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PerreaultForever

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  1. Bryson in the line up has a better win percentage this year than Dahlin so I guess Dahlin has to go.
  2. He's a depth forward for the playoffs in case of injury, no more no less.
  3. It was a fine deal as Nylander was basically on a VO level at his best moments and definitely a draft mistake but I would be happy if we flipped him this summer and brought in a solid defensive defender. Big and tough. I can see Byram/Dahlin, and then Samuelsson/Clifton but Power/Joker is flawed imo unless Power gets more physical and becomes more of a Pieterangelo type. As is I'd rather have a big defender paired with him and Joker could be part of a trade for that (unless they want to ditch Samuelsson because he's made of glass).
  4. To both points, perhaps, but it depends on Comrie's relationship with his teammates, and if your back up isn't good enough to play 1 out of every 4 games or so, then he shouldn't be your back up. That's on KA. Show me one other team that has a back up who never plays and calls up a rookie for 1 road game instead. It's absurd.
  5. and that's how you burst a bubble and don't make the playoffs. A lot of old issues came back to the surface in this one and the flaws are more than evident. On the first Detroit goal, the forwards are too high, waiting for the quick outlet and counter attack. Nobody comes back. Dahlin chases, goes around the net and isn't strong enough to box out on his own. When he chases, the forward has to be back to force that guy outside. It's just basic defensive hockey and it's on Granato not Dahlin. On the second Detroit goal, Skinner is just floating in no man's land accomplishing nothing. The D chases again, and Skinner has to pick up Kane on that play. He's wide, he's outside, it's an easy play and Skinner is just too damn lazy to make it. Skinner has to go. We will never win with that guy. (The other forwards are again, too high and that's our style and one of our flaws. ) The third goal was an early season UPL special. Poor positioning, he does that. I'm not going to fault the goalie since h also makes big saves, but it is a recurrent weakness and he already looks like he's getting tired. We can't win a face off if our life depended on it, especially in that final 3-4 minutes but of course I know, "they don't matter." Except they do. Lastly, on the new guy BB. He lacks physicality. Fast, very fast, and very skilled, but he gets hit and knocked off the puck. I can see why he had concussion issues and I can see him getting targeted and crunched by a team like Florida if we ever met in the playoffs. We need some more bigger bodies on the team to keep that from happening as much as it will. Not a lot of positives from a deadly loss like this but I will say I am liking Greenway a whole lot lately. He's becoming a major irritant to other teams and he seems to relish the role. He won't be a fighter and he doesn't have to be but he fills a valuable role. I like him with Cozens. imo for next year we have two pairs we need to keep and build around. Tage/Tuch and Cozens/Greenway. I would keep those together as pairs and add the appropriate winger to them be it Quinn or Benson or Peterka or whoever fits best but the duos should hold and grow together. That's my view anyway. We can only hope that Seattle no longer cares as they are all but out for the next one, but Islanders get a loser point today as well so I think the dream is over just that easily.
  6. I find BB very interesting. There's something to his level of compete and his attitude and maybe it's infectious. I'm with Friedman's comments on 32 Thoughts about that PP thing where he's trying to direct people. He's come in from a high compete organization and he brings that and MAYBE it's like party's over it's time to give'er as they say on the prairies. There's something more than just the stats and on ice play imo. It has my interest anyway.
  7. I actually disagree with this. You can argue that Adams should have a better back up than Comrie, but it is Comrie and if you piss on him and treat him like garbage there are players on the roster who won't like it. It's not how you build a team bond and a winning culture. Comrie plays if UPL is tired and that should be that. Team has to shut down and elevate their play to go with that (as winning teams do when in a similar position).
  8. That's kept me going through the lean years. I thought it would flip by now but not yet. It takes a huge level of incompetence to stay this bad this long.
  9. Well this is new. A lot of Sabres stuff on 32 Thoughts.
  10. I see no argument here. It's Dahlin. Seider is a little younger though so he might still come into his own next year. The better question might be who is better, Dahlin or Byram?
  11. I totally disagree with this. You can't look at two old guys who are well past their prime, has beens even, and conclude from that that you don't need veteran leadership. The other word that gets tossed around is "pros". You have a lot of kids on your roster you need leaders to guide them. You will get better results in that sort of environment and you will build a lasting culture. Kids are fragile, kids get knocked off the path easily. Kids get tempted. Pros are pros. Talent is talent but heart comes and goes and you need guidance. But I said long ago KO should not have been re-signed, Girgs should not be re-signed for next year and EJ was a has been. The veterans you want are in their late 20s not their mid 30s. Adams on the other hand might just think he can wait and then in 3-4 years he will have his own.
  12. I don't have the patience to keep waiting and waiting and the next one and the next year. I want to make the leap NOW.
  13. I hope not. I want them to add a veteran 2-way 3C in the off season and if Krebs stays as 4th that's fine but Krebs as 3C isn't good enough imo.
  14. Agreed. They currently need 5 teams to play substantially worse than themselves down the stretch and that's a big ask.
  15. Well if Detroit hadn't taken a total meltdown nosedive lately there'd be zero hope. Now if all the forces of the universe align and we get lucky it's not impossible. Unlikely, but not impossible.
  16. Well, that was just an outstanding hockey game. No but's, no qualifiers, no other factors, they simply outplayed the opposition. You could see early, although they pressured, Isles kept most of it outside and they took plays away but the speed wore them down and the Isles had no answer for it. They got worn down big time. Sabres handled the physical side, even dished a little out and just played a solid game top to bottom. We can ponder where this has been all year I guess. I'm sticking with the belief in the goalie idea. When you believe your goalie will keep you in it you elevate your play much like many Sabres teams did in the Hasek era. Maybe that's it, maybe it's something else, but whatever it is they have elevated their play and this is the hockey we were all hoping we'd see at the beginning of the year after last year's late surge finish. I still think it's too late, but you never know. It's no longer impossible. The only negative, if you want one, a minor one, is Benson is still taking too many stick fouls and that might cost us against a good PP team. Yes, Barzal dove on the second one, but that's what some good players do. You feel that stick on your skates and ooops, you let yourself fall. Benson's NHL timing is still way off but that's rookie stuff and it's just a pity we aren't deep enough to address that. Next season we need to hire an assistant coach who is a PP expert. I see they are experimenting now that they have Byram on the roster but it's a mess and they really don't know what they are doing. With this level of speed and skill the PP should be a LOT better than it is. If we miss, it's on Adams imo. Should not have signed KO. Should not have signed Girgs. Should have signed a goalie instead of Comrie and games were wasted on pacifying Levi's demands as well. We still need additions if we want to be legit next season, but it's very doable. Finally, I had fun watching Sabres hockey. That hasn't happened much in a long time.
  17. This is the contrasting styles game I've been waiting for. How we play in this one should tell us a lot about what we really are or aren't.
  18. That's valid. It certainly was a "hockey trade" and I'm glad we didn't just get prospects/picks for him. That would have been a true step backwards. The winner of this trade is maybe determined by which team signs their guy long term and the success/failure relative to that contract down the road. Both players at this moment seem to "fit" into their destinations.
  19. I might be in the minority but I'm not a believer in any forms of double standards. If Conor Bedard elbows a guy in the head this year as a first offender he should get the exact same treatment as a Rempe or whoever. The league should evaluate if it's deliberate or not, and if it is, same punishment applies no matter who you are. First offence is first offence. The evaluation of the "goon" vs. the infrequent skill guy will sort itself out over time as they repeat offend and the penalties increase as a result of that. Eventually they get a reputation and maybe even get over penalized for it. Unless their name is Trouba of course.
  20. I'm not really against it. Might teach the kid a lesson, but imo it does go against previous precedents and there's a lack of consistency there. First offence is supposed to be lighter for a play like that. If that's the new bar that's fine, but it has to be applied to ALL cases going forward.
  21. okay okay, but you know what I mean. He's an offensive defenseman not a defensive defenseman. Where exactly he sits on that continuum idk yet.
  22. Haven't seen enough of him here to know. But I do know that Colorado considered him a lesser Makar and he was considered an offensive D man and not a defensive one. He's not that big for one. I'm not sure what his height and weight is now but he looks lighter/thinner. I will have to see more to know how he handles net front pressure and how he actually defends. For one, he won't be used to how poorly most of our forwards back check and thus if he gets confused on whether or not to stay in front or follow down low his D might suffer. I mention this because I've noticed lately that Clifton has started to park in front more and not chase. Thus he has looked better on D. This was because in Boston he was used to following the man down low and forcing him outside or behind the net because he knew there'd be a forward coming back into the slot and/or taking away the trailer. In Buffalo the pass back was to an open man and he was getting killed on it looking out of place behind or to the side. This happens to all our D often. I haven't seen Byram enough to be able to add anything definitive on him yet. I saw very little Colorado over the last few years. If I remember correctly he wasn't great against Seattle in the playoffs but that's a bit vague on the memory.
  23. Yup that would be true, but it was unsustainable wasn't it. Adding Karlsson has proven to be the kiss of death for teams. If Power grows into being a defensive force on the defensive side of things I would be fine with the big 3 on D but I have my doubts about 3 offensively minded D men with big salaries on the same team. I personally think 2 is more than enough and the other 4 need to be defenders. Preferrably big and physical. It should be exciting while it lasts though. They do provide a lot of offensive skill.
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