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Maybe. Keep in mind I'm not questioning his skill. Just how that will translate to the NHL with his size.

Well it's kind of true for all hockey teams but what I think is really missing from this team is a constant aggressive forecheck. It's pretty clear that we have no plans to play shut down hockey and tight defense. Our defense is based on the idea of getting it out of our end quickly and then possessing the puck down the ice. Best defense is a good offense kind of simplification That's clear, and it's also clear that what it leads to is possession around the wall with low danger scoring chances and when we don't have the puck in our own end we often crumble and look disorganized. We flounder. We don't box out well and net front kills us. With the style they want to develop the missing ingredient is the heavy forecheck. That includes finishing checks, hitting their D, puck battles, tenacity. Knocking them off the puck. Hurrying them. Creating that same sort of mess and confusion in their end. Florida style. If we added this to the current system we might be on to something. At the very least it would be far more exciting and fun to watch but I think with the skill players we have they could cash in heavily on that chaos, much like Reinhart is in Florida. We really have to decide and go with it. Either tighten up and back check. 1-2-2 or 1-3-1 OR turn that around and go all out 2-1-2 or 2-2-1. With the speed and size we have I really think the latter could work, but it would take an added element of physicality that we don't have at this point or at least don't use.

Whichever guy we trade away.

Well, no doubt the fanbase is broken, hardly surprising right? But to the point, I disagree. You simply do NOT have to "win the trade" , you just have to get the thing you need/want that makes your roster better. Fills a hole. We can afford to trade a more talented (for lack of a better word) player(s) to get the player(s) with the right skill sets we need. It's the whole roster that matters, not what any one individual player brings. It's how the roles on that roster are filled and that might take "losing" a few trades to get what we need. I think this is why VO never got moved and now his value has dropped. KA wanted to "win the trade" and that just wasn't going to happen for a one dimensional player like VO.

Then this would be for Pegula

Ya, it's all negotiated and mandated and that is the way it is. The time for running them through it and setting the (higher) level of expectation was training camp. Granato instead, coddled them, told them all how great they were, and just got through it as if it didn't matter. They were just one point out. No need to change anything right?

I know you are being sarcastic/snipey but I simply see more potential in Kulich than I do in the other 3 mentioned. That's all. They could ALL bust and they could surprise but that's my current assessment.

Yes of course, but then we'd end up with threads on measuring techniques, over vs. under, and length vs. girth, not to mention the analytics crowd taking over with graphs and charts on size vs. efficacy and performance levels in "high danger" areas.

5'11 and a very slight 163 lbs. Watching him at the Worlds I thought he was very fast and very talented but he is incredibly slight of frame and looked small even among these other pre-NHLers. I don't see it working. It's possible, but I just don't think so. Kulich I do think can still become an NHL sniper but he has work to do. For the right deal though I'd trade any of them.

Except there won't be without some moves or signings. The guys in the system might have talent, but they are either not ready or do not fill the holes on the roster we have. Next year will be the same again without some big changes.

We should have just taken Mintyukov instead of Savoie (and then Snuggerud instead of Östlund but that's a different topic). The guy I really liked at the time was McGroarty, but that was probably never in the cards in terms of rankings. Not taking Warren in the second round was just plain dumb. To move up to Jiricek though idk. Probably more than would have seemed like a good idea at the time.

Couturier is very good BUT the injury would worry me. Don't see him leaving the Flyers though. I think Lindholm will end up in Boston next year via free agency. They might go a different route, but next year their cap changes significantly and he'd fit that system. There are many options but I'd also actually see if Ottawa wants to unload Pinto . I think he could be an ideal 3C and Thompson I'd then trade for the D man and/or goalie. Not exactly a veteran and yes, a bit of a gamble - barump bump.

I've been trying to tell you guys for ages all these numbers don't matter. Points don't matter. Just look at Pts percentage for your playoff chances. Only number that matters. With this run we have managed to catch Montreal. So now with this run only 6 teams are ahead of us for the wildcard spots, not 7. No chance. league wide we are 8th for the draft unless we win a lottery. We are basically the same as always.

Except Lindholm's a free agent this year. Like all trades, what you get back is what matters. I'm not trading him for picks. I'm trading him for DIFFERENT player(s). A real hockey deal (rare I know, but not impossible).

That's why he's a very tradeable commodity. Sell while he's still high value.

This is what I would do instead. Mitts-Greenway-Tuch Quinn-Cozens-Peterka Benson-Vet 3C - Vet winger Big guy - Krebs - tough guy Power-Dahlin Joker but preferably big vet D - Mule RJ - Clifton Veteran goalie UPL back up So trading Thompson and buying out Skinner and not re-signing Girgs or Kyle. Robinson couldn't care less either way. Crazy right? Like a fox.

lunch pal? Maybe that's why we suck. Did wrong by a good guy. I liked Ted. Sabres treated him like s%%t. No denying that. and thanks for calling me a "southie" and a "lunch pal guy" like it's an insult. Now go F yourself you elitist piece of crap.

Really? I mean I was joking but what's with the Nolan hate? Worse than Kreuger? Come on, Kreuger HAS to be the worst hire ever. Ted was coach of the year and he deserved it. Then we screwed him over and the rumors ran rampant. The return? Well that was Murray screwing him over yet again. I mean the audacity of a guy trying to win games when the GM was tanking. Had to get rid of every single goalie to stop him. Murray's the worst GM ever. Kreuger's the worst coach ever.

They are not "slow" but they have a tendency to stop skating, stand around, quit on plays, watch. When they "keep moving their feet" as Ray likes to say often they are not a slow team at all. Quite the reverse. The rhetoric said we want to be Carolina, but for that we need a fast aggressive forecheck, and that is still absent.

So what you're saying is a team that bad had very little chance of having a 4 game win streak right? 🙂

idk but I think Ted Nolan's available . 🙂 Lindy's getting a bit too old imo. Better than Granato, but I want (and likely won't get) Gallant. Now hiring Lindy as a Senior Advisor above Adams, now that might be an interesting move. Which again, will not happen.

Well they beat the toothless Sharks, as they should, but I do not think there was anything there that makes you think they will move out of what I would call the third tier of the nhl (teams that are better than bottom feeders/tankers but not good enough to make the playoffs). Tuch, Greenway, Mitts played the game like a proper NHL line. Cozens, Quinn, Peterka, had solid moments and were rewarded, The top (?) line was garbage. and Bryson? lol, why is he here? just WHY?

Nope. Not everyone. Don't hate him, but don't think he's all that either. Not yet anyway. He still has upside though.

Blame Jost lol, that's too funny. Since the tweet is on to the absurd how about this instead. It was because of the call up time. They got one look at what playing for the Sabres was like and decided F this, why am I trying to make that team? Cut me so I can go elsewhere. Now there's a theory for you lol.