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Not sorry to see him go, but I'm going to go out on a limb and say he signs for less money with Philly and has a decent year in rotation with a good young D in front of him.
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WHY? All this "ROR is the locker room problem" talk is pure speculation. If you really believe the bolded is true, you don't have a clue.
Clueless? Probably, I'm still a Sabres fan over all these years so mentally insane is even more likely than clueless but for the sake of rebuttal, name me some examples of situations where teams have actively shopped players, then NOT traded them and had that same player have success for them? There might be one or two, but as a whole it's a recipe for disaster and certainly not what you want for a start over new era kind of thing that you can have with Dahlin.
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Maybe Botterill should trade with Bergy
They want ROR, Sabres want 3rd overall so talking continues.
So far JBot's trading skills are in question. Not much for Kane, likely nothing for Lehner (tough sell I know), and after shopping him around, if ROR is still a Sabre in October has to be viewed as a fail so far in that area. I just think that if fixing the locker room is the priority, and he has been singled out (right or wrong) as possibly one of the problems then a deal of some sort has to be made before camp.
San Jose sure looks poised to sign Tavares.......
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Everything I have heard has him being a combination of Hedman, Karlson and Lidstrom and better at this age than all 3. Coached well, I see him as league best in 3 years and for the next 10.
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San Jose, and some guy named Kane will score 50 goals on his wing.
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Trotz is an excellent coach, but a lot of things have to come together for anyone to win the cup, and some of that is luck. He was starting to look like the Marty Shottenheimer of hockey, always good in the regular season crap in the playoffs, until finally this year a little luck, a little timing, some breaks, some goaltending moments and he finally won one. If he hadn't won it all this year he'd have been fired. The timing for us to hire him is wrong, and imo he does not fit with what they want to do here. If Housley doesn't pan out we'll probably wish we had him, but if Tavares doesn't sign on the Island Trotz's bubble will likely burst and fans there will wonder why he got a 5 year deal.
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Lehner was a major contributor to the room’s dysfunction, that’s addition by subtraction.
I'm going to guess with that whole psycho ufc personality of his no one would say boo to him if he got in a mood (including coaches). It's clear that JBot is going to attempt to fix the locker room, whatever it takes. Sad he couldn't get something/anything for him, but it is addition by subtraction for sure.
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This is where I'm at. Where XGMTM failed was in being too generous with cap money and ending up with too many useless, toxic contracts.
Murray over-valued the players he had and the same thing is going on here at sabrespace. Murray was convinced everything was going to fall into place with Kane getting healthy and being what he was supposed to be, Jack was going to be league leading, Lehner was going to be a top notch goalie etc etc so he dumped cash at anybody who'd take it. Just dumb all over.
Everything I see from JBot involves a slow and steady restructuring of this team, the end product should be young and fast with D depth rather than a bare cupboard. Nothing so far tells me it's the wrong way to go, BUT I do think this is a method that will take a long time to come together. It might happen sooner, but likely this is a good playoff team in 2, 3 maybe even 4 years, but not for a while.
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IIRC, that was actually done as a favor to him. He could be closer to home and his wife.
was it? or are they just better at image control?
I mean we tanked this year and nobody noticed.
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When they exiled Moulson instead of sending him to Rochester it was a clear message that he was a bad influence and wasn't going to be anywhere near anybody on the team. To me, this is just a nail in that coffin. Just another small step in cleaning out the house while they rebuild the foundation. Don't care on the dollar values, it'll simply be good to have him gone.
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I disagree on this. Everyone always pushes developing from within and bringing up player to the roster. The Sabres have enough youth, what they need are some good veterans to fill out the roster. You cant build a team off of just youth and prospects.
Actually, I think you can and should. No more deadbeats at the end of their careers. If we are to win, the current crop must be the leaders (Jack and whoever else is still here).
They said you couldn't build a team of cast offs and a good goalie and yet Vegas is in the cup. Speed and a good goalie is everything now. Speed and youth is what we should do while drafting goalies every year until we get the right one.
Sure, I'd take a speedy veteran or two with a good work ethic, but not for big money and everybody wants those so it's not worth pursuing too hard.
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First rounder for us, that's all that matters.
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I will say Botterill seems very methodical.
I still think this was a tank year but they kept it secret and were clever about hiding it. Housley was hired to be the right coach for Dahlin. Now the signings, the new players, even a first rounder coming for Kane, if we do not start to see an upwards trajectory for this team now, we never will.
I truly believe this team will look vastly different from what we ended the season with. It'll be young and fast. What we are really missing is a goalie, unless Ullmark is ready but I have my reservations on that. Fingers crossed.
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Crosby is the best player I've ever actually watched. Period.
Orr. Lots of great ones, but he revolutionalized the game.
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Why isn't a player like Dahlin a center?
This is a question Phil Housley could probably answer well.
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There were some reports that our illustrious owner was not happy with the lack of progress from JBot's first year. Might just be fake news or rumor but if it's true, and JBot feels the pressure he'll probably blow it and waste money on declining old talent and slackers like the last guy did.
I am hoping instead they have him on a longer time frame and let him restructure things properly. Build from the bottom and leave the cap in good standing so we'll have the money for the Mittelstadts and Dahlins and all the great picks he'll still draft.................ya gotta dream.
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Draisaitl might be the most over paid player in the league (ok there are better examples). But $8.5 mil per for the next 100 years for a nice player who's stats were inflated playing with McDavid? No thanks.
True. He got his pay for one good playoff run where he looked like the real deal (and a post season performer). Chiarelli screwed up the cap in Boston and was fired for it. He's done the same thing in Edmonton, their cap is a disaster.
I hope we don't throw money at Reinhart for one half season's play. He has to show a full season imo.
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Reports are that ROR lost his love for the game halfway through the third period.
ouch.
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All those guys coming over here better stay in Rochester for a year. I'm sick of getting burned by bringing these guys up too early
It would be nice to see a powerhouse team of mostly young guys down there wouldn't it? We had hope for the future when they were saying we had a stocked cupboard. Suddenly it was bare and everything went right back down the dumper. If we can't get good right away, I'd at least like to hear that we have a lot of up and comers developing down there.
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I simply hope that our D is good enough that the Beaulieu gamble can be over and he is gone one way or the other.
Also hope that Wilson makes the team, but 4th line. Anything higher, and we are probably not very good yet again.
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I'm saying it calls his competitiveness into question. Not a certainty, but one of those things you put an asterisk beside or file the thought and go hmmm. It's not like we haven't questioned his competitiveness on occasion before is it? He has been seen to quit on plays and play big one game and seem disinterested in another. We always make excuses for him cause we want to believe. I WANT to believe too, things like this just make me unsure.
Feel the same about Matthews who was "exhausted" . On the other hand, Charlie McAvoy, who also had late season injury issues and actually had a tiring playoff run went over. Damn I wish we'd drafted that guy, he is going to be so good!
Props to ANYONE who goes over and plays.
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I want Vanek back for a year. He may not be real speedy but the guy can still score. I’d just put him on the 3rd line with Middelstadt and the 2nd PP
No, this is definitely not how you fix the locker room/culture. I do not see him as a good influence on our kids. Likely the opposite.
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McAvoy will be the new Doughty, Dahlin the new Lidstrom. There is zero chance we do not draft him. The only question of the draft for us is what can we do with our 2nd pick and is there any way to land more high picks (unlikely).
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O'Reilly for Subban (e4)
In a heartbeat.
2018 NHL draft
in The Aud Club
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fyi Sportsnet not TSN.
I truly believe this is the most significant draft moment since #11. This guy is going to be amazing!