SabreFinn

Oh, McGroarty as their 2C and McKenna as 1C.

Penguins might be tanking to get McKenna. Some rumours say this is Malkins last season.

Possible, but I think the addition of Helenius will push Kulich or Östlund to play wing.

I think his breed should be translated about as their prospect. I have hard to find the right words for that in English. Tappara is not expecting him to play in Liiga this season as it seems.

Kamala is the finnish word for horrible. Hope she isn't.

I think Sabres finally not force young players into a line-up. Now they have to show consistent high level games over a whole season to earn a chance to be a full time NHL player. To me that is a sign that GM finally see the team as a playoff team, and I did not have this good feeling this time last year. The thing that made me excited reading the article is that Helenius might be the go to guy at faceoffs in the end off the games we have been missing. But that is in the future.

Most likely no, but time will tell. When a top mine winger get injured, I will be very surprised if Kulich is not first man up.

I think they are in a good position to compete for minutes, but most important is to show consistent high level games a whole season. If they do that this coming season, there is no need to make a expensive one year signing again next offseason.

Based on what Jokinen said about competing for a spot in NHL coming season, and what Prospal said earlier that Kulich has to tear up the AHL, and show he can be consistent to show he is ready for NHL, I think we will see Helenius in Rochester. So let's hope they both tear up the AHL.

https://www.buffalohockeybeat.com/after-trading-down-sabres-could-have-nhl-ready-talent-in-konsta-helenius/ Helenius former coach Olli Jokinen on how they worked with Helenius to make him ready for NHL games.

My parents went on a trip to lake Garda a couple of years ago and liked it there. They also went on a daytrip to Venice, and even if it was not tourist season, it was still crowded, but very beautiful city they told. I would like to go hiking to the Italian side of the Alps, at the Bolzano area. Have only been to Switzerland, and that I can recommend.

...they win those games they are supposed to win. No more unnecessery losses against Ducks and Blue Jackets.

I think that it is just how the writer looks at it. As someone already wrote we have a deep prospect pool. On the other hand, I think last time a team won Stanley cup without a forward drafted top 5 in it was 2012. In that case the writers opinion is unfortunately true.

Not as userfriendly as capfriendly imo, but it works. I go with this one.

This is an interesting point. What happens if Kulich is better than a 5milj Zucker?? My feeling is he has to be close to that after this offseason.

I think UPL realized how Adams look at him last year with them trying to push Levi forward. UPL might be a bit impatient, but he has also worked very hard to get to where he is, and I think he consider he has proven he is a winner. I am not worried about how UPL will play the coming season, but a Levi -UPL tandem can be a problem. On the other hand I think Ruff has the routine to handle it.

I am not sure how that goes. But usually Liiga contracts come with a paragraph that makes it possible to sign with a NHL team.

True. The way they play hockey in Liiga does not take him any closer to NHL than he is at the moment imo.

I really hope Tage will be back scoring 40+ goals. I just hesitate he will.

Florida went from Presidents to almost missing playoff. But I think that was extreme.

Changing the way we play too much comes with a huge risk also. Even if the change is needed.

I like both Power and Cozens, but they get way too much money to be that young and not ready. But that is something between Adams and their agents. I hope it will be worth it in the end. I do expect steps forward from both.

That is why I would have liked a trade or a signing for a RHD, to get better balanced pairs, and Byram to play more by his strenghts.

Well, what I remember from him playing in Colorado he had a creativity to create offence. Unfortunately we did not see much of that in Sabres except from a few games in the beginning. Or he just had the flow of his career during that playoff that led to their Stanley cup win. However, that is what I ment with talent.

Our most talented players are Dahlin, Power and Byram. That is why I most of all wished for a steady RH top four stay at home defenseman this offseason, to give them just a tiny bit more possibility to create offence. And what Roy and Pesce got should have been possible to match by us. I am dissapointed by that.