Drag0nDan
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28 minutes ago, Pimlach said:
Maybe you go Andy tonight and do everything to get the 2 points?
I'm texting anderson every game day morning from here on out...
"how ya feeeeeeelin?"
54 minutes ago, CallawaySabres said:2 points are a must with Bruins on Sunday. I would go UPL tonight with Anderson at home for the Bs.
Gotta have this one. And honestly - they might need to win on sunday.
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9 hours ago, wiselyman3 said:
After tonight's win, if we can win Wednesday and Friday, we'll be right back in it. Tons of losable games for the other wild card contend this week. We'll see...
They're not out of it - but they need to put a serious run together. I'd wager they need... 24 out of 32 points to feel good about their chances. 20 would be bare minimum.
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28 minutes ago, GASabresIUFAN said:
The first questions we should have to answer for any incoming D is are they better than Joki and would they fit our system.
Take Orlov for example. He is a better player and I know he can succeed in an up tempo system. What are Mayfield? I worry about a guy moving from the D first NYI system to ours, although I like the player.
It was mentioned up thread about KA looking for value assets in his trades. Stillman, Greenway and even the attempt on Murray are all examples. However the attempt to acquire Chychrun was anything but a buy low scenario. To me it signals and more open approach to getting what the franchise needs.
Lybushkin has struggled all low integrating into our tempo. He seems to be playing a bit looser now, but for a while he was reluctant to do much of anything when exiting the zone, and never knew what to do with the puck when he had it in the offensive zone.
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10 minutes ago, Eleven said:
Sitting Jost in favor of Olofsson while Samuelsson and Stillman are out doesn't seem ideal. I guess Granato really must be planning on out-scoring the Oilers.
With Those Dmen out - you kind of have to? Hino's been playing well and i don't know how greenway fits there. Might have just put him on the vet line because its a fairly simple game on that line. Pucks go forward, they go behind the net, and you finish your checks.
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Just now, DarthEbriate said:
Affirmative. Tonight is ESPN+/Hulu exclusive so we'll get the ESPN announcers.
I wanted to go to this one but i think my buddy sold his seasons already for it.
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18 hours ago, kas23 said:
This is true, but they are both very streaky players. And right now, Vinnie is getting on the scoreboard and Oloffson is not. I understand Oloffson needs to play to become streaky, but I go with the hot hand here and that is Vinnie. They both suck in their own zone and at forecheck.
Hinostroza plays with some pace though, so he can fit on a line with cozens or krebs. Olofsson has some use on the power play, though i have noticed teams are just smothering him on the wall if he doesn't have a lot of space.
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On 2/25/2023 at 12:35 PM, Pimlach said:
You seem to be handy. No more big projects like this for me, I will help my sons with their houses but they do the bull work. I provide the experience and finesse and try to keep them from cutting the wrong corners. LOL.
I would consider building all the cabinets first and doing a trial install. Do not expect your walls and corners to be true, so you typically install the cabinets first, use shims to get them both level and plumb side to side and front to back. Then do the backsplash last - assuming tile. Then add cabinet trim pieces to cover the seams and any gaps to the walls and ceiling.
My experience with IKEA is limited to storage projects and shelving for my vast vintage audio equipment and record collection --- you have to be careful building them as you can weaken a joint if you don't have good alignment when fastening. I used extra bracing on certain non-visible joints that would carry a big load. Think about the load distribution both down and lateral. If you do a trial install you will be glad you added extra bracing.
Good luck with your project. Keep us updated.
I heard a lot of good things about their cabinets recently fwiw. Affordable and not as cheaply made as some of the other brands you might see at a depot/lowes.
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Fios. Hulu for the rest. Is tonight a hulu game? i hate scrambling to find it on there.
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I kind of hate both of them. The terrible home ice camera work, the terrible sound quality, terrible arena, terrible announcing. It needs an overhaul.
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24 minutes ago, Contempt said:
Pretty sure it was more about unloading Hall than acquiring Bjork.
yeah i think bjork was a dollars piece or something.
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1 hour ago, mjd1001 said:
Seems a bit pricey. Maybe not for a lot of consumers, but if you go by the fact that a large portion of 'cord cutters' are younger people or people who can't afford a full cable package, then $10 a game or $30 a month doesn't help much.
The NHL is so afraid of giving their fans/consumers 'too good of a deal' today where they might lose that $1 right now, they are losing out on $10 in the future. The NFL gets it, and the NFL already has the fan base so they really don't need to make their games as available as the NHL. The NHL, with a much smaller fanbase, should be falling all over themselves to make as many of their games free or at a very, VERY low cost for fans. Let them watch your game, let them love your game, let them want to buy tickets, buy jerseys, T-shirts etc.
I posted in another thread about this. I have 2 nieces, a nephew, and our daughter and her boyfriend all in their 20's and no longer 'living at home'. They all are/were big Sabres fans, but none of them watch the games anymore as they won't buy a full cable package. $10 a game, $30 a month or $300+ dollars per year will do ZERO to get them to sign up so they can watch games again.
Does the NHL want to grown their fanbase today? Or would they rather not grow the fanbase but squeeze every dollar they can out of their current fanbase? they are doing the latter.
It changes nothing for people who already have cable, or out of market people with ESPN+. Its just giving people who don't have or want cable in the buffalo market an option to watch the games.
I think its overpriced, but maybe they'll see low subscriber counts and adjust - but it literally already exists as a platform. They don't need to do much of anything other than lift blackout restrictions for subscribers. So all this really does is address a portion of fans who had no access, so i don't see how it could be anything other than growth.
I'm more wondering when they're going to address the absolute terrible quality of it. Sound is off, especially on away games. Camera feeds are terrible. Feels like its dark - that could be our terrible arena though. It's a consistently poor product.
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4 hours ago, LGR4GM said:
It isn't specifically about Chychrun but he is a great example of the issue the Sabres not only have now, but will not be fixed by "draft and develop" which has been Adams mantra. It is a mantra that I don't usually have an issue with, however.
The Buffalo Sabres do not have prospects internally that will be top 4 defenders anytime in the next 2-4 years (I lean closer to 4 years). Lindgren, Komarov are 4 years out from being impactful, 3 if you get lucky. Novikov is at least 2 years out and probably 3 if you get lucky. Then there is Ryan Johnson who hopefully signs but he's going to be Lyubushkin's replacement basically on the 3rd pairing after next year.
That's it. There are no other defenders in the system that we should even think about IMPO. Which brings us back to Chychrun. The Sabres defense is bad and we saw what happens when 1 injury happens, it gets way worse. Power will get better and Samuelsson might get a little better but no one else in the top 6 is going to improve a bunch to make the defense better. Adding a guy like Chychrun allows you to bridge some of the time from now until maybe a prospect is ready to fill in. It upgrades what you have currently and it does signal that we are starting to move away from development seasons to serious attempts at winning.
It doesn't have to be Chychrun, but giving up a 1st in 2023, 2nd in 2024, and a 2nd in 2026 should not have been a deal breaker. The 2023 first is probably around 17-19th depending on points and that is a player who is 2 years away once you draft him. The 2026 2nd is a player who won't make the NHL until what? 2029 or 2030. Now we could argue that Buffalo's 2023 1st is viewed as slightly less valuable than Ottawa's but we also could have coughed up an earlier 2nd rounder, hell we could have given them one this year.
My point in all this is that we have to trade or sign not 1 but 2 defenders. Bryson, Clague, whatever is not good enough. Jokiharju is hit or miss and really struggles when you bump up his minutes and responsibility. Boosh has one more year. There is no help in the pipeline that we can point to like Savoie or Kulich and say "yea reinforcements are coming". That means as soon as next year's deadline we will only have 3 useful defenders on this team, Dahlin, Power, Muel. It isn't about Chychrun specifically but if we want to make the playoffs ever, we can't just "draft and develop" because at that rate the defender we draft in 2023 will be impactful in 2027.
Outside help has to come to the defense or this will be another failed rebuild. One of the best times to add is the trade deadline, if not now then when? Before the draft? UFA? They need help and it might cost a precious pick to acquire it, I just hope they aren't afraid to pull the trigger when the option come along. We have seen cheaper deals for helpful defenders, do we really need 3 second round picks this year?
The challenge at the deadline is only bad teams are looking to sell. So you limit yourself to about 10 teams that you can buy from. Prices are usually higher too.
I do think a deal will need to be made next offseason - but you have free agency, and teams looking to dump salary etc in the offseason.
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11 hours ago, PerreaultForever said:
Rain on your wedding day?
Undervalued him by not offering him what he was worth on the open market. Why ask? You already know.
do you know this or are you just speculating?
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14 hours ago, PerreaultForever said:
Yup, meanwhile Linus Ullmark scores a goal the other night and steals a win for the Bruins tonight despite facing 59 shots.
KA blew it, but it's been talked to death.
Blew what? Didn't he offer him a contract?
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6 hours ago, tom webster said:
With the rising cap, having your top 4 forwards locked up for a combined $28M and multiple forwards expected to be contributing on entry level deals, these worries about cap crunch are fodder, utter nonsense and excuses.
Yeah - skinners off the books by the time any questions come up around quinn/JJP and literally anyone else in the pipeline. Tuch will be 30 if he hits UFA before that - 30 year olds don't get paid much and they usually don't get term. Power gets a lower AAV because you buy out RFA years and trade some UFA ones. Dahlin will get paid hopefully soon before the cap jumps.
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18 hours ago, French Collection said:
Anderson’s body can’t handle enough games. Play him as much as he can handle.
Comrie is still trying to get his footing, needs more starts. They need more games to see what he can do.
UPL wins quite a few but makes me flinch on every shot. Do not anoint him #1
There are less than 30 games left and Anderson is the best we have. I still carry 3 because i'd rather UPL start than comrie, but Anderson should get 2/3 starts the rest of the way. He's already retiring after the year, just play your ass off and leave it on the ice.
Are we going to really roll 3 different goalies out in a playoff series?
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13 minutes ago, Skibum said:
At least there was a proper make-up call (or non-call, rather) on the OT game-winner. I guess that also could have been called as holding the stick on TBL, but it sure looked like a big fat hook by Boosh!
The stick was definitely up, but Stamkos misplayed the puck and then fell over trying to reach for it. Looked like he may have tried to trap the stick and took a dive.
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5 hours ago, tom webster said:
What they should be doing is having a hearing for the officiating crew that missed it.
I mean - you have toronto looking at a possible delay of game... but you don't for actual penalties?
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1 hour ago, GASabresIUFAN said:
That’s not the argument at all. KA has drafted 13 players the last 3 years in the first 3 rounds. 11 forwards, 1 D and 1G. (7.6%). Overall he has drafted 27 players and only 5 D (18.5%) and 4 of the 5 are late round picks. Last I looked D comprise about 33% of a roster. Hard to develop D when you don’t draft any. Hard to develop top 4 D when you only draft one early in the draft over a 3 year period.
Going back 5 years is a false flag. Yes those draft picks are in the NHL and they should be by now. Dahlin is D+5, Samuelsson is D+5, Bryson D+6, Jokiharju D+6 , and Clague D+7. None of these guys, except Power, are “recent draft picks.”
I agree with most of this and think they should and probably will draft more defensemen. Johnson is a wildcard, Lindgren is 18, and everything in the near term is bad. That is the issue - drafting someone this year doesn't help the team likely for at least a year or two. Factor in that the pipeline is pretty barren at almost every level, and you're short depth of some 20 somethings.
Losing borgen sucked, cost controlled 3rd pair guy and a righty at that. But looking at the roster i'm not sure what else you could've done. If we used hindsight i guess we trade out 10 for 8 skaters and leave out asplund bjork and mittelstadt. But at the time - that last one could've been thompson
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11 hours ago, GASabresIUFAN said:
It’s a two man race between Montgomery and Ruff.
I know a lot has fallen in right for Montgomery... but its a very similar roster to last year. And they are absolutely rocking the league right now.
Among the league leaders in goals scored, miles ahead on goals allowed. On a ridiculous points pace. And its his first year - if he doesn't win it, when should he?
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21 hours ago, LabattBlue said:
Skinner never was nor will he ever be a 9 mil hockey player. Yes, he has made the number look better based on his play this year, but still a ridiculous contract that Botts and Pegula agreed to….and just because the cap goes up as the years go by, it doesn’t make it any better. He is overpaid by at least 2 mil per year.
He's way too close in AAV to Gaudreau and Huberdeau (similar age at contract signing), considering they signed their deals much later. Rantanen and Kucherov signed around the same time as well and are again far too close.
In any case - he's found a home on that line with thompson and tuch. He still draws penalties, he still chirps, and he's still finding greasy areas for rebound goals. At the time a lot of people were concerned on term and what kind of player he'd be towards the end of the deal, and I'm seeing a player who doesn't rely too much on speed. I think he'll be fine.
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On 2/6/2023 at 10:33 AM, NAF said:
I feel like Quinn is a bit snakebitten and is shooting at a low percentage for a guy touted as a sniper/goalscorer. Hopefully in the latter part of the season he can start finding the back of the net more. Next year is really when I expect him to takeoff. I really think there is star potential within this player. A poor man's Pastrnak maybe.
He's still finding his way - he doesn't know where to be sometimes or when to be there. Takes time.
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On 1/31/2023 at 8:48 PM, GASabresIUFAN said:
Does that make the NBA a 50% league. They don’t seem to take it seriously until the playoffs.
Makes sense to me - the bench shrinks down to like 3 players in the playoffs and you have a condensed game schedule.
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On 1/31/2023 at 5:24 PM, GASabresIUFAN said:
nah. Grigorenko (12th overall) at least played 249 NHL games. Nylander, a 8th overall pick, lasted 84.
I'll see your Grigorenko and raise you a TJ Brennan and the immortal Dennis Persson
I'd agree on Nylander. I hated that pick - everyone kept saying "Eichel got his winger!". We were terrible, why not draft good players?
I think the reason grigorenko is a disappointment is that good players were selected afterwards.
Devon Levi Signed to 3 year deal
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I love the idea of starting a player in his first professional start - against the best team in the league, and one of the best regular season teams ever assembled.
It's like a guaranteed win.