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Only guy here not surprised by Tage’s ascension doesn’t know how this all works. Got it.

Wat. We can’t afford a player?

Every world.

Krebs

It was opposing teams. Eichel first year teams didn’t game plan to stop Eichel, just contain a bad team. By his second year opposing teams realized the Sabres only had offense throug Eichel and chose to sacrifice those minutes to just playing defense and it worked.

Reinhart is a better overall player, but there are many teams I don’t think would pay the salary premium over Oloffson. Oloffson brings an elite aspect to his game whereas Reinhart is an above average all around player. Depends on what roles a team is missing.

1. MVP - Tuch. The leader we always needed. Without him we don’t have the late seasons success 2. Rookie - Samuelsson 3. Comeback - Skinner (Okposo close second) 4. Unsung Hero - Mittelstadt 5. Top Forward - Thompson. Usually there’s a most improved category he’d knock out of the park 6. Team Norris - Dahlin 7: Team Vezina - Anderson, though his wheels are noticeably about to fall off. I don’t think he could’ve done all 82 games

Them winning the lottery doesn’t push them above 10th pick. We want them to win it.

He isn’t going to regress. He isn’t going to be worse as he ages, he doesn’t use his speed or athleticism to succeed. It’s his stick handling and reach and those age well. Lock him up now for 8 years.

Let’s get the two headcase choke artists from Buffalo. That’s a path to success!

Oh my Bryson and Fitz better not even play next season. They aren’t ‘core’

Krebs gonna get moved to a team who can’t handle the cap hit.

STL won the trade full stop. Any eight year monster contract is worth a cup win. And STL wasn’t winning that cup that year without ROR. That’s what this is all about. But STL’s win and Buffalo’s is not mutually exclusive. The Sabres keeping ROR was not getting into any playoffs. There were no leaders in a toxic room. ROR wasn’t changing that. STL has gone sour after the afterglow of the trade wore off. Remember they were dead last until they changed coaches that season too. In 2022 the Sabres are in a better position with Tage than they would be with ROR. For this I don’t think one can say Buffalo lost the trade. Just took a decade of suffering. A decade of bad drafting followed by intentional Tank and total disregard for human factors, followed by over correction of human factors with self help scam artists in the way and this trade wasn’t fixing that. The biggest scab was Eichel and we finally pulled that one off. Now we have a budding superstar with no ego and a brother future. amd Tage is a better hockey player. You can pay a 4th liner to do what ROR did at a premium on the defensive end, and you can use a different body for the offense and not result in a guy who has to play 25-30 minutes a night to fill in two gaps on a team.

Power is getting beat multiple times a game but has confidence and size and just needs time. Good thing the team isn’t competing right now. I’ve loved Tage since the day of the trade and knew he just needed some time. Injuries and bad coaches set him back. Any more strawmen? His value is high because y’all don’t see the bust yet.

Despite some production he’s been a turnover king and a minus player nearly his whole career. He projects to be not that good.

Thompson is a gem. How bad of coaches did we have to keep him down? Learning moments for Power. Getting beat by one of the fastest players and bailed by the goalie. Not his best game. Glad we can just beat bad teams.

Exactly why the Wild bite. Sabres don’t need ten rookies

Would the Wild trade Fiala for Krebs? He’s a bust we need to trade while value is high. It’d help their cap

Mittelstadt keeps getting tasked with dragging dead weight. He’s fine. Not a star but he’s fine.

Power showing a lot of confidence. Doesn’t just want to pass in a circle. Krebs needs a new stick curve. Hot potato

It wasn’t that good of a period. Got lucky. Bryson Fitzgerald are a mess

Toronto just isn’t as good as the Florida teams.

Is he stupid?

Power is a bust!

We did with a third And for a coach Glory years got me banned from four message boards saying Murray was awful