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Well, you have to give credit to the Flyers as an organization for keeping this pretty quiet and then trading him at peak value (after a good Worlds) for a prospect. Culture rebuilding has been more important there than catering to some kid with an ego. I'm with Torts, I wouldn't want a guy who doesn't want to be there either. Drysdale's definitely modern era D. Not sure he's Torts' D though.

After a slow start to this season Kraken are back to playing the way they did last year which gave the Sabres a lot of trouble as they can and do match our speed but with a more aggressive and grittier approach. Should be a high energy game if we play well but with this team who knows.

Depends on what their plan is for next year. If he's slotted to be a 4th liner then move him for a good offer. A 3m pending ufa on the 4th line would be dumb. Is he? When did he do this I don't recall? I'm not as impressed with Greenway as some of you are so I'd be fine to move him if we get more than we paid for him. Again, it depends on what the plan is and what they plan to do in free agency next year. Vancouver is thinking playoffs and wants to be able to match L.A. more in size so they might overpay.

All this off of ONE decent game where he made some saves? UPL has a .899 save percentage. That is not good enough if you want playoffs. https://www.quanthockey.com/nhl/seasons/nhl-goalies-stats.html

Why yes, yes it is.

An enigma.

Get out of this thread ya puppy! 🙂 But you are right, that does explain most of my typos.

He makes close to 5 million dollars a year. Maybe more if he has endorsements or owns side businesses. Do you honestly believe he gets up in the night to change nappies? He looks like a hockey player. You guys just aren't used to it with this team. They should ALL look like that at this time of the year.

64. I'm winning(?)

Definitely not the game I expected to see tonight. UPL? I mean he's had good games in the past. He's incredibly inconsistent. This time he was pretty good. tbh Pittsburgh looked a lot flatter than they did against Boston the other night but there was some solid play by the Sabres at times. Overall low event game though. Didn't come off as two teams wanting to get into the playoffs but you can't complain. They found a way. Refs sucked but I think both fanbases would say that. The goaltender interference call was weak and so was the 2 penalties at once so I think it evens out. Okay, surprise me next game Sabres. You're a team I definitely do not understand.

doubtful

They are weak defensively. We can score goals against them. They are strong attacking the net. They can score goals on us. Might come down to goaltending. Toss a coin.

If it had timed out differently they might have claimed Jost. Give them VO for future considerations. and why not? There's no rule that says "oh hey, take it easy on this guy he's young and not that physically developed yet". You stick kids in the line up these things will happen. You take that physicality out of hockey the game is ruined.

It was a clean hit. You want to bring kids in to play with men these things will happen. You want figure skating, go watch that.

Who?

Both of these things are true. He's not having an elite season imo and if they didn't have to take a guy from every team I don't think any Sabre would be on it.

I'm sorry but I just won't get excited about AHL or KHL prospects until I see them play in the NHL. I kept hearing about how good Rosen looked in Rochester. With the Sabres I thought he was far from ready and looked like a never be ready at this point. I've heard this prospect talk far too many times. If some of these guys make it great, problem solved, but I'm not counting them until they hatch.

I like the idea, but I think you may be jumping the gun and over valuing these prospects and their timelines. We shall see in time.

Figured that would happen at some point this year. Surprised it was Jersey.

He looked bigger at that level. He won't look bigger in the NHL. More problematic is Östlund, for all his skill, looked smaller. He is a true lightweight. I don't see him surviving. Two years running we had a smaller skilled forward drop because of their size and so we grabbed him. We can't do that again even if it happens.

I see @SDS gave you the old eye roll but you're not all wrong. There's quite a few people here that have commented on how we have too many of the same guy and too many small fast guys and not enough tougher two way guys. It's an obvious fact. There also aren't enough D men in the system. We've reached on some lower picks and if any of them develop that's fine but now that Johnson is (sort of) on the roster there's nothing in the pipeline pressing to come through on D. It's a problem. Even if a Savoie (as an example) is worthy, there's no spot for him. We already have that guy. I guess you can say Kulich bumps Olofsson off the roster next year (maybe) but so what? Won't change a thing. No hockey tonight and so I'm watching Shorsey. "One top scoring line surrounded by tough natives, never lose again" Dumb, probably racist, but not all wrong. "The kids don't hate to lose" . There is wisdom there too.

Kulich named an allstar

Can we vote for John Scott instead?

Leonard just bulled his way past Östlund to pretty much end it and now the empty net does, A lot of players on this U.S. squad will be solid NHLers. Overall Östlund was good in this tournament but he's really small and he will struggle to make it to the NHL imo. Kulich was also very good and with his shot I give him a better chance. Neither one is really any different than what we already have though.

True, Penguins gave the Bruins a lot of trouble in front of the net so we will be in trouble there if they play the same. If we play well it's likely a high scoring game. If we play poorly they will blow us out. We have skilled players who are capable of scoring goals at any moment, even when we play iffy, but the team play as a whole wasn't all that great even though we beat Montreal bad. They were bad.