Flashsabre

I had my old 1986 NHL sticker album out a couple weeks ago and went through to look at goalie heights. Luit was 6’4, Barrasso was 6’3 and every other goalie was between 5’7 and 5’11.

Kulich has with a monster game today. Kid is a player.

Because: 1) Some of the elite scouts on the board have already made up their minds on these young players and know there is no possible way they will continue to develop and improve because they have prime examples of it in Dahlin and Tage. 2) There is no possible way anyone decent can be acquired in free agency. Apparently it has never happened and never will so we have to throw the young players away instead to acquire different players.

https://deadspin.com/maybe-jack-eichel-just-isn-t-that-guy-1848837660 Lets see how Jack handles the negativity if Vegas gets bounced this week.

I’m just thanking our lucky stars that we are no longer putting our eggs in the Eichel-Lehner basket to bring this team any success. Vegas made their bed, they can lay in it.

Interesting read. Another example to me of what a mess the rankings are for this draft. I expect Wright to go first but after that I really won’t be surprised by any picks that are made. The pandemic has really made this a crapshoot and a team with good scouts could have a field day this year. Let’s hope Buffalo continues their trend of quality drafting of the past few years.

Getting a legit goalie is numero uno but a dman is also on the docket. The Dahlin-Samuelsson pairing has been great and Power-Joker is good as well. It gives Adams a couple options. Bring in a top 4 RHD to play with Power. This was Adams mentality before Power joined the Sabres. I wonder if has changed now that they have seen Power play in the NHL and play with Joker. The second option is to keep those pairs together and sign someone like Gudbransen for the 3rd pair as a big, physical pk guy. He has strived in Calgary in that role.

Watched Canada play Germany. There is this kid on Canada called Bedard, he could have a future😛 Bedard and Fantilli look like massive studs for the 23 draft. That will be a crazy top end. There is a kid on Germany that is interesting for this draft named Julian Lutz. 6’2, Extremely talented winger but Button said he didn’t get scouted very much last year because of the pandemic and has been battling injuries most of this year. Wonder where the scouts see him after this tournament. Edit: I see some scouting sites have him late 2nd- 3rd Round. I think he might be a riser come draft day.

Sharks win in SO. What a late game collapse for Vegas. Way to step up Big game Eich!!!

Man TB is reviving up for the playoffs. Would absolutely hate to see them steamroll the Leafs in a first round series and watch Leafs Nation meltdown over another first round exit.😁

Gibson is Sieve City for the Ducks tonight against the Blues. He has not been good in 3 years. That Minnesota-St. Louis series will be crazy. Interesting to see if the Blues go with Husso or Binnington in net.

NHL scouts struggle with evaluating young goalies as much as anyone else. Goaltenders hit their stride around 25. The mental aspect is so important to the position and takes years and maturity to figure out.

Krueger got Taylor fired. He talked about open communication and then didn’t talk to Taylor for the entire season. Taylor wouldn’t kiss the ring and admit Krueger was a genius and all his strategies would work in the NHL. We saw how that turned out. The stink of Krueger still permeating in parts of the organization.

If you don’t know how good Kuemper has been for years and don’t know who’s Husso is then I don’t know what to tell you. It does explain why you think Mrazek is a good option though.

So they have $20 million to spend to get to the cap floor. So don’t go after a Kuemper or Husso but instead go get Mrazek. Sounds like a loser mentality to me.

They could give us 2 first round picks and I wouldn’t touch Mrazek with a ten foot pole. Why does everyone want the bargain basement Tokarski like goalies.Are you not done watching this team being held back by awful goaltending? This team is last OA in save percentage the past couple months. GO GET A QUALITY GOALIE

Kings win. Dallas wins. Good night for the pick.

Looks like Quick bet on the Ducks to win. Wow

Dallas are brutal. They don’t deserve to be in the playoffs and if they get in they will be steamrolled. Hope they get in for our draft spot’s case but yikes.

Can we please get Quinn or UPL into one of the last 2 games if there is only 1 callup left.

Spoiler Alert: It’s been enhanced😉

Anson will be shocked next December when the Isles are the lowly team being dragged to any success by Sorokin. I mean the game wasn’t close. If it wasn’t for Toker’s brutal goaltending it wouldn’t be close at all. The Isles couldn’t skate with the young legs today.

But he doesn’t have a ton of points right now so like Cozens and Krebs he is useless.😜

Imagine this team with Quinn, maybe JJ and even average NHL goaltending. Spend some cash on a good goalie and these guys are in the playoff hunt next season.

3-2 US in the second. Fantilli and Bedard just two of the guys that makes 2023 a special top end of the draft.