HoosierDaddy
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10 minutes ago, RangerDave said:
Any thoughts on how Beane and McDermott would handle this situation with Eichel?
Building a hockey team is so different because draft picks take so long to to hit and fail at a much higher rate, but based upon what Beane did with Watkins and Darius I think he would have taken what he could and moved on. Beane has engineered an almost complete roster turnover that has removed the expectation of losing from the locker room. I think KA wants to do the same thing, but it’s harder in the NHL.
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It’s a tiny little patch, not much bigger than the adidas logo. I don’t even notice the NBA ones anymore.
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6 minutes ago, Pimlach said:
Well said. McDermott and Beane surely did not care about the past. They gutted the team of players that did not fit, created cap space, and they moved forward and found players that did fit their vision and they shared the vision with the players and they repeated it over and over.
There was a lot of eye rolling on the TBD forum when McD got here and stressed “the process”, earning the right to win, the growth mindset, etc. Once they started winning Buffalo became a more attractive place to free agents. They actually started drafting and developing their own players and now these players also want to stay.
The NHL timeline is longer, but it’s not ten years. Ownership needs to stick with KA and Granato and give them time.
I of course know all this, and hopefully the moment that we're in right now as Sabres fans is similar to the "they traded Marcel Darius and Sammy Watkins for nothing-these guys don't know what they're doing" phase of fan anger in a rebuild. But as you say, we have to give KA and DG at least three more years to show upward trajectory because building a hockey team is a different animal. There is no equivalent of a franchise QB to immediately turn around a team and act as a magnet to attract players. Also, low round draft picks rarely contribute and even high draft picks don't always hit and if they do they have to develop over years because they are drafted so young.
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29 minutes ago, Pimlach said:
Yes, you are right and the truth hurts. Maybe our medical staff is improved but let’s not forget some of our best players just became free agents and left. Players that get traded away are relieved to be gone. The common denominator over the past 10 years is the ownership.
Everything he says is probably true, but why is he talking about this now? I think we know why, and that’s why i argue that KA’s biggest mistake is not controlling the narrative better. Thanks to Jack and his agent, the Sabres are getting a reputation amongst NHL players as a place where you don’t get treatment for injuries. This just adds to that narrative, and it’s a naked attempt to force KA to take whatever table scraps that he can get. But the side effects could be catastrophic to our rebuilding efforts. The danger is becoming the NHL version of the Sacramento Kings, a team that can never finish rebuilds because no free agents will go there.
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37 minutes ago, Zamboni said:
I don’t know how accurate this article is but this was eye-opening… if true …
Salaries
https://www.markerzone.com/news/?8200
The issue is that contracts are not enforceable in Russia like they are in the west. So if you sign a big contract, and the owner falls on financial hardship, there is little legal recourse for the player to get his money.
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The NHL is a gate driven league, so the question really is “will the Sabres sell enough tickets to remain financially afloat during the rebuild?” Looking at historical attendance records, Buffalo turns out for the Sabres win or lose. Or at least the tickets get sold, and that’s all the really matters. Even in bad years, the Sabres sell over 90% of their tickets where as the Ducks, Panthers and Coyotes often fall below 70%. It’s been almost 2 years since people could attend a live hockey game. I think hockey-crazy Buffalo will turn out in sufficient numbers to keep the team above water financially.
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1 hour ago, New Scotland (NS) said:
I think that there is only one way that this could happen. If John has the surgery and it goes horribly wrong, or he doesn't have the surgery and he does not recover in a timely / proper manner, leading to his retirement.
Well, seems like that is two ways, but the end result is the same ... John retires.
Yeah, its not like a knee injury that can fully heal but reduce explosiveness.
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1 minute ago, Indabuff said:
I hate the ***** (Philadelphia) Eagles man.
This is what happens when you fight a stranger in the Alps!
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2 minutes ago, thewookie1 said:
Can the media stop trying to make Eichel to the Rangers happen; it's so bloody aggravating
It's like the NY hockey writers are trying to "speak it into existence" Lavar Ball stye.
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28 minutes ago, New Scotland (NS) said:
I don't yet know enough about Power, or Krebs, but neither has played in the NHL at all (Power), or not much (has Krebs had a look yet?).
Anyway, since Cozens IS an NHL player I would not consider him a prospect any longer. Sure, if it were not the Sabres, maybe he would not have had a look at te NHL last year, but still for the Sabres ... not a prospect any more.
Kerbs has played in 4 NHL and only 5 AHL games. The rest of his experience is in the WHL.
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1 hour ago, North Buffalo said:
Jack gotta be upset by Josh's contract...
We’ll, if he wanted a contract like that he would have played another sport.
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28 minutes ago, LGR4GM said:
So you want UPL to play 20-30 games in Buffalo as opposed to 50-60 games in Rochester? That is what all of you think would be best.
Goalies are not like football players, forwards, or defenders. UPL has played 28 total games at the NHL and AHL level, he needs a full year of the AHL not some Frankenstein's monster version of 25 games for the Sabres. The only reason you want this is because you think UPL has a better chance than Anderson of being good. UPL has 11 professional wins at the NHL or AHL level, the fact this board or a segment of it thinks he's NHL ready is shocking.
I’m not saying that it’s a good plan…
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30 minutes ago, PromoTheRobot said:
He might be here to ease UPL into the NHL. Vet presence and all that.
Exactly this. Remember when the Bills signed another Anderson as a backup/coach for Josh in his rookie year? This has to be the plan here.
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2 minutes ago, Doohickie said:
Slippery slope fallacy.
I'm probably wrong here. I mean, just three years ago the Bills had a guy retire at halftime and now guys are lining up to play there.
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1 minute ago, triumph_communes said:
Did “the process” get trademarked? Can Sean allow for Granato to start using it? We went through years of people arguing against it for the Bills and it’s clear who won out. Some say it took some luck along the way, but they drafted “off the board” based on their own criteria and it no longer looks like luck anymore.
I think KA’s comments about staying true to the plan and not letting emotions taking over the decisions is how we can translate lip service into reality. Every team says culture matters, but then goes out and ignores it decision after decision. I’d give it time before saying it’s not working yet.
I think a key part of the culture change of the Bills is Sean McDermott's relentless drive and enthusiasm. Everybody laughs at him about the clapping, but he's all-in all the time. I seem to remember that he took the pool table out of the Bills locker room. That pool table was a symptom that the Bills were a place that players came to go though the motions and collect a pay check. Now the Bills are a place where players come to win football games. The Sabres need that same type of change.
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2 minutes ago, dudacek said:
The Sabres legally have the final say on Jack's course of medical treatment according to the CBA
That's a fact, but perception matters here too. If the Sabres become known as a franchise that won't allow players their desired medical treatment, no one will sign here unless they have no other choice. And when we want to start winning again in a year or two, we'll need some high-profile veteran free agents to fill out the roster. The leverage that Jack and his team have is that they, and only they, can go to the media and talk about his need for surgery. GMKA can's talk about it because of HIPPA.
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I’ve got a ticket to see Larry Carlton at the Ludlow Garage in 8/13. I’m a guitar player so I expect to have my jaw on the floor for the entire evening. It’s also cool to see a show at the Ludlow Garage because there is an excellent Allman Bros live album that was recorded there in 1970.
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4 minutes ago, Huckleberry said:
Keep pumping out those skating vids boston 🙂
In the one from today he takes a full windup slapper and makes a head fake deke in a shoot out attempt.
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2 minutes ago, LGR4GM said:
He always skates there in the summer. That is where a bunch of the NHL guys who live in Boston go.
I know that, but I thought that after Friday's shenanigans that he would keep a low profile or show up at a Dunkin Donuts in Brookline in a neck brace.
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I know it doesn't mean anything, but Eichel was skating again today at the Bruins' facility where he knew he would be spotted and filmed.
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12 minutes ago, dudacek said:
From the Rangers it would translate to something like a 1, 2, 3, Lundqvist (Girard) Kravtsov (Bowers) and Georgiev (Hammond/Kamenev)
The other big recent trade for a stud was the Karlsson trade.
From the Ducks that roughly translates to a 1st, Comtois, Perreault, Larsson (Tierney, Norris, Demelo)
Going back a few years to Tyler Seguin.
From the Wild: Fiala (Erikson) Boldy (Smith), Addison (Morrow)
Now Eichel should and does have better value than Seguin, Duchene and Karlsson, but this exercise does show why GMs are balking at Adams’ reported ask; it’s kinda unprecedented, at least in the modern era.
Maybe there is a maximum value that any single player can have, regardless of talent. No mater how talented a player is, a smart GM is not going to gut their prospect pool to acquire a single guy in a sport where the top Center in TOI (Draisaitl) only played a smidge over 1/3 of the game.
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3 minutes ago, MattPie said:
Lindy referred to him as "Patches", right? And if I recall, coach asked if he ever skated at forward and he replied "yes" despite not having done so to dress for a game.
Wasn't Patches Nathan Paetsch?
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2 minutes ago, Digger said:
I agree stay the course.
Every time Adams tries to control the narrative, the agents come out and contradict him.
I still say that while the fans have received lots of "new information" to talk about and debate with regards to Eichel's surgery and trade situation. The hockey writers from around the league are tickled pink to be able to write about Eichel and the Sabres issues. From a GM's perspective from around the league there is no new information about Eichel.
I guess Eichel is the Aaron Rodgers of the NHL off-season.
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1 minute ago, LGR4GM said:
lol, I'm not
Stay the course. The ROR wound is still a festering gash in our minds.
The Sabres should stay the course, but Adams has to do a better job controlling the narrative because we are getting blasted by the (inter)national hockey writers. But it's difficult because the Sabres can't defend themselves on the medical issues without violating HIPPA while Jack can have his preferred surgeon go on podcasts to present his side of the issue. All of this could become an issue when we want to start signing higher-profile free agents in a few years.
The Sabres, Eichel, NHL and NHLPA had a meeting regarding Jack
in The Aud Club
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That’s the truth. People were livid. There were people angry about that up until last year. What changed? The Jags, the worst team in the league, cut Darius and no one picked him up. That’s right, he’s out of the league. Perhaps Beane knew something that posters on TSW didn’t know.