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A. Work on faceoffs. Should mean improvments in both ends of the rink. If they bring in a center they should find one that can take the important faceoffs.
B. Better and faster zone entries.
C. Improve the play in front of/close to the net. Make it more aggressive.
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1 hour ago, Brawndo said:
Florida has 19.7 Million in cap space with 14 skaters on the roster for next year.
Their UFAs include Reinhart, Tarasenko, Montour, Lomberg and Lundell is a RFA.
Some on the list are rumored to be willing to give a home team discount namely the two former Sabres.
They have traded a lot of draft capital and prospects for their cup runs and are scheduled to go 4 years without making a first round pick.
Bennett, whose name has appeared in the rumor mill, with one year left on his deal is the most attractive asset they have to recoup assets and make some cap room
I think they want to resign Reinhard and keep Lundell, and a way to make that possible is trading Bennett. On the other hand, Tkachuk and Bennett are buddies and play extremely well together, especially playoff hockey.
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5 hours ago, Claude Balls said:
And I'm sure someone I've never heard of will come in.
Someone like Jussi Ahokas, Kitchener Rangers
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This was an interesting question. After some more thinking I have a couple of suggestions: Nicolas Roy from Vegas. They are tight against the cap and Roy has signed for three more years att 3milj.
Jesperi Kotkaniemi is the other. Signed long-term at a reasonable price. Can play the game with some grit. Has been a dissapointment in Canes and is a risk but we could definitely get him for #11.
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13 minutes ago, PerreaultForever said:
The only one I can up with myself (possibly) is Scott Laughton. The Flyers are rebuild/compete, can't quite figure out which or trying to do both and his name was mentioned as available last year. 2way 3C. They might not want to make that deal any more.
Yes, Laughton might be the best we could get. I think the first is worth much more than one year of Dowd or Bjugstad. If we would trade the 1st alone for one player I think a Rfa like Kakko could be possible, but he is not a center. But most likely it has to be as part of a bigger package.
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1 hour ago, LGR4GM said:
Sometimes. But I also think that Tuch waxes and wains with his checking. The takeaway part would be the main concern I have with Eiserman as I think that is a weak spot. In the offensive zone though, you see him carry in or through traffic. He isn't a perimeter type of guy, he goes inside to get shots off... he also will sometimes toss pucks on net from the outside cuz I think he doesn't always pick the best play. He's an incomplete player more so than some others which is hard to evaluate because he's got the tools but pulling them out of his toolbox is a bit hit and miss (except his shot, that's great). I gotta watch more on him and read more on him. I feel like I don't have a good feel for him.
So after 3 years in Rochester he could be a upgraded version on Skinner?
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1 hour ago, SwampD said:
I still have one. Got it after I ditched cable. You get a lot of channels for free.
I don’t have a motor, but I used this to aim it.
My mother in law still uses antenna. They are piece by piece shutting down the cabel net and changing to fiber cabel instead. But the antenna is still working and as you said it is free.
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12 minutes ago, Doohickie said:
In pre-cable days, you would have a TV antenna on your roof. It would have a little motor that would rotate the shaft it was mounted on so you could "aim" it to give you the best TV signal. This was the controller for the antenna on your roof, and it would sit on your television set.
I put aim in quotes because the aiming was not very precise. You'd find what works best for a particular station and as other have alluded to, mark that on the controller so when you put Channel 4 on, you'd rotate the antenna to the spot that usually works best for Channel 4. But depending on the weather that might not even give you the best reception for that channel.
Oh, that is interesting. Around here, on the countryside, some people still have the antenna, we had one also, so the problem with (not) watching a game in a not suitable weather is familiar. But, I have not heard of or seen one ever before. Maybe they did not make it to Scandinavia? What is the name of those?
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1 hour ago, Doohickie said:
Do you even know what that is? Honestly curious. My son is almost your age and I'm quite sure he doesn't.
I have to admit that I don't. So please tell!
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Rather trade some of our prospects, all of them can't make it to a Sabres roster. But for a good player we need they can trade any pick it takes.
Say we would trade down from 11th to 25-30. How much is the pick worth? What could we get then?
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2 hours ago, Doohickie said:
Yeah, if you don't what this is, you don't belong here.
I feel much younger now than this morning 😀
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1 hour ago, GASabresIUFAN said:
The Leafs will never ever trade Taveras to the Sabres. Also Taveras has a full NMC. If he wants to stay to Tor, he's staying.
If he wants to move, he'll pick a team that is a Cup contender next year, not the Adams lead Sabres.
What about Sean Monahan as an alternative? He is 29 (30 in Oct), had a nice rebound season (59 pts - 26g 33a) and can play all 3 forward positions. He won 54.9% of his faceoffs (nearly 1300 draws) and is from Brampton Ontario. a two 2 years 10 mill total contract might do the trick. I think he'd slot very nicely into the 3rd C role, and maybe even drop Cozens to the 3rd C role.
Monahan is also very good on pp. I would be very excited having him on the team, but as mentioned above I expect him to sign in Winnipeg.
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I hope we can stay both safe and independent here in Finland and the baltic countries. Nice to hear you telling stories from Lituania and Latvia.
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As long as there is no clauses that makes trading difficult I am fine with 4milj. not more than that, he is not experienced enough.
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Conference finals: Carolina - Florida and Dallas - Edmonton
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18 minutes ago, LGR4GM said:
Any thoughts on Konsta Helenius for the 24 draft?
Definitely a coming top 6 player in NHL. It is a while since I was this excited about a Finnish player. I compare him with Kaapo Kakko, but I think Helenius has easier to adjust to NHL than Kakko and the eye test say his compete level is higher. Compared to Sabres prospects I think Benson is closest, but it might be Benson is tougher close to the net.
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3 hours ago, MattPie said:
I'm not sure the KHL (if that's what you're thinking) is the draw it was a couple years ago given "outside factors".
Yes, that is what I am thinking. KHL is not as good as it once was, but it is hard to make a guess how good since other european teams not play against them. But I think they still pay good players good money and that might be just as important as the possibility to play against the best players in the world. But for some young russian men sports is the possibility to get out of Russia. It can be both ways.
A side track but still. I recently read a interview with Christian Ruuttu, where he told the story of Alexander Mogilny arriving to Buffalo. Unfortunately it was in Finnish, otherwise I would have shared it here. A lot of fun stories there.
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My concern with russian players is their patience. I am not convinced that Komarov will stay longer than two-three years in Rochester if he does not earn a spot in the Sabres line-up in that time.
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51 minutes ago, kas23 said:
Here’s the ESPN report. Something is wrong in here….
https://www.espn.com/nhl/story/_/id/40051232/kraken-fire-coach-dave-hakstol-missing-playoffs
“Hakstol, who went 107-112-27 with the franchise, becomes the second NHL coach to be fired this offseason after the San Jose Sharks moved on from David Quinn last week.”Read some ugly rumours sayin the players wanted Hakstol replaced.
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4 hours ago, Weave said:
I still suspect the the trade was made to give the team an additional season to use the asset in a move to bring in a different type of player into the lineup.
I think they ran out of time to use Mitts for that purpose and have bought time.
I have tried to see the trade in different ways, and this is the only thing that makes sence.
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Bryan Adams in Tampere and Springsteen in Helsinki in July.
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2 hours ago, LabattBlue said:
Matthew Fairburn of the Athletic with a bunch of players who could be signed to remake the bottom 6.
https://theathletic.com/5458480/2024/04/30/sabres-free-agent-targets/
If you don’t have a subscription, here are the names(without cutting and pasting the entire article)…
Dakota Joshua
Anthony Mantha
Stefan Noesen
Ryan Lomberg
William Carrier
Warren Foegele
Yakov Trenin
Teddy Blueger
Tyler Motte
Kiefer Sherwood
Christian Fischer
Brandon DuhaimeI order one Dakota Joshua and one Stefan Noesen please.
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1 hour ago, LGR4GM said:
I mean, he is fun
He had Olli Jokinen as coach last season and Jokinen compared his forecheck and talent to read and break passes with Datsjuk!!!
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UFAs Sabres may want to sign
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He is on top of my list too. I think he will ask for a five year contract with NMC. The big question is if we are willing to give him that and 6-7mil/year. If he is even interested in coming here.