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idk I haven't followed them closely this year. I think he was called up by the Kraken recently for a late season look now that they are out of it but not sure. I looked him up 43 pts. in 56 games for the Firebirds. Is that good for AHL? I guess it's okay. I don't really follow AHL hockey so not sure. They have 4 other guys with higher point totals and their leading scorer is Kole Lind with 62.

lol, don't blame me for the predicament this team has placed itself in. Season isn't hanging by a thread. It was over weeks ago. Not mathematically, but realistically.

Definitely, a situation where guys in Rochester are fighting for NHL spots would be great. Likewise it would be great if guys on the roster were fighting to stay on the roster from that same sort of pressure. None of the prospects that have come up so far have overly impressed though. RJ has potential but he's just a greener version of what we already have. None of the other brief visits impressed. (I'm not counting Levi since the goaltending thing is a messed up separate discussion) If we become a cap ceiling team rookie contracts will be important as they are for anybody as will cheap 4th line deals and veteran depth players on cheap deals but we are far from that point. All GMs have to balance incoming contracts against expiring ones and the circle of life continues but that worry is not today's worry for me.

and I hope you realize Detroit plays Washington and Pittsburgh in their next two games so there is virtually no math through that.

A little late for an April Fool's Day thread.

I have no idea where Dallas is at philosophically right now but unless their coach is an idiot they are likely in playoff prep mode so they will be playing defense first shutdown hockey. We will not do well against that, but I guess it's also possible they come in napping and not taking us seriously and we play loose and beat them. Meaningless really, and I probably watch this one late on replay.

That's the reverse logic so I assume you're trying to be funny or take a shot but the point holds. There are lots of first round picks who never become what they were projected to be. Wright might still become a decent player but he's a disappointment at this stage. The thing is if you are going to trade prospects you have to move them at a point where the other team still thinks they have high end value. You have to make that decision when you think they might not be that guy or not as good as you hoped but also not seen as a bust yet by the other guy. It's tricky and as a fan I get you never want to lose a potentially good player. But I don't want another season of "look at all these guys we have coming in the future". I want a team on the ice that can make the playoffs and win in the playoffs. To get there we need to let a few prospects go and take our chances on that. The roster does not have a good veteran mix. It lacks leadership. It's a ship with no captain and it has leaks. I don't even want a draft pick this year. Trade it. I'm really tired of "next year".

No, I just can't agree with this. I am not following football really but I think I would say yes, he is Diggs. Antonio Brown maybe to go back a bit to when I followed it more. I firmly believe his locker room presence is a problem and he has a negative influence on the youngsters coming in. You could maybe limit that if half your locker room was Foligno type work ethic veterans and pros but in a room filled with kids it's a huge problem. This has always been the problem with the Sabres imo. They tanked but they did not build the culture first. They went for the star power and the talent but without the culture and thus the (lack of) results. The idea now of building a culture collectively together is just dumbass imo. On the Skinner Carolina thing that's all chicken egg and doesn't really matter. Thing is they changed the culture and brought in a coach who knows how things need to be to win and part of that culture change involved getting rid of Skinner. If Adams is in fact trying to follow the Carolina model (as has been suggested in the past) he's getting it quite wrong.

Best plan for no name change. Utah 'yotes has a ring to it.

No, this is different. Again, go ask Brind'Amour. Consider how Carolina got a lot better after ditching him. He "produced" for them too. It was the one thing Kreuger was right about.

They won't, but I wish they'd put them in Quebec City. The old Montreal Quebec rivalry was great entertainment.

Price we pay for basically no winter. Summers are dry and sunny and quite long but usually not too hot so it balances out. The ocean breeze can be like outdoor AC.

I don't agree with this. I personally have thought, and continue to think, that removing Skinner is the only major move we need to make aside from getting a new coach. Yes, we could use some other key players, but removing Skinner matters more. Just ask Brind'Amour if you don't believe me. As for Benson, we over used him. He's a rookie. I see a ton of upside but he has a lot to learn. We couldn't send him to junior, that was pointless, but I think he should have only played about 2/3 of the games he did and he should have had less ice time and probably more one on one coaching. I'm hoping we get a better coach and in time Benson will become a stud.

Pretty sad out here on the west coast. Rainy gray day, didn't even change the darkness level. Just another gray day.

Have you also counted all his giveaways and missed (or rather in his case the right word might be declined or avoided) checks?

Yup. Big hole at center now. Doubt they fix it but we shall see. The suggested line up at the top will not get us any closer to the playoffs. Might take us further away. I mean Girgs? Girgs? Re-signing Girgs? f me.

First couple games he was loose and free and playing wide open. They had him in that PP spot as well. Like an adrenalin rush. Then it's back to the routine and learning what the coach wants and this coach don't know what he wants on D but overall like you say, back to normal.

You also have to factor in that if the opponent gets up early they often take the foot off the gas so our game gets "better" as a result of that as well. The book was written early in the season - get an early lead and then shut 'em down for a relatively easy win. It has backfired on a few as we had a few comebacks but overall games are over or near over after the first. It's on the coaching and the type of team we have built. We do not have a hard working earn every opportunity kind of team. We have a high end talent team that has a tendency to do the minimum required. We underachieve and we definitely lack in the work ethic department.

Kulich is an unproven prospect. He's of no value until he is (in the NHL) Levi has promise but is not NHL ready. Will he be? Maybe. Maybe not. Tuch is fine. Inconsistent, but a decent 2nd or 3rd line winger (he is not really a top line guy and Sabres ask too much of him imo) Krebs is a marginal NHLer. Virtually no value imo. Östlund like Kulich has no value until he does. I really don't like his size and question if he can ever play in the NHL. Greenway is a weird guy. idk if his heart isn't in it. Maybe he is good at hockey but doesn't really like hockey? idk but he puzzles me. At moment he looks like a solid power forward, at other moments he is a nasty bottom ender, at others he seems completely unengaged and just floats. I can't figure him out and I guess that's why Minnesota gave up on him. I'm not sure how he affects the locker room (if at all) but he has inconsistency issues to say the least. But a 2nd is no big deal there. meanwhile Reinhart scores buckets of goals for Florida and Eichel wins a cup, so go on believing we won those trades if you want to. The Risto trade can't be used to judge anything. Adams did good there since we'd broken Risto big time and Fletcher was an idiot. You get a steal now and again. We won that one for sure. BUT, it also does mean that we never replaced him with a solid defensive D man. We need that guy. Samuelsson appears to be too fragile for that role. So again, no, Parayko isn't WORTH that, but I'd still do it if that's what it took because we would be that much better and better NOW not in 5 years. If you can get a Pesce or someone in free agency even better, but we don't have a history of doing that so a trade seems the only way we get better without waiting longer. Heck if we overpay for Parayko with nothing from the roster then we can maybe flip Samuelsson over to Philly for a different first rounder since they like to do that sort of thing and we can burn them again. They might want that for the familial connection. We have a losing team that is constructed poorly. There is pretty much nobody or nothing we have that I wouldn't consider in trade scenarios to change the make up and look of this team. Staying the course just won't get it done (at least for several years).

Well first off, although they were picked in the first round, that doesn't mean they have that value now. You can pick wrong. But that's a different argument. At the moment they are not on our roster. Is Parayko worth 3 first rounders? No, he's not. But would Parayko make our D a whole lot better absolutely, so I'm willing to over pay. If Savoie is just another Nylander (ours not the Leafs) it's not an overpay. If he's better it is an overpay but if we win and make the playoffs I don't care how good he is for them, cause we are a playoff team again. If we can get a guy like that for less great. We probably should have tried to get Peeke off Columbus (cause he's been a physical shot blocking machine for Boston so far) for next to nothing or some other defenders but status quo just won't get it done. We do not have those guys and we need them. Back to Tkachuk though, he's definitely worth that package if not more. Good NHL players are good NHL players and they are hard to just get. You can see with Eichel and Reinhart we LOST those trades. It's time we became that team that dumps picks and prospects for true NHL players instead of just being a farm team for others.

No not misread. I looked at both trades, Parayko and Tkachuk. The thread title is about Tkachuk after all.

Probably true - unless your post goads him into it. Always people who prefer to critique the posters rather than the team that is their true source of frustration. Always easy to give out some version of "you're an idiot" electronically. The bottom line I'm getting at, if it wasn't obvious, is the team needs change and improvement. I'd be willing to do whatever it takes to make that happen for next year. If it's true that free agents won't come here it's even more urgent to make a trade happen with whatever it takes. Tkachuk's are leaders. Brady is a punk, but he's a talented punk and he'd change the culture with his level of compete. The team has a lot of needs, but guys with high compete levels are the key above all else. It would be infectious.

You don't like winning? In all seriousness, you wouldn't consider overpays now? You wouldn't move non roster players to make the on ice team better? You just want to believe and keep waiting? What would you do differently?

It's an overpay but maybe it's an overpay I'd make because it would make the current NHL roster better right away. I think it's time to consider one or more overpay deals to make the on ice team better as we have lots of assets around the edges to use. I would definitely trade those 3 things for Tkachuk and then I'd name him captain when he got off the plane. For Tkachuk I'd consider it. I would however offer Byram, Kulich and Savoie and or a 1st rounder first. The more I see of Byram the less I like him. Power still has more upside and now he will look like a hockey player after the puck in the mouth 🙂

idk but I heard Ru Paul is becoming the new frakking king (queen?) I kid you not. Maybe he/she could buy the Sabres.