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8 hours ago, Flashsabre said:
So Columbus, NJ, LA, Seattle need a HC. I find it interesting that Gallant’s name really isn’t prominent in any of these searchs.
Reputation for not getting along with GMs. Probably true. I think a GM afraid of losing his job might make the move but a GM who thinks he's safe might shy away.
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4 hours ago, Wyldnwoody44 said:
Someone check in on @PerreaultForever 😉
lol, it was a good game. Pity they lost but I liked the effort level. Florida clearly had the more talented team but the Bruins gave it their all and it was a bounce away from going the other way. Can't really complain, even though I would have enjoyed a game 7.
Really liked Geekie in the playoffs. We should have signed him as our 3C.
Ullmark will be traded this off season. Marchand is pretty much done. Although in the long run Power is likely much better, at the moment I'd prefer Lohrei. Kid really stepped up. It will be an interesting off season for Beantown.
I guess now I will join the local Canucks bandwagon for however long that lasts.
The Bruins beat the Leafs though, and that was very satisfying.
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8 hours ago, thewookie1 said:
Thorny has proven Eichel was better defensively here than the general perception but I’d certainly say he wasn’t anywhere near as consistent and focused on his two way game until Cassidy took over the Knights.
It’s always fascinating how there is little in way to predict which players will be “playoff players” and which won’t. Size and skill seem almost meaningless in the odds. A larger player can be a great regular season player but fold in the playoffs like a paper airplane while a small speedster could suddenly elevate himself to a playoff star.
It's character. Some guys want it, some are indifferent, or maybe just don't want it as much. Not willing to pay the price. Playoff games are harder, faster, more physical, more intense, and some players just don't want to give that extra effort as much as others.
I think you can predict some of it by watching how they play in big games and at key moments but you are right in that size and skill don't always follow through.
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11 hours ago, JohnC said:
Neither of us know whether Benson is going to take a quantum leap forward next season. But for a player who was so young, I didn't witness him last season fading as the season grinded on. In fact, it was the opposite. I thought he played better at the end of the season than the beginning of the season because he seemed to comfortably adapt to the tougher NHL game. I'm not predicting a quantum leap forward in his play, but he should be better with a season experience and an offseason to prepare for this upcoming season.
As far as his ability to adjust to a tougher style of play that Lindy will require compared to what Granato tolerated, I would say that he was one of our more responsible players from a checking standpoint in both zones and from a willingness to have a net presence in our offensive zone. My point is that maybe some other players will have trouble adjusting to a Lindy coached team, but he shouldn't have any problem adapting to the new coach.
It's very possible that Benson will be fine and better even. I'm just going by what you often see from young guys in the league and saying it wouldn't surprise me and if it happens I wouldn't over react to it. The term "sophomore slump" didn't come from nowhere. It happens.
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So many guys that can fill needs. I don't want to get caught up in too much wishing cause that'll lead to too much disappointment. KA should be active, simple as that, and he should be looking at guys who aren't over the hill yet and are good in the playoffs, not necessarily the regular season.
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5 hours ago, Wyldnwoody44 said:
Weren't we Poo Pooing tocchet around here before they hired Krueger or Housley?
I may be misremembering
Some people did. Some people were really anti Tochet, almost like the anti Torts crowd. I wonder if the Flyers (who tend to be a little incestuous) wish they'd hired him.
Coaching makes a huge difference (look how Cassidy somehow got Eichel to play 2 way hockey!) but Vancouver also made huge roster additions. Their big Swedish star has actually been pretty crap in the playoffs. Hopefully KA realizes this and isn't just going to think hiring Ruff was enough.
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3 hours ago, dudacek said:
What Benson produced was unremarkable for a middle-six NHL forward, somewhat remarkable for an 18-year-old, and almost unheard of for an 18-year-old picked outside the top 10.
Really curious to see if he can make a Peterka-style jump, because his production was similar to Peterka's rookie year and his overall game more reliable than Peterka's rookie year.
I think Benson's "jump" will be in year 3 or 4. Likely when he's around 21.
I will not be surprised if he takes a backwards step next year and it won't worry me as I see a bright future. He might not. We shall see how he adjusts to what Ruff brings, but I am expecting a more structured style of play and young guys usually have some issues with that initially.
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2 hours ago, dudacek said:
At the risk of being told I don't want win, any trade where the 2 biggest pieces involved are Samuelsson and Laughton is a trade I don't want to make.
well idk. I'd actually like to see multiple deals to change this roster.
My mindset is in terms of restructuring the roster and getting players that play differently from what we have. Our roster imo is too slanted in one direction and it doesn't have the various parts that a winning NHL roster requires. We need to move pieces where we have surpluses and get pieces where we have deficiencies. The value and the winning the trade doesn't concern me much.
I'd like to hear actual trade ideas from people. Who do they want or think we could get and what would they give? It's easy to say "I want Skinner gone" (as I've said myself) but it's harder to make it happen. It's easy to say "we need" or "I want" but how and for who? What is everyone willing to actually do in concrete terms rather than vague wishes.
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2 hours ago, Brawndo said:
Evolving Hockey’s Model had Laughton in the one percentile for defensive metrics this past season.
Even on a bad team putting up that number in a Torts System is a major red flag.
Here’s Skinner Player Card for comparison
Okay, I will believe this. He looked decent in the Philly games I saw, but I didn't see that many.
Perhaps you're still left with the question though of did he get along with Torts or did he quit on him?
What I don't see on this site though is actual viable trade proposals. Everyone is just saying KA needs to make moves but what moves? That's the harder question.
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Canucks fans are crazy around here. They all seem to get in their cars and trucks and drive around aimlessly for an hour or so blasting their horns after every win.
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1 hour ago, dudacek said:
Do you think Samuelsson is a low price tag?
A 24-year-old 6’4” 230-pound defensively strong defenceman on a team that has no one else like that?
I didn't suggest a one for one. I said they might be the centerpieces of a larger trade involving picks/prospects players but in the end they'd get a D (which they need desperately) plus etc. and we'd get a 3C plus etc. The GMs can work out the equivalencies on how to make it "equal" or pleasing to each other.
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On 5/14/2024 at 12:21 PM, DarthEbriate said:
Hasn’t anyone mentioned Peca multiple times yet?
(It would be a title upgrade from being a bench assistant with the Rangers.)
I thought of Peca right away and I saw this question on twitter as well. Would it be an upgrade? Is head coach of an AHL team better than NHL assistant?
I suppose it might be as simple as the size of the pay cheque but idk.
But if he wanted it, yes, Peca in a heartbeat.
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1 minute ago, thewookie1 said:
His stats and general analytics are rather ugly and if I could find it those bar charts has him pure red
On a garbage team with bad linemates and expectations of being a 2C. I'm not sold on Laughton being all that and everything but if you want to add people you need to think of who might actually be a guy we could get as well as just wanting guys. There are better guys but with higher price tags and harder to get.
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1 hour ago, thewookie1 said:
Laughton is god awful man, he's fallen off a cliff over the past two years
I'm not sure about him but I disagree. Good on face offs, checks well, kills penalties. I think he'd be a good 3C.
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3 hours ago, dudacek said:
Right, but Detroit has done exactly what you wanted the Sabres to do: acquire veterans to teach and "block" and "win now" and "play the right way", and pick bigger 2-way guys instead smaller, skilled types.
The Wallinders and Kaspers and Velenos and Cossas and Edvissons and Berggrens have been playing in the minors or down the lineup while the Perrons and the Kanes and Sprongs and Petrys played in Detroit.
Over the past 2 years, each team has missed the playoffs by a single win, and the Sabres have outproduced the Wings by a measly 4 points.
Basically, there has been no meaningful short-term difference from either philosophy, so the difference will be measured in the long-term.
Will Detroit regret some of the long-term veteran contracts they've signed?
Will the Sabres regret the contracts they've given some unproven kids?
Will the prospects develop better being shielded and slow cooked, or force-fed NHL minutes?
I mean you're right, future moves might muddy the waters, but having the mirror image plan unfold at the same time in the same division will be fascinating.
Okay, you can look at it that way, I'm okay with that. So we shall see.
Not only did they do what I had advocated for the Sabres, they drafted the guy I wanted in Nate Danielson as well. If they pick Liam Greentree this year, which is a possibility I will be really pissed if those picks pan out in a few years.
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3 hours ago, Night Train said:
Carolina wants a game 7.
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4 hours ago, Flashsabre said:
Watching Power-Parayko play together for Canada at the Worlds is easy on the eyes😃
I think they need to find Power a defensive minded, physical dman partner. DeMelo, Tanev or Roy are ufas or find a trade partner.
Absolutely. Parayko is a guy several of us have been advocating we should try to get (along with Pesce as another similar). I'm a firm believer in the one offensive guy one defensive guy (in simplest terms) pairings on D. Samuelsson was supposed to give us that, maybe he still will, but I'd like another one brought in for sure.
5 minutes ago, thewookie1 said:Some suggested Kevin Hayes as a possible 3/4C for a couple years. I’m mixed on him. In St. L last year he certainly adopted a more defensive approach with more Dzone than Ozone starts and had a 56% FO. However he’s still making 2x3.75 and isn’t historically a great FO guy.
Big no to Kevin Hayes. Flyers fans I know absolutely hated him and Torts pointed at him as one of the top "subtractions" needed a year ago. He is notorious for taking nights off and slacking and that is the exact opposite of what we need.
If you want a forward like that I'd rather look at Domi or Bertuzzi as examples. Inconsistent as well but at least they give you grind and as Burke used to say "truculence".
I wonder if there's a Philly trade possible around Laughton and perhaps Samuelsson on our end with picks and other players/prospects each wants or doesn't? Remember his dad has history there and Flyers like to inbreed. Samuelsson can stay on IR there with Risto 🙂
Sign a free agent D man along with trading Samuelsson for Laughton, we are instantly better.
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3 hours ago, thewookie1 said:
I give him credit for admitting it.
This is what I mean about Boston culture and is what I wish would come to the Sabres. It's always accountable. It's never whiney or shrugs of idk and it never turns on the fans. It's always personal responsibility in all facets. "I have to be better" and "we have to be better" is the only mantra when they lose. Sabres need this.
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3 hours ago, dudacek said:
The fact that Ruff signed for 2 years to work in Buffalo when he could have collected millions from NJ to do nothing is evidence the bold is not the case.
It will be interesting to watch over the next 5 years if the Wings were short-term gain for long-term pain, or we were.
The starting points were similar. The Copp, Chairot and Compher contracts were exactly the things Adams refused to do.
On Ruff, I certainly hope so. I imagine Lindy also has a big ego (that's not an insult, it's just saying he believes in himself) and he firmly believes he can be the guy to save Buffalo and thus become a legend and hero forever in the community. If Lindy succeeds this time I suspect he will have a place in this organization until he dies even if it's just honorary.
As for Detroit, I'd be surprised if Yzerman stands pat with what he has so it'll be hard to compare everything. He will be making moves which may be good or bad who knows. Remains to be seen if Adams will make big moves or stand (relatively) pat.
I personally do not think the current roster (plus prospects) gets us in the playoffs even with Ruff as coach. So for me, the ball is in Adams court. July will be here sooner than we think.
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3 hours ago, JoeSchmoe said:
Everything you're saying is predicated upon thinking there's a unicorn that gets you 100% face-off winning percentage at key times in a game.
ROR's career average is 55.7%. Sending him out there in crunch time gives you a 5.7% better chance of winning the puck vs the league average guy. You'll take that chance every time, but realistically it's not that much.
EDIT- at key times, the other team is probably going to send out their top guy too. So if their guy is a career 53% guy, you'll win about 3 more faceoffs out of a 100 with ROR.
See you are buried in stats and not the reality of the game. A player is just like the team stats and when and at what time matters. You need the stats on ROR's win percentage in key moments, not all time. Beginning of a game, center ice ROR puts his stick down and whatever. End of a game he bears down and gives it his all and then what happens matters.
Now maybe if you dug deep you'd find he's not that much better at that time idk for sure, but watching games over the years I see those top notch faceoff guys winning the big ones more often than not. Not everything in a game is equal and not every moment. This is where stats fall apart unless they are very detailed and broken down to all moments, which generally we don't have access to, although I assume teams have guys running them and keeping track. I assume.
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Craft breweries in Canada like to play around with Maple Syrup. They're not terrible but they taste pretty weird (the ones I've sampled anyway).
I think overall fruity beers are all designed to just cover up the bitterness of the hops.
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2 hours ago, JoeSchmoe said:
The issue is that the difference between a good face-off team and a bad one is pretty small.
The very BEST teams in the league will win about 1 more face-off out of 10 vs the very WORST teams.
If there was a way to win 100% of face-offs you could really make a difference. But the reality is A VERY GOOD FACE-OFF TEAM WILL WIN ABOUT 3 MORE FACE-OFFS OUT OF 100 VS AN AVERAGE FACE-OFF TEAM. The advantages of this is pretty negligible compared to going out and getting better players that score more.
(sigh) Okay but that's the trouble with stats. This overall averaging pile of numbers blurs the realities of the situation.
Face offs are a situational play. They are at times a key situational play that can change a game's outcome.
It's not about how many face offs you won all year or even all through a game, it's if you won key face offs at key moments.
Examples, you get a PP 20 seconds before a period ends, winning that face off matters a lot. There's a minute to go and you pull the goalie, winning that face off matters a lot. Same in the reverse on the defensive side. You can kill the clock, end the game, take away a final scoring chance, get an empty netter. It all matters a lot.
If you want to hyper analyze stats and look at things like percentages when down a goal (or up a goal) in the final minutes with a goalie pulled or other key moments, then you might have something to look at. But just looking at the league and which team won more faceoffs over the year is pretty meaningless because the overall differences are only a few points around that 50/50 mark. It's not about how many faceoffs you win it's about winning the important ones at the important times. That's when teams send out their RORs or whoever is their top faceoff guy. We don't have one.
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3 hours ago, Pimlach said:
Yzermann in Detroit has been trying a different approach than Adams. Yzerman has not had great results yet either, but he is a bit closer than Adams.
After stockpiling picks and acquiring some good young players (like Adams did), Yzermann then added decent goaltending (Husso and Lyon) plus many veterans with some tread on the tires (Perron, Fabbri, Copp, Sprong, Compher, Brindicat, Chiarot, Gostisbehere, Petry, etc). Contrast this list to Sabres who shopped in the $700K bargain bin to prevent blockers.
The results are that Detroit is only 7 points better, and they missed the playoffs once again due to a late season slump, and a tie breaker. But more important, not all the pressure is on Larkin, Raymond, and Seider to carry the team - which they are doing anyway.
I like Buffalo's young players better than Detroit's, Buffalo has more good looking young players, but Buffalo's overall mix is way wrong and has been for the past few seasons. Players like Perron, Sprong, Compher, Copp are so much harder to play against than Borg, Jost, Robinson, Olofsson, etc.
Kane's decision to go to Detroit over home town Buffalo says about what players around the league think.
Hoping that Ruff's presence can help Adams to upgrade about 5-6 spots on the current roster. The team needs to get past their ~24 average age and join the NHL, were most teams average age is between 28-29 years old.
I am so dam tired of watching boys against men.
Adams so far is not helping his Core, and bringing in more 20-21 years olds is not helping them either.
I agree in general but there's a few points I differ on.
First, yes, Yzerman went a different way (and was mocked on this board as having lost it if you remember) but Detroit did improve and they went from behind us to ahead of us and almost made the playoffs. The young guys there are learning from the veterans Yzerman brought in. We shall see if it lasts or has a lasting impact.
I disagree on the Kane thing though. We focus in on the "from Buffalo" thing but Detroit was closer to his Chicago area home and the logic to his decision might be simpler than we think. Detroit may have also offered him more money. It could be that simple and have nothing to do with the Buffalo perceptions.
But we absolutely do need veterans and leaders, pros, and Adams definitely has to give Ruff the tools he needs.
I am expecting a team that looks quite different next year. If it starts the season with the same basic lines and pairings and few if any additions I will start to think Ruff is just going through the motions to pad his retirement and all hope might be lost.
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4 hours ago, Taro T said:
Am perfectly fine with Johnson starting the year in Ra-cha-cha if he doesn't crack the top 6, and personally have him at 7. Pretty sure Ruff typically ran 8 D on the roster, so that's where the expectation was that Johnson will be up with the big club.
Am also perfectly fine with them having the 9, whether it be Clague or some other tweener brought in primarily to help with the Amerks or should there be several D out, be the one in Buffalo sitting while Johnson is playing in Ra-cha-cha. But, realistically, there are going to be D getting injured, and expect that Johnson (especially now with a season of pro hockey under his belt) will be better than Bryson. So, he'll be in the lineup quite a bit and he'll be earning an NHL salary quite a bit. Will be mildly surprised if he gets less than 50 games total this year because the only way that happens if if the D stay crazy healthy this year, Bryson is as good as he was 3 years ago, or Johnson regresses significantly. None of which seem overly likely.
Johnson is a potential injury call up for sure. Up and down from Rochester is the way it should be and probably will be. He's in the mix. I just hope he keeps working and improving and has to earn his spot competitively.
I doubt Ruff has 8 D up in Buffalo all year. If he had that in New Jersey I imagine it was because of the Dougie Hamilton injury and he wasn't set on who the replacement was. Also one of their D is a tough guy/fighter I think so he'd not be an every gamer either.
Lindy Ruff officially hired as Sabres HC
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That's funny, but also kind of weird.
Now can we somehow factor in how much Ted Nolan is loved in Latvia?