Drag0nDan

Caps have guys they can put on LTIR. Vegas has weber. Tampa will do something weird to get under. Florida will need to do something though. Philly is floating JVR (expiring on a 7M deal and they want assets) and Provorov (LHD we dont need). Vancouver seems set to move JT miller (expiring on a reasonable deal, but coming off a 99pt year thats going to cost buffalo more than a mittelstadt).

He's also a 19 year old dude, awkwardly posing for a stranger.. thats about as good as it gets

He needs to put pucks in the net. Cozens too.

I'll usually say "im doing well" - which is probably making it wrong 🙂

Hey - i've notice the guardians seem to be leaning the opposite direction. Grab players with some speed/athleticism, play to your platoon strengths, don't strike out, drive up pitch counts and get on base. I was small growing up so i tended to be the same way. Then around junior year i filled out a little and learned how to drive the ball into the gaps and definitely started getting more selective with what i'd swing at. I probably struck out more my junior and senior year than all the other years combined. Are there situations where you choke up a bit and try and just put it in play? Sure. But blasting a homer is a good all-situation play 🙂

At age 19 i was 5'7 140 lbs and ate pizza and cheeseburgers every day. I could've eaten til it hurt and it wouldn't have mattered. Get him with a nutritionist - and get him on a workout plan. He'll be fine. Its the hockey part that we should worry about. Yeah. Curtis Lazar would've really put this team over the top.

His father is an assistant coach with the Ontario Reign, and he followed in dad's footsteps at Minnesota. I believe he was drafted by Sioux Falls into the USHL. There's definitely some smoke to the fire here. And it'd be naive to think otherwise.

He's from Irvine though.

Team needs a goalie who can steal more games. And the defense in front needs to be better. They are 2-32-5 when they give up more than 4 goals. 39 of 76 games we've given up 4 or more goals. That is awful. 42 games where the PDO (Shooting% + SV%) was below 100. I feel like 100 shouldn't even be that difficult, that's 3 goals on 30 shots and the same .900 sv%. They can generate some offense but we still stink at shooting. The defense could do more to block shots and generally help the goalies out. And the goaltending this year has been some of the worst in the league. Skater stats: 25th in goals per game, 23rd in shooting%, 18th in PP%, 25th in PK%, #1 in shootout goal percentage. Goalie stats: 25th in GAA, 25th in SV%, 31st in Shootout SV% (leaving points on the table there), tied for last in shutouts.

Worked us on the PP, and they scored their point blank chances. We either shot them into pads or just flat out missed the net.

There's a time and a place.... it is not in the defensive zone, through the middle, at your own blue line.

The drop passes and random passes through center ice out of the d zone are absolutely infuriating.

I'm not even sure we should rely on UPL at this point. Spend some money, draft capital, picks, whatever on this position.

They possibly both already are trade pieces.

I hate my baseball team and I'm fairly certain I'm just done with them. They changed their name to the Guardians - which is terrible. They have gone the route of a rock bottom payroll. The team name even shares 5 letters... i think they saved money on their logo change even. It's just so pathetically cheap and I can't stand it.

These don't need to be lines - i'm all for mixing it up including thompson line - which can be a bit too offense heavy and gives up too many chances Skinner thompson tuch - No one touches skinner, thompsons been our best center, and tuch looks like future captain girgs-asplund-okposo - Girgs might fetch something in a trade but not much, asplund if he can play center would be a good fit here with a better shot than eakin and a willingness to use it krebs - cozens - olof - Krebs needs the offseason as he's sort of in a rut and making a lot of the same mistakes. Cozens needs to continue to work on his 200 foot game and just generally needs to play faster more consistently. Olof can shoot, and even pass sometimes, and is probably a wing on the PP1 JJP - Mitts - Quinn - Hypothetically these are the last 3 in, which would mean no FAs or trades out of the forward group. I'm not sure i love mitts at center, or both rookies starting up with the team right out of the gate. I don't think theres much for either to learn at the same time, and I wouldn't trade either. Trocheck would be a nice get - good on the dot, good defensively. Giroux as well would be an interesting add. But adding either one of those pushes someone like JJP to the minors, or someone like olof or mitts (or both) off the roster entirely. There are a ton of young dudes on this team right now. I like the idea of a Varlamov, and there will be others. Kuemper, Campbell, Husso, Vanacek will all sign places - and those teams will likely have to move goalies as well.

The thing is too - while a ton of this has come with skinner and tuch. Asplund and Olofsson were scoring on his wing this season early on as well, and they went into their slumps when they were taken off of his line.

More aggressive too - and its not all about chasing hits. He's meeting people closer to the blue line instead of continuing to fade back.

I feel like Allen would be a center though. Sort of an angrier lemieux.

Love the turn on this player. When initially acquired a lot of people hated it and viewed it as a throw-in and that we got less for Reinhart than Risto. Now a season later and he's looking like a possible solution in goal at some point. I think this would be an even faster jump than Spencer Knight.

Agreed. Those 3 on the ice was brutal - its like they were trying to play up a hill or something.

John Hayden has played in 52 games for Buffalo this year. Eakin has played in 62. Bjork has played in 51. Murray 19. Jankowski 19. Ethan prow even popped in for 4 games. There's plenty of space in the lineup for your quinns, jjp's, and free agents/trades. In addition to literally like 50 starts at goalie.

I put cohesion. Goaltending has been much better though still pretty inconsistent. Tokarski was having a really good month before chicago (where he was awful), and anderson has cooled off. The team is 23-23-8 in games not started by Dell and Subban. While not a playoff record it's clear even marginal goaltending is a big step up for this group. UPL clearly had some poor luck with 2 wins in 5 good starts - I think this was that stretch where everyone was hurt or sick with miller, bryson, hagg etc. all in and out of the lineup too.

Ah good point! We only had 5 picks in 2020? Apparently traded a 4th to move up for JJP - who looks like he could be good so... i'm pretty good with that. 3rd was traded for skinner. Other 4th they traded for Frolik - yikes JB. In any case - they could have just drafted Levi - but we still got someone in 2020. In any case - we need a goalie today not tomorrow or the day after. We probably should keep giving goalies looks though.

I think with teams being occasionally forced to trade guys - you can acquire your superstar forward in other ways. Who that guy is and how we acquire him? I don't think buffalo's in a position to get one yet unfortunately. Too much bad press around Eichel. If both Dahlin, and Power can become superstar defensemen it makes everyone look better too - and just generally make finding a superstar easier.