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Salary cap. Lots of teams would like to add him, but few contenders have any cap space at all. The number of landing spots was small I think.

I guess my name is Nobody cause I've been talking about it since I got here many years ago. There are a few who agree as well. Krebs looked in over his head there and for a second I thought he was going to turtle. I swear he definitely flinched when the bigger St. Louis guy (Tucker?) gave him the shove and the stare. Krebs between two tough guys might work as a 4th line. Krebs on his own is a minor irritant to some teams and he's going to get destroyed if he makes somebody tough truly mad. Any time toughness tries to emerge on this team it heads back into retreat when the player involved gets no support. Pegula don't like that type of hockey. I stand by that claim.

People still use Reddit? who knew.

He has a habit of dropping down and missing those high shoulder shots. It's a consistent flaw and when exploited he looks really bad.

Well there ya go. Offense pretty good. Defense a pile of crap. That's pretty much on brand for this current team. (and that's team defense, not just defensemen) No Clifton to blame this time so enjoy dumping on Power and UPL or whoever. It makes no difference. Nothing will change.

I suppose Clifton demonstrates how important team structure and the defensive play of forwards is to the success of the team and individual players on it. One affects the other. In the system he came from, his flaws were minimized, covered up for, and he thrived. It allowed him to hit a lot and play aggressively. In this system (?) his flaws are exposed and he doesn't get much support and so he flounders. I saw Risto the other night in a Philly game. They have him as 6D and they have kept it simple for him. He stays in his lane, drops back quick and still hits like a ton of bricks. Seems to be working in that somewhat limited capacity. I think Clifton's case has similarities. Now to the game, are the Blues any good? Are they not in a bit of a tear down rebuild? I think you have to win these games to have a shot that's for sure.

Have to be glad Detroit didn't get a loser point. Kane apparently planning on playing in about 2 weeks. That's a surprise if true.

Oh it's a temp thing got it. So they'd have to get Montreal to move their team back to Quebec. Guess that's unlikely.

.500 isn't even close to making it in this division/conference. Isn't the stats thing if you're not in the playoffs at American Thanksgiving your odds are like less than 20%? Something like that.

Does St. Catherines have an arena? I only mentioned Hamilton because I know they have a decent arena looking for a main tenant. Not sure why the Bulldogs left it though. There might be an issue I'm not aware of. Are AHL facilities good? idk I live in Abbotsford BC and we have the baby Canucks. It's a 7000 seat arena. Nothing special but not terrible. It's up by the University so they use Uni parking lots in the evenings. It gets pretty jammed up for bigger events though. "The arena has a capacity of 7,000 seats for hockey with room for expansion to 8,500. There are 300 club seats, 15 boxes, 20 private suites, and 2 party suites." (according to wikipedia). No idea how that would compare to Rochester. I don't think the border would be an issue. It'll only close if there's another pandemic and then hockey pretty much closes as well or I guess if somebody launches their car into a fireball but since that just happened what are the odds it happens again soon?

Hamiltonians tend to be Leaf or Montreal fans because of original 6 Canadian content. The AHL Bulldogs who were in Hamilton were Montreal affiliated. Hamilton however, also has a fair bit of anti-Toronto sentiment. It's a bit like a New Jersey vs. New York kind of thing. When you grow up in Hamilton on a clear day you can see Toronto across the lake and you kind of hate them for having everything when you're stuck in the working class s$$thole. After they built their arena and the Tim Horton's guy tried to get them an NHL franchise they had a couple games there to showcase the NHL. I saw the Sabres vs. Canucks there. Unfortunately the Sabres sucked that night and it was a bad game. Anyway, it'd probably be better than Rochester. Mind you I don't know much about Rochester. Been through it a few times many years ago. Went to House Of Guitars. Hung out with the Chesterfield Kings. I remember driving by the Kodak plant. I'd guess that's all gone now. It was years and years ago.

What about Hamilton? Didn't they upgrade their arena but don't have an AHL team? Less than an hour away.

Hmmm, seems to me you were all in with them when they made a big deal about Tuch but whatever, you can change your ###### stance whenever you want, it's allowed, it's just the internet.

Because they know he will be back as soon as Comrie gets hurt, so next week probably.

You demand this level of play on a nightly basis as a standard, and not just on response nights after clunkers. The country club door has to stay locked and the fun first attitude has to go out the window. Raise the bar of expectation. It's on the coaches and then the leadership down. Accountability and a consistent work ethic, simple as that.

I suspect he chose the team he thought had the better chance of making the playoffs. Check one more box on the crazy Yzerplan.

I think that when you say "most people" you mean Sabres fans with a bias. There are people here who pronounce prospects as stars long before they earn it. I don't buy in to that until I see it on NHL ice. Spinning this into me saying Quinn is some sort of a bust is simply a twist on my words. We were speaking in hypotheticals about how to evaluate the success of analytics in drafts. I merely said at this point he doesn't look like the best choice. After the injury he might come back and show that he is the right choice. But assuming it's a fact before it happens is just wrong. Because of the injury I even give him an extra year before that pronouncement. But it's all hypothetical at this point.

Bigger issue. As I said before we played them you beat them with speed and forecheck. We didn't do that so we lost bad but that's the formula. They have a big D and a solid D that boxes out well and keeps the game to the perimeter when the opposition is slow and/or soft but if you attack that D with force and speed it falls apart and falls apart badly. Then they don't control or drive the play and the offense isn't good enough (aside from Pasternak) to function well without the defensive support. It's a fatal flaw and any night any team exploits it they are in trouble. I'm not sure they have a solution either. I don't think so. It's quite hilarious since they brought him in to be a veteran leader and mentor for Bedard and all their kids. Guess it's all on Foligno now.

FFS what part of the word "maybe" do you not understand? For the umpteenth time I said "so far" and "time will tell". This kind of selective critique is what makes the internet a bag of s%%t.

Wild gonna get scrappy now with Hynes taking over. I forgot all about him. He might be a good fit for them.

AHL don't mean squat, that's pretty much the point. Rossi is on pace to put up more points than Quinn did for us last year so I put him ahead. For the moment.

As I said, "remains to be seen" because of his stupid off season injury. The other guys are all currently contributing to their team's success so FOR NOW they are ahead. We shall see how it ends up when Quinn actually returns. Given the injury probably can't make a definitive on this for another year after that as well.

Well go figure. Bizarro world. Not to take anything away from the Sabres, who played so much better than the previous game and several players had an outstanding night, but that wasn't the same Rangers as I watched beat the Bruins. Now the Bruins are in a funk/slump so maybe they also made the Rangers look better but they were definitely not playing as well as they can. But UPL obviously had one of his good nights. Very good in fact and if he played like that consistently we'd have no goalie issue at all would we. I know Kyle scored late but Tuch once again showed me why he should be captain next year. Maximum elevation/leading by example after a team horrible game. That to me is strong leadership. Peterka continues his break out season. Not unexpected. Top line was good. Big Johnson (and his bad analytics) was very good. More leadership. You have to like what we saw. They were pretty good and did a lot of things that they don't usually do right. Although he didn't impact the score, I do really like the tenacity and energy that Benson brings every night. All too often there are Sabres who lack that tenacious spirit and he seems to have it in spades. This is often the missing ingredient on this team. We have the skill, we have the speed, but we lack the intensity/desire/tenaciousness you need to forecheck, create turnovers and finish plays. Hopefully this attitude holds and rubs off on some of the others so that we start to see it EVERY night. As a whole, I should probably stop commenting on individual games on a regular basis cause this team is impossible to predict or figure out from one night to the next.

I think the only question in this game is who will Trouba run over or elbow in the head and not get suspended for.