going to be in the mix?

Fitzgerald shouldn’t ever see minutes. This hopefully is one way of ensuring that.

We only need an average goalie to compete. He’s got a really good chance to be at least that. Great locker room guy. Absolute perfect contract. KA finally did it.

Politicians don’t care about their base. Only the swing voters. Though recently they’ve smartened up and decided to milk the whales instead of the swing voters. They haven’t really milked the rich people as much as they could cause the seats being empty has sucked the air out of the arena.

No reason to not buy all the rentals season tickets are sold with todays actions

I’d love to have these vet additions. Just ***** call them and ask if they want to play for us this time before signing the deal. Putting the kids down into the AHL is exactly what we want. It’s not like benching the old guys who aren’t pulling their weight isn’t possible. Coach shouldn’t be afraid to do that.

He knows he can rewrite history with a book. Anyone who knows the real truth won’t be around in too long to correct the print anymore.

Bunch of prospects and guys who have NHL games mix to help see why the cream of the crop is. Interested in seeing Rosen and some others

You draft a goalie every year. They got high on one and think he dropped a whole round. Let it be.

Prospect pool at forward is a mix of playmakers and finishers. Only the top 3 picks ever really get it all. Will be interesting to see how he plays out. Like that he was a spoiler at worlds. Looks like he has a bit of growing still to do.

None of these were a problem for Briere. Just the late start!

Perimeter player gone yay

Briere rd2, let’s goooooo

Okay, I thought Bobs list was good at determining what teams will actually pick. Not that he’s picking the best, just that his list is closest to what teams actually do. Apples and oranges.