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Krebs isn't exactly going to be a "kid" in 1-2 years. imo Krebs will never make it as the kind of center he was in junior. He either learns and develops into a good role player or he will be an AHL perennial. all we need is............that's actually quite a lot and are the very things I identified back in free agency. Those are the holes we didn't fill, and they are big holes.

Garbage - meh - and future Swiss league superstar. Sure, why not.

To the first bolded comment, of course I give him time. No GM should be judged until his draft choices show themselves to be good ones or crap ones. Anything less than 3 years on a GM is unfair. My main point is this (as clear and simples as I can put it). The deconstruction was necessary. he did it. Check. BUT the rebuild does not have to be just the draft and a spendthrift multi year plan just to compete. imo they (intentionally?) squandered an opportunity to be better and actually compete this year and not just be a learning/training camp for the future. I fully expect after this year, sometime before next year, they will make statements that "this is the year" and they will try to compete for the playoffs properly next year. At least I hope so. To the second bolded line, Mitts and VO really cannot play in the NHL.

You can try it, but it's not really any different.

Can you access the old threads from years ago when Mitts first joined the Sabres? If so you'll find it. If you expect me to try to find that, well sorry, I have a life. Not an especially busy one, but busy enough not to try to do that. Exactly. Which is my point. You just argued what I've been saying all along. Prospects are just prospects.

Yes they did, but it's not major.

Oh FFS, spare me the "it's not a fantasy world" crap. I didn't blame KA for what came before, I blame him for not doing something to plug the holes created in the teardown. Like goaltending. He botched it. The next year he still didn't fix it. That's on him 100%, as is the total lack of depth. There have been players available before Jost that were upgrades on the D and bottom six. We should have never been in a situation where Clague and Pilut were the only options. I didn't say STARDOM. I guess the like Marchand comment confused you but the talk at the time was we need our own rat. That side of Marchand, not his offensive prowess. I guess I should have said Barnaby.

It is, but there is no viable 3rd line alternative. Whatever you cobble together with the current bottom 6 will be either two bad lines or one bad line and an okay line but nobody to make a good line.

Nobody's suggesting you get the HOF goalie right away . Just a reliable and competent goalie to plug that hole and give you a chance to win every night until your prospect goalie(s) are ready to take over. The Vaneceks and Georgievs and so forth. (wasn't stardom for Pekar but many saw him as the pesky third line role player. Marchand upside or even just Gourde and so forth. That kind of guy. The team was soft (as it still is but not quite as much) and the hope was he might fill the void) Yes, they did. but it doesn't matter.

Yes exactly, as I outlined elsewhere. Some people wipe the slate clean with KA. Some do not. I do not. Sabres have sucked for a really long time and it's all The Sabres to me. No forgiveness for that. It's the team's fault they've had a bunch of dud GMs and coaches. Draw the line at the Pegula purchase perhaps.

We shall see. At this point, they seem cocky, but not really snarly. Too soon to tell.

No, theoretically he passes the torch to the kid you draft (like Levi) but he is the bridge between now and then so that the team can be a winning team. You always want to have a young goalie pushing for ice time against the veteran and eventually taking it.

I'm not going to argue that. I did say Power is good and who is better isn't determined - yet. D men develop slower almost always. In terms of what the team needs, well if you drafted Beniers you have to draft differently. maybe you don't pick Savoie, maybe you take a D man in the high second. I wanted them to anyway and still think they don't have enough D prospects at this time.

Aaron Dell lmfao. I think my favourite moment of this game was after Peterka's goal when Dell looks down and seems to chastise his glove, like it was the glove's fault. Too funny. Sharks are really bad Cozens is really good. Regardless of whatever else happens this season it appears to be Cozens coming out year.

Myers waived by Tampa. Not spectacular but I think also an upgrade over some of what we have but whatever, KA will do nothing.

Yes, it is the rule bending conditioning stint loophole. The rumour is the plan is to play those games and then go play in the Worlds and after that they will decide if he goes back to Seattle or junior.

So do you think it's Power?

What does this mean? Better question, do you think the way the Sabres are doing it is right? Or would you prefer the way the kraken are doing it? Or a middle variant? Oh ya, there was definitely very high hopes for Pekar. He was going to be our grit and sandpaper guy and Marchand was mentioned by a few. The how will we pay Mitts thing was real too. A lot of over zealous exuberance for sure. The point I'm simply making though is prospects are just prospects and one cannot assume they will be anything at the NHL level - until they are.

As I said, they took a different path. So far, they are winning so their path seems better regardless of how you or I evaluate different players. They compete harder imo. They focused on character players and building solid 3rd and 4th units. They are a much harder to play against team.

Remains to be seen. The cupboard was "full" before too, or so they said. Remember when everybody was pondering how they would afford to pay Mitts 10 million a year when they already would have to pay Skinner Eichel and Reinhart around 30? Remember those conversations? People here were serious. Mitts was going to need 8 figures lmfao. Remember when Pekar was going to be our Marchand? Remember Bailey and Baptiste? So Hi back to them, now SHOW ME.

Yes, and I advocated for the tear down and agreed with it, but the rebuild I have issues with. imo they are making big mistakes. First step of a rebuild imo is shore up your goaltending. You go on from there.

That's very nice of them, but isn't it their job to rectify that situation or not let it even be a situation? We are a cap floor team after all.

Okay, sort of a middle ground position. I can accept that view. Makes ti harder to know where people stand but it's a reasonable way of looking at it. If that's your view I think I'd probably still see you as an optimist though.

"blew" was too strong a word, that's fair. My point is simply that despite having the #1 pick, we may have not drafted the #1 player. Power may still be that guy, but right now Beniers is way ahead. We have a history of doing that. Not getting the best guy at the time and sometimes really missing badly like Nylander.