Flashsabre

Disappointing

Peca sounds like Kozak is his pet project. Would not be surprised if Kozak is the Sabres shutdown 4C in another couple years.

You could try it. I would have Cozens as the centre on the line.

This guy is from the scouching school. Skate fast through the neutral zone with the puck and attempt a lot of passes raises your stock. Big bangers are a no no.

Michkov is thought of in the same breath as Bedard talent wise. It is his situation that has dropped him. He will not fall far. There is no way Washington would pass if he fell that far.

They put Tage on the wing because of his injuries. He is their 1C.

https://www.sportsnet.ca/nhl/article/nhl-top-16-mock-draft-what-happens-after-the-blackhawks-pick-connor-bedard/

I have no idea how this guy figured this out but hey it’s fun to look at

Connor Murphy from Chicago checks a lot of boxes. Adams should slip in a pick swap in fine printing and before the Hawks know what happened we have Bedard😛 Murphy, Graves, Clifton, Gryzlek, Roy are all players that can be acquired through trade or UFA that would shore up the d corps and the PK. I think they need a #4 and a #5 this summer.

Everything is a conspiracy if you just believe hard enough😀

Savoie and the ICE will play Seattle in the WHL finals. A real battle of the titans.

Glad he is out west

But LA wouldn’t. I think they see Clarke as a replacement for Doughty. I’m not as high on Clarke as some either. His skill is tremendous but his brain worries me.

That is part of it for sure. Adams made the decision to really focus on development and make Rochester a development hub. Replacing Taylor with Appert was controversial but it fit with his model and has worked out well. Credit too to Peca and Weber and the development and Skills guys like Mair and Kennedy and so on. The last Sabres team that was really competitive was the Roy, Vanek, Pommer, Max, Campbell, Miller crew that came up together thru Rochester. Some of that was circumstance because of the lockout but I think that is the model Adams wants to follow. Cycle groups of prospects together through Rochester and up to Buffalo. It depends when and where players are drafted from. Euro players can come over younger then junior players can join because of eligibility rules and players going to college will be out of the system longer. But I think Rosen’s treatment in Sweden was a catalyst to keep development in house as much as possible where they control on and off ice aspects of the players development.

No one compared him to Makar. I said he has some Makar like skating traits. His skating is elite. A lot of comparisons have been made to Barrie. At the under 18s Button compared him to Karlsson in play style. I’m not pounding the table for him I just think if they end up taking him I’d be happy with the pick but there are going to be about a half dozen guys at 13 I’d be happy with.

I’m just hoping Bedard is out west

Gallant is not a tactician or Xs and Os guy. That is one of his big criticisms.

Adams likes to lock his guys up long term. It does take two to tangle though. Power might want a bridge to see where the salary cap sits in a few years. If they can get Dahlin signed long term then they are in pretty good shape to go either way with Power. Obviously long term is best for the team and fans but the player might want bridge. Just don’t go Dubas and overpay on shorter deals to walk his key guys right into UFA😂

Ya no one was saying there was any excuse to threaten a ref.

Some more reinforcements. I don’t know what the Östlund situation is but if they have a chance at some point to add Nadeau and Östlund to the lineup that would be big.

That is bad but there is WAY more to the story then just some crazy fans threatening a random ref. It goes all the way back to Keefe’s junior playing days and is really disturbing: https://holrmagazine.com/wes-mccauley-and-sheldon-keefe/

I’m sure they don’t give a frog’s Fat ass about them. They weren’t winning anything here when they were leaders. They were blown up and sent to different teams that already had real leadership in place and they just had to play a role. Management is probably more focused on adding a couple key pieces here and watching this team be successful for the next decade.

Talent is talent. How do you know he is not going to play on the PP? Sabres could easily go to a two dmen PP setup. You can easily pair him with Dahlin or Power. Kid has some Makar like skating traits. I think they could find a place for him. Is it life or death that the Sabres draft him, no, but if he is available and they think he is BPA then I would be happy with the pick.

I’d be more than happy with Sandin Pellikka.

Tall, lanky right handed goal scorers from UConn is what he was probably going for