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1 hour ago, stinky finger said:
I think Pasta will be challenged again. Curious to see how he responds. If he's fighting he's not scoring. He's gonna be targeted. He/they are gonna wish he didn't join the fray.
Of course he will be targeted. Florida goes after the stars, it's their thing and fair enough I get it. The guy they are targeting most though is McAvoy. Forecheck and hit the D is their primary game plan and it's a good one - are you listening Lindy???
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2 hours ago, Wyldnwoody44 said:
I have have been as far west as Alberta/Banff area. In Canada (Alaska in the US) I need to get to Vancouver at some point, I hear great things.
Lovely but expensive city.
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8 hours ago, Pimlach said:
They cannot afford to let another goalie get away.
Too true. That's part of the problem Kevyn has created for himself too though. If he had a solid veteran in the fold UPL would have less bargaining power but with only himself and Levi as viable goalies his agent is going to play hardball.
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48 minutes ago, Wyldnwoody44 said:
That's awesome, a Boston Band Trolling! Is that where that Canadian dessert comes from Barre Nanaimo? I had one recently in Quebec and it was yummy
yes indeed, Nanaimo Bars did in fact originate in Nanaimo. Beautiful small city just under 100,000 people including 1 hard core Sabres fan @bunomatic
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Babcock's available 🙂
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9 hours ago, Wyldnwoody44 said:
I remember Vancouver after the loss to Boston back in maybe 17? Trashing the city, Rabid is the word
2011 and I remember it well for a number of reasons but the best was just a few days after the riot I went over to Vancouver to see the Dropkick Murphys. Living on the island in Nanaimo at the time. Took the ferry over and when we hit the downtown it was surreal. All these boarded up windows and damaged businesses. It looked worse than the way they dress it up for filming The Last Of Us. Those fans had gone crazy.
Dropkick Murphys have a big spoked B on their drumkit, spotlight on it and they play We Are The Champions to start their show. Taunted the crowd all night long. It was brilliant and unforgettable. I remember that night better than the actual cup games but everybody probably remembers Burrows and the finger bite.
Lots of city council debates right now over possibly having outdoor viewing parties again. I believe they have agreed to try it now.
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12 hours ago, Thorny said:
Lol reading comprehension again. I’m not using BPA in a drafting context, here. You’ve been attempting to have an argument with me for a few hours that I’m legitimately not having haha. It’s my fault as well, I shouldn’t have even used the term “ROSTER bpa” because it invited confusion: my point was it should be the best players we can ice (up to and including transactions we might make), rather than actively looking to find spots for rookies. They should absolutely be in the mix, but as I stated (I hoped it would make sense): the youth should have to force their way on. Yes, “best” still necessarily accounts for mix and a wanting to have a well balanced team
Proper nhl depth results in rookies needing to bypass appropriate competition and also provides injury insurance
Correct. I have nothing different to add but want to stress the bolded part as a punctuation point to the discussion.
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Canuck fans are rabid. Car horns all over at 11 pm. The flags are wavin'. I'm amazed they came back. Lindholm shows his value in the post season more and more.
Now that is a team that plugged their roster holes well.
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1 hour ago, Thorny said:
The ROSTER should be BPA. if a kid is good enough he can force his way on outright.
I wasn’t saying “kids as depth” i was saying “don’t be afraid to assemble nhl depth” as it helps withstand injuries
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.
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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)
2024 NHL DRAFT Talk
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There's a similarity with Benson and Marchand. Marchand fell (even further) because of his size. He's a little guy and GMs always think twice on little guys (as they probably should in most cases). When a little guy is actually good he's usually a steal in the draft.
One thing I want to throw in here many people might not know. Do you know who made Marchand into Marchand? Ted Nolan.