PerreaultForever

How so? Lightning, Panthers, Bruins, Laughs, and even Montreal as they were the Stanley Cup finalist (even though they will probably drop off a lot this year). Senators will even be difficult for us. We had Jersey, now we have the Dead Things. Don't see us any better off at all.

5 Kraken in covid protocols and the whole team is supposed to be vaccinated. This season might not run as smoothly as we hope it will.

Don't think you'd need to. He's better than many players on this roster imo.

So we bring in this guy, then let this guy go, and meanwhile pass on Barre-Boulet. I'd love to hear Adams press conference spin on this logic. Maybe there is no master tank plan after all. Maybe it truly is just incompetence.

lol, true, but to make a good Barre-Boulet you do need seafood so he's in the right town. Don't understand why Sabres wouldn't grab this guy. Even in a tank plan this would have been a good zero risk pick up. This team is just dumb.

maybe not, but the rumblings about Eichel's dissatisfaction started a year back already. Sure, maybe it was all just rumours, but given how it's gone there was probably some fire causing that smoke and they knew the end was near. As for the goalies, yes, as mentioned, lots of trade options were available for decent goalies and some of them with substantial possible upsides.

Ya, I'm with GA, you'll have to explain why you think it's not on purpose.

That's what I thought. Caps would have to reclaim him otherwise we can keep him.

is this actually how it works now? Doesn't sound right to me. I would think he still belongs to the Sabres unless Washington were to claim him back. When we waive him anyone can pick him up and if nobody does we get to send him elsewhere.

Well it kind of seems obvious they know they are tanking because they stripped it down but didn't build it up so they are clearly planning for years from now and not right now. If not, then they are deluded and clearly cocked up the goaltending situation which means they are completely incompetent. So you pick, purposely tanking for Wright etc. OR they are inept and incompetent. It has to be one or the other. I prefer to think they have a plan.

Chris Wagner and John Moore waived by Bruins. Wagner is well past his prime and neither would change the fortunes of this team in any significant way but we could still use them, especially Moore.

So we've been lacking size at center for ages so the solution is put your biggest guy there and call him a center. Okay sure, why not. This was boring hockey and Detroit is pretty inept, BUT I will say there was more unity and good positional play from the Sabres than I've seen in a long long time. There isn't a lot of high end skill there but there was some disciplined team play and that's a foundational step. Better net presence too. So, some positive signs, but it's only preseason and that was a scrub team we were playing against.

It does look like he will be playing wing with Barkov on the top line so it will be interesting to see if his stats change at all.

In 3 years we MIGHT be okay in goal. Rest of the team will take longer. We might be competitive in 3 years but it'll likely be 5 or more before we can truly think playoffs. and of course if we rush prospects and don't draft well and botch development well we will be tearing it down and tanking again in 5 or 6.

Okay I think fans have to either get onboard with the obvious tank plan or find another hobby because the plan seems obvious and a goalie isn't coming to us in any shape or form. A IC would be a big piece obviously but at this stage it might even be all draft picks stretching over years who knows, cause there is obviously no plan to get good fast and win in the short term. This was a full tear down and the rebuild will be slow. The goalies of the future are UPL, Levi and Portello. UPL will be first, but he might be the worst of the three. In 3 years we might be okay. Face it, this is the fight for Wright year nothing more nothing less.

You know, that's actually possible. Most of what I've seen Boston was the dominant team and then he lets in a soft one or a so so one. He wasn't horrible tonight but he didn't make any big saves and a couple he let in were iffy. One was sloppy D and not his fault. At this point though Swayman has been the better goalie and Ullmark is nowhere near where Rask was.

I was just going to say something similar. I'd certainly give them another call if I was Adams.

Sometimes the deals you try to make but don't end up being the best ones. Ullmark is sucking yet again for the Bruins tonight. So over paying Ullmark may be a mistake avoided.

Well the other upside is I'm watching the Caps Bruins and Ullmark is sucking again. At this point I bet they're wishing they could give him back.

I watched the TSN That's Hockey story today and they presented it as if it was something new and made a big deal of it but when you actually listened to it they offered absolutely nothing new. Just a bunch of speculation and doublespeak

This thread is funny to me because we all know the team is intentionally tanking so the idea they will go after a good goalie at this point is just hilarious.

He has not stood out. He still sits around 8 on their D depth chart I think. The Kraken D is much better than ours though sad to say.

Kraken have already managed to structure a team and that line up is pretty much it (plus Gourde). Good goaltending, solid team play. A little offensively challenged but they are capable of winning close low scoring games. As it stands right now I think they are quite a bit better than the Sabres are.

Lots of sloppy turnovers but they finished chances and scored some goals so better, but nowhere near good enough. Shootout was fun.

OR he fails to correct bad habits . I just don't see the progression and the slow steady improvement. I see turnovers, mistakes, panic, out of position. It's a long list and on a good team he would currently be 3rd pairing or benched. He's looking like a Gostisbehere right now and not a Hedman.