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9 hours ago, sabresouth said:
Yeah..... Not sure about Linus as the number one starter going forward with all these injury's. It wouldn't be so bad if we had a competent backup.
My guess would be same injury. A position that requires a ton of flexibility is always going to be a challenge coming back from any soft tissue injury. Time to get that kid a pilates coach or something.
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6 minutes ago, Curt said:
Where did this information come from?
How any rumor starts - heard it from someone who claims to know a player. Most of my friends who have interacted with players at some level don't have a lot of great things to say though. More interested in partying than anything else.
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17 minutes ago, Doohickie said:
He reminds me of Tage in that respect. Let Granato & Ellis work with him a bit. He may come around.
Dahlin played a physical game last night. Not reckless, he was in control, but he finished his checks.
Marchand was trying to get under his skin all game and he was composed. I thought he played great. Even when he messed up he wasn't panicked.
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8 hours ago, nfreeman said:
I would love it if the Bruins tied themselves to that lead balloon.
It’s weird though. You’re right that Hall is a different guy since the injury, but he still seems pretty fast and strong on his skates to me. It looks more like he’s lost his hands and his timing. The mojo is gone and what’s left is flash, dash and empty shifts.
Separately, I only saw the 3rd period plus OT, but that was a pretty exciting and hard-fought chunk of a hockey game. The difference post RK in guys like Joki, Dahlin, Mitts and, yes, Skinner is enormous. And I freaking love Cozens.
Make the right moves this summer and I will be raring to go in the fall.
One of my comments to my buddy was that hall still sucks.
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1 hour ago, dudacek said:
The numbers may not back this up, but my sense is Eakin has been almost adequate without Kyle, and Kyle has been OK (and recently pretty good) without Cody.
Put them together and it is an absolute disaster.
Eakins just a turnover machine. There is no direction to his game either, he just seems content to constantly pass it around behind the net. Either his own or the opponents when he happens to touch the puck in the offensive zone. He never drives the net, and he never drives passes to the net. If he was a big hitter, or could shoot maybe there would be some purpose out there, but right now its like 15 minutes that could be better spent by other players. I guess he's good at draws?
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Okposo finally plays well. Put him back with eakin... aaaaand tank
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6 minutes ago, dudacek said:
From Adams yesterday, it sounds like there is uncertainty over the correct treatment path (I read it "is surgery necessary") and a decision about that will be made soon.
At the time of that decision, we will get an update.
Heard a rumor about him being in rehab fwiw
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1 minute ago, Brawndo said:
I think I read it on Twitter but they said it best. The quote from moneyball "if he's a good hitter, why doesn't he hit good?" applies to me at least. If Hall is such a good player, why doesn't he play good?
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Just now, Gatorman0519 said:
“I want to be a part of a team that wins games”.. Hall... ouch. Can’t blame him though.
I want a left winger who moves his feet coming out of the zone. But i guess we can't all get what we want.
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Just now, GASabresIUFAN said:
I was happy we signed him as well, until I saw what RK had planned for Skinner and that KA failed to address the issues at RW. Then deal made less sense and now in hindsight the whole episode is one the worst in Sabres history.
I think once the dust settled a lot of folks on the board were a bit concerned about where it slotted people. Olofsson with cozens and staal never gelled. They tried like 3 different wingers with jack and hall before they decided on reinhart- and then moved hall off for olofsson. It was not a good fit, it messed with other fits throughout the roster, and essentially nudged skinner into a bottom 6 role, with players that weren't suited to playing with him.
It was a big swing/big move, and it was a big whiff. What they ended up getting for their money was a terrible season, and a 2nd round pick.
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Just now, Norcal said:
Someone on here has said this all along and been mostly chastised for it.
Contractually earned means he had a NMC and my choices er choice, was Bahston
Right. Between that there was the high salary that limits suitors, his poor play this year (and honestly prior - 29 goals across the last 3 seasons), and the fact that he's a skill winger that doesn't take draws, or kill penalties - all these things limited his value. I mean he has 19 points playing with jack for most of the time, and playing on a power play that for a stretch was one of the better ones in the league.
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10 minutes ago, Norcal said:
Brian Lawton just said if Hall backed the Sabres into a corner they should have just told him to take a seat and go get ur deal after the season. He didn't think Adams should have just acquiesced to his demands.
Safe to say that there's alot of stuff that goes into this that we will never know about.
Easy to say that as an analyst. Do whats best for the team and organization, not your ego.
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Just now, Curt said:
Boston needed to create cap space. AHL JAGs don’t affect NHL cap space. They needed to change one of their NHL guys for someone cheaper.
If only it was that guy we just signed... caggilulia or whatever.
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Just now, LGR4GM said:
Masterful ***** job by Adams...
2.25 mil cap hit, and he has 10 goals this year.
Hall had 3 assists in the 13 games leading up to the deadline fwiw (before sitting for injury prevention) - and has 2 goals this year.
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1 minute ago, LGR4GM said:
I hate, absolutely hate, Taylor Hall. Hope he gets his ass handed to him when the Sabres play them.
Imagine if skinner just pulls some greasy cheap shot... This is for taking my rightful position on jack's wing!
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4 minutes ago, PerreaultForever said:
I've been looking at the Bruins press releases and reading articles like this one:
https://www.sportsnet.ca/nhl/article/bruins-take-advantage-sabres-taylor-hall-trade/
and I'm starting to think Taylor Hall kind of screwed us for the money.
It appears he wanted to be a Bruin before the season but they couldn't work around their cap so he came here and now he was handcuffing Adams with his no move clause so the Bruins deal was pretty much the only option we had. There's some speculation here but listen and read for yourselves and I think it leads one to that conclusion.
IF he plays well in Boston I think it would confirm it.
Boston gets a free trial for contract negotiations too - hopefully he does well so they lock him up. Cuz from what i saw, he's not the impact player on the ice that he believes he is.
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Just now, JohnC said:
I disagree with your comparison between Foligno and Hall. At this stage in Hall's career Foligno is a better and more well-rounded player. For Toronto the cost for the deal made sense because they believed that he could be an important factor in a cup run. Not only that Toronto has a lot of good young player on their roster and in their system where they can easily absorb the loss of a lower first round pick selection. The Toronto and Buffalo situations are very different.
Yeah - Foligno is more of a complete forward. He can take draws, hit, play a 200 foot game, kill penalties etc. He also has more goals than hall this year.
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Just now, GASabresIUFAN said:
I'm with you brother. I'm done making excuses for bad decisions by our GMs. This Hall trade is just the latest regarding Hall. He shouldn't have been acquired. He shouldn't have been given a full NMC and KA should have received more for him then a late 2nd rd pick and a player we don't need.
Who's giving more? Who even has the space to make it happen?
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Just now, GASabresIUFAN said:
You maybe right, but we'll never know because KA puts us in a no win situation. That said, an older and inferior player in Foligno went for a 1st and 4th.
And Toronto overpaid. But they got what they felt they needed - Gritty forward who can play up in a pinch, hits, kills penalties, and can play on the power play. They did not want taylor hall - so the first round pick they traded was never in play.
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Just now, GASabresIUFAN said:
First of all I know exactly how NMCs work and they get waived all of the time to facilitate a trade, especially at the deadline to go to a winning team. In most situations a GM asks for list of teams the player will accept a deal to in order to create a market for that player. If the player provides the list, this list constitutes a waiver of the clause to those teams. What part of this simple procedure do you not understand. Personally I find it stupid that someone who follows the NHL for years doesn't know that players waive NMCs all the time to get deals done and that most of the time it is done through a list. Limited or partial NTC or NMC have the advantage of requiring players to make a list.
Right - and what they're saying is that his list can be 10 teams, or it can be 2, or 1. Once boston got to his agent he may have just said - its boston - thats it. And there's nothing you can do there.
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Just now, Thorny said:
He can do exactly that, he probably would, and him being stuck with that rep does nothing to help us
It certainly opens up his list of teams to be traded to though. It's some leverage in a negotiation vs. this situation with Hall.
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Just now, Sabre fan said:
find it hard to believe Lazar would say that...seems to me not too long ago no one wanted him and we help to ressurrect his career by signing him. You will not make many friends around the NHL trash talking like that
"We found some creative ways to lose games, but you look at the way they're playing now, it's pretty exciting. They have a very bright future with all those young guys that are playing the right way right now... you can see that confidence growing."
It isn't like he absolutely dragged Buffalo in that quote.
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Just now, Thorny said:
Definitely, not suggesting the returns in any way would be comparable, merely that the deal illustrates the large relative affect such a clause can have on a deal. It's one thing to be in the situation with Hall, we can't *let* it get to that with Jack.
I expect Jack to be a professional. Captain/Face of franchise can't just say "i want out", and i only want to go here. If he does, prepare to sit out quite a while until they get a return they can live with - and enjoy the reputation of being an absolute crybaby who has no leadership qualities. He'd also get dragged through the media while the whole thing plays out.
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Just now, Thorny said:
And GM's must be judged on results.
Hey everyone, pretty good preview of how the return might be hampered when Eichel wants to go to the Bruins, after his NMC kicks in.
Have to win next season. Have to.
Well... he's not on an expiring contract which eliminates a considerable amount of leverage.
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I think the challenge scouting hockey is that - they're all so young. The desire for greatness, the want to be faster, stronger, how to overcome adversity - how do you scout that? Give me the player with that desire, not the kid whos the fastest or with the best shot.
I love watching diggs offseason training regimen - its weird stuff - but its all designed to get faster out of his breaks, improve his balance, and improve his general ability to play the position even the slightest bit. I want players who want to improve their weakest attributes, and generally want to be great.
I don't expect this sabres draft pick to have an impact next season - but i want them to be a player who truly has that competitive spirit and desire to be great.