Drag0nDan

Yeah. He seemed to move anyone from any line except hall-eichel. And it was pretty plain to see that they didn't mesh well enough.

The absurdly low shooting percentages - likely a symptom of the problem of not driving the net, and not screening enough. The other issue you didn't mention - 25+ for risto per night, and skinner playing 13 minutes a night on assorted random lines. Skinner had 3 points under Krueger in 25 games, and 11 points in 28 games under Granato. Okposo had 4 points under Krueger in 23 games, and 9 points in 12 games under Granato.

I always felt that way about Barkov. Just a complete player who always looks in control.

They moved down in the first (essentially cole sillinger who is playing in the NHL right now for nolan allen), and gave up another 1st (looking like the 2023 one with how bad they've played) and 2nd (2022). They also gave up a young defenseman in the deal (Boqvist), and made seth jones one of the highest paid defensemen in the league despite never winning a Norris while also coming off a poor season. You aren't wrong here... this looks brutal. If Jones doesn't begin to play significantly better it'll look even worse. 30M tied up in kane, toews, jones. Very top heavy - and like all their prospects are playing up with the big club. And Nylander still can't hack it with them.

I remember reading something about him being disappointed with his play in Philly, and wanted to use this as an opportunity to become a better player.

I'm just happy they are adding goalies for the future.

Ugh - i was at that NYE game. At least i got to see 10 goals? I once went to a 0-0 tie against the rangers that featured a single shootout goal.

Miller wasn't protected though. They protected risto, dahlin, and jokiharju. The Seattle Kraken made no trades for concessions in exchange for agreeing to select certain unprotected players.

I just don't see it. He's 25, has played 14 games, and wasn't particularly good in them. He's never scored a point in the NHL. Maybe he's a late bloomer, but everything about him suggests he's a bottom pairing guy. Not someone I'd pair with my best player. Would've been nice to get something for him - but they got significantly more for risto/reinhart than they would have for borgen, so they made the right move. Protecting him by trading a player with a pick then also comes with the loss of a prospect (also, seattle didn't do this with any team in the league). They also basically replaced borgen in the lineup with pysyk (whos probably better today), and actually saved money somehow. What would you have done differently?

yep. have cozens center the skinner line. Did it get confirmed broken? Nothing out there on twitter etc.

Got a link?

I think he'd have to demand he be sent to the minors. But in all seriousness... 8? That's like leaving your starting pitcher in for like 15 runs. He also already probably had no confidence, how much more can you damage it?

Jumped up into the play a few times, is a great PP QB, and he's still looked solid on zone exits.

Someone on twitter was like - Montreal was on a back to back.... It's the 2nd game of the season.

I liked how active sticks were in the neutral zone, just pressuring in general. I feel like we constantly gave up the zone last season. And when we did give up the zone in this one they put more sustained pressure on buffalo.

But he won't... so we can probably limit eichel comments to the 300 page thread about trading him. He'll never play here again.

His name is Cody... Cody EAAAAKIN Sorry, Any given sunday was on cable on friday night and his name works with that willie beamon song.

I don't think you can send him down for the season if you claim him. Once the S hits the F this year, i think they want the roster flex?

Yeah... Levi is 19. He won't be here for a while... if ever.

Well... They also had ROR for 3 years. So... Zadorov and Compher for 3 years of ROR. Teams have given up similar returns for 1 year rentals honestly. The ROR trade was clearly pretty bad, but it's not "finished" yet. Johnson could end up being a solid top 4 dman or something for the team for 10 years, we really have no idea.

I liked how the guy put it. It isn't the total trainwreck that its made out to be... yet. Thompsons obviously been a dud, but he's still relatively young so there is some unknown there. And Johnson hasn't played yet so its hard to call him a failure.

Agreed. But the team was the worst team in the league last year, and they have since jettisoned 3 of the top 7 scorers on the team (4 if you include Eichel who is likely to either not play or get traded). To expect them to be anywhere above the bottom group of the league would be unfair to the team. Reasons to be optimistic: Better schedule - new teams to play, probably easier when you consider the division buffalo played in a year ago Better defensemen - I think the group they have is built to more effectively move the puck in the style granato wants. Risto was a lot of things, but accurate passer was not one of them. Pysyk is probably a steal at that contract as well. Better Goaltending - They lost ullmark, but he played less than half the games last year - and i truly think anderson/dell/UPL are upgrades over johansson, Hutton, tokarski, houser Healthier - I don't know that they can be less healthy than a team that loses like 4 or 5 goalies, their star center, and half the team to covid. I don't think they'll be the worst team in the league, but they should be in the conversation.

I thought that burned a year off the ELC - does it get them to UFA faster too? I never really understood it. They do this crap in baseball too, where prospects get called up in like August to save a cheap year.

Nice little olympic break for the entire sabres organization though. Probably good for a really young lineup. Silver lining?

He could absolutely have made more than the 1.25 from Nashville if he came to buffalo. But if you are a backup NHL goalie, you'd probably rather be a backup for a good team than a bad one. Buffalo isn't offering backup goalies term even as the laughing stock of the league. They aren't dumb enough to do carter hutton's deal again. Time to develop some goalies internally.