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Depends on what you are after and which team you are talking to. Probably easy to swap that pick for a bottom 6 guy if a team wants a new direction or wants to get younger. Otherwise I think if you look at the 4 firsts for a star forward idea you discount it down from there. Unless he is old or flawed you won't get a 2C for one first round pick that's for sure.

I've heard him repeat a few things several times and it amounts to 1)lots of talent here that he is excited to work with but 2)there is a LOT of work to do meaning this team is a shitshow and needs to learn how to play proper hockey. But ultimately I think he took the job because he feels the things this team needs he can in fact teach them.

my big ass fingers hit send before I was finished, which it is now if you look back. Patience grasshopper. It was seconds.

Absolutely and hold me to whatever it is you plan to hold me to so to be clear, and quote this too if you like for posturingarity as well, it's clear to me that everything about Tuch as the next captain makes sense and it's the right choice. Doesn't mean they will make the right choice, but it's the right choice and should be made. But ROR was the right choice and they blew that one and gave it to an immature Eichel so, it is the Sabres. I hope they get it right this time.

I think there's a good chance the Islanders hate themselves.

Of course they don't, but they are also constructed more carefully than you think and they are designed to convey what the team wants to convey. So then you can say they ask Tuch to be there why? They want him as the face of the franchise? The boyhood fan story made good? etc. So why wouldn't they want that as the captain as well??? To want the first part but not the last part would make no sense to me - but then it is the Sabres. Did he? Did he take his big ass house with him (leave Benson the keys?) Why would a grown man rush home to mommy and daddy as soon as the season ended? If he did, maybe that's a good reason not to be captain right there.

and so why was he the guy around?

I did notice this right away. I wondered if it was his way of saying Sabres needed that added to the roster (which they do) or if it was just a coincidence because they are local media guys and he's probably friends with both of them. Could just be a coincidence due to that. Dakota Joshua likely gets re-signed by Vancouver but I'd make him an offer. Liam O'Brien is a bargain basement tough guy. Not a particularly good tough guy but tougher than anything on our roster. William Carrier would be good. Max Domi's a bit of a risk as no team seems to like him long term but he's a definite rat if you want one of those on your bottom unit. The best plan would probably be via a trade. Most of the good tough guys are signed right now. Give up some talent for the toughness we need and preferrably get a guy who can actually play a little and not be a liability.

These are the things I hope Lindy manages to bring to the Sabres. Discipline, attention to details, positional play and role play, defensive responsibility, team play. A unified force rather than a bunch of talented individuals running around all over the place at times.

and then he'd swiftly move them to Mississauga.

All the shots of Tuch in this Sabres produced video, how can it not be Tuch?

Define "lots".

man these ESPN announcers are amazing praising Stone for his ability to come back. This BS is worse than politicians.

Which pretty much fired up the Bruins though and probably was why they won. Lots of rat play on both sides in this series. Fun to watch.

I think Berube or Gallant are fits for Ottawa and both of them would love Tkachuk. I'm surprised they haven't named a coach yet though . They've had plenty of time to think about it so maybe that means they are looking at an assistant on a big team still playing right now. or Brind'Amour 🙂

Oh I'm sure people have said Power needs to hit more, and he does, but he needs to get stronger first. The issue for me was related to drafting Power and if people expected him to be a big hitter because he was big. Don't think anybody figured that.

Well to each his own. I personally loved it. There were tons of shots and shot attempts. It's just that most of them never made it to goal. That's winning hockey.

Nice backwards spin move. You a figure skater? You introduced the "guys who hit stuff" concept, and you're right, that's boring. Have a nice summer.

Probably, but those were the 3 we all talked about as well. Anybody else would have made us all go wtf?

For the umpteenth time, the reason you want big D men in this day and age is not for their "hit stuff" but for their reach. What these young guys like Power lack is strength. Not to "hit stuff" but so they can box out, not get muscled past and have strength on stick with that reach. Ability to "hit stuff" is just a bonus.

More than anything I think it will be attention to details. All the little things. Sticks in lanes, blocked shots, positional play and responsibility. A more disciplined approach. How the team responds to that is anyone's guess. Skinner? Good luck.

That's a possibility. Gallant's still out there though. If I was San Jose that's the route I'd go.

I'd bet that Ottawa is talking to one or both of them as well and they might be more inclined to go there with that team roster more closely aligned with their philosophies. Adams would also not want to get into a bidding war or get used in a negotiation. Sabres aren't exactly in a good position to come out a winner in those.

I'm with you and I agree on Samuelsson benefiting but those two are bad examples to compare to Power. Chara was a beast and a beyond normal physical specimen (still is) and Hedman is big all over. Look at his chest and upper body. Lot of muscle on there. Power is more in the Tyler Myers category but can hopefully develop into something more like Pietrangelo. We don't actually have a single bruiser on the D right now. You're pretty soft on D when your toughest D man is little Conor Clifton. I'm honestly not sure what Ruff will try to do with this group. New Jersey under him didn't play defensive hockey. Ruff's never been a defensive guy really. What I am hoping is he will bring a new level of compete, we will pay attention to details and play more disciplined, and in terms of style, we will try to be an aggressive forecheck team. This to me is the recipe for success if you want to be an attack, rather than defend, type of team. We will have to get tougher or add toughness though for sure.

Yes, that's why I think San Jose. They have a lot of holes on that roster and not a lot of bodies to fill them. Chicago depends on their timeline.