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2 minutes ago, SabresBillsFan said:
I hate Marchand but he put a nice check on that douche Tkachuk. Tkachuk and Pasta fought late which I have no idea what Pasta was thinking.
My guess is the NY Rangers vs Colorado for the Cup.Skinner isn’t that good!
Neither is Georgiev.
I think Pasta was just trying to show he wasn't intimidated. I think it was no big deal.
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8 minutes ago, Thorny said:
Yes. Nothing I said was even disagreeing with that. My post was about having nhl depth
What I took from it was you saw young kids as depth and I'm saying that guys who aren't ready aren't depth. You are better off with journeymen and marginal vets.
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When your prospect pool is small or empty you draft BPA all the way.
When you have a full prospect pool you project your needs both now and future and you tweak your draft in the direction of need(s).
That doesn't mean you go way off book and draft the first D man ranked 20 when you pick 10th or anything (as a hypothetical example) but you lean to need. If players you like fall you do what must be done and take them regardless (eg. Benson).
and you ALWAYS pick a goalie in a low round every year.
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1 minute ago, Thorny said:
I don’t understand but whatever.
cutting to the chase - my point was that I agree with your entire paragraph
I would get the jersey 100%
You need depth players that can actually play in the NHL and not cost you. This goes back to what I was saying about Rochester and too many kids and not enough veterans.
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41 minutes ago, ... said:
A. That's all they have fundamentally. They will try and play an actual skill game, but once they start losing they'll turn back to goonery.
B. Of course we'd want his head, that's how it works. I would like to see Frederic get his face handed to him on the back of a hockey stick blade - metaphorically, of course.
C. The league may want it, though.
What goonery did the Bruins do? I didn't see any.
Frederic is exactly the type of player the Sabres need.
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58 minutes ago, Thorny said:
What I said doesn’t argue against your latest post
yes it does.
(now you go "no it doesn't" and then we repeat)
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I definitely don't want Marner.
I don't want Tavares.
I'd consider Nylander but only for the right deal. Really not what we need.
I'd only trade for Matthews if he shaved that porn stach off and promised to never grow it again and I'd want them to take Skinner in the deal going back .
But yes, as said above, they aren't trading Matthews.
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Tkachuk's in their heads. He gets in everybody's head. The league likes it. No big deal but the Bruins were reacting instead of initiating. They will have to be a lot better to bounce back. They might not.
There's no taunting penalty in hockey is there? (unlike football). I know you all hate Marchand, and that's fair, but if Montour did that to the Sabres you'd all be up in arms and want his head. Pity they'd already booted Maroon and Frederic.
Now Vancouver don't look good at all. I really don't want an Oilers cup. Anybody else. Anybody.
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I think a Georgiev deal is the right number compared to those but I expect it'll be more and perhaps longer so
3 hours ago, Thorny said:4 x 5 seems fine to me I dunno
probably. An overpay, but probably.
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5 hours ago, Thorny said:
More less one of the steps you need to get to in joining the ranks of the good teams. “We have too many prospects for nhl spaces” isn’t a unique problem to Buffalo it’s the commonplace result of icing a competent roster. We are just HYPER unfamiliar. Those players don’t need to be in the NHL. If they need to be, they’d force their way
block or not
It’s the difference between the teams that say “ahhh injuries, what could we have even done?” And those that finish top 16
No I disagree. It's about roster construction and how you build your team. Show me one single playoff team right now whose forwards are almost all skilled offensive guys and their D is almost all fast offensively minded puck movers. There isn't one. You can't build a team this way, you just can't.
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On 5/7/2024 at 11:11 AM, Brawndo said:
Evolving Hockey’s most likely contract projection is 4 years at 5.1 AAV
This is an overpay but, given that Adams has no other goalie plan, it may be necessary.
5 hours ago, Archie Lee said:The alternative is probably a one year Swayman deal ($3.5 ish). A two year deal takes UPL to UFA status. If we want some of his UFA years, then I think we will need to approach $5 million per. Lots of risk either way.
The one year deal like Swayman had would be a better and safer option. UPL delivers a good season under Ruff's system and he can then earn a long term deal.
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The simple fact imo is UPL is big, so that allows him to get away with some positioning errors or slow reactions. He covers a lot of net so opposition players will shoot wide or just into him. Levi is relatively small, so he has to be faster and more agile. He is, but there are still gaps and openings. Neither is perfect, neither is fully formed, both could be good.
I think rolling with those 2 as your only goalies is a huge gamble that might work, but could also fail miserably and cost us another season.
A better plan would be to have a veteran goalie who was good on the roster and then Levi could fight to take the job rather than getting anointed.
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5 hours ago, SwampD said:
He might not be very good, but do people really believe that Jeff Skinner doesn’t play with heart? I find that weird. Early in the season, I felt that he was often the only one on the Sabres that played with any.
Heart? Heart for who or what though?
When I was playing hockey there was almost always a guy like Skinner. We used to call them "goal sucks". Guys who wanted the glory and tried flashy things but never did the little things and ignored the details of the game. They were all uncoachable and when they didn't score they were liabilities. I'd be back in my own end with 2 guys coming in hard on me and there'd be no support. He'd be floating around up ice waiting for an outlet pass and if it didn't get to him back on the bench he'd be prone to say "I was open man, you should have passed to me and I could have got a breakaway". That's Jeff Skinner.
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24 minutes ago, bob_sauve28 said:
Because Benson and Savoie will probably make the team, and the law of averages says all three of the rest (Rosen, Ostland and Kulich)probably won't, and they are all competing for the same job, pretty much.
What makes you think Savoie is NHL ready?
I agree about too many prospects that are similar though.
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Miles Wood. Another guy I wish we'd have signed. (sigh)
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The pick is just one more asset in a big pile of assets, but all that will matter is what's on the roster so trade this pick or a 2025 pick or a prospect in Rochester, whatever and whoever.
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@LGR4GM you disappoint me. You haven't proclaimed that Liam Greentree sucks yet.
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1 hour ago, CallawaySabres said:
Guentzel is the perfect player all around. Unfortunately, we do not have anybody like him. We need about three of those guys minimum.
Don't people around here think this is what Quinn will become?
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1 hour ago, LGR4GM said:
Got it, you favor Power.
Not what I said.
Dahlin is what he is. I can assess that pretty accurately.
Power is not yet what he might become. So get back to me in 2 years when Power should be at the beginning of what he will actually be.
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2 hours ago, Thorny said:
You can’t convincingly argue it’s a meaningless distinction when your view yields an untradeable ….JJ Peterka, and mine argues for trading Dahlin (my favourite player) should an appropriate deal present itself.
and you just want to argue about words rather than ideas. wtf does it matter how I said it?
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2 minutes ago, Thorny said:
Start with, “everyone is available for the right price” and go from there
Well everyone's available everywhere theoretically but that's kind of meaningless.
Just now, LGR4GM said:Which player will end their career, being talked about and ranked above the either, because most or all definitions of better apply to one more than the other.
Could still be Power. Ask me again in 2 years.
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3 minutes ago, LGR4GM said:
Do you think Rasmus Dahlin or Owen Power will have a better career?
Define "better"?
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4 minutes ago, LGR4GM said:
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3 minutes ago, LGR4GM said:
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The Sabres should trade the 11th overall pick in the 2024 draft
in The Aud Club
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I don't agree. At this point I think you tweak your BPA list a little - A LITTLE - for need. Especially if free agents don't want to come here (the old debate) and you run into too many NTC players you can't trade for. So for example if the BPA is a small speedy winger from Sweden and 3 or 4 slots down is a big prairie workhorse who checks well and likes to scrap a little you say no thank you to the Swede.
To the depth comment, yes.