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Adams won't commit to a direction other than "Learning". He is afraid to fail. You can hear it. John sent Adams in that direction and he got belligerent. Next year is Playoff's or fail, Don't need Adams or Granto to confirm this. Their own players will demand them to get the TEAM better. You can see they want to WIN! This board is "sensitive" to which players are needed to go forward so I will refrain from that. TEAMS only get better by changing the weakest players and adding to the bottom of their team. Cream rises to the TOP naturally. In other Words Your only as good as your weakest player. They will get on the ice at some point and hurt your chances.

I think Dahlin 1C With Tuch and Skinner and Power 2c with Tage and Cozens Middlestat 3c with Quinn and Rousek Krebs 4C with Greenway and Peterka Can you imagine how good they be, need no offense defenseman just Levi shutting everyone out. Get a Bunch of 250lb guys laying down blocking shots on defense 😂 🙃 🤪 Everyone can dream FANTASY!

Centers are usually always involved and near Blue line, hence Tages awesome shots. He is not a Winger going to corners or net, I think 3 plus years proved that. He might be better than he was but your talking a TOP 5-8 Center in the league. WHY would you change positions or better yet line mates????? No doubt Tuch Tage Skinner are a Top 1-3 line in the league.

IF Krebs stays on 4C cause he is willing to be that Physical Presence, then maybe you'll see Girg/Jost Krebs Rousek. I still believe that second line needs someone who will go to the net but most think it stays the same. Third line, until a trade occurs, is Greenway Middlestat Olofsson. Not just cutting a 28 goal scorer and he did play at the end of the season and scored. BOOOO! Might be able to keep Kulich up and bump Olofsson at times he is cold ( It will happen, he seems to score though when put back in ) Adams should package Olofsson and picks and get a replacement older scoring Winger ( Stays till replaced by Rochester Winger permanently ) for Middlestat line that fits ( Kane would be perfect 🤣 ). No doubt fans have had enough. BOOOOO! Savoie will spend time in Rochester first, unless for some reason he can't. Kulich is ready for some time in the Sabres lineup to see what he has first. Always be sent down before the clock sets first year. Okopso is not coming back, no room unless you dump Greenway. My guess is he retires. I don't think he signs a Rochester Vet Contract and call up on Injury? Players in Minors will opt out being in Buffalo if a path doesn't open in Rochester. That means a trade of Amerks is needed for future picks, 4th defenseman, Back up Goalie but I think from presser we will have at least Comrie back. Maybe if UPL wants to stay too 3 headed Goalie monster again. BOOOOOO!

Actually proves my point, Tage only became a BETTER player under Granto. had 160-200 games before he had break out Goals. This year he has emerged as a Top 5 Center. Jost is a better player than he was past 6-7 years under Granto, Got to play 3rd line Center. Gets a camp here, he will be better. 25 is young in Hockey, The guy broke in the League young 18, and has stuck. His 1st two years were a lot like Krebs at 18-19 not 22. So the path for Krebs may NEVER take off as seen with Jost. I like what Jost has given us and Granto awarded him 3rd line. Jost will never be more than bottom 6. Krebs was brought in to be TOP 6, not even TOP 9 right now. Krebs hasn't met the Expectations, Jost has. Semantics but that matters when you build the team. Krebs doesn't survive winning 4th Line. Brought in to be better. Others that have line 4 qualities in Rochester NOT named Savoie or Kulich. Funny how people want to change how clubs are built. Adams and Granto won't be satisfied if Krebs WINS 4th line!!! Rather he wins 3rd line Center and Middlestat plays wing or traded. That is the better problem to have. That would mean Greenway, Quinn or Peterka failed. NICE

Jost had partial year here not far off what Krebs did and he can play Wing, Penalty Kill. Better 4th line Center than Krebs as far as checking goes. Didn't get Krebs from Las Vegas to be a 4th line Center. Krebs needs to break the 3rd line someday. I bet Savoie breaks the TOP 6, maybe even Kulich before. I see NO PATH for Krebs to do this. Jost doesn't need to, 4th liner pure and simple. Never be a 20 goal scorer, doesn't need to be. Go to long with Krebs, he will be OLD and no trade value. Again, NOT about Krebs, about the Prospects and he just put bad numbers up. Can't be more than a 4th line center without injury long term. That happens, has no TRADE VALUE. Sabres don't go to the playoffs. Krebs becomes top 3 center next year, we are done.

If Krebs beats them out then they won't see the Sabres team for 2-3 years. Middlestat will have to be traded if they don't sign him, RFA, lose him on price. Savoie or Kulich are NOT beating out the current Wingers. Rousek will be on the team, need his two way play, drive to net and Penalty kill. Not jumping ahead without complete failure next year of Quinn and Peterka. Greenway is going nowhere for at least next year. If Granto gets it to work he will be a Sabre for many years, size alone dictates that. So if they don't show what they have this year not much of a chance they break the lineup anytime soon. This is all assuming Olofsson is gone too. This teams drives to the playoffs won't be much room. Get better and better as constructed. The spot to take is Krebs. Neither are big enough to go to winger with him on 4th line, usually a checking line. i am 57, THANKS

25 and can't change, How old is Middlestat, Tage when they changed?

JUST SHOOT THE PUCK

9 pts for 26 total and can't hit the net. Dahlin 15 for 73, defense Olofsson 28 for 40 everybody wants him gone Quinn 14 for 37 not enough BUT Peterka 12 for 32 not enough but Okoposo 11 for 28 old but Captain' Jost mid year 7 for 22 maybe Krebs beats him out but a full year here, NOT Power 4 for 35 19 years old rookie no AHL plays DEFENSE Didn't do Cozens, Middlestat or 1st line because it isn't close. So I am suppose to believe Krebs can beat out someone, WHO? Girgenson, that's who. If your really a Sabre fan, you should want better. All the players in the system matter to put the best team forward. Many here just want to be right but have no proof on stats or even AHL or minor league play compared to who is coming up. Krebs was already traded and only a piece of the trade. He has had a whole year. Not seeing 20 goals and 30 assists for 50 next year and honestly, not enough. Benched in LV. Bench for games here, NOT because of rotation, terrible Winger. I can still here Marty Biron'. JUST SHOOT THE PUCK

9 goals for 26 pts is very EASY for Savoie alone to beat out and he will get THAT chance. If Not him then Kulich, if NOT him them Jost (if signed), etc... Adams has to get to the Playoffs. Krebs Stat line NOT good enough, so next camp he will have to get more goals then the 19 year old players or he will be Benched or traded. Krebs CAN'T break top 3 lines as Center or Winger so he has to be 4th line or bench and he can't do anything else but Center at this point over other players. Everybody keeps talking POTENTIAL, that Potential was suppose to be shown like Quinn and Peterka. You see what they can do if they shoot. You except the stat lines. I see Krebs shoot and I say PASS THE PUCK. He misses the pass and I have other verbs I use. TELL ME I AM WRONG, actually don't because so far I haven't seen a honest opinion on this subject yet. Be the first to admit I am wrong if proven otherwise next camp. I was wrong about Middlestat, but only one year, this second half. I am 57 years old watched Sabres since 79 that I remember. I have seen GREAT players. I have seen the Cyr's too, all the potential but it just didn't stick and Krebs is NOT Paul Cyr. Not Middlestat either and all that matters is what he is now because everyone else is in the system too and will get BIGGER, Stronger, faster, better shots. They are all young, even Jost. Don't see a path for Krebs, Adams isn't just gonna give it to him next year like he did this.

Quinn Top Level Prospect, Pass, Assists, good shot if he shoots. Can play with Cozens or Middlestat (C). Cozens needs proven scorers now. Pretty sure Rousek ends up on one of these two lines too. Greenway Rousek will balance lines with Peterka and Quinn other side. I like Greenway Cozens Peterka, Quinn Middlestat Rousek (this line will be fast and gets Quinn the puck to SHOOT) unless they get Top 4 Winger.

Kulich won't break our winger lineup, be in Rochester if he doesn't win Center Position. Either way this is about Krebs, he won't break the Winger lineup either, have to win 4th line Center. He can't beat Middlestat unless he is traded. Krebs has to beat JOST, Savoie, Kulich, Östlund, even maybe Girgenson (if signed) if it is the last player in. You seem NOT to want to acknowledge this fact. Krebs does only 1 thing Center and assists (can't hit the net, assuming he shoots) Who does Krebs keep of the Roster? Mind you, not OUR draft pick, part of a trade already won. You think Adams doesn't want to show the world one of his 3 Centers drafted HIGH 1st round. Kulich has part of the Eichel trade NO? Krebs will be in camp, far as I will go where he lands!

Savoie and Kulich are top level players where they are, producing. Krebs has Potential but he hasn't reached the Level at there age in the minors or LV wouldn't have traded him. Not a Team out there that didn't ask Adams for those two in a trade at the Deadline. If they would have taken Krebs, We would be in the Playoffs right now. Mike Drop Boom!

I think you mean there is NO WAY Adams will. I don't blame him now. Other ways to get 4th position Defense. Freeagent Goalies available. But keeping Middlestat as Center of 3rd line puts a lot of pressure on Krebs, since he won't beat out any Winger, not even Olofsson (hell of a shot, Powerplay). Krebs will have to beat out Jost, Kulich, Savoie and any number of other centers in Minors to be 4th line center. Even Girgenson could beat him out I think, production alone if signed, he plays many more spots for team (Center, Wing, PK)

You know it is funny when Tage went out who took up the production, for that matter when hurt too. The guys on the outside did, not Krebs, even Quinn and Peterka didn't produce a ton of goals. Middlesat got assists to Tage and Skinner. Levi kept games closer to win. 3rd line gave us some help. We would be in the playoffs if Krebs produced a bit more. two lousy point, one game against Florida. 😶

Every time Krebs played Wing he was out of the game after watching. His only place to stay in was 4th line. Results, Marginal. Every person on the Sabres broadcasts have said Krebs is done at Wing. Granto has not put Krebs in on Wing even when Tuch went down. Krebs can't play wing, his shot sucks!

EXACTLY, but at 2.5mil I am A O K with Middlestat as 3rd line Center. Who plays with him more Important, they have to be scorers now, not potential. Middlestat is an Assist machine. Krebs passes are off and goal shooting off net. So he is either to slow skating or brain is too slow. He is not instinctive.

So your giving up on 3 Centers that got drafted by Adams last year making Roster

Mind you Krebs had NHL experience in LVK 2021 Amerks Krebs 18 4 11 15 -12 .75 2022 Amerks Kulich 61 24 22 46 -7 .75 So how did Krebs out perform Kulich in the minors? Krebs .22 goals per game Kulick .39 goals per game. -12 to -7 and 18 to 61 games played, so in 18 games he is a -12???? Had a full year Gonna keep Savoie and/or Kulich in Rochester???? Jost???? Middlestat at Center????? Krebs Winger????

Jost can play Center and Wing. That puts him over Krebs right now. Could care less about Potential, I have potential but like beer or I would be an ALLSTAR 🤣

"As you well know, we have a bunch more forwards in the prospect pool, its time for Adams to clear out some forwards to upgrade the defense." DEFINETLY

Who do you kick out of the TOP 6?

Compare Tage's stats to Middlestat's. Compare Middlestat to Cozens. Compare Middlestat to Tuch. Compare Middlestat to Skinner. Compare Middlestat to Quinn. Compare Middlestat to Peterka Only one he beats out is Peterka

Have to keep two of these on the roster for Penalty Kill, not sure all three can fit. Remember, they have to give you some offense. Girgs Jost Rousek pick your two My two are Jost and Rousek