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Can't see Calgary trading Tkachuk with Sutter having influence there. They might be interested in Reinhart though. Especially after his end of season run. Best thing he could have done for us (unlike Jack torching things). Sell high.
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Trade has to happen before next season's training camp for the team to move forward so it's not an issue. Any team wanting him is not going to not want him after a year, even if he has a meh season. They'll have to be all in on believing in him.
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41 minutes ago, Drag0nDan said:
Doesn't reino have to have an appetite for a long-term deal? JB's failure to bridge rein is really the mistake here.
Or the genius. We can finally get rid of a guy who doesn't have a NMC.
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jauni sākumi
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6 minutes ago, Crusader1969 said:
Im sure there is a vet they can find to fill both the leadership and 4th line roll.
Eric Staal perhaps? 🙂
Foligno.
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Looks like the playoffs will start on the 15th. The NHL site has the Bruins/Caps scheduled for that day now so I guess they'll start the playoffs with the meaningless regular season games still going. Good. That series will be a war. Can't wait for Tampa Florida either. Watch some real hockey.
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1 hour ago, Andrew Amerk said:
Apparently according to Eichel, Jack was injured from last year + a preseason injury + more injuries 🤷♂️
Well if that's true, which I doubt, why wasn't he dealing with it before the season? maybe that's the beginning of the disconnect. Eichel showing up to camp and saying oh by the way, I'm injured.
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1 hour ago, Let's Go B-Lo said:
Nylander. The entire second round other than possibly Asplund. Everyone after that other than Olofsson and MAYBE Bryson.
Ya, the Nylander draft was a disaster .
JBot's drafts actually don't look too bad though. Still a number of solid possibles in the mix from them. We could end up with 2-3 pros from each and that's decent.
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Hall was on fire tonight. He has really clicked with Krejci which is what was supposed to have happened with Eichel. So it brings up the question to my mind, was Eichel injured game 1, OR had he asked for a trade during the off season and not being granted his wish checked out and then shut himself down with the injury first excuse chance he got and hence the disconnect as the team was already pissed he hadn't given it his all after they got him the winger and so they felt it wasn't that bad and it was an excuse? Then obviously Hall checked out and forced his outcome.
Hard to believe Hall came here with the idea of checking out, seeing as he was playing for his next contract. If this was his masterplan guy is a villain, but also a genius.
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2 hours ago, Eleven said:
Who is "they"?
jack and his agent.
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7 hours ago, CallawaySabres said:
The whole core is getting shipped out, book it....besides Skinner for obvious reasons
about time. long over due.
Skinner's a problem. but otherwise I'm excited.
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17 minutes ago, JoeSchmoe said:
Sorry... I meant that without Eichel and Sam (and goaltending), we'd surely be looking at last place in 2022 which is the Wright draft... Then the same team with rookie Wright would still suck and set us up for 2023.
We will not be dead last without them if we hire the right coach and do this the right way finally. There is enough youth to build off of (adding the trade pieces of course).
The problem left will be Skinner. That could be an anchor .
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11 minutes ago, Eleven said:
Why in the world didn't the agent do this earlier? Wow.
cause it's spin, and they timed it for the end of the season.
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Just now, Eleven said:
1. Nolan to Columbus confirmed.
2. More seriously, I really wouldn't mind him here on a two-year deal. Just enough time to turn the culture around, and not long enough to adversely affect success.
I'd give him 5 years myself. Let all the players know this is how it's going to be and this is what this team will be. You give him 2 years with this history/culture and the team could just quit and wait for the next guy.
Torts is not the old school hard ass some think he is. He's evolved and learned. Players love him. He rewards hard work and that's a good thing, but he knows what he's doing and he will develop all these young guys the right way. Those that refuse to buy in were not worth keeping anyway.
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I think he's going to say there was a disconnect between his ability to stop all the pucks and the team's ability to win.
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Just watched a bunch of Columbus players praising Tortorella and saying how they will miss him. Merzlikins especially. So, just saying, bring them both in and reset the culture with a new core.
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6 minutes ago, Thorny said:
But you said being as committed as McDavid would have been enough to get it done.
The Oilers have made the playoffs once and have 1 series win since drafting McDavid. Wouldn't the significant gap in talent between the two perhaps explain what amounts to a small difference in the postseason success/lack-there-of of these teams?
What's wrong with McDavid to miss the playoffs 4 out of 5 tries before this season? Making it the one time makes McDavid McJesus and Jack the problem?
What I meant was the dynamics of the team have a different feel. There's more unity, they compete, they feel like they have a chance. McDavid doesn't smash his stick he digs down and plays harder. the team follows.
I'm not saying that is all they need, the Oilers have made a ton of mistakes and are not going to win it all, but the team isn't a shambles like we are. I am sure if the draft was flipped we'd have done a lot better over these years and if not in the playoffs this year damn close. We'd be excited about that too and building off it, not pointing fingers and arguing about where the most blame goes.
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11 minutes ago, DarthEbriate said:
If we lose Eichel, Reinhart, Ullmark, and Ristolainen in the next few months it'll amount to the same as when we jettisoned the core that they were supposed to replace. So, yes.
The difference is that last time the management decided the core was rotten and it was time to enact some suffering. This time, it's the players who've had enough of the suffering and deciding that they'll be less rotten elsewhere.
Well we're dead last with them so we can't actually be worse.
I don't consider those 4 similar but the first two have not delivered what you need to win. I guess I'm way in the minority, but if it doesn't change and they're both here again that was making me consider finally giving up on the Sabres after some 48 years or so of watching them. A complete reboot without them is probably the only thing that'll keep me a fan.
I guess this thing is going to be polarizing to the extreme.
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7 minutes ago, Thorny said:
This is ridiculous
How many playoff appearances have the Oilers secured since McDavid? How many series wins?
Is that all the difference between McDavid and Eichel counted for?
It's a team sport and the dynamics of being a team are what's important.
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I don't believe any of this disconnect crap. Likely comes from his agent. A way to make himself look like the good guy and the team the villain. Whole thing was a complete dump on the franchise and the fans. He doesn't give a damn about Buffalo and likely never did. Good riddance we can finally right the ship with a proper captain. Good bye *****.
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3 hours ago, Thorny said:
What if the thing that caused Eichel's poor attitude is still pulling the strings?
I'm not buying one bit of his spin on the "disconnect." That is his way of making himself look better and dumping on the franchise as the problem. Probably his agent's advice. Oh look, Jack tried his best, he did everything, it's just those damn Sabres kept him from being the greatest. Bull.
If anything, the Sabres mistake was in handing him the keys to everything without actually earning it. This set the tone and the culture. Eichel this Eichel that. he should have never been named captain. It ruined this franchise.
So I guess in doing that it's Pegula's fault, but ultimately if Eichel was as dedicated as McDavid it would have gone differently. But he's not.
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6 minutes ago, Marvin, Sabres Fan said:
I presume you mean ground-up: just acquire good players and assemble a good team. No more tanking - build to improve every single year. Each rebuild is limited in length and not an all-out tank.
Well given the Eichel comments there is a little tearing down required. You remove the old core and then build up around the youth and new players. New attitude. No prima donnas. Again, Ottawa is doing it right. Do that.
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I don't really get why some people are upset by this. To me the cat's finally out of the bag. There's your broken culture. It's always been about Jack and Jack has always been about Jack and now we can finally end this era, turn the page and start over (hopefully) properly.
The entire old core has to go (unless they are fully committed to the team which is unlikely) . Time to build a team with a team first attitude.
I actually have an optimism for my Sabres now that I don't think I would have if things didn't change.
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6 hours ago, JohnC said:
The bottom line is that I fundamentally disagree with your resorting to the "old school" solutions to today's hockey failures. Looking back to function in the world of today is a recipe for continued failure. And I'm not buying it.
<sigh> One quick last try. It's not about going old school, but you don't throw the baby out with the bath water. The game on the ice has changed, everybody knows that, but the dynamics of team building and what makes a successful organization have not. The point is, we, as a franchise did it the right way once upon a time and thus we need to look back and do those things (the ones that are still relevant in today's game, and there are many) again and the top needs to stop thinking they know some new better way. Hockey is still hockey.
Another Reason to be Optimistic about Dylan Cozens
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I was one of the few people around here that never liked trading the one we had away. idk is Marcus an FA? If so ya, both. Maybe trade for him back. Entice the brothers to finish their careers together. Heck give dad a job too.
Mike Foligno was one of my favourite Sabres during the time he was here. He embodied what I want in a hockey player and he taught his boys well. They could form the core of the leadership we lack until the kids like Cozens are ready, after learning from them.