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I'm the biggest Mittelstadt hater on earth but he has legitimately been the Sabres best player through these first 14 games.
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14 hours ago, Carmel Corn said:
Could Krebs become the next Matt Ellis?
I talked to him inbetween periods and he thought so.
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Aaaaand Savoie hurts the same shoulder he had surgery on last year. Awesome.
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He seems like a good dude but IMO he doesn't really provide any information that, as die hard fans, we don't already know.
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Novikov looking good.
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13 minutes ago, pastajoe said:
Will the Thursday scrimmage be streamed anywhere?
They usually stream it on Twitter, Facebook, and the Sabres website.
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11 hours ago, FrenchConnection44 said:
These videos are great. Man, wish I were up there to watch.
Seems like Benson has a bit of that Skinner-esque 10-2 skating style. Strong on his edges, probably helps him when working around the net. I like it.
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18 hours ago, Buffalonill said:
I'm sorry I know he's gonna be a good player but it's a f****** joke For the old generation that have been suffering .
I don't even know if I'm gonna be here in 3 years I drink so much
Do you ever have anything positive to say or is it just constant negativity in the form of gibberish and incomplete sentences? What would you have done then? Adams was definitely working the phones trying to make a move...
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Eichel not getting Conn Smythe is a small victory.
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I think considering the plethora of mid level forward talent in this organization it makes sense to trade up if Michkov falls. He isn't getting past Washington, so it'd have to be with someone before that.
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Lets just sign Derek Roy and trade him for Malkin
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5 minutes ago, Pimlach said:
Three more years? He should be in Rochester next year then.
He has a contract in the KHL. He cannot come over next year.
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20 minutes ago, GASabresIUFAN said:
We can’t forget that we aren’t the only improving team. Det and Ott are also improving and Pitt and Wash won’t go away quietly.
The only one of these teams I'm really worried about is Ottawa. This year was the beginning of the end for Pitt and Wash. At this point Wash is in limbo until Ovechkin beats Gretzky's record and retires. They need to tear it down. The same goes for Pitt. Neither team has anything in the way of prospects.
Detroit tried to fill holes with UFAs and it clearly didn't work -- they also don't have the same level of prospects/young players as Buf or Ott. I will admit though that Yzerman is a great GM and they shouldn't be ignored.
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I'm at the point where I roll my eyes when I hear Wawrow. Seems like an okay guy but he asks these long and convoluted questions that often make no sense. As a reporter your job is to be as specific as possible to get exact answers.
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11 hours ago, SABRES 0311 said:
I don’t know why but I love seeing Edmonton in the playoffs.
They have this dude named like MacDavis or something that's pretty good.
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***** off pittsburgh let us have a competent front office for once
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The UPL interview was the most interesting of the ones I watched. He seemed very emotional. I think he knows that his future with this team is very much up in the air. I really hope Levi coming in fuels him to be a better player as opposed to him requesting a trade or something. Having a Levi 1A and UPL 1B tandem in the future like Ullmark and Swayman would be great.
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7 hours ago, ... said:
After watching the locker clean-out videos, I have just a few comments/observations:
Dahlin's comments on his contract scare me.
Best interview was Jost. Hope he comes back.
Tuch's personality is very much like Ryan Miller's. The closest I've seen from a Sabre, or any NHL player, since Miller himself. He's more approachable than Miller and much less of a smooth talker, but the fundamental personality is very similar.
Okposo is such a dignified and smart guy with a really great sounding voice. He sounds like a person conflicted over whether to put in another season as a player in the NHL. I can see him as a coach/assistant coach or GM/Assistant GM in the very near future.
I gotta disagree on the Dahlin bit. I think he was just so focused on hockey he really didn’t think about the extension. Frankly I’d be surprised if Dahlin didn’t settle for a bit less on his contract than what he ought to earn. IMO the Tage and Cozens contracts set a precedent that a leader and good character guy like Dahlin will follow.
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1. Fix the PP and PK. The PK was terrible all year. It wasn't a personnel issue -- the system was simply bad. The PP might have been top 10 in the league, but they were really just riding an extremely hot PP streak from the beginning-midpoint of the year. Once teams began to prevent Tage's one timer it fell apart. They need to develop set plays on the PP other than Dahlin to Thompson.
2. I don't want to see Bryson or Olofsson play another game for this team, probably ever. Even just last night I watched Bryson make 2-3 key mistakes that had a large impact on the game. He brings very little compared to how much of a liability he is. Olofsson is just bad at 5v5. I could justify keeping him if he was scoring on the PP, but he isn't.
3. Bring in another goaltender. I don't want everything on Levi's shoulders next year. Ideally the situation would be a 1A 1B even split between Levi and this other goaltender.
4. Trade for/sign another solid defenseman.
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My vantage point tonight.
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Playing Levi would be a lot of pressure for his second career NHL game. I think you go with UPL. He's extremely streaky and IMO he played well versus Philly. Frankly there's a case to be made for all four goaltenders - Comrie has the best win percentage as of late, and Anderson has been the best goaltender statistically. Hard to predict what Donny ends up doing.
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25 minutes ago, Randall Flagg said:
The stars lose a lot of games for a first place team
I have not liked Greenway so far, still very early
I thought he looked pretty good versus Edmonton, but meh versus the Islanders. To be fair though, the whole team looked bad on Tuesday.
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2 hours ago, FrenchConnection44 said:
Gotta go with Comrie. Huge game with playoff ramifications.
Good to see Jost is coming back. Would be great to get Tillman, and Samuelson back. At least one to get Bryson off. The lineup I’d like to see ASAP (while Tuch is out):
Skinner-Thompson-Quinn
Mitts-Cozens-Hinostroza
Greenway-Krebs-Peterka/VO
Girgs-Jost-Okposo
Dahlin-Samuelsson
Power-Joki
Tillman-Lyubushkin
I don’t have a lot of confidence in VO. Too much of a liability defensively. But perhaps he could be better if Greenway and Krebs were both out there?
The worst thing that happened last night was having Bryson and Olafsson on ice at the same time. They are the only two double digit negatives in plus/minus on the team. And -21, -20 at that! Have to avoid that if possible.
But when one considers that Peterka has 21 points with a -9 +/-, Olafsson has 32 points and a -21, the sieve-like defense of Olafsson is even more apparent.
This is the correct lineup. I agree, Peterka over VO, but Donny seems to love Victor.
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Anyone know if Greenway is in Buffalo yet/playing tonight?
Kevyn Adams, press conference 4/16/2024
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I will say he definitely hit the nail on the head with regards to what went wrong this season.